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distractions
«America is addicted to wars of distraction»
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
| About:
America and Americans,
War
| Keywords:
addict, addicted, addicts, America, distraction, distractions, wars
«By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.»
Author: Christopher Columbus
(Adventurer, Navigator)
| About:
Goals
| Keywords:
arrive, arrive at, chosen, destination, distractions, Obstacles, preserving, unfailingly
«I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment»
Author: Hilaire Belloc
| About:
Travel
| Keywords:
All My, distraction, distractions, fulfillment, travel, traveled, wander, wandered
«Hutchison's Law:Any occurrence requiring undivided attention will be accompanied by a compelling distraction.»
Author: Robert Bloch
(Writer)
| Keywords:
accompanied, compelling, distraction, distractions, occurrence, occurrences, requiring, undivided
«At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.»
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
| Keywords:
composition, compositions, Dictionaries, distraction, distractions, grammars
«It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of ''culture.''»
Author: John Cage
| Keywords:
acquisition, acquisitions, distraction, distractions, entertainment, misuse, perform, piece of music
«I think my work has to do with a sense that we are attempting, all the time, to create a logical, rational path through the day. To the left and right there are an amazing set of distractions that we usually can't afford to follow. But the poet is willing to stop anywhere. . . . And it's that willingness to slow down and examine the mysterious bits of fluff in our lives that is the poet's interest.»