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“Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear. [They are the two sides of a coin, so learning how to manage fear through learning, understanding, rationality, controlled imagination, preparation, mental focus (including distraction) and a gratitude attitude is very helpful.]”

Two Understanding Sides Imagination Attitude Focus Gratitude Including Manage Preparation Helpful Controlled Distraction Anticipation Rationality Coins Two Sides Without Hope

Author:Baruch Spinoza

“He was so tenacious he defied the distraction of women by refusing to have them in his presence, just as later in life he denied his blindness by calling for more and more candles.”

Calling Madness Distraction Denied Candle Blindness Tenacious Later In Life

Author:Kit Williams

“My books are not really books; theyre endless chains of distraction shoved inside a cover. Many of them begin at the search box of Pub Med, an Internet database of medical journal articles.”

Book Internet Boxes Medical Endless Chains Distraction Articles Journal Pubs Databases Meds

Author:Mary Roach

“Winning teams have the least amount of distractions. They have a really tight group of people working towards the same common goal.”

People Winning Goal Common Groups Team Amount Madness Distraction Common Goal Winning Team

Author:Larry Dixon

“Simplicity of living means meeting life face to face. It means confronting life clearly, without unnecessary distractions. It means being direct and honest in relationships of all kinds. It means taking life as it is.”

Kind Mean Faces Honest Direct Meetings Simplicity All Kinds Distraction Unnecessary Face To Face Confronting

Author:Duane Elgin

“Let us imagine, for example, that a mother is still in such a state of consciousness that she has forgotten the rest of the world while discovering her baby; suddenly somebody appears with two clamps and a pair of scissors in order to cut the cord. This distraction is a dangerous interference with the physiological processes.”

“Game, noun: Any unserious occupation designed for the relaxation of busy people and the distraction of idle ones. It's used to take people to whom we have nothing to say off our hands, and sometimes even ourselves.”

People Sometimes Hands Used Games Pleasure Busy Occupation Distraction Idle Relaxation Nouns

Author:Etienne Bonnot de Condillac

“Upon further reflection, and after meeting with the President of MSNBC, I have tendered my resignation. It is my sincere hope that all of my colleagues, at this special network, will be allowed to focus on the issues that matter without the distraction of myself or my ill-judged comments.”

Matter President Issues Focus Special Reflection Meetings Ill Sincere Comment Distraction Judged Colleagues Resignation

Author:Martin Bashir

“There's always the possibility that you're going to come across a record that transforms your life. And it happens weekly. It's like a leaf on the stream. There are little currents and eddies and sticks lying in the water that nudge you in a slightly different direction. And then you break loose and carry on down the current. There's nothing that actually stops you and lifts you out of the water and puts you on the bank but there are diversions and distractions and alarums and excursions which is what makes life interesting really. It's fantastic.”

Littles Different Happens Lying Water Interesting Break Records Possibility Sticks Currents Fantastic Lifts Streams Distraction Leafs Different Directions Diversion Nudge Excursions

Author:John Peel

“Modern man is a hard driven nomad without any stability, not (as the Bible has it) a wanderer or a pilgrim, but a refugee-an escapist. Instead of meditation and reflection there is only speed, fear and “distraction.”

Men Hard Meditation Modern Reflection Speed Driven Stability Distraction Refugee Pilgrim Modern Man Nomad Wanderers Escapists

Author:Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

“You've got to develop mental strength. And you develop mental strength with the will. The will is the mental faculty that gives you the ability to hold one idea under the screen of your mind to the exclusion of all outside distractions.”

Giving Mind Ideas Ability Screens Faculty Distraction Exclusion Mental Strength

Author:Bob Proctor

“We are creating and encouraging a culture of distraction where we are increasingly disconnected from the people and events around us, and increasingly unable to engage in long-form thinking. People now feel anxious when their brains are unstimulated.”

People Thinking Feels Long Form Culture Brain Events Creating Distraction Anxious Disconnected

Author:Joe Kraus

“When the turbulence of distracting thoughts subside and our mind becomes still, a deep happiness and contentment naturally arises from within.”

Mind Stills Happy Arise Contentment Peace Of Mind Distraction Being Happy True Happiness Turbulence Peace And Quiet Deep Happiness

Book:The New Meditation Handbook: Meditations to Make Our Life Happy and Meaningful

Source: The New Meditation Handbook: Meditations to Make Our Life Happy and Meaningful

“Distraction is the most corrosive disease of the 20th century.”

Century Disease Distraction 20th Century

Author:James Victore

“We have an obligation to read aloud to our children. To read them things they enjoy. To read to them stories we are already tired of. To do the voices, to make it interesting, and not to stop reading to them just because they learn to read to themselves. Use reading-aloud time as bonding time, as time when no phones are being checked, when the distractions of the world are put aside.”

World Children Stories Use Reading Enjoy Voice Interesting Our Children Tired Phones Obligation Distraction Bonding Reading Aloud Bonding Time

Book:The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction

Source: The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction

“The greatest threat to the state is not faction but distraction”

States Threat Distraction Factions

Author:Aristotle

“You can always find a distraction if you're looking for one.”

Ifs Sports Madness Distraction

Author:Tom Kite

“You just got to be #patient, be focused, you know there are lots of distractions out there.”

Knows Patient Focused Distraction Be Patient

Author:Tiger Woods

“Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men.”

Men Art Moments Common Strange Art Is Wings Mysterious Innocence Distraction Butterfly Common Man Fleeing

Author:Giorgio de Chirico

“I am disturbed when I see the majority of so-called Christians having such little understanding of the real nature of the faith they profess. Faith is a subject of such importance that we should not ignore it because of the distractions or the hectic pace of our lives.”

Should Littles Real Christian Understanding Our Lives Subjects Importance Majority Pace Distraction Disturbed Hectic

Author:William Wilberforce

“A focused Mind is a result Of a little Effort To tell Your Distractions To sleep for A couple of hours While you are at WORK.”

Mind Littles Hours Sleep Results Effort Couple Focused Distraction

Author:Sujit Lalwani

“It's hard to stay true to yourself and what you want in life when there are so many distractions and so much craziness going on around you.”

Want Hard What You Want Distraction True To Yourself Craziness Stay True Stay True To Yourself Craziness Of Life

Author:Hilary Duff

“There is a Silence that is totally impersonal. It is not the fruit of anybody’s work. Peace is there, but there is no peacekeeper. This Peace is only known when the noise of the person is not present. In the absence of the 'person' there are no distractions. Only the ever-pure Awareness prevails. The Ultimate is nobody’s achievement at all.”

Persons Silence Known Awareness Pure Achievement Ultimate Fruit Absence Noise Distraction Peacekeepers

Author:Mooji

“Electronic culture created soulless replacements for connective rituals- television supplanted tribal legends told by the fire; 'fast food' consumed in distraction took the place of a shared meal. We substituted matter for Mater (feminine principle), money for mother's milk, objects for emotional bonds.”

Matter Mother Culture Growth Principles Fire Objects Television Emotional Personal Growth Insight Meals Feminine Ritual Legends Distraction Milk Consumed Fast Food Replacements Soulless

Author:Daniel Pinchbeck

“Errors have nothing to do with luck; they are caused by time pressure, discomfort or unfamiliarilty with a position, distractions, feelings of intimidation, nervous tension, overambition, excessive caution, and dozens of other psychological factors.”

Feelings Mistake Position Pressure Luck Errors Chess Psychological Factors Nervous Tension Distraction Dozen Caution Discomfort Intimidation

Author:Pal Benko

“After three elections, voters finally caught on that Obama's faults were not in the stars, but in himself. They apparently tired of the usual distractions from a dismal presidential record.”

Three Stars Records Election Tired Faults Caught Presidential Voters Distraction Usual Notable

Author:Victor Davis Hanson

“There is no need to believe or disbelieve your thoughts - just don't enter anything. They don't distract you - you get distracted. Nothing exists in itself as a distraction - it is you who get distracted. Why?”

Needs Believe Inspiration Practice Meditation Distraction Distracted Why Me

Author:Mooji

“Distraction serves evil more than any other mental state.”

States Evil Anarchy Distraction

Author:Stefan Molyneux

“One of the problems we have is that we cannot just be content to admire and enjoy, we have to possess and feel we own what we see. That can become for many of us an addiction which adds a complication to our life and takes away our peace of mind. Craving things becomes after a while a serious distraction and an obsession.”

Feels Mind Problem Enjoy Our Lives Serious Add Addiction Obsession Admire Materialism Peace Of Mind Distraction Craving Complication

Author:Joseph Girzone

“Keith's [Briffa] series...differs in large part in exactly the opposite direction that Phil's [Jones] does from ours. This is the problem we all picked up on (everyone in the room at IPCC was in agreement that this was a problem and a potential distraction/detraction from the reasonably consensus viewpoint we'd like to show w/ the Jones et al and Mann et al series).”

Doe Shows Problem Rooms Opposites Series Agreement Als Distraction Consensus Viewpoints Keith

Author:Michael E. Mann

“The wilderness does not make you forget your normal life so much as it removes the distractions for proper remembering.”

Inspirational Doe Remember Forget Sea Travel Normal Rivers Fishes Boat Lakes Remove Fishing Wilderness Distraction Forget You Normal Life

Book:The Raw and the Cooked: Adventures of a Roving Gourmand

Source: The Raw and the Cooked: Adventures of a Roving Gourmand

“Whatever you want to do, do with full passion and work really hard towards it. Don't look anywhere else. There will be a few distractions, but if you can be true to yourself, you will be successful for sure.”

Ifs Want Looks Hard Passion Successful Being True Empowering Being Successful Distraction Be True To Yourself True To Yourself Live With Passion True Passion

Author:Virat Kohli

“Men have always been a prey to distractions, which arethe original sins of the mind; but never before today has an attempt been made to organize and exploit distractions, to make of them, because of their economic importance, the core and vital center of human life, to idealize them as the highest manifestations of mental activity. Ours is an age of systematized irrelevances, and the imbecile within us has become one of the Titans, upon whose shoulders rests the weight of the social and economic system”

Source: Huxley and God: essays

“Any disease could be healed in a matter of days - any disease - if distraction from it could occur and a different vibration dominate.”

Ifs Different Matter Healing Disease Distraction Vibrations Healed

Book:Ask and it is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires

Source: Ask and it is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires

“Acclaim is a distraction.”

Madness Distraction Acclaim

Author:James Broughton

“Will we fight or will we retreat? That is the question that is posed to us. Some of my friends on the other side of the aisle often refer to Iraq as a distraction.”

Fighting Sides My Friends Madness Iraq Distraction Retreat Aisle

Author:John Boehner

“I've never done heroin, but I totally understood what would drive people to that distraction-to need that so much.”

People Needs Done Understood Madness Distraction Heroin

Author:Sarah McLachlan

“Girls were always my biggest distraction in school.”

School Girl Madness Distraction

Author:Channing Tatum

“News is important information that may influence your investments. Noise is talk or buzz or some headline that prevents you from seeing a story clearly. News is useful. Noise is a distraction. Calling what's noise and news after the fact is easy.”

May Important Facts Stories Literature Easy Seeing Influence Information Calling News Madness Investment Noise Distraction Headlines Buzz

Author:Maria Bartiromo

“If there was a distraction I'd get up and jump out the window. I was quite out of hand. In schools like that I don't think they expect that girls are going to behave in such an outrageous fashion.”

Ifs Thinking Hands School Girl Fashion Window Madness Get Up Behave Distraction Outrageous That Girl

Author:Diane Cilento

“The R.E.M and Nirvana successes don't mean much to me except as a potential distraction for bands who want to cash in on the trend. Don't try to sound like someone else. R.E.M and Nirvana don't sound like anyone else.”

Want Trying Mean Sound Band Madness Trends Distraction Cash

Author:Greg Ginn

“I'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there are to put the book down.”

Book Reason Today Reader Madness Distraction

Author:David McCullough

“It's actually great to shoot far away from Hollywood because we don't have the distractions of the parties and premieres and all that. And, of course, you can save money - there are no good shoe stores.”

Courses Party Hollywood Madness Shoes Stores Distraction Far Away Saving Money Premieres Good Shoes

Author:Katie Holmes

“What I may call the messages of Brave New World, but it is possible to make people contented with their servitude. I think this can be done. I think it has been done in the past. I think it could be done even more effectively now because you can provide them with bread and circuses and you can provide them with endless amounts of distractions and propaganda.”

People Thinking World May Has Beens Done Past Amount Messages Brave Endless Bread Propaganda Distraction New World Circus Servitude Brave New World Bread And Circuses

Author:Aldous Huxley

“Words are a distraction to enlightenment. Getting rid of conceptual thinking means enlightenment.”

Thinking Mean Enlightenment Distraction Conceptual Thinking

Author:Ramesh S Balsekar

“I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.”

Art Attention Midst Distraction

Author:Saul Bellow

“Every day set the simple goal of trying to be more awake and less distracted.”

Trying Goal Simple Awake Distraction Day Distracted Stay Focused Attentiveness

Author:Russell Simmons

“Freedom from mental distraction equals power. Body mind masters eventually come to the realization that this and every moment, on or off the field, is the moment of truth.”

Mind Moments Body Fields Masters Realization Distraction Moment Of Truth

Book:Body Mind Mastery: Training for Sport and Life

Source: Body Mind Mastery: Training for Sport and Life

“Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them.”

“Sincere thought means thought of concentration (quiet awareness). The thought of a distracted mind cannot be sincere”

Mind Mean Awareness Quiet Concentration Sincere Distraction Distracted Stay Focused Instructors

Book:Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

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