Quotes about Distraction
Beware of any work for God that causes or allows you to avoid concentrating on Him.
- Oswald Chambers
The best thing you can do is just keep busy, keep working hard, so you're not dwelling on it all the time. Work is the best antidote for sorrow.
- Gordon Hinckley
If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work.
- CS Lewis
I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.
- Abraham Lincoln
When we go online, we enter an environment that promotes cursory reading, hurried and distracted thinking, and superficial learning. Even as the Internet grants us easy access to vast amounts of information, it is turning us into shallower thinkers, literally changing the structure of our brain.8
- Dale Carnegie
We often don't know our own stories because we doubt their existence, dismiss their importance, or we're distracted.
- Dan Allender
It is a reading age, a preaching age, a working age, but it is not a praying age.
- Charles Spurgeon
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.
- Henry David Thoreau
Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy.
- Leonard Ravenhill
How can you pull down strongholds of Satan if you don't even have the strength to turn off your TV?
- Leonard Ravenhill
A computer can be a useful and indispensable tool. But if we allow it to devour our time with vain, unproductive, and sometimes destructive pursuits, it becomes an entangling net.
- Joseph Wirthlin
The more you worry about being applauded by others and making money, the less you'll focus on doing the great work that will generate applause. And make you money.
- Robin Sharma