Without question, the material world and your everyday needs distract you from living meaningfully.
Without question, the material world and your everyday needs distract you from living meaningfully.
Everything about filmmaking tries to distract you from that first fine rapturous vision you have of the film.
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.
Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.
When I attack a role, be it TV, film or stage, the first thing I say is, I don't want to know anything. If it's good I don't want to hear it; if it's bad I don't want to hear it. The only thing either thing can do is distract me. I like to stay focused.
It's also a more personal medium. It seems to go directly to one's brain. There are no pictures to distract.
The pictures are created by the listener, with a little help from the broadcaster. The pictures are perfect. If you're showing pictures, different things in that picture can distract from the spoken word.
For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses.
When I am rehearsing for a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress.
I'd distract myself until finally it was a combination of things. The show was over and I had time on my hands. I had taken time and played and just relaxed.
President Bush and his administration have tried to pull the wool over our eyes and distract the public from this possibly illegal domestic spying scandal.
Cliches about supporting the troops are designed to distract from failed policies, policies promoted by powerful special interests that benefit from war, anything to steer the discussion away from the real reasons the war in Iraq will not end anytime soon.
The Bush Administration claims there is a Social Security crisis only to distract Americans from its serious mismanagement of the federal budget.
One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don't invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.
It is sad that the Republican leadership is not as interested as they say they are in protecting the institution of marriage as they are in waging a campaign to divide and distract the American people from the real issues that need to be addressed.
Do today's duty, fight today's temptation do not weaken and distract yourself by looking forward to things you cannot see, and could not understand if you saw them.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories