{"quotes":[{"text":"...There was no point in sighing after what I could not have. It only distracted me from what I did have.","author":"Robin Hobb","tags":["desire","distract","empty","fond","fondness","have","miss","remember","reminiscence","seek","sigh","sorrow","want"],"id":8878,"author_id":"Robin+Hobb"},{"text":"As survivors and procreators, we unravel stories that at their root are not dissimilar from the habitual behaviors seen in nature. But as beings who know they will die we digress into episodes and epics that are altogether dissociated from the natural world. We may isolate this awareness, distract ourselves from it, anchor our minds far from its shores, and sublimate it as a motif in our sagas. Yet at no time and in no place are we protected from being tapped on the shoulder and reminded, “You’re going to die, you know.” However much we try to ignore it, our consciousness haunts us with this knowledge. Our heads were baptized in the font of death; they are doused with the horror of moribundity.","author":"Thomas Ligotti","tags":["awareness","consciousness","death","die","dissociated","distract","haunts","horror","isolate","knowledge","nature","procreators","stories","survivors"],"id":79148,"author_id":"Thomas+Ligotti"},{"text":"Don't let their chaos distract you from your goals.","author":"Willi Way","tags":["chaos","distract","goals"],"id":118603,"author_id":"Willi+Way"},{"text":"I'm gonna go put my earplugs in and practice piano for hours until my fingers bleed. I practice the piano with the focus of Helen Keller—and nothing can distract me from the scent of the music.-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz.","author":"Karen Quan","tags":["absurd","bleed","distract","distraction","earplugs","focus","funny","helen-keller","humor","life","music","musical","piano","practice","scent","surreal","time"],"id":147353,"author_id":"Karen+Quan"},{"text":"Stay away from lazy parasites, who perch on you just to satisfy their needs, they do not come to alleviate your burdens, hence, their mission is to distract, detract and extract, and make you live in abject poverty.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["burden","detractors","distract","egocentric","egoism","egotism","egotist","fake-friends","fatal","laziness","lazy","michael-bassey-johnson","mission","narcissism","parasites","perch","satisfaction","self-absorbed","self-centred","self-interest","self-obsessed","vain"],"id":168283,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"On your way to accomplish greatness, you will hear a lot of noise. Listen to your inner voice and never let the distraction of the crowd discolour your poise.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["accomplish","accomplishment","crowd","deception","distract","distraction","food-for-thought","great","greatness","inner-voice","inspirational","inspirations","israelmore-ayivor","liars","motivational","motivations","noise","noisy","people","personal-development","poise","voice"],"id":193048,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"I lead Paco through the house. We pass Shelley in the family room looking at some magazine. 'Shelley, this is Paco. He's Alex's friend. Paco, this is my sister, Shelley.'At the mention of Alex's name, Shelley gives a happy squeal.'Hey, Shelley,' Paco says.Shelley smiles wide.'Shell-bell, I need you to do me a favor.' Shelley bobs her head in response as I whisper, 'I need you to keep Mom occupied while I talk to Paco.'Shelley grins, and I know my sister will come through for me.","author":"Simone Elkeles","tags":["brittany-ellis","distract","favor","friend","mom","paco","shelley-ellis","sister"],"id":260853,"author_id":"Simone+Elkeles"},{"text":"Examine your heart and put away any distraction so you can worship God freely.","author":"Jim George","tags":["away","christian","distract","examine","free","god","heart","wednesday","word","worship"],"id":270911,"author_id":"Jim+George"},{"text":"People nowadays talk about the world's problems like they're reading lines off a teleprompter. They recite what they're told and echo it without thinking. It has become easier to divide people than to unify them, and to blind them than to give them vision. We are no longer unified like a bowl of Cheerios. Instead, we have become as segregated as a box of Lucky Charms. Every day we see the same leprechauns on TV acting like they're the experts of everything.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["blind","cheerios","corruption","distract","divide","divided","division","echo","experts","faith","followers","human-condition","journalism","liars","lies","lucky-charms","media","memorize","mislead","people","politics","press","recite","reciting","segragation","segregation","social-media","society","teleprompter","think","thinking","thinking-ofr-yourself","unified","united","unity","vision","zombies"],"id":411037,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"Often the devil wants to distract us from our goal, to make us passive and neutralize our actions.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["action","devil","distract","goal","neutralize","passive"],"id":419591,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":11,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}