distringit librorum multitudo (the abundance of books is distraction)
– Seneca
Related Quotes:
- Distraction is reading written word and when I seek to make distraction I write the words I wish to be enveloped in. – Anastasia Bolinder
- To some people, employment is a distraction. To all entertainers, distraction is employment. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- An abundance of thinking leads to me, me, me.An abundance of Thanking leads to YOU, YOU, YOU! – Raymond D Longoria Jr
- Without an abundance of hope and happiness, it will be difficult to accumulate an abundance of wealth. – Debasish Mridha
- Abundance of life does not come from having a great job. Abundance comes from generosity. – Debasish Mridha
- Expect abundance to receive abundance. – Debasish Mridha
- They were perfectly suited. They would speak of books the livelong day and night and bore everyone else but themselves to distraction. – Loretta Chase
- Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive. – Seneca
- It doesn’t matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books. – Jo Walton
- Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me. – Anatole France
- All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time. – John Ruskin
- Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books. – Jean Rhys
- You’re not allowed to say anything about books because they’re books, and books are, you know, God. – Nick Hornby
- And tell them all about the books you’ve read. Better still, buy some more books and read them. That’s an order. You can never read too many books. – PB Kerr
- I love books. If they are good books, I love them even more. But even if they are bad books, I still love them. – Hugo Chvez
- Books. The reading, writing and cultivation of books is my form of meditation. The books in my life have brought me the closet to divinity. – Casey Carter
- To whom do books belong? The books we read and the books we write are both ours and not ours. They’re also theirs. – Pamela Paul
- Writers: read books. Read good books. Read bad books. Learn what does and does not work. – Kira Hawke
- Books. The reading, writing and cultivation of books is my form of meditation. The books in my life have brought me closest to divinity. – Casey Carter
- Remember some books are meant to be tasted, some books are meant to be chewed and, finally, some books are meant to be swallowed whole. – Robin S Sharma
- Solitude is a way of overcoming distraction so that you can convert your time into something of worth. – Sunday Adelaja
- I needed something–the distraction of another life–to alleviate fear. – Bret Easton Ellis
- Distraction is a killer of dreams, visions and goals – Topsy Gift
- For success, focus has utmost importance, but distraction is disastrous. – Debasish Mridha
- When the distraction of the tongue is removed, the heart listens. – Theodore Dreiser
- Thinking is good for your mind, but too much thinking leads to distraction. – Ehabib
- To move from here to there, sometimes there is a need to suspend the present realities; they can be a distraction. – Bidemi MarkMordi
- My insanity begged for a distraction. (Eric) – Shannon A Thompson
- Blind to all fault, destiny can be ruthless at one’s slightest distraction. – Jorge Luis Borges
- See every distraction as a clarion call back to prayer. – Jared Brock
- Not knowing how to feed the spirit, we try to muffle its demands in distraction…What matters is that one be for a time inwardly attentive. – Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- A kind soul knows impoliteness is just preoccupied with distraction. – Mike Dolan
- Genitals are a great distraction to scholarship – Malcolm Bradbury
- I mean if we all looked at how much Bill Gates has in his bank and allowed that to act as a distraction then it could be very off-putting for some. – Stephen Richards
- Thinking, like other drugs, can be a useful distraction from pain, as long as it’s managed and doesn’t become an addiction. – David Burr Gerrard
- Religion is a distraction from true education. – Richard Dawkins
- Fashion is a distraction! – Cyc Jouzy
- Examine your heart and put away any distraction so you can worship God freely. – Jim George
- To stay grounded and feel secure, I choose:Faith over fear;Action over procrastination;Focus over distraction;Reflection over reaction. – Charles F Glassman
- He [Abram] believes that the PRESENT is the only real thing and everything else is an illusiona distraction – Jennifer DeLucy