Again, try to keep heart and mind in contact with it amidst distractions and daily duties.
Do not say that it is mystical and incomprehensible, and cannot be reduced into practice amidst the distractions of daily life.
These are so much the more necessary in the world than in a religious state, as its poison and distractions threaten her continually with the greatest danger.
Men may be turned from it for a time by manifold distractionsand by a sense of powerlessness to solve the question, but it is impossible that they should not return to it.
They experienced all the vicissitudes and distractions of a republic; they felt all the vassalage and despotism of a simple monarchy.
Equally free from the distractions of democracy and the tyranny of monarchy, its happiness is to be found in its mixture of parts.
To Governor Stuyvesant, of New Netherlands, he wrote: "I am but a servant of the Assembly, neither do they arrogate any power to themselves further than the miserable distractions of England force them to.
Little knots must have gathered on the green to discuss the distractions in the mother country, and their meaning for the future of Virginia.
The expression must never vary momentarily on account of any extraneous diversion which may occur; otherwise the children will soon learn to provoke such distractions of the teacher's attention.
His power of application in spite of distractions about him that might tend to divert him from his work.
Both were the sons of parents of ample means, and were thus freed from the distractions of a business or profession, while throughout life they alike remained exempt from family cares.
Bragelongne was speedily forgotten by Louise amid the pleasures and distractionsof the gayest court in Europe.
The British government itself, as it is believed, contributed to thedistractions of Congress and the American commander, by causing reports to be circulated that Boston was to be the next point of attack.
The consequence of these distractionswas unfortunate for the Americans.
Their gaiety, their caresses, and the distractions of the sea-side, soothe his wearied soul, and fill his mind with other and happier thoughts.
Who can doubt that the return of the glad light is as delightful to them as it is to us, nay, even more so than it is to us, who have the manifold distractions of so busy and varied a life?
Either the Gods can do nothing for us at all, or they can still and allay all the distractions and distempers of thy mind.
For to continue such as hitherto thou hast been, to undergo those distractions and distempers as thou must needs for such a life as hitherto thou hast lived, is the part of one that is very foolish, and is overfond of his life.
If they can, why wouldst not thou rather pray, that they will grant unto thee, that thou mayst neither fear, nor lust after any of those worldly things which cause these distractions and distempers of it?
Social demands involved him in expenditures far in excess of his modest calculations, while the intervals of relief from physical incapacity were filled with a hundred distractions which left him no time for sustained mental effort.
His life was full of petty worries and distractions which weighted his imagination as with lead.
They are all processes that eliminate distractions and enable you to direct your awareness in ways that are basically different from normal, everyday waking consciousness.
Distractions will subvert your will in a split second.
The distractions of mind for which great men are so famous, are often, writes Tonnini, nothing else but epileptic absences.
And his sensitive state of nerve and brain, his anchorite's way of life, did not allow him the distractions of other men.
And it stood also between her and the friends and distractions that she would like to have.
The tests should be conducted in a quiet room, located where the noises of the street and other outside distractions cannot enter.
The test presupposes, in elementary form, a power which is operative in all the higher independent processes of thought, the power to neglect the manifold distractions of irrelevant sensations and ideas and to drive direct toward a goal.
These distractions rapidly acquired force after the father’s death in the autumn of 1651 (September).
The impression is left upon us that worldly distractions had already begun to influence his life.
And for whatever activities he might devise as distractionsfrom his thoughts, fears of the vacuous nature of existence would always be man's ineluctable truth, and without agenda vacuous truth was his in excess.
The employer may see to it that as far as possible all distractionsare removed.
To subject such persons to distractions is an unwise expenditure of energy Concentration by voluntary attention should be avoided, but concentration by secondary passive
attention cultivated.
It frequently happens that this struggle is continuous--particularly when the distractions are unusual or our physical condition is below the normal.
Strength of will consists in the power to resist distractions and to hold the mind down to even the most uninteresting occupations.
Such persons may be very efficient employees, and their inability to concentrate in the presence of distractions should be respected.
When an effort of will enables us to overcome these distractions and apply our minds to the subject in hand, the strain soon repeats itself.
The warfare against these distractions is never wholly won.
The value of time, the effect of interruptions and distractions upon their own efficiency, are understood by countless executives who neglect to guard their employees against similar distractions.
Some individuals are so hindered by the ordinary and necessary distractions of business that special protection should be granted to them.
Organized society has recognized the hindering effect of some distractionsand has made halting attempts to abolish them.
Other persons are so constituted that these distractionscan never be overcome.
The individual manufacturer or merchant, therefore, need not wait for a general crusade to abate the noise, the smoke, and the other distractions which reduce his employee's effectiveness.
Private offices guarded by secretaries fortify them against distractions and unauthorized claims on their attention, both from within and without their organizations.
This chapter was prefaced by an instance where protection from distractions through organization was joined with methodical attack on the elements of the day's work.
I can see that you imagine that among the distractions of the world I have kept no memory of you, and have found consolation in the love of less obdurate fair ones.
In truth, her life would have been lonely and depressing enough, had it not been for the distractions which Claire Fromont procured for her.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "distractions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
