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- Nov 07, 2020
Diversion Quotes
On distractions, hobbies, and stepping away from the main path.
These quotes examine 'diversion' in different lights, from television and film once feeling like a diversion from years of theater work to games evolving beyond simple entertainment into something people take seriously. Readers interested in creative careers may also like our Great quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Games have gotten so big and interesting that they've moved beyond the toy/entertainment space. It's not just a diversion from their regular lives; for a lot of people, it becomes an important part of their lives.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nearly everybody I know does something to try to remove herself to clear her head and to have enough time and space to think... All of us instinctively feel that something inside us is crying out for more spaciousness and stillness to offset the exhilarations of this movement and the fun and diversion of the modern world.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always been making art from an early age but for nearly forty years did computer programming to earn a living. I bought a house and put my wife and three children through college. Now that diversion is over so I can finally paint full time.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to overthrow the idea that it's a diversion from 'real' work when scientists conduct high-quality research in the open. Publicly funded science should be open science. Improving the way that science is done means speeding us along in curing cancer, solving the problem of climate change and launching humanity permanently into space.
- Leave
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even when we think or talk about recycling, lots of recyclable stuff ends up getting incinerated or in landfills and leaving many municipalities, diversion rates - they leave much to be recycled. And where is this waste handled? Usually in poor communities.
- Book Writing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
A little before noon I sent orders to all my batteries to open fire through the streets or at any points where the troops were seen about the city, as a diversion in favor of Jackson.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
There should be a point to movies. Sure, you're giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although reading the classics in Latin in school may be not as fulfilling as it would be at a more mature age, few scientists can afford the time for such diversion later in life.
- Keep
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't keep myself from playing roles. The emotionless decadent, looking for diversion from boredom, is a favorite.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was never jailed. The fact is that I was arrested, but I went into a diversion programme, and by that time I'd already begun working in what was called anger management. It was a painful and awful moment.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020