- Brood
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- Nov 07, 2020
Diverted Quotes
Sayings on attention, emotion, and resources redirected elsewhere.
These quotes explore what it means to be diverted, from emotions redirected elsewhere to funding pulled away from one project toward another. One speaker compares focused, undiverted work to how a cow steadily grazes, a grounded image tied to Mind.
- Last Updated on Aug 01, 2026
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The war on driving includes calls for carbon and gas taxes, tens of billions of gas tax money diverted to inefficient and little-used mass transit projects, and opposition to building new roads and highways.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hate raising money. It diverts you from what your real task is: to be a representative. You're diverted into preservation when you really want to spend your time and energy making a better state and a better country - which is the reason you ran in the first place.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.
- Organization
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- Nov 07, 2020
But the more an organization succeeds and prospers, the more it is likely to be diverted from its original ideals, principles and purposes.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had to make a living, so I got happily diverted into writing about expeditions and adventures.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like anyone who follows politics, I am sometimes mesmerized by the twisted and relentless drama playing out in Washington. But I also know about the price of distraction - the consequences of our attention being diverted from how politics affects daily life.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
When our ancestors crouched about the camp fire at night, they told each other tales of gods and heroes, monsters and marvels, to hold back the terrors of the night. Such tales comforted and entertained, diverted and educated those who listened, and helped shape their sense of the world and their place in it.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't try to talk anyone out of concentrating his hatred on Ayn Rand or any other dead person. It can't harm the dead. Diverted to a living person, it might actually do harm.
- Jealous
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women didn't want to watch other women on television because they were jealous of their husbands' diverted attention.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
Encourage your own curiosity; pursue the problems based on that. Don't get diverted by trying to do things for your own advancement. In other words, don't be lured into responding to incentives.
- Revenge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.
- Hunger
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- Nov 07, 2020
Human activity is having a major impact on the planet. We consume or have diverted a large proportion of the productivity of the land and oceans. Our hunger for land crowds out fellow species. Our waste products pollute the waters, warm the atmosphere and acidify the oceans.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
We do want to be diverted and be interested and be provoked by popular culture - by art, if we're lucky. And it's amazing how often people have lost sight of this.
- Digital Technology
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- Nov 07, 2020