Diverted Quotes

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

Any active sportsman has to be very focused; you've got to be in the right frame of mind. If your energy is diverted in various directions, you do not achieve the results. I need to know when to switch on and switch off: and the rest of the things happen around that. Cricket is in the foreground, the rest is in the background.

Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.

No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.