Ayelet Waldman

I did not want to raise a genetically compromised child. I did not want my children to have to contend with the massive diversion of parental attention, and the consequences of being compelled to care for their brother after I died. I wanted a genetically perfect baby, and because that was something I could control, I chose to end his life.

Israeli Novelist

Michael Nielsen

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.

Australian Writer

Jeb Bush

I really think that elected officials should be focused on how you create sustained economic growth, how do you create jobs and all of these issues that made people - segments of our society believe are really important are diversions politically.

American Politician

George Lucas

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.

American Director

John Berger

Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It's the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one is writing a poem, a novel or an argument.

English Artist

Bo Gritz

I believe certain members of the U.S. Congress have aided in the oppression and diversion of critical information that could have revealed a fullness of truth long ago.

American Soldier

Martha Stewart

Each generation is smarter than the generation before, and they need total diversion and encouragement and things to think about.

Entertainer

George Jean Nathan

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

American Editor

Matthew Gray Gubler

When I watch movies - when I watch 'Star Wars' - you want to watch the fun characters, the diversions.

American Actor

Luciano Pavarotti

Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me.

Italian Musician

Refers to altering the actual route or function of something physical, like a road or river.

Physical Change

Can indicate resources being directed away from their original target, often for a new purpose.

Resource Redirect

It's used when someone's focus is intentionally redirected to something else.

Attention Shift

Implies a gentle or unnoticed steering of attention away, without obvious force.

Subtle Mislead

Often signifies a temporary change in path, typically because of construction or an accident.

Temporary Route

May suggest an unplanned route that can be either annoying or an adventurous alternative.

Unexpected Detour

In a military sense, it's a planned action to redirect the enemy's focus.

Strategic Distraction

Aims to confuse or throw off opponents by making them concentrate elsewhere.

Misdirect Opponents

 which every -- you're in good company -- everybody gets wrong. This is my little diversion into my real passion, which is genetics. There's a connection between head-tail-heads and head-tail-tails in genetics, and it's the following. When you toss a coin, you get a sequence of heads and tails.

Peter Donnelly: How...

 there's going to be some large-scale strategies fresh water diversion that puts fresh water and sediments back into the marsh system but there are going to be some conservation targets if the oysters are able to latch onto suitable structures artificial or otherwise both

Concrete to Help Gulf...

 little you know downcast and about 4 o'clock in the morning a woman came to my apartment and knocked on the door and said dress modestly bring one camera and I followed her and she created a diversion while I slid inside and a group of women welcomed me into where

A Camera, Two Kids and a...

 seven years later on and you can see it's greatly simplified so there is actually not many diversions from the main story and one thing that you have to look hard to to spot out in this picture there's actually only one very good ending to the story so choice it

Choose your own TED Talk...

 He wrote as much in his journal. But some of the diversions he took in optics transformed the way that he modeled light and made him into a much better painter. What about Martin Luther King, Jr.? The night before the biggest speech of his life,

The surprising habits of...

 complete with numerous amenities, including a state-of-the-art hospital. Before construction on the dam could begin, the entire river had to be rerouted. Building these diversion tunnels required blasting into each side of the canyon

Blood, concrete, and...

 and I still have to support my loved ones as a travel writer and a journalist, so clearly this is not ideal for job advancement or for cultural excitement or for social diversion. But I realized that it gives me what I prize most,

The Art of Stillness PIPE...

 So this issue of present bias causes us to think about saving, but end up spending. Let me now talk about another behavioral obstacle to saving having to do with inertia. But again, a little diversion

Shlomo Benartzi: Saving...

 but also as potential careers for those who might fail to make good marriages. Even in the composer's own time, Vivaldi's music served as diversion for all, not just for the wealthy aristocrats.

Why should you listen to...

 They decided that they were not being asked to take responsibility, or maybe the bus planning manager was being asked to take responsibility for planning the bus diversions,

Diversion