Distracted Quotes

People allow themselves to get distracted; I think ultimately, probably the biggest thing that gets in the way of people doing what they ought to be doing at any point in time is distraction.

Getting distracted by trifles is the easiest thing in the world… Focus on your main duty

Meetings get a bad rap, and deservedly so - most are disorganized and distracted. But they can be a critical tool for getting your team on the same page.

It is better to be fully present and rested and engaged for one thing than rushed, distracted, and scattered for ten.

Ours is supposed to be a government in which classes and distinctions melt into a harmonious whole. Until we reach this ideal of government, we will be a distracted, contentious people.

I think a lot of times we can get distracted and not be in the moment with people and be missing all the life happening in the moment.

I'm easily distracted by other things in the world around me.

The mind is easily distracted; it loses its focus and becomes restless. If it is not directed positively, its power will be diffused.

I've never had WiFi at home. I'm too easily distracted, and YouTube is too tempting.

I find it so easy to get distracted - I try not to do more than one thing at any one time.

If you know you're going to be outside, you have to be a little bit more in tune, so that you don't get distracted by what's going on and focus better.

Trying to write while I'm distracted definitely doesn't work for me. I'm also a compulsive saver of my files, so every writing session ends with me emailing what I've written to myself, just in case.

If, at the time when the mind is praying it is distracted by any extraneous thought or worry about anything, then this prayer is not called pure.

You've just got to focus on excellence and try not to be distracted by the news and the rumors and the absurdities of the stories that were coming out.

I'm more of a visual person, but I think that reading's extremely important. But I'm very easily distracted. It takes certain books to really grab you in.

I always work in a room where there's no Internet to keep from being distracted so easily.

Liberal and conservative have lost their meaning in America. I represent the distracted center.

I laugh and joke, but I don't get distracted very easily.

There is no yajna (sacrifice) greater than spinning calculated to bring peace to the troubled spirit, to soothe the distracted student's mind, to spiritualize his life.

Every time we start thinking we're the center of the universe, the universe turns around and says with a slightly distracted air, "I'm sorry. What'd you say your name was again?"

It's just I might get distracted, and I get lost kind of easily, and sometimes I have really bad days...when, you know, I just want to hide or scream or bleed or something, and...all that...

I sometimes got distracted easily and allowed my mind to wander when I needed to be focused. It's quite subtle, really, and just being aware of it helps.

I get a lot of kids distracted. Sometimes they got to go cover left field, but they're over here talking to me, getting an autograph.

Pure love of God is our nature, but we are so much diverted, so much distracted by the externals that we've forgotten that it's our essence.

Don’t get distracted by the shiny object [and if a crisis comes], execute on the fundamentals.

One energy field. Our bodies have distracted us from our energy. We are the infinite field of unfolding possibilities. The creative force.

A man is hindered and distracted in proportion as he draws outward things to himself.

We are often so distracted by the internal war between what we want to do and what we have to do that we overlook what we need to do.

This motion-picture muddle had distracted me from my writing.

Be careful to not haul around in our lives so many nice but unnecessary things that we are distracted and diverted from the things that truly matter most.

The poet, distracted by politics, asks of poetry that it make itself useful like metal or flour, that it get ready to stain its face with coal dust and fight body to body.

In the good times of Dada, we detested polished works, the distracted air of spiritual struggle, the titans, and we rejected them with all out being.

If the old dog hadn't got distracted by the fire plug, he would have caught the rabbit.

With mind distracted, never thinking, "Death is coming," To slave away on the pointless business of mundane life, And then to come out empty--it is a tragic error. (116) trans by Robert Thurman

It's a struggle for me to watch things I've been in because I'm just distracted and self-critical.

Your life is too valuable to waste being distracted.

One means very effectual for the preservation of health is a quiet and cheerful mind, not afflicted with violent passions or distracted with immoderate cares.

One should not be too distracted by definitions. Ideas transcend definitions.

The writer cannot make the seas of distraction stand still, but he [or she] can at times come between the madly distracted and the distractions.

I feel that sometimes we are so distracted by superficial things, we forget what really matters: cherishing those around us.

When you are hunting elephants, don't get distracted chasing rabbits.

Thanks to the internet, I buy lots of music, but thanks to my easily distracted nature, I forget about half of it!

People without clear vision are easily distracted, have a tendency to drift from one idea to another and often make foolish decisions that rob them of their dreams.

What you see is not what we see. What you see is distracted by memory, by being who you are, all this time, for all these years.

The self cannot be escaped, but it can be, with ingenuity and hard work, distracted.

You're easily distracted by the pattern of the cloth and can't see the quality of the threads.

I'm not a pop act, churning stuff out really quickly. I find the music that arises from that style of working is distracted, not particularly profound.

Not much could have distracted me from coffee, but hearing Julius Caesar quoted at Spencer’s certainly did.

People are distracted by objects of desire, and afterward repent of the lust they've indulged, because they have indulged with a phantom and are left even farther from Reality than before.

Art -- the fresh feeling, new harmony, the transforming magic which by means of myth brings back the scattered distracted soul from its modern chaos -- art, not politics, is the remedy.