Distracted Quotes

If you see distraction externally, you end up creating an internally distracted state.

I do get massively distracted when I've got someone in my life, which I can't afford to do right now...besides, no one treats me as well as I do.

People get distracted by box-office figures and take jobs because they think it will advance their careers.

Prayer is hard work. We may neglect it because we're too tired, too busy, or too distracted to put into prayer the effort required.

Hungry children are distracted children. We want to make sure nothing gets in the way of our children performing well academically, including hunger.

I'm not very disciplined. I tend to write late at night because I get distracted during the day.

As work weeks get longer and leisure time shrinks, people are becoming sicker, more distracted, absent, unproductive, and less innovative.

We can be dry as dust, distracted and insensible to God's presence. Still we can pray...and if we make even the smallest gesture of availability he will be there.

Was I the only person who was distracted by this future without a chance?

If you can cultivate wholesome mental states prior to sleep and allow them to continue right into sleep without getting distracted, then sleep itself becomes wholesome.

He was distracted by a giggle, and turned to see a rare sight: a girl.

Being in the moment means not being distracted by the melodrama and hysteria around you. Present-moment awareness allows solutions to emerge.

Instead, the terrorists see just what they were hoping for, our unity gone, our resolve shaken, our leaders distracted. In short, they see weakness and opportunity.

Complexity means distracted effort. Simplicity means focused effort.

Try not to catch a girl when she's not in a great mood, tired or distracted.

I think there are times when you walk onto a set you can potentially be either intimidated or distracted by what's going on around you.

Film sets are great fun. Film people are great people to hang around with. I don't want to run off and be distracted by other things.

I try to stay out of the public eye as much as possible because I want people to be able to watch my films and not be distracted.

It is only when we are by ourselves that we can know others. When we are with other human beings we are distracted. People try and dream us into their dreams.

Look at how beautiful life is, and just keep looking until you see it. You don't see what is in front of you because you're so distracted by your thoughts.

Love the work: the grind, the dreaming, the distracted not-sleep, all of it.

There are two extremes to avoid: being completely absorbed in your pain and being distracted by so many things that you stay far away from the wound you want to heal.

We are distracted from our greatness because are greatness is what scares us. Right where you are…God is.

I'm a very distracted person.

The thing to remember is that the work comes first, and not to get distracted by anything else. If you keep focused on the work, everything else will fall into place. That's my mantra now.

I don't know if I'm attention deficit, but I certainly am easily distracted by other things.

I need more and more silence, it feels. Poems don't leap into my mind when I'm distracted, turned outward, with other people, listening to music.

If I didn't have children I'd be a much better actress. I wouldn't be so distracted. I could pour 100 percent of my energies into it, to promote the investigation which acting is.

I defy any woman who is pregnant and trying to concentrate really hard not to feel distracted.

I work better the more I am confined and the less I am distracted. My ultimate place would be a closet.

I get up, get coffee, and go into my home office. I check email and Twitter before I start work, but I have to try not to get too distracted.

I've learned that I need to learn how to direct without making the person distracted and keeping them comfortable, and pay more attention to lighting.

Sometimes I can be distracted by the glamour and the fabulousness.

If I keep going outside, I get distracted - and all these lunches and things I get invited to, I just don't care. I just want to make the work. New York is very distracting.

I've always been distracted when somebody is coming after me and saying, "You're the only person who can play this part."

They turned a distracted gaze on the world, wide-eyed, somehow, and questioning.

I don't want kids to be distracted by pipe dreams.

I haven't ever really relied on relationships with guys. They come around and it's cool, but it's never been a big thing. I guess I've just been really distracted by work.

I'm a person of whim, and easily distracted. I don't like multitasking. When I'm doing one thing, I like to do just that thing.

[On filling out a grant application:] I seek an extended period of time, free from all distractions, so that I might be free to be distracted.

I realize that just my personality is, that I've gotta stay focused. I can't be too distracted.

A lot of actors, they know the camera's there, and if somebody moves around or makes noise or whatever then they get all distracted, but I pretty much lock in. You can't distract me too much.

My legs have become accustomed to the treadmill. And in L.A., running on the street is asking for a distracted texting driver to knock you over.

I'm just upset that we've been distracted by so much noise and vulgarity when we could be trying to talk about how our country can get stronger.

Sometimes when you're trying to do a record too close to home, you can get really distracted.

I focus on my work. If I let myself get distracted by the insults and slanders I wouldn't get anything substantive done.

I think a lot of philosophers get so absorbed and distracted from the real matters of the world that they get lost in irrelevant sub-details.

Everything distracted me, but most of all myself.

I am guilty of buying way too many gadgets - way too many! And though I try to keep things nice and orderly, sometimes I get distracted and stick saucepans where the stockpots should go.

The problem in modern America is not that an individual can't make a difference, but that nearly all of us are too distracted to even consider trying.