What sets disciplined people apart? - The capacity to get past distractions. Focus on the task at hand. — Bill Parcells Copy Share Image
Winning teams have the least amount of distractions. They have a really tight group of people working towards the same common goal. — Larry Dixon Copy Share Image
The human mind is scattered. We have become negligent about our distractions, inertia, confusion, doubt, fear, and anger. — Rajmani Tigunait Copy Share Image
Anything you believe you have to do or become before you can be free is a denial and distraction from the truth… — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
“He craved her distraction, and called the number. She read with melodic enticement, polarizing him.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Be true to the thought of the moment and avoid distraction. Other than continuing to exert yourself, enter into nothing else, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I've got massive projects to be getting on with, I find myself open to distractions, particularly when deadlines are involved. — Max Tundra Copy Share Image
“it's always on in the background but only takes first chair in our brains when we're not focused on anything in particular.” — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
The contradictions in Renan , his feminine sensibility, coquetry, unavowed egotism, and sudden emotional outbursts, all indicate a soul deliberately using distraction… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
My house has too many distractions. There's the email. There's checking my Amazon ranking. I know I'm the only author who's ever… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
Everything in life turns out to be a distraction from the real thing you want to do. There are a million distractions… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
The evolution of social media into a robust mechanism for social transformation is already visible. Despite many adamant critics who insist that… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
“For some reason, her features soften at that. “You don’t spend much time around women, do you?” I shrug. “They are around… — Jessa Kane Copy Share Image
Obstruction can be caused by so many factors - perfectionism, distraction, faltering confidence, external demands and pressures. At some point, of course,… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
I was writing poems as I was walking. I was able to take that restlessness, that nomadic distraction, and use that distraction… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
In one sense, Obama's point couldn't be clearer: race is a distraction from class-based inequities. And if we dismiss working-class resentment as… — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
I always hear people say I give the same answers or I don’t give you much. No, I just don’t give you… — Derek Jeter Copy Share Image
Essentially, the popular musician in America must learn that his basic job is to entertain people, to make them forget their sorrows… — Artie Shaw Copy Share Image
The zazen I speak of is not learning meditation. It is simply the Dharma gate of repose and bliss, the practice-realization of… — Dogen Copy Share Image
I take this for myself, and you take up the thread of my life between your teeth, tin thread and tarnished with… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
“As with our colleges, so with a hundred ‘modern improvements;’ there is an illusion about them; there is not always a positive… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If one is the kind of creature I am and wants to do the kind of writing I want to do, an… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
I worked closely with Steve Peters, the British Cycling team's psychologist, and we came up with a strategy of dealing with the… — Chris Hoy Copy Share Image
“Distraction: The Productivity Killer Why you are distracted isn’t the issue. The real issue is you are avoiding work that you need… — Liesha Petrovich Copy Share Image
I'm not a media personality, I'm an actress. I want to protect that thing: the suspension of disbelief. The rest of it… — Holly Hunter Copy Share Image
“I mean if we all looked at how much Bill Gates has in his bank and allowed that to act as a… — Stephen Richards Copy Share Image
I want to carve out a serious period of time to focus on the next opera without any distractions. And to do… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
The majority of Americans, the ones who never elected George W. Bush, are not fooled by his weapons of mass distraction. — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
When we play games, our brains respond differently to stress and obstacles. We're better able to control our attention and ignore distractions. — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
“Sean O'Connell: Sometimes I don't. If I like a moment, for me, personally, I don't like to have the distraction of the… — The Secret Life of Walter Mitty Copy Share Image
I love New York. I was sad, depressed and incredibly moved by our fellow countrymen and what they've done. I wanted to… — Ben Stiller Copy Share Image
Science can give us knowledge, but it cannot give us wisdom. Nor can religion, until it puts aside nonsense and distraction and… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it's useless, I think it's a distraction. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Sometimes entrepreneurs, successful people, need to put their blinders back on. They're losing their day to distraction, to faulty obligations. — Brendon Burchard Copy Share Image
We can know what love is. It´s adults who have forgotten, so they cling to their poor substitute and yell at kids… — Barry Lyga Copy Share Image
I think the guys that are successful might be a little more relaxed and able to deal with the distractions. — Eli Manning Copy Share Image
I think we work well when there are absolutely no distractions whatsoever, because we tend to come up with the best ideas… — Ed MacFarlane Copy Share Image
“Your genius is its own distraction. It consumes you in ways nothing else can. It pulls you away like a jealous lover.” — Brian Knapp Copy Share Image
I don't pay attention to accolades or any of that stuff because I think it can serve as a distraction, so for… — Malcolm Brogdon Copy Share Image
I don't think you go to a play to forget, or to a movie to be distracted. I think life generally is… — Tom Noonan Copy Share Image
