Distracted Quotes

289 quotes by 269 authors

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. — Margaret Atwood
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. — Eric Bana
You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption. — Noam Chomsky
Generally we waste our lives, distracted from our true selves, in endless activity. Meditation is the way to bring us back to ourselves, where we… — Sogyal Rinpoche
Because the demands on the goalie are mostly mental, it means that for a goalie the biggest enemy is himself. Not a puck, not a… — Ken Dryden
There's no greater sign of the failure of the American educational system than the extent to which Americans are distracted by the possibility that Earth… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
When you are passionate, you always have your destination in sight and you are not distracted by obstacles. Because you love what you are pursuing,… — Mike Krzyzewski
I think what has happened to our basketball team, we've been badly distracted. They're not reading too many positive things in the paper. — Bill Russell
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… — Neil Gaiman
Sometimes you really dig a girl, the moment you kiss her, And then you get distracted by her older sister. — John Sebastian
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… — David A. Bednar
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… — Timothy Thomas Fortune
For many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed… — John Ortberg
Right now-whether you're in writing courses getting "paid" in credit for writing, or burdened and distracted by earning a living and changing diapers-figure out how… — Janet Burroway
I am not very interested in extraordinary angles. They can be effective on certain occasions, but I do not feel the necessity for them in… — Bill Brandt
The irony of multitasking is that it's exhausting: when you're doing two or three things simultaneously, you use more energy than the sum of energy… — Twyla Tharp
Being in the moment means not being distracted by the melodrama and hysteria around you. Present-moment awareness allows solutions to emerge. — Deepak Chopra
A distracted existence leads us to no goal — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We are monumentally distracted by a pervasive technological culture that appears to have a life of its own, one that insists on our full attention,… — Al Gore
I want to have a lasting experience with God. Sometimes I feel like I understand the divinity of this world, but then I loose it… — Elizabeth Gilbert

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