Distracted Quotes

289 Distracted quotes by 264 unique authors

I can't cook. I don't have the right brain for it, somehow. I can't walk into a room and tidy it up. I get distracted.… — Sophie Kinsella
This motion-picture muddle had distracted me from my writing. — Zane Grey
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… — Leighton Meester
I'm a fairly ascetic person. And I do most of my writing at night. You don't get distracted, your brain goes into what you are… — Caleb Carr
I made sure that instead of people making fun of me, like every comedian probably says, I made fun of myself first so they would… — Eliza Coupe
My favorite books are a constantly changing list, but one favorite has remained constant: the dictionary. Is the word I want to use spelled practice… — Beverly Cleary
Well, the first year I lost my voice I didn't mind so much because I was going to have a baby and I was distracted… — Rosanne Cash
You can't be distracted by the noise of misinformation. — James Daly
I always work in a room where there's no Internet to keep from being distracted so easily. — Jeffrey Eugenides
If you are interested in ideas, radio is way more pure than television. You're not distracted by somebody's nose or hair or posture. You can… — Terry Gross
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… — Angela Kinsey
This is not a problem. I’m making everybody very calm, distracted by my bad results and then I’m going to shoot. One good result and… — Ernests Gulbis
Don’t get distracted by the shiny object [and if a crisis comes], execute on the fundamentals. — Reed Hastings
Don't be distracted by doubters. — Kid Ink
Our mind is always subject to being distracted by thoughts of what happened in the past and ideas of what could happen in the future,… — Sakyong Mipham
But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha… — Bodhidharma
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… — Frederick Lenz
That's the horrible thing starting out, you get distracted a lot because anything is easier than writing. It's just the same enemy - blank paper. — Jimmy Breslin
Hungry children are distracted children. We want to make sure nothing gets in the way of our children performing well academically, including hunger. — Arne Duncan
I have a very beautiful room in my house... It's glass on three sides, and you'd think that's the perfect place to write. Somehow in… — Jeffrey Eugenides
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. — Pam Gems
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… — Unknown Author
Distractions are everywhere. And with the always-on technologies of today, they take a heavy toll on productivity. One study found that office distractions eat an… — David Rock
The relative ease of most driving lures us into thinking we can get away with doing other things. Indeed, those other things, like listening to… — Tom Vanderbilt
What good is there in being blind, you ask? Well, maybe it's to see the beauty on the inside without being vainly distracted, or superficially… — Criss Jami

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