Distracted Quotes - Page 2

• The more you let yourself be distracted from where you are going, the more you are the person that you are. It's not so much like getting lost as it is like getting found.

  William Stafford

  Getting Lost, Madness, Found

  12 Copy quote

• You can't be distracted by the noise of misinformation.

  James Daly

  Noise, Misinformation

  22 Copy quote

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

  Zane Grey

  Writing, Motion Pictures, Muddle

  7 Copy quote

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

  Elliott Gould

  Trying, Madness, Easy

  7 Copy quote

• I think my expectations for myself are much more severe and much more direct. You can't work on a film for six years without being your own toughest critic. So you can't really be distracted by the expectations based on your previous performance.

  Ken Burns

  Thinking, Years, Expectations

  7 Copy quote

• Sometimes you really dig a girl, the moment you kiss her, And then you get distracted by her older sister.

  John Sebastian

  Sister, Girl, Kissing

  52 Copy quote

• 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.

  Jason Marsden

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  7 Copy quote

• I don't have any blindness when it comes to my money. As an actor, you can get distracted by your work. I do keep an eye on my nest egg, if you will.

  Judd Nelson

  Eye, Eggs, Actors

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Big Brother isn't watching. He's singing and dancing. He's pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother's busy holding your attention every moment you're awake. He's making sure you're always distracted. He's making sure you're fully absorbed. He's making sure your imagination withers. Until it's as useful as your appendix. He's making sure your attention is always filled. And this being fed, it's worse than being watched. With the world always filling you, no one has to worry about what's in your mind. With everyone's imagination atrophied, no one will ever be a threat to the world.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Brother, Dancing, Imagination

  "Lullaby". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2002.

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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 with him anyway, I didn't even think about it that much, well, OK, this is what's happening.

  Rosanne Cash

  Baby, Thinking, Years

  7 Copy quote

• And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.

  T. S. Eliot

  Book, Writing, Silence

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Rock: A Pageant Play”, p.40, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Boz Scaggs

  World

  7 Copy quote

• It's true that I tend to daydream. I'm the same person in business as I am in music: I can be distracted and absentminded. It's my style.

  Gordon Getty

  Style, Daydreaming, Persons

  10 Copy quote

• Distracted from distraction by distraction

  T. S. Eliot

  Social Media, Distraction

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Four Quartets”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  76 Copy quote

  Show source

• Try your best not to get distracted from your goal. Let everything you do be your way of getting closer to your enlightenment; never take a vacation from spiritual practice.

  Sharon Gannon

  Spiritual, Vacation, Practice

  "Chanting Compassion with David Life & Sharon Gannon". Chanting Compassion with David Life & Sharon Gannon, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• But that day I was anxious. I was nervous and worried, uneasy and distracted. I paced around and never felt settled. I didn't care for the sensation, yet I realized it was possibly a natural progression of my evolving soul, and therefore I tried my best to embrace it.

  Garth Stein

  Soul, Care, Nervous

  Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  David Allen

  Thinking, People, Way

  Source: www.stephanspencer.com

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Reed Hastings

  Fundamentals, Crisis, Ifs

  7 Copy quote

• If you look to others you will be distracted; if you look to yourselves you will be discouraged; but if you look to Christ you'll be delighted.

  Warren W. Wiersbe

  Looks, Christ, Discouraged

  136 Copy quote

• 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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Beautiful, Buddhism, Mindfulness

  4 Copy quote

• Focus on essentials and try not to get distracted and bogged down by things that don't add value to the bottom line.

  Carlos Slim

  Focus, Trying, Essentials

  31 Copy quote

• 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.

  Andy Stanley

  Dream, Ideas, People

  6 Copy quote

• Complexity means distracted effort. Simplicity means focused effort.

  Edward de Bono

  Mean, Simplicity, Effort

  4 Copy quote

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

  Epictetus

  Motivational, Focus, World

  8 Copy quote

• Most people are so distracted by their thoughts, so identified with the voices in their heads, they no longer feel the aliveness within them. To be unable to feel the life that animates the physical body, the very life that you are, is the greatest deprivation that can happen to you.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Voice, People, Body

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.152, Penguin

  5 Copy quote

  Show source