Distracted Quotes - Page 8

• 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.

  Evan Rachel Wood

  Eye, People, Trying

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• When it comes down to intuition, when it comes down to gut feelings about whether a song is right, you can get distracted with words, rationalization. There's nothing wrong with music school, but part of music school has to be the ability to forget all of it, too.

  Greg Saunier

  Song, School, Feelings

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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 I'm coming back. This is a distraction, it's the calm before the storm.

  Ernests Gulbis

  Storm, Calm, Problem

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• Everyone accepts the abstraction of Bach. My work aspires to the same kind of abstraction, which is so engaging that you're distracted from asking about what it means. So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category. Once it's in the viewer's eyes my job will be judged on whether or not it is engaging and pulls you in to a kind of intelligence or poetic something going on there that makes it sustainable to look at.

  Caio Fonseca

  Wall, Mean, Eye

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Thinking, Walks, Intimidated

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• It's a struggle for me to watch things I've been in because I'm just distracted and self-critical.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Struggle, Self, Watches

  "Sitting Down and Having Pizza With Jesse Eisenberg and Aziz Ansari". Interview with Cyrus Saatsaz, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 24, 2011.

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• 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.

  Jessica Lange

  Children, Acting, Energy

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• What I love about photography, and it's the same thing I love about acting, really, is that it forces you, like, right into the moment, where you can't be distracted, where you can't be, like, thinking about other things or ahead of yourself or behind yourself.

  Jessica Lange

  Photography, Thinking, Acting

  "Actress Jessica Lange". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. October 8, 2013.

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• This is what I asked for, and in this day and age that's what actually goes on. But what hurts me the most is that I work just as hard as any other actress around my age, like Scarlett Johansson, but I just don't get the opportunities that they get because people are so distracted by the mess that I created in my life.

  Lindsay Lohan

  Birthday, Hurt, Opportunity

  "Behind-the-Scenes with Lindsay Lohan". Interview with Lauren Hutton, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 7, 2009.

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• 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.

  Michael Weatherly

  Running, Asking, Legs

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• For much of its existence, design was all about convenience. We wanted to hide technology so that users are not distracted into thinking about the tools they use.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Technology, Thinking, Design

  "Author: Think twice about 'the Internet'". Interview with Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. July 19, 2013.

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

  Kim Edwards

  World, Questioning, Wide

  Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.364, Penguin

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• The poet, distracted by politics, asks of poetry that it make itself useful like metal or flour, that it get ready to stain its face with coal dust and fight body to body.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Fighting, Dust, Coal

  Eduardo Galeano, Cedric Belfrage (1988). “Century of the Wind”, Pantheon Books

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

  Dave Barry

  Girl, Sight, Giggle

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• We cannot and we must not allow ourselves to get distracted from our sacred duty. We cannot and we must not lose focus on the things that matter most.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Focus, Sacred, Matter

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• I sensed him leaning forward. It's weird to feel someone's attention on you that way, like you're the only thing in the world they're listening to. Most of the time people are distracted, or just thinking about what they're going to say next.

  Lilith Saintcrow

  Thinking, People, Listening

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• . . . there is a wish in the heart of mankind to be distracted and confused. Truth is but one attraction, and not always the most powerful.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Powerful, Confused, Heart

  Joyce Carol Oates (2014). “Rape: A Love Story”, p.89, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The process of writing a novel is like taking a journey by boat. You have to continually set yourself on course. If you get distracted or allow yourself to drift, you will never make it to the destination. It's not like highly defined train tracks or a highway; this is a path that you are creating discovering. The journey is your narrative. Keep to it and there will be a tale told.

  Walter Mosley

  Writing, Journey, Creating

  Walter Mosley (2009). “This Year You Write Your Novel”, p.10, Hachette UK

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• 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 to hide or scream or bleed or something, and...all that...

  Neil Gaiman

  Suicide, Self Harm, Bad Day

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• What we are talking about is learning to live in the present moment, in the now. When you aren't distracted by your own negative thinking, when you don't allow yourself to get lost in moments that are gone or yet to come, you are left with this moment. This moment-now-truly is the only moment you have. It is beautiful and special. Life is simply a series of such moments to be experienced one right after another. If you attend to the moment you are in and stay connected to your soul and remain happy, you will find that your heart is filled with positive feelings.

  Sydney Banks

  Beautiful, Heart, Thinking

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• I'm not a pop act, churning stuff out really quickly. I find the music that arises from that style of working is distracted, not particularly profound.

  Paloma Faith

  Profound, Style, Stuff

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• 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.

  James Nesbitt

  Fall, Firsts, Remember

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

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• A person is alive only to the degree that he or she is aware. To make the most of life we must constantly strive to be aware of the importance of being aware. Be aware of your senses and use them: So often we are distracted and unconscious of the riches our senses can pour into our lives. We eat food without tasting it, listen to music without hearing it, smell without experiencing the pungency of odors and the delicacy of perfumes, touch without feeling the grain or texture, and see without appreciating the beauty around us.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Smell, Appreciate, Feelings

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• Life offers its wisdom generously. Everything teaches. Not everyone learns. Life asks of us the same thing we have been asked in every class: "Stay awake." "Pay attention." But paying attention is no simple matter. It requires us not to be distracted by expectations, past experiences, labels, and masks. It asks that we not jump to early conclusions and that we remain open to surprise.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Past, Simple, Class

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• Finally, everybody agrees that no one pursuit can be successfully followed by a man who is preoccupied with many things-eloquence cannot, nor the liberal studies-since the mind, when distracted, takes in nothing very deeply, but rejects everything that is, as it were, crammed into it. There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living: there is nothing that is harder to learn.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Mind, Study

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