Quotes About Distractions

I'm not going to worry about any outside pressure or distractions or any of the things that comes with being the #1 pick. I know there is responsibility that comes with it, but I'm ready to get after it.

For some reason, the busier I am at the track, the better I tend to race. I think it's because I don't have to deal with all the distractions outside the car that can get me in trouble at times.

Whatever career you are in, you always have other distractions.

Growing up in Baltimore, there were a lot of distractions. But I was so into boxing, it was like candy to me.

We're long on conversation in our house. Therefore, I don't like going to restaurants too much. There are too many distractions.

I think that it's a benefit to have distractions because you don't overconsume yourself with what-ifs and you end up second-guessing yourself.

I think it's good for people sometimes to get out of their own environments - there are less distractions.

I feel attention sometimes in games, from fans and other players. But I just try to play the way I always have, remain focused, and don't let distractions get in my way.

In international sport you get distractions all the time, but at the end of the day that shouldn't affect how you deliver a ball or how you hit a ball.

I don't want no distractions on Melo. So therefore I'm going to home-school him and make him the best basketball player ever.

There were a lot of distractions in Baltimore, and I think they were a problem for me.

When you in the studio you don't need everybody calling your phone telling you about what's going on outside the studio. I don't need those distractions.

Let's face it: Most teams don't like distractions.

In Russia it is great because you can concentrate 100 percent on your work, there are not as many distractions as London, so I've literally had a year concentrating on my dancing.

I would ditch school if my CD was scratched up or I couldn't get batteries. I wasn't trying to get on the bus and not be listening to music.

I just like playing the game. I don't like all the extra stuff that comes with it.

The more emotional distractions you have the harder it is to accomplish your goals - especially at the extreme levels!

I'm at my desk for about 9:30 A.M., and I stay there all day. Then there's a lot of checking Facebook and eBay and that sort of thing.

We must not become perpetually distracted from the great challenges facing our country and the world.

It's hard enough to just be a good actor. When you're on set, there's everything going against you. There are walkie talkies going off, the camera is creaking and moving, there are boom mics, and you have to hit your mark and make sure you don't shadow the other person's face. It's a really technical process.

I was actually going to be a chef before I got sidetracked. I used to make deserts for restaurants as a young teenage mother to make money.

I don't know about other writers, but for myself, to write I must be relatively quiet - it's very difficult to write with the telephone and the doorbell ringing and conversation going on; I'm not that good a writer to write through all that!

Like serious reading itself, travel has now become an act of resistance against the distractions of the electronic age, and against all the worries that weigh us down, thanks to that age. A good book deserves to be finished, just as a haunting landscape tempts further experience of it, and further research into it. Travel and serious reading, because they demand sustained focus, stand athwart the nonexistent attention spans that deface our current time on Earth.

Problems are never real problems unless they cause you to take your eye off your goals. When a negative reaction threatens you, look over and beyond the problem.