Quotes About Distractions

Be focused in what you do and what you say. There is much noise in the world to detrack you.

Distractions can be disastrous if they are allowed, they will steal precious time and energy from most important things that matters in life.

Anything that cools my love for Christ is the world.

You would not believe how much time people waste in a day. And how little time they put into things they genuinely love.

So I simply don't buy the concept of "Generation X" as the "lost generation." I see too many good kids out there, kids who are ready and willing to do the right thing, just as Jack was. Their distractions are greater, though. There's no more simple life with simple choices for the young.

Distractions are the enemy of greatness.

But she was seventeen now and not actually dumb. She knew that you could love somebody more than anything and still not love the person all that much, if you were busy with other things.

Your freedom it says. What is that? Some kind of illusory concept where the people in charge let you have comfortable distractions. Enough THINGS so that you don't see your chains. I respect your work too much to let you endure that kind of self-deception.

In my forties, I felt the attenuation of my ambition." Meaning what? "It means that the worldly ambitions that I might have had, I increasingly see as distractions from the life I really want to live.

What a deal of cold business doth a man misspend the better of life in!—in scattering compliments, tendering visits, gathering and venting news, following feasts and plays, making a little winter love in a dark corner.

Regardless of your exact posture, the goal is to be focused on the meditation itself, not allowing any discomfort or distractions to pull your mental attention away from your focus on listening to the Holy Spirit's voice.

All of the off-field stuff, I can promise you, it doesn't even register with me.

I've got so many things coming across my desk right now that are nonfootball related, I can't stand it.

Throughout all of life's little interruptions and distractions, I prided myself on keeping my work focused and relatively unscathed.

I do a lot of writing on planes, actually. It's my time that I can just relax and have absolutely no distractions.

Men use music and football to fill up holes in their lives.

There are so many different things out there trying to hook our attention, we writers have to be very selective and make certain that it is coming from inside out, not outside in.

When we got home from school, every TV in the house was on 'General Hospital,' so if I wanted to watch TV instead of do homework, I had to watch 'General Hospital.'

I can't believe how many people don't have time to cook but have time to watch football and 'The Voice.' They're certainly making a choice.

We must learn to soundproof the heart against the intruding noises of the public world in order to hear what God has to say.

Incidentally, what most often interrupts my own prayers is not great distractions but tiny ones—things one will have to do or avoid in the course of the next hour.4

The media's worried about whether I've paid my taxes; they're worried about any number of silly things that have nothing to do with America.

When I'm on the field, family-wise, family matters, whatever off-the-field issues, I'm not worried about.

There's always going to be silly stuff out there in the media that you can't worry too much about, and I don't. We just keep on trucking, and I like the way my... I think there should be 'professional is professional, and personal is personal,' and that's just how I'm going to keep it.