Quotes About Distractions

I don't like reading things that people say on the Internet because I know so much of it is not true. I don't want to waste my time worrying about what other people are thinking. I just want to focus on being able to do cool projects.

I've just stopped worrying about what the game plan looks like, how many targets am I going to have in a game, all of the stuff that would distract me when having fun out there on the football field. It's allowed me to be less stressed and enjoy my teammates more and go out there with a loose mentality and have more fun.

There are people who want me to do a cologne. They want to call it 'Patrick.' I was offered a fortune to make exercise videos. Posters, all kinds of stuff - something like $10 million worth. It's insanity. I'm not going to do any of it.

One of the problems of modern society, or the post-Internet age, is that there are so many things bombarding us that we could care about. I think it's more important than ever to really get clear and focus on what's worth caring about and what's just noise or distraction.

It's hard on the road, you don't get too much time to sit down and focus.

Neymar and Balotelli have the same problem. They spend too much time on their activities off the pitch.

While your husband cannot turn off the world's noise, you can pray he will tune in to what is helpful and tune out what is harmful. You can pray that he will raise his spiritual antennae to detect the frequency of God's voice in his inner man.

I have never been interested in taking students. They waste one's time and interrupt one's schedule.

I have always been allergic to telephones. As far as I am concerned, they are very seldom time-savers and very often the destroyers of schedules.

If you spend too much time in a place like that your power level will be lowered and these beings will annoy you.

Left to our own devices and passions, we human beings have a hard time seeing beyond what is immediately in front of us.

I don't have time to worry about them when they are not.

You must however pay attention to the fact that we don't only lose time to lateness. We also lose time to jokes, gossip, empty talks, sleep on duty, social media etc.

Cooking, decorating, diet/self-help and gardening books are guilty pleasures and useful time fillers.

There can be distractions, but if you're isolated from the heart of the Games, the Olympics become just another competition.

No, what's troubling is the gap between the magnitude of our challenges and the smallness of our politics--the ease with which we are distracted by the petty and trivial, our chronic avoidance of tough decisions, our seeming inability to build a working concensus to tackle any big problem.

I was impatient in those days, busy with work and unrealized plans, and prone to see other people as unnecessary distractions.

As a teenager, I aspired to be a scientist, but too many things happened to distract me from that goal, so I became instead a science appreciator.

It's incredibly easy to get caught up in the thick of thin things.

What matters most gets buried under layers of pressing problems, immediate concerns, and outward behaviors. I become reactive.

the main thing it usually ends up doing is revealing that the things they were arguing about weren't all that important. People often test to decide which color drapes are best, only to learn that they forgot to put windows in the room.

In our land of opportunities and distractions, it's hard to devote our attention to the quiet pleasures of reading. It's as if we live our lives in a noisy restaurant and can't have the intimate conversation we most yearn for.

One key to successful programming is avoiding arbitrary variations so that your brain can be free to focus on the variations that are really needed.

Why do fools fall in love? I'll tell you why, because everybody else has simply got too much else to do.