Quotes About Distractions

Well, I don't like yoga. I've got a thousand things to do.

I attribute much of my success in New York to my ability to understand and avoid unnecessary distractions.

There's more people to ignore in New York or Boston than there are in Milwaukee, but I would still ignore them, probably.

There are a lot of distractions when you're in creative industries like publishing or fashion or media, and it's a real blessing to have witnessed some of those up close at a young age. I think when you get past the glamour, that's when you get to the good stuff - the stuff that really feeds your soul and enriches you as a person.

Distractions can take us in an exciting direction but most often borrow our attention briefly without much resistance and take their sweet time giving it back. Distractions lure us in with an easy escape and then trick us by stealing our attention.

Your main target should be to find and develop your own unique individuality and not let your focus be sidetracked and drift to external things

Our success depends on goal-oriented, focused actions, not on distractions.

Between video games and texting, how do our youth find the time to know everything?

Stay positive but stay focused. Sometimes things can distract you and you don't want to be distracted on the journey to that mountain top.

Rituals, ceremonies, prayers, and special outfits are inevitable, but they do not—they cannot—express the heart of what the Buddha taught. In fact, all too often, such things get in the way. They veil the simple wisdom of the Buddha's words, and distract us from it.

Players have exams, banquets, awards, and holidays, so it's easy to slip up and lose focus.

President Obama clearly cannot run on his record. All he's offering is more of the same. That's not good. Look at the economy. It's stagnating. And so, what they're now going to try and do is bring this campaign down to little things, distractions, distortions, smear, fear, anger, frustration.

I've found, as I've gotten older, it's really difficult to write on the road. There are so many distractions, so many people in and out of the bus. It's really difficult to do. So I just keep a notebook with me, and I jot down ideas. I schedule appointments to write.

17. Focus your attention: Stop the interruptions and distractions that interfere with completing your most important tasks.

If you don't spend quality time with your loved ones or do things that are important in your life, someone or something less important will take up your time. 3)

In one study, people who listened to a lunchtime radio mystery show ate 15 percent more than those who didn't. The basic rule: distractions of all kinds make us eat, forget how much we eat, and extend how long we eat—even when we're not hungry.

Past, present, and future, the symbiosis of our lives, the old man continued quietly, gently. Our birth, our life, our death, all tied into a single package that we spend our time on this earth unwrapping. Sometimes we see clearly what it is we are looking at. Sometimes we do not. Sometimes things happen to distract or deceive us, and we must look more carefully at what it is we hold.

For now we have enough to worry about. Let's not invent new things.

DEAFNESS DOESN'T PREVENT COMPOSERS HEARING THE MUSIC. IT PREVENTS THEM HEARING THE DISTRACTIONS.

I keep turning around to feel the embrace of these sweeping valley. First thoughts: Never have I felt so safe. No development. No distractions. Nothing to break my heart. I was not prepared for this uninterrupted peace.

Life was too often a series of interruptions. Phone calls, family crises, other people always interrupting

When feeling lonely or anxious, most of us have the habit of looking for distractions, which often leads to some form of unwholesome consumption -- whether eating a snack in the absence of hunger, mindlessly surfing the Internet, going on a drive, or reading. Conscious breathing is a good way to nourish body and mind with mindfulness.

I've learned you can't write on a computer on a bus. It jiggles too much, especially an Apple. The keyboard jiggles around too much, and there are too many typos.

I've fought on 'The Ultimate Fighter' in front of 30-40 people, and I kinda like that. There's no distractions.