Quotes About Distractions

Your environment will eat your goals and plans for breakfast.

Don't fall into the trap of thinking about politics in your workplace too much. Just work hard, be cheerful, ignore distractions.

I focus on my work. If I let myself get distracted by the insults and slanders I wouldn't get anything substantive done.

Have you ever noticed that life consists mostly of interruptions, with occasional spells of rush work in between?

The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.

The fact is, both callers and work thicken - the former sadly interfering with the latter.

Writing is a very lonely occupation. To write you need to concentrate, to concentrate you need to lock yourself away. No distractions; you want your stream of thought uninterrupted.

Many of those who once were so passionately in love with Christ now run about pursuing their own interests. They're burdened down with stress and problems, chasing after riches and the things of this world.

I don't hang with people I don't know. Outsiders can mess up your flow.

The top quartile, those who did the exercise most rapidly and effectively, work in space that is substantially different from that of the bottom quartile. The top performers' space is quieter, more private, better protected from interruption, and there is more of it. What

From the time we're born until we die, we're kept busy with artificial stuff that isn't important.

This may sound like a huge task, but it's not. It's simply a matter of learning to recognize the things that don't matter so that you can let them go.

There are always distractions if you allow them.

Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

KEY POINTS—FOCUSING ON RESULTS • The true measure of a great team is that it accomplishes the results it sets out to achieve. • To avoid distractions, team members must prioritize the results of the team over their individual or departmental needs. • To stay focused, teams must publicly clarify their desired results and keep them visible.

There are no interruptions, really—there are simply mismanaged occurrences.

many people let themselves get sucked into the second activity—dealing with unplanned and unexpected things that show up—much too easily, and let the other two slide, to their detriment. It is often easier to get wrapped up in the urgent demands of the moment than to deal with your in-tray, e-mail, and the rest of your open loops.

There are no interruptions—there are only mismanaged inputs.

There are few people who can (or even should) expect to code everything based upon its priority, or who can maintain some predetermined list of to-dos that the first telephone call or instant message or interruption from their boss or spouse won't totally

Everything in your life, from your diet to your career, must be aligned with your purpose if you are to act with coherence and integrity in the world. If you know your purpose, your deepest desire, then the secret of success is to discipline your life so that you support your deepest purpose and minimize distractions and detours.

The wilderness is a place of rest—not in the sense of being motionless, for the lure, after all, is to move, to round the next bend. The rest comes in the isolation from distractions, in the slowing of the daily centrifugal forces that keep us off balance.

Be on guard. The road widens, and many of the detours are seductive.

You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.

Is focused on a few important goals (at most), not off chasing every distraction;