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Quotes About Distraction

In real life, we are all on our devices. We might go to a place where we fit the crowd and could meet someone. But, because we are all on our phones, you might not notice the cute boy behind you in line for coffee, and he's not going to notice the gorgeous girl sitting outside. So, we might as well notice them on our phones, on Tinder.
~ Whitney Wolfe Herd
If I'm really jet-lagged and need to get to sleep, I just try and watch cartoons. As long as it's animated, I don't care - it has to have that distance from real life.
~ Kevin Parker
Deleting 200 spams a day is a drag. And I was checking my email constantly, rather than getting on with my real work, which is reading and writing. Email was becoming a distraction, a burden rather than a liberation.
~ Tom Hodgkinson
I believe a lot of players that start to think about money - 'Oh my goodness; I'm up for a new contract' - they don't have a great season because they're thinking about all these different things. Do your business on the field, and everything takes care of itself.
~ LaDainian Tomlinson
Left to my own devices, I'd probably Google myself all day.
~ Bill Clegg
I have a cellphone, but I have no Google, I have no gaggle.
~ Sam Shepard
I hate cellphones. They are not for good, they're for evil. They're for gossip.
~ Jeff Garlin
People have perhaps gotten to the point where for the most part movies are a just bit of escape.
~ Neil LaBute
People are trying to grab every part of you, so it's really hard to focus.
~ Yani Tseng
Television is on a small screen, inside someone's living room, so you have to grab their attention while they are having dinner or cooking or doing something else.
~ Sonali Bendre
Casual games are a great way to spend time when you get bored. It's hard to keep people off all their little games.
~ Lea Thompson
What a great way to make some money is just fine somebody $300 if their phone rings in the theatre. That'll make them remember to turn it off.
~ Brett Gelman
Football is a great place to get away from things, and going over to Greece was amazing and I've loved it - it is basically getting away from all the talk.
~ John McGinn
I don't want to sound too critical, but a lot of fans at some grounds I go to have got cameras in their hands, taking pictures of anything rather than generating any atmosphere during the game.
~ Troy Deeney
I don't even watch my own fights. If it's not someone from my team or someone I like, I guarantee you that I'll go to the movies with my family instead.
~ Jose Aldo
Ever since I managed with guaranteed contracts and all the media, you know, you can get distracted by fame and fortune. Your values can get distorted. And the way you break through is, you just keep it personal and keep it simple and basic.
~ Tony La Russa
I don't know how people chew gum all day long.
~ Mireille Enos
Guys can get bored easily.
~ Carmen Electra
It's very hard to maintain focus in the gym.
~ Patrick Wilson
The gym is somewhere you can go to just forget for an hour what you do for a living, what you are doing on a daily basis. You just turn up and get on with it.
~ Luke Evans
If you've ever tried to start up the habit of early-morning exercise, you have probably encountered how easy it is to get derailed by too much choice.
~ Shawn Achor
I don't know where my phone is half the time.
~ Laura Lippman
Some husbands and wives think they are spending time together when, in reality, they are only living in close proximity. They are in the same house at the same time, but they are not together. A wife who is texting while her husband tries to talk to her is not giving him quality time, because he does not have her full attention.
~ Gary Chapman
They are in the same house at the same time, but they are not together. A wife who is texting while her husband tries to talk to her is not giving him quality time, because he does not have her full attention.
~ Gary Chapman