Quotes About Distraction

I watch way too many VH1 reality shows like 'I Love Money' and 'Tough Love.'

I don't watch reality TV.

I'm really bad, I watch reality TV sometimes - I just think it's the best form of escape.

Sometimes when I'm at my desk, I'll realize that I have contorted myself completely, and I haven't moved for hours, and that my legs have fallen asleep. I am elsewhere, not in my body, not in the room, not in my house.

I realized I wasn't a good employee because I was too busy listening to people's personal problems to do work.

If you concentrate on the rear mirror, you'll crash and cause an accident.

Not being able to play makes one be able to listen and receive better. The constant noodling on guitar can be great, but also distracting to the universal music inside you.

That's how I've had success my whole life. That's the recipe for me, just locking in on the moment. But I start thinking about getting paid and all this other stuff, and my mind is not right. It makes it really tough to focus on what you've got to do.

By attracting attention to yourself, you distract people from the movie. Ideally, you like a movie to speak for itself. You don't describe a song before you sing it or tell about a painting before you show it. You don't reveal the recipe before you serve the dish. You taste it.

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients.

It's nice to be in a creative world that's kind of isolated, but you can get led astray down some pathway while you're recording that you might not like later. And there's a lot of time to get in your own head and stay there.

Trying to get my music performed live by bar bands was a self defeating experience. It really just distracted me from what I should've been doing all along, writing and recording.

It doesn't pay to get too familiar with your songs. Going off to do other things in between recording sessions gives you a chance to think.

These people who have everything at their disposal as far as cash and connections, I think they just get so mired in the business side of things that they don't just sit at home and record records. Anybody can do that.

Will we fight or will we retreat? That is the question that is posed to us. Some of my friends on the other side of the aisle often refer to Iraq as a distraction.

Our points of reference in America aren't steeped in literature; they're steeped in that five minutes between commercials.

If I ever saw an amputee getting hanged, I'd probably just start calling out letters.

I think it's kind of a scary time we're getting into - like, when you're hanging out with people, they'd rather be on the phone than talk to you.

There's nothing better than going to the movies and going into another world, and forgetting about everything that's happening outside.

The hard part about following your purpose is the distraction everyone pulls you toward.

When we think of misdirection, we think of something as looking off to the side when, actually, the things right in front of us are often the hardest to see: the things that you look at every day that you're blinded to.

I love a cool cellphone as much as the next guy, but, god, I hate when it rings.

Don't get me wrong; it's not like I didn't go out and have fun. But there's been a lot of players that come to New York and get caught up in the lifestyle, and before you know it, they're sent away to another team because it affected their performance.

The generation we live in, we're constantly entertained - we turn our heads this way, and there's something else to entertain us. Sitting down in one seat for two hours may not be enough anymore.