Quotes About Distraction

I don't like it when people remain glued to their phones while talking, so I have no apps on mine.

My phone has been ringing off the hook. I have like 17 cell phones and pagers.

We can be incredibly disconnected in this day and age with computers and cell phones.

Our phones have created what I like to call SADD - Social Attention Deficit Disorder.

Everyone's so interior now, they're not really looking around them. They're on their phones.

I'm not complaining about my cell phone - all my friends are in there, and all my favorite songs and all my favorite Benedict Cumberbatch GIFs; I don't want to give it up. But cell phones are the worst for talking on the phone.

Sport is one way of keeping kids off their phones.

Scenes on phones are really boring!

Phones are interesting objects. Sometimes you wish they just didn't exist.

Look around you in any restaurant, and you will see couples, families, and friends glued to their phones.

I'm so tired of cell phones.

Even when people are watching a movie in a multiplex, they insult the film by constantly checking their phones and flashing lights. At times, even when the audience is being told to not flash their cameras, they do, and you can't do anything because it's a habit for them and they can't stop. I don't want that for myself.

We don't have phones at the dinner table.

When a man comments on your physical appearance, the effect is often just to distract from your professional ability.

It's really helpful to be physically engaged in something that's completely different from my day-to-day work.

I never answer if someone knocks on my door and only the band and my manager have my phone number. In any case my phone doesn't ring so I never notice it. I occasionally just walk past and pick it up to see if anyone's there.

I made sure that instead of people making fun of me, like every comedian probably says, I made fun of myself first so they would get distracted and just laugh. I was pretty brutally picked on for a while growing up. It was always the really pretty girls, the hot girls and then there was me. So I had to do something to get any sort of attention.

If you tell a kid, 'You've got to pick music or Instagram,' they're not picking music.

A great song should make you stop everything that you're doing. You should be so into it that you just can't imagine doing anything else for that moment. You wouldn't even dream of picking up the phone.

If you're playing a shot and your peripheral vision picks up a player moving as you play the shot, if your vision goes from the object ball to what they're doing, you can miss the shot by several inches.

It's also a more personal medium. It seems to go directly to one's brain. There are no pictures to distract.

Partying and having all of those pictures taken distracts from the work that I do. It's not why I started acting. I didn't get into acting to be written about. It kind of just happened - so I accept that it's my life.

It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of 'culture.'

It'll certainly give the pigeons something to do.