Quotes About Distraction

I can't listen to music while I'm doing something else. Well, unless I'm working out. But I, like, fall off the treadmill all the time if I'm listening to something that I like too much.

Anyone thinking me treating myself affects my snooker doesn't know what they're talking about.

If you start thinking of the Super Bowl championship as your motivation, you are going to miss the trees for the forest or the forest for the trees. I never could understand that one.

Traditional economics is based on imaginary creatures sometimes referred to as 'Homo economicus.' I call them Econs for short. Econs are amazingly smart and are free of emotion, distraction or self-control problems. Think Mr. Spock from 'Star Trek.'

The REM and Nirvana successes don't mean much to me except as a potential distraction for bands who want to cash in on the trend. Don't try to sound like someone else. REM and Nirvana don't sound like anyone else.

We are so caught up in our media, in our jobs, in our gossip, and in our consuming that we genuinely feel like we don't have the time or energy to bother ourselves with the tribulations of nations near and far.

We are here to love. Everything else is distraction.

My shower doesn't make everything go away. The world doesn't feel like a bigger, brighter place because my hair smells like coconuts.

The devil will try and do everything possible to stop, distract us from our purpose

We can achieve even more than we could expect if we try to be less distracted by the fuss of life and concentrate more on developing some qualities or characteristic of our soul and character

For success, focus has utmost importance, but distraction is disastrous.

When you can't focus on one thing, you will be distracted by anything.

It causes us to focus our attention on ourselves and draws us away from God

We can make detours with our mind but we can't distract the truth from our heart.

Iblis (satan) himself recognizes the Lordship of Allah, but wants the human being to forget it

School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn't want to learn.

This is a very noisy world, so we have to be very clear what we want them to know about us

Stop thinking about Michael," Tuck orders. "He was cute." "So is a hairy ferret but I wouldn't want to date one. [...]

People are always talking on their phones, or looking at their phones, because they don't want to be alone with their thoughts.

Cinema is entertainment, and people go to the movies because they want to feel good and forget about everything.

The past is a distraction, a source of envy, enmity, bitterness. Only the present matters, for only in the present can we shape the future. Cut loose the past; it is dead weight. Let the Extirpation continue. Let it never end.

There is a class of tourists who never seem to see the things they're visiting, I thought. They prefer to look at directions to the next place they're not going to look at.

To find signals in data, we must learn to reduce the noise - not just the noise that resides in the data, but also the noise that resides in us. It is nearly impossible for noisy minds to perceive anything but noise in data.

Think about science fiction movies with lots of special effects: If you notice that special effects are special effects, they will fail.