Quotes About Distraction

I haven't ever really relied on relationships with guys. They come around and it's cool, but it's never been a big thing. I guess I've just been really distracted by work.

I've got a great life. It's a shame the work gets in the way of the golf, really.

Nothing changes and very little happens in Paris. This is a great place to work without distraction - and then I run away to New York, where I have a life!

It's easy to not work on my album. I go out to the cinema, catch up with friends, eat, watch "Curb Your Enthusiasm" - that sort of thing.

I'm never, I hope, stupid enough to believe that Twitter or blogging or any of this stuff is a substitute for actually doing the work or writing a book.

I try to procrastinate, if I can, productively, like I'll work on something else as procrastination. Or I take a walk. Because often I find, if you get out, more things come to you.

I've seen people in theaters, and it just doesn't work, because you're talking to the guy next to you the whole time.

Anything that makes us forget who we are and what we want; that way we can work in order to produce, reproduce, and earn money.

When you're not gaping at Megan Fox enough to listen to what the director's saying, you can get some work done.

Work helps. So does exercise. Stuff that numbs you, keeps you from thinking too much.

The telephone is an antiquity - you never know who is calling, there is no image, it is an outmoded product which constantly disrupts work.

I try to focus on practice. This is work time. This is where we work, this is our office. I try not to let it distract me too much.

The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime twittering - anon Twitter has raised writing to a new low.

Enough of this foreign fiasco distraction. Get back to work. It is time to bomb Obamacare.

Hard work's a good distraction.

If you can influence the outcome, do the work. If you can't influence the outcome, ignore the possibility. It's merely a distraction.

If you're working with a spreadsheet or a thread of correspondence or a set of data, I'm not sure you're doing your best work if you're doing it on an iPhone.

I work to loud music - hard-rock stuff like AC/DC, Guns 'n Roses, and Metallica have always been particular favorites - but for me the music is just another way of shutting the door.

When I have a lot of work to do my life is very distracted, so for me to concentrate on music I need to create a structure where I can focus better.

Work is a way of shutting out ambiguous sentiment.

I can't work in Brooklyn. Unless I'm completely locked away in a studio, there's just too much distraction and stimulation.

Employment is a major time killer

We get distracted through employment and rarely have time to discover our true selves

Employment leaves you distracted