Quotes About Distraction

The more cricket you play in your head, the less you perform on the field. So let cricket, the sport, be on the field.

I can deal with the media; I can deal with some of the criticism I get and still focus on what I need to do.

I've always felt if my nose were more crooked, critics would focus more on my acting.

Smartphones are good but I often ask myself whether I am good enough to handle it. Like, few days ago I saw a man talking over his phone while crossing the road. And I was driving then. I was surprised to see he didn't even look at the car in front of him.

In the lead-up to competitions, I just watch box sets and DVDs and play 'Candy Crush.'

I don't have to deal with the issues of the daily news cycle.

Damn everything but the circus.

I am constantly distracted by my own brain when I've completed a paragraph, realized I don't know what comes next, and start opening a browser tab without even realizing it.

Live Twitter can be built right into the main Twitter app, but it should certainly have its own tab so we can concentrate on the live experience free of distraction.

When there are four or five tables going on it is hard to keep your concentration.

When the computer and tablets are all about playing games, that's not interesting to me.

I don't like the fact people watch things on their phones and tablets, it kind of hurts my heart.

It isn't that I don't tackle issues; it's just that they're secondary to giving somebody an escape route from the banal routine of everyday life.

Creating a distraction is a skill we should all have. Never take for granted your ability to spot something interesting out of the corner of you eye and take attention away from your thoughtlessness.

A takeover or a player doing something wrong can take the focus away from what the most important thing is, which is to play football.

I love sports because it takes me away from reality, and I tell people, 'No matter how bad your life is, if you are having problems at home, you are having problems at work, that's the beauty of sports.'

It takes me forever to read a book. I have such a small attention span.

I think one reason people play golf is it allows them to obsess about something other than the daily crap. It takes your mind off that.

It takes a long time to free oneself from chatter - goals, social media, image, persona. And if you're able to move through in that way, you can actually start trying to create from a different place.

Taking up magic was a distraction from my sexuality. There is that 1970s cliche of the gay man as hairdresser, interior decorator, fashionista... and all of those things are about arranging surfaces in a very dazzling way - and magic is all about how you arrange surfaces. I got very good at deflecting people from things I didn't want them to see.

I don't want my body to be a distraction from my talent or my brain.

I think you get in a situation where once you start hearing the boos and hearing the radio stations talk and people on the outside begin to bring your name up of being benched, then you begin to lose focus, and now your play begins to fall and you begin to focus on other things.

My way is to talk to my opponent so he makes it a personal thing. He starts playing me one-on-one, and forgets about his team. Meanwhile, I'm still playing team ball and eating him up. Some guys tried talking back, but you can't get a talker when a talker's talking to you.

I be talking to females but nothing serious, just entertaining everybody.