Quotes About Distraction

You can't control yourself in a game while people are screaming at you, teammates, referees trying to get in the middle. So you end up doing things without thinking.

Actually, these days, it seemed like everything except getting half-naked with Adrian was the last thing on my mind.

Besides, there are lots of ways to keep busy in the meantime." That brought her smile back, and my heart lightened. "I'm guessing whatever 'ways' you have in mind aren't Jill-appropriate either." "Put your books away, and I'll show you.

These repetitions of name or gender create an irresistible force that so distracts the Tanks, Know-It-Alls, Grenades, or Whiners that they must stop talking to find out what it is you want! Once you have their attention, you can move forward by stating your intent, by clarifying something they were saying, or by using any of the other choices suggested in this chapter.

if you get distracted from doing your job, you can't perform. And remember this—there is very little sympathy out there for people who cannot perform.

You cannot become distracted by success, and losing focus happens just as much through prosperity as it does adversity.

But it's all a diversion. A card-house waiting to topple.

There's too much at stake for you to let some little thing distract you and pull you down into defeat.

Whenever Percy stopped by to see [Annabeth], she was so lost in thought that the conversation went something like this: Percy: 'Hey, how's it going?' Annabeth: 'Uh, no thanks.' Percy: 'Okay...have you eaten anything today?' Annabeth: 'I think Leo is on duty. Ask him.' Percy: 'So, my hair is on fire.' Annabeth: 'Okay, in a while.

We didn't get anything done! She looked around vaguely, then wandered along the corridor to the

There were many of us who believed relationships, in particular, were something to be avoided because this kind of contact would lead to all manner of feelings that were disturbing and would be a distraction to our practice of the dharma. It was a great source of amusement that while we tried to live relatively celibate lives, we had in the building one room with a double bed where couples could go to have "contact with the object." I cannot imagine what we were thinking.

Concentrating to within an inch of your life on the pre-flight safety briefing, to compensate for those ignoring it.

I offer you a fable for our times... A magic box sits in your pocket with all the knowledge and music and entertainment of the world contained within it. If you opened this box and looked down into it... ...How could you ever possibly look up again? - Larry Ferrell (Unfollow)

Thus reinforced, they spent the noonday hours spinning dreams like cobwebs, and dodging demands like nets.

I can't travel without Sudoku.

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Retirement is having nothing to do and someone always keeping you from it.

There is a purpose to our lives that each day tugs at our sleeve as an annoying distraction.

The Seven Deadly Sins are a litany of victimless crimes, compiled to distract attention from the bloody felonies of the righteous.

After a lifetime of deep thought, I've decided that life is a distraction, but probably not from anything important.

I am never five minutes into stripping the clutter from my life before I start running into the clutter that is my life.

Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing

People go to the movies to watch a film and all they're thinking about is the actress's cellulite they saw in a magazine.