Quotes About Distraction

I have an advanced degree in procrastination and another one in paranoia.

My favourite place to write is at my desk in my house in the mountains of Crete. I produce more there because one big distraction is missing: the Internet.

Marketing and press kicks up dust. It gets in your eye, and then you're not focusing on the product.

When you get into a production, there are a lot of things you have to hit to make the show work - like my cues or a cue for another person or making sure you don't mess up the beat, and you can let all of that get in the way.

If, at any moment, reality gets dull or boring, our phone offers something more pleasurable, more productive and even more educational than whatever reality gives us.

The biggest way to be productive is if you're procrastinating on another more important project.

We become distracted from productive labors by our perceived opponents; we become focused on them and not on our larger calling to advance our nation; our debate becomes more about scoring points against an adversary and less about advancing our common cause.

Just to see how much time is consumed looking down at your phone when you could be reading, becoming better at your own language, or learning a new language - you could be doing so many productive things. You could becoming a better student-athlete.

The way we measure productivity is flawed. People checking their BlackBerry over dinner is not the measure of productivity.

Email is having an increasingly pernicious effect. Not only is it having a perceptible effect on productivity, it's skewing what it is we focus on. The immediate increasingly crowds out the important.

Reading takes me to a different place than my everyday life. I usually get fully involved in what I'm reading about, so it's a great escape.

I think what's at risk is kids losing touch with being a kid. Being a kid is being defined differently than it was when you didn't have all this stuff you could put in front of your face.

Checking your phone during dinner is no less rude than reading 'People' during dinner, which I once saw a woman do at Blue Ribbon Brooklyn as she dined with her husband/boyfriend/whatever.

I'm an addict. I've been one my whole life. Most of it was channeled in the right direction, whether it was playing basketball or working out. From the time I was little, my mom said I always needed to be entertained.

I like babies, but not in the front row. I don't want to sing directly to a baby.

Sometimes you're more involved in controversy, and at other times, you're disconnected.

For years, successive Arab dictators have tried to keep discontent at bay by distracting people with the Israeli-Arab conflict.

I'll cheerfully confess to spending a lot of time playing completely disgusting computer games that have no redeeming social value.

Large corporations have the ability to distract people with controversy that just distracts people from what's great about the movie or what works about the movie.

You must not let your negative emotions distract you from achieving your goals.

Coming off the field and having a young family, it's very easy to distract yourself.

I've always been distracted by shopping and when I'm not dancing, I'm probably shopping.

I'm easily distracted by other things in the world around me.

Anything that can keep me distracted and from my own brain, it's good.