Quotes About Distraction

The only thing I want to think about the moments before a race is competing. I don't want the little things to distract me.

That's the problem with ADHD: I have no focus; I get bored.

The problem with too beautiful a view is that it's alright for the mulling stage. But for the writing stage, you want to be somewhere without a view, especially if it is very different from what you're writing.

Here's the problem with phones - they are a ready-made diversion from the considerably harder work of growing a business.

I'm so into music that I just stop and listen, whenever there's music on. That's the problem with being a musician for so long. I can get lost in the bassline, fascinated with the arrangement, curious about the production. I can't shut it out.

That's the problem with working and living in the same space - my studio is downstairs, so I often get distracted by domestic things.

My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.

We all know the feeling of surrendering to the embedded biases of our devices. We let our cell phones ping us every time there's an incoming message and check our e-mail even when we'd best pay attention to what's going on around us in the real world. We text while driving.

Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.

The way the world is, I think a silly evening in the theatre is a good thing, to take our minds off terror.

Theatre is relatively easy if you're British - you're living in the theatre capital of the world, London - there are so many places you can work, still. If I had begun to think of myself as a film actor, I think I would have got distracted.

At home, people are more likely to be distracted than in a theatrical environment. They're checking their phones, pausing to get a snack, or sometimes jumping from show to show.

Keep the masses fed and entertain them to keep them in line.

he isn't distracted by us. You, me and

Once again, my hands itched for my phone. My mom always complained I was addicted to the thing, but this wasn't true; I just didn't like sitting around with nothing to do, wasting time instead of spending it.

Austin was engrossed in some mobile gaming device. "No, no, bad portal," he scolded, totally oblivious to the world. "Stop—evil—eurgh! Suck my flagellated balls, douchenozzle!

When the light in most people's faces comes from the glow of the laptop, the smartphone, or the television screen, we are living in a Dark Age,

Not now John, we've gotta get on. S'cusi dove il bar? Gotta get on. ?? ????????, ??? ????? ?? ????? Not now John, we've gotta get on. S'il vous plait ou est le bar? Gotta get on, gotta get on. Oy, where's the fucking bar John! Not now John, we've gotta get on. Gotta get on, gotta get on. Hammer! Hammer! Hammer! Hammer! Hammer!

If you get it out of the way, it leaves time for more interesting things," Angela said. "If you don't get it out of the way, then you feel distracted and a little guilty and the interesting things aren't nearly as interesting because you're worrying about what you should be doing rather than what you are doing.

For months we had been talking of him and him alone, and yet it was difficult to believe in his existence — he was more like a legend to us — and quite a few of us were convinced that the authorities had invented him, him and his elephants, to distract attention from the political unrest that was the real cause of trouble in the Oule country.

Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater

But when man confronts the restlessness of his intellect and is caught in the whirl of modern life, he loses all relation to the Rosary.

I'm so poor I can't even pay attention.

Perhaps the explosion is a distraction from the real threat.