Quotes About Distracted

I've learned to get really good at this - say one thing when I'm thinking about something else, act like I'm listening when I'm not, pretend to be calm and happy when I'm really freaking out. It's one of the skills you perfect as you get older

Satan whispers in our ears that it's not the same, that Paul's gospel was somehow infused with apostolic superpowers, and that our high-tech, Westernized teenagers are somehow immune to the power of the gospel. He tells us they're too spoiled, too apathetic and too distracted for the gospel to get through to them.

A few college students readjusted their backpacks over their shoulders as they left the building, and Jade's eyes followed two brunettes making their way across the lawn. Distracted for the moment, he almost walked into a tree, but was given a heads-up by a branch that knocked his sunglasses crooked. After putting them back in place, he glanced around to see if anyone had noticed.

Also, she missed her mom. They'd just chatted on the phone, and she'd sounded so serious. And distracted, as if she were speaking to Audre from galaxies away. Audre knew her mother, so she knew what was wrong. What was missing. And there was only one person who could help.

A lot of actors, they know the camera's there, and if somebody moves around or makes noise or whatever then they get all distracted, but I pretty much lock in. You can't distract me too much.

As his father and others knew when they drew up the strict contract for his commission, Leonardo at twenty-nine was more easily distracted by the future than he was focused on the present. He was a genius undisciplined by diligence.

They obviously weren't trying to recruit us, which was sort of a shame. I imagined a full unit of vampire soldiers and I got a little giddy, and distracted. Bad idea, maybe. But it'd be epic, wouldn't it?

If the military knew about vampires, and it knew about a few of the other less conventional brands of humanity, too, then what was the big plot? They obviously weren't trying to recruit us, which was sort of a shame. I imagined a full unit of vampire soldiers and I got a little giddy, and distracted. Bad idea, maybe. But it'd be epic, wouldn't it?

I couldn't relax unless I was doing something at the same time

She's wacko. I should have known she was wacko from the beginning. She had a thing about spies. Was always watching those stupid Bond movies. I'd be banging her from behind, and she'd be watching James Bond on the television. Can you believe it? ~(Written during Pierce Brosnan's 007 days so, yeah, I CAN believe it!) Four To Score

We shall never understand the ethical system taught by Jesus unless we realize that he was a Jew, not only by birth, but that he lived and taught as a Jew; the Sermon on the Mount was addressed to his distracted fellow nationals.

salami tactics—slicing off layers of opposition one by one. Most people were distracted, some were imprisoned, and others were outmatched.

When fascists or Nazis or communists did well in elections in the 1930s or '40s, what followed was some combination of spectacle, repression, and salami tactics—slicing off layers of opposition one by one. Most people were distracted, some were imprisoned, and others were outmatched. The

My approach to Charleston is always silent and distracted, but I come under full sail, with hissing silk and memories a wing above me in the shapes of the birds I love best

woah peril said momenterilly distracted from the thought of a peice of enchanted cheese

Remember thee? Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat in this distracted globe. Remember thee?

I was a real unfocused academic student, always fiddling around in class, or doing something silly and thinking of something else that had nothing to do with school.

I sometimes read on the subway, but I'm a hopeless eavesdropper and get easily distracted by strangers' conversations.

I am waylaid by beauty.

In a company where tech decisions were still ultracentralized, the repercussions of a distracted CEO had to be damaging.

With Britain distracted by the Napoleonic Wars, President Jefferson felt compelled to get there first—before his long-hated British, with their "bastard liberty," and who, as he contemptuously put it, "would not lose the sale of a bale of fur for the freedom of the whole world." On

That's what he got for neglecting his work to go on wild-goose chases to impress a girl

At school I wasn't particularly engaged. I was sort of a look-out-the-window guy.

BRAIN FINDINGS/NEURO-TRANSMITTER ISSUE Increased ACG/low serotonin (S) SUPPLEMENTS 5-HTP, inositol, saffron, or St. John's wort MEDICATIONS SSRIs, such as Prozac, Zoloft, or Lexapro TYPE 2. Impulsive Addicts SYMPTOMS Inattentive, impulsive, easily distracted BRAIN FINDINGS/NEURO-TRANSMITTER ISSUE Low PFC/low dopamine (DA) SUPPLEMENTS Green tea, rhodiola, or L-tyrosine MEDICATIONS Stimulants such as