Distracted Person Quotes

#1. I'm a very distracted person.

J.K. Rowling

#2. If you're a disheveled, easily distracted person, it's always scary when someone asks what your plan is for the day. We don't know our plans.
Distracted people make plans in transit.

Lisa Smartt

#3. The distracted person, too, can form habits.

Walter Benjamin

#4. I'm a fairly ascetic person. And I do most of my writing at night. You don't get distracted, your brain goes into what you are writing about, into the world you're writing about, rather than into the world you're in.

Caleb Carr

#5. We equate choice with freedom, but they are not the same.

Wayne Muller

#6. If you are interested in ideas, radio is way more pure than television. You're not distracted by somebody's nose or hair or posture. You can really see how someone thinks and penetrate to the essence of who that person is.

Terry Gross

#7. Most fellas like the races, though, Miss. It's only human nature

Sara Sheridan

#8. That's why I always keep a handful of silver glitter in my pockets. If I get pushed into a conversational corner I throw the glitter into the air, and while the person I'm talking to is distracted, I run away. An additional benefit is that I look like a cool magician, so I've got that going for me.

Jon Acuff

#9. The problem is that if you're self-conscious about being a person on whom nothing is lost, isn't something lost - some kind of presence? You're distracted by trying to be totally, perfectly impressionable.

Ben Lerner

#10. I've learned that I need to learn how to direct without making the person distracted and keeping them comfortable, and pay more attention to lighting ...

Kalup Linzy

#11. You know as well as I do that it is humans who turn computers into cyberthreats.

Ryan Quinn

#12. So yes, I knew how to dance. I just wasn't able to look at the person I was dancing with. A sort of glass cage fell over me, in the form of a distant, distracted smile.

Katie Crouch

#13. What good is there in being blind, you ask? Well, maybe it's to see the beauty on the inside without being vainly distracted, or superficially blinded, by the ugly on the outside.

Criss Jami

#14. Who's this?" Dad asks when a catchy tune comes on the CD mix I made for the trip. We pass the skeleton tree that never has leaves, no matter what the time of year. Bare gray branches wave us on. "No one you know Dad," I say. It's me.

Cath Crowley

#15. You always have more to lose, until you die.

Ally Condie

#16. I've never been a bad person and always had quite good morals. There's always been a side of me that's been quite proper, but it's got distracted here and there. Now I'm the person I should be.

Boy George

#17. The less you know about a field, the better your odds. Dumb boldness is the best way to approach a new challenge.

Jerry Seinfeld

#18. Was I the only person who was distracted by this future without a chance?

Charles Bukowski

#19. One quick sidebar on this topic - don't waste any more time trying to make your web pages work for browsers that don't support HTML5 - it's self-defeating and can, in many instances actually harm your position in SERP's.

Michalis Kotzakolios

#20. I've always been distracted when somebody is coming after me and saying, "You're the only person who can play this part."

Kevin Costner

#21. When I have brown hair I feel the most like myself, but I don't feel glamorous. It's a disgusting thing to admit.

Sarah Paulson

#22. It was always one of my favorite things, the action figures, the video games, when I was with WWE, even though I'm not a gamer. I would literally go out and buy the games just so I could play myself.

Dave Bautista

#23. We're distracted and we let the door slam on the person behind us, we trip over curbs as we're texting, we're...sedentary, weighed down, collapsed over the laptop. ...We've forgotten how to move through life with grace.

Sarah L. Kaufman

#24. She was the golden thread running through everything, a lens that magnified beauty so that the whole world stood transfigured in relation to her, and her alone.

Donna Tartt

#25. Are you going somewhere?" I said, regarding him timidly. The suit made him seem a different person, less melancholy and distracted, more capable - unlike the Hobie of my first visit, with his bedraggled aspect of an elegant but mistreated polar bear.

Donna Tartt

#26. If there is some good in me, it is because I was born in the subtle atmosphere of your country of Arezzo. Along with the milk of my nurse I received the knack of handling chisel and hammer, with which I make my figures.

Michelangelo

#27. The more you let yourself be distracted from where you are going, the more you are the person that you are. It's not so much like getting lost as it is like getting found.

William Stafford

#28. And Dirk van Dyck the Dutchman realized that he never had been, and never would be, as proud of any child as he was of his elegant little Indian daughter at that moment.

Edward Rutherfurd

#29. I'm more of a visual person, but I think that reading's extremely important. But I'm very easily distracted. It takes certain books to really grab you in.

Jason Marsden

#30. Maturity is about ripeness, thoughtfulness, quality, balance, and wisdom.

Pearl Zhu

#31. I'm a person of whim, and easily distracted. I don't like multitasking. When I'm doing one thing, I like to do just that thing.

Margaret Atwood

#32. punch line: The most basic way to make people care is to form an association between something they don't yet care about and something they do care about.

Chip Heath

#33. Embryonic stem cell research will prolong life, improve life and give hope for life to millions of people.

Jim Ramstad

#34. It's true that I tend to daydream. I'm the same person in business as I am in music: I can be distracted and absentminded. It's my style.

Gordon Getty

#35. I know you think I should be home taking care of my family. That maybe I'd be distracted or I wouldn't be as committed as the rest of you, but who's more committed: the person with something to lose, or the people who've got nothing left?

Bill Blais