Focus And Distraction Quotes

#1. The battle between focus and distraction is a serious problem - both to the competitiveness of our companies and to our own sanity.

Jocelyn K. Glei

#2. Focus helps you do something. Distraction makes you avoid doing anything.

Mani S. Sivasubramanian

#3. To stay grounded and feel secure,
I choose:
Faith over fear;
Action over procrastination;
Focus over distraction;
Reflection over reaction.

Charles F. Glassman

#4. I am trying not to philosophize. It is un-military. I think I can dig myself out of my academic mind and make an efficient officer.

James Carl Nelson

#5. Our normal human tendencies are distraction and dissipation. We begin one task, then get seduced by some other option, and lose our focus. We drift away from what is difficult and we know to be true, to what is comfortable and socially condoned.

Daniel Pinchbeck

#6. I took to it very quickly. I'm very imaginative anyway, and it just set off that part of my brain. It made me focus in on the actors a lot more. I didn't have the distraction of looking at my surroundings.

Dennis Haysbert

#7. Not surprisingly, because too much attention to one object leads to distraction, this one object conceals everything else, and when we focus on one point on the map we know that all other points are eluding us.

Witold Gombrowicz

#8. Upon further reflection, and after meeting with the President of MSNBC, I have tendered my resignation. It is my sincere hope that all of my colleagues, at this special network, will be allowed to focus on the issues that matter without the distraction of myself or my ill-judged comments.

Martin Bashir

#9. Who can be astonished at anything, when he has once been astonished at the manger and the cross? What is there wonderful left after one has seen the Saviour?

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#10. The result of information overload is usually distraction, and it dilutes your focus and takes you off your game.

Zig Ziglar

#11. Your main target should be to find and develop your own unique individuality and not let your focus be sidetracked and drift to external things

Sunday Adelaja

#12. we sulked and, in the finest tradition of bored soldiers, sat around throwing stones at each other.

Patrick Hennessey

#13. The author explores the result of endless choice. It is not only overload, but a profound loss of unity, solidity, and coherence in life.

Os Guinness

#14. Goals for the future distract from worry and anger about the past and redirect your focus to the direction you're travelling in.

Sam Owen

#15. We need to focus on our gift and never allow ourselves to be distracted from the execution of our purpose

Sunday Adelaja

#16. As an artist, you have to maintain focus and eliminate the distraction of second-guessing yourself based on the opinions of others.

Dwight Yoakam

#17. It's alright to keep and open mind, but at a certain point - once you have thoroughly completed your homework - you have to learn how to stop and focus on intensely and passionately executing these goals step by step. You have to repel the distractions.

Injap Sia

#18. A stronger focus on quality public policymaking and less distraction of personalities would be a sufficient and important contribution I can make.

Jay Weatherill

#19. Eliminate all distractions and focus on things that add value to your life

Sunday Adelaja

#20. The distraction, particularly of technology, impedes the innovative process. And when you add to that the distraction of working with colleagues who are in different time zones and/or who have a different approach to urgency and distraction, the potential for losing focus is abundant.

David Livermore

#21. This culture of distraction was nothing new. Christianity was born into one.

Mark Sayers

#22. There's nothing like the peace of the countryside, the quiet and the lack of distraction. It helps you to focus your mind.

Jenny Nimmo

#23. Focus on one thing and do not scatter your attention

Sunday Adelaja

#24. The pain is kind of challenge your mind presents - will you learn how to focus and move past boredom, or like a child will you succumb to the need for immediate pleasure and distraction?

Robert Greene

#25. I'm gonna go put my earplugs in and practice piano for hours until my fingers bleed. I practice the piano with the focus of Helen Keller - and nothing can distract me from the scent of the music.
-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz

Karen Quan

#26. If thou rememberest that thou art going to heaven, thou wilt not sleep on the road. If thou thinkest that hell is behind thee, and the devil pursuing thee, thou wilt not loiter.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#27. If it was bliss to be alive, to hunt was rapture.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#28. Are you trivialising the sisterhood if you dye your hair or have your eyebrows threaded? I'd say the answer to that is no. But equally, it's a perfectly valid feminist thing to say there is a certain amount of attention on a woman's appearance, and I don't wish that to be the focus or a distraction.

Louise Mensch