Top 100 Quotes About Distracted
#1. Don't even open the Prezi canvas until you have a plan ready. This will help ensure you're not overwhelmed or distracted by staring at the blank canvas.
Russell Anderson-Williams
#2. If you see distraction externally, you end up creating an internally distracted state.
Tim Ferriss
#3. Abortion politics have distracted all sides from what is really essential: a major aid campaign to improve midwifery, prenatal care and emergency obstetric services in poor countries.
Nicholas D. Kristof
#4. I am not distracted by wrong because I am attracted to right.
John Paul Warren
#5. Around the house to get in, but he run out the front door just ahead of me. I sawed who he was, all right. I was too distracted about Mayella to run after'im. I run in the house and she was lyin' on the floor squallin' - " "Then what did you
Harper Lee
#6. He's loved of the distracted multitude, who like not in their judgement, but their eyes.
William Shakespeare
#7. It's easy to be distracted by the job of growing your business. But never forget that your job as a leader is also to grow people.
Darren Hardy
#8. It's sort of a meat market, the whole awards thing, and I don't think you can predict it anymore - who's going to like what you've done, if it's worthy or not. And hopefully, that's not why you make a film, because if you're distracted by that, or only striving for that, you don't do it justice.
Emily Blunt
#9. We cannot and we must not allow ourselves to get distracted from our sacred duty. We cannot and we must not lose focus on the things that matter most.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#10. We couldn't buy Google on the IPO, but I knew I wanted to own it. I was gonna go big. It came out and went down a bit. I got distracted by something and didn't get in.
Charles Schwab
#11. Bagman swore loudly. 'Damn them!' he said, looking quite distracted,
J.K. Rowling
#12. Stay focused when you're playing alive, so you're not distracted by something going on.
John Petrucci
#13. Some humans not only liked violence, but craved it, I realised. Not because they wanted pain, but because they already had pain and wanted to be distracted away from that kind of pain with a lesser kind.
Matt Haig
#14. The poet, distracted by politics, asks of poetry that it make itself useful like metal or flour, that it get ready to stain its face with coal dust and fight body to body.
Eduardo Galeano
#15. [J]udges, therefore, should be always men of learning and experience in the laws, of exemplary morals, great patience, calmness, coolness, and attention. Their minds should not be distracted with jarring interests; they should not be dependent upon any man, or body of men.
John Adams
#16. I don't look at other people's work because I don't want to be distracted by their ideas.
Ann Demeulemeester
#17. I have been distracted from my duty as a father to some extent, but there is no greater exercise to a man's talents than the upbringing of his son.
Conn Iggulden
#18. 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
#19. When Tyler emerged from Pod 3, he looked like he always does
distracted and handsome with a double helping of hot-artist sauce (73).
Susan Juby
#20. Our mind is always subject to being distracted by thoughts of what happened in the past and ideas of what could happen in the future, but the living experience is what is happening NOW.
Sakyong Mipham
#21. A large battalion of my thoughts was marching determinedly on its way to Annoyance but it was distracted and took a wrong turn at Adam and found, to its surprise, that it had ended up in the entirely different destination of Dreamy Contentment.
Marian Keyes
#22. There is a wish in the heart of mankind to be distracted and confused. Truth is but one attraction, and not always the most powerful.
Joyce Carol Oates
#23. Dialogue teaches you to listen through your emotions, not to become distracted or distanced from the truth because of them.
Oli Anderson
#24. If you look to others you will be distracted; if you look to yourselves you will be discouraged; but if you look to Christ you'll be delighted.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#25. The selfish mind is the distracted mind and the distracted mind is the easily oppressed mind.
Selena Gomez
#26. Let the presence of God INVADE you today. It's all about Him ... don't get distracted by the stupid things of the enemy. Remember, God wins!
Kari Jobe
#27. There are two extremes to avoid: being completely absorbed in your pain and being distracted by so many things that you stay far away from the wound you want to heal.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#28. From the base of the South Pass, a twisty road leads up the Rocky Mountains. It's a well-earned name, because the steep slopes are covered in giant rocks split open and turned on edge every which way, like God started a quarry and got distracted
Rae Carson
#29. The writer cannot make the seas of distraction stand still, but he [or she] can at times come between the madly distracted and the distractions.
Saul Bellow
#30. I am standing still," Kelly said. "What, does that thing not work when I'm talking? It gets distracted? It's a metal detector with ADD?
Abigail Roux
#31. Because we're in a small town and somewhat isolated from the fast lane of high tech, we've been able to grow and concentrate on our work instead of being distracted by the competition and getting caught up in the soap opera of Silicon Valley.
Jack Dangermond
#32. In a world where the people are numbed and distracted, the only thing that sells is the unbelievable.
James Redfield
#33. 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
#34. As you create a home, don't get distracted with a lot of things that have no meaning for you or your family. Don't dwell on your failures, but think of your successes. Have joy in your home. Have joy in your children. Have joy in your husband. Be grateful for the journey.
Marjorie Pay Hinckley
#35. Might they indeed see us as peculiar, distracted by trivial or irrelevant aspects of the visual world, and insufficiently sensitive to its real visual essence?
Oliver Sacks
#36. How blindly the world reads a man's mien! That I wear a smile does not mean I am in my comfort zone. I am only telling my challenges that I can't be distracted from the beautiful ending of my story.
Bayode Ojo
#37. We continue to focus on actually solving problems that real people have and not being distracted by what power users want.
Arash Ferdowsi
#38. 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?
Cherie Priest
#39. If I ever become a king, I'm totally going to ask him for an army of giant golden acid-spitting llamas. Okay, sorry. I got distracted again.
Rick Riordan
#40. The more completely we focus our attention on our Creator and Lord, the less chance there is of our being distracted by creatures.
Saint Ignatius
#41. We won't be distracted by comparison if we're captivated with purpose.
Bob Goff
#42. We may feel productive when we're constantly switching between things, constantly doing something, but in all honesty, we're not. We're just distracted.
Leo Babauta
#43. Set aside predictable, regular times to give full attention without being distracted by other concerns while also creating a safe, familiar place for baby to spend time playing alone.
Magda Gerber
#44. Artists can have greater access to reality; they can see patterns and details and connections that other people, distracted by the blur of life, might miss. Just sharing that truth can be a very powerful thing.
Jay-Z
#45. So sometimes she wondered, in a distracted sort of way, where she was when she wasn't here, but mostly her needs were too sudden and pressing for any extended contemplation, and she simply fulfilled what needed to be fulfilled, did what needed to be done.
Stephen King
#46. That subject matter has never left me ... The more you're in the material world, the more there is a tendency for a search for serenity and a need to not be distracted by physical elements that are around you.
Martin Scorsese
#47. Stay at the center of your being without allowing your attention to become distracted by sensory stimulation. Be still and let your true nature manifest and shine through.
Ilchi Lee
#48. We would not have our politics distracted and embittered by the dissensions of other lands.
Henry Cabot Lodge
#49. The gaze of Daniio's slow cousin eye seemed to be wandering off, as if distracted by pretty flowers, or perhaps a rainbow.*
Jay Kristoff
#50. You had felt idle in this city through which you had paced only to kill time. But the emptiness that you believed yourself confronted with was an illusion: you had filled those moments with sensations all the more powerful in that nothing and no one had distracted you from them.
Edouard Leve
#51. She distracted him by pulling her gift for him out from under the bed. It was two-tiered and beautifully wrapped, with an exquisite card she had made herself - she was an artist, after all. He read the message inside, felt a catch in
Barbara Delinsky
#52. Tyler. His handsome, lion-eyed ravagement. His capacity for devotion. Which is so sexy. Why do so many gay men lack that? Why are they so distracted, so in love with the idea of more and more and then more, again?
Michael Cunningham
#53. the great mass of humanity distracted by the trappings and fabricated urgency of modern life.
Jamling Tenzing Norgay
#55. Distracted from distraction by distraction
T. S. Eliot
#56. I do get massively distracted when I've got someone in my life, which I can't afford to do right now ... besides, no one treats me as well as I do.
Adele
#57. But the truth is that nothing distracted me from waiting.
The.Time.Simply.Passed.
Meg Rosoff
#58. Liberal and conservative have lost their meaning in America. I represent the distracted center.
Jon Stewart
#59. 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
#60. I'm not a pop act, churning stuff out really quickly. I find the music that arises from that style of working is distracted, not particularly profound.
Paloma Faith
#61. No, what's troubling is the gap between the magnitude of our challenges and the smallness of our politics
the ease with which we are distracted by the petty and trivial, our chronic avoidance of tough decisions, our seeming inability to build a working concensus to tackle any big problem.
Barack Obama
#62. We can achieve even more than we could expect if we try to be less distracted by the fuss of life and concentrate more on developing some qualities or characteristic of our soul and character
Sunday Adelaja
#63. Just as black anger often proved counterproductive, so have these white resentments distracted attention from the real culprits of the middle class squeeze - a corporate culture rife with inside dealing, questionable accounting practices, and short-term greed.
Barack Obama
#64. I distracted myself from the fear and terrorism by thinking about things like how the universe began and whether time travel is possible.
Malala Yousafzai
#65. I laugh and joke, but I don't get distracted very easily.
LeBron James
#66. Weren't you always
distracted by expectation, as if every event
announced a beloved? (Where can you find a place
to keep her, with all the huge strange thoughts inside you
going and coming and often staying all night.) ...
Rainer Maria Rilke
#67. keeping our focus on God instead of the world around us will enable us to endure the trials of life much better than if we get distracted from God." "Hmm, a good topic." She gave him a small smile. "It kind of fits our situation,
E.A. West
#68. All of us are feeling scattered and distracted as we try to keep up with an accelerating world. But nearly all of us have an answer in our hands, in simply choosing to do nothing and go nowhere for a while.
Pico Iyer
#69. We lead our lives so poorly because we arrive in the present always unprepared, incapable, and too distracted for everything.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#70. Until Americans stop getting distracted by the Republicans v/s Democrats melodrama, America will move forward towards war, empire & eventually collapse.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#71. No, there was only one reason I was so fucking distracted that even a halfway decent blowjob was doing nothing for me. And that reason was wrapped up in a gorgeous 6'2 package of hard muscle, a lazy, killer smile and the most intense blue eyes I'd ever seen. That
Sloane Kennedy
#72. Good music just makes me happy and keeps me from getting distracted.
Sloane Stephens
#73. 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.
Cory Booker
#74. I've not been distracted by a long-running TV show or visits to America for pilot season.
Elliot Cowan
#75. I believe in a America first foreign policy, that far too often President [Barack] Obama and Hillary Clinton - and, unfortunately, more than a few Republicans - have gotten distracted from the central focus of keeping this country safe.
Ted Cruz
#76. When you feel distracted, engage in self-talk. Ask yourself: "What am I focusing on?" Return to the present moment. What do you need to accomplish? Check into what you need and check out of what you do not need. Talk
Mike Cernovich
#77. Everyone is trying to mold you to their type. You won't reach your maximize potential if you get distracted by attempting to please everyone.
Assegid Habtewold
#78. The centipede was happy, quite, Until a toad in fun Said, "Pray, which leg goes after which?" This worked his mind to such a pitch, He lay distracted in a ditch, Considering how to run.
Alan W. Watts
#79. It's a good thing you're not my Story Weaver. You're easily distracted by the pattern of the cloth and can't see the quality of the threads." "Well
Maria V. Snyder
#80. For many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it.
John Ortberg
#81. I hated longing. I hated it almost as much as I hated pining. It sapped the mind of good judgment, filled the heart with achiness, and distracted the vagina from other potential conquests.
Penny Reid
#82. Sometimes you really dig a girl, the moment you kiss her, And then you get distracted by her older sister.
John Sebastian
#83. 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
#84. Incidentally, it's best not to argue with the nursing staff. I find the best course of action is to throw some chocolates in one direction and hurry off in the other while their attention is distracted.
Terry Pratchett
#85. Dorrie gave Larry's hand an excited, distracted squeeze that said: almost home. They were about to be matter-of-factly claimed by familiar streets and houses and the life they'd chosen or which had chosen them.
Carol Shields
#86. We need not get distracted by the seeming defeat or troubles of our daily lives ("what is seen"), because this affliction is actually being used by God to transform our character (2 Corinthians 3:18) so we can become the kind of citizens who will flourish in his future kingdom ("what is not seen").
J.P. Moreland
#87. I feel like saying we need to all calm down a little. Let's take the time to breathe. I have no intention of allowing myself be distracted.
Pauline Marois
#88. To help you focus, to help you really understand what you're doing, you have to say no a lot. When you say yes to everything, you get distracted. When you say no, you have to get the one thing you're doing really right.
Tony Fadell
#89. Be careful to not haul around in our lives so many nice but unnecessary things that we are distracted and diverted from the things that truly matter most.
David A. Bednar
#90. You are capable of coming back to your best and highest self, but you must maintain this practice. Don't allow yourself to get distracted and forget to practice. Practice regularly, daily, with the support of your family, friends, and community - this is diligence.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#91. Cease the bickering! I am indulging the exotic whims of a beautiful princess and must not be distracted.
Jack Vance
#92. Culture was now largely a matter of how to keep people harmlessly distracted when they were not working.
Terry Eagleton
#94. I write while my son is at school. At about 7:45 A.M., I walk him there, with the dogs, then walk them for another forty minutes or so, go home and chain myself to the desk a little before 9 A.M., and try not to be distracted until I hear my son plunge through the front door at about 3 P.M.
Geraldine Brooks
#95. 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
#96. His eyes searched every inch of my face. "I don't know . . . if I've ever been this distracted by someone," he said.
Christina Lauren
#97. 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
#98. We need to focus on our gift and never allow ourselves to be distracted from the execution of our purpose
Sunday Adelaja
#99. If I am distracted, it is your fault. You have been my undoing since the day we met.
Danielle L. Jensen
#100. This motion-picture muddle had distracted me from my writing.
Zane Grey
