Distracted Quotes

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we're all sweating it - when we're worried that the bill won't pass, and it seems like all is lost - Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward... with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.
Michelle Obama

Love, Courage, Patience

And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.
T. S. Eliot

Silence, After, Write

Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.
Colin Powell

Mind, Leader, Everyone

Liberal and conservative have lost their meaning in America. I represent the distracted center.
Jon Stewart

Lost, America, Meaning

I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity.
Gilda Radner

Love, Creativity, Horny

You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
Noam Chomsky

Control, Cannot, Force

I am severely distracted these days. It's hard to sit in front of the computer, uploading bad music for hours, when you have a wonderful boyfriend who treats you like a Goddess.
April Winchell

Music, Bad, Hard

I laugh and joke, but I don't get distracted very easily.
LeBron James

Laugh, Joke, Easily

A man is hindered and distracted in proportion as he draws outward things to himself.
Thomas a Kempis

Himself, Outward, Draws

If I didn't have children I'd be a much better actress. I wouldn't be so distracted. I could pour 100 percent of my energies into it, to promote the investigation which acting is.
Jessica Lange

Children, Acting, Percent

Sometimes when you're trying to do a record too close to home, you can get really distracted.
Norah Jones

Home, Trying, Sometimes

I think there are times when you walk onto a set you can potentially be either intimidated or distracted by what's going on around you.
Eric Bana

Around, Times, Walk

I am guilty of buying way too many gadgets - way too many! And though I try to keep things nice and orderly, sometimes I get distracted and stick saucepans where the stockpots should go.
Paula Deen

Nice, Try, Sometimes

This is what I asked for, and in this day and age that's what actually goes on. But what hurts me the most is that I work just as hard as any other actress around my age, like Scarlett Johansson, but I just don't get the opportunities that they get because people are so distracted by the mess that I created in my life.
Lindsay Lohan

Life, Work, Age

You don't want to get so distracted, focusing on what the opposition is putting forth that you forget to remind America that the real issue is 8.3 percent unemployment, virtually no growth at all in an economy that has been in shambles for the last four years under Obama.
John Sununu

Forget, Real, America

It's easy to get distracted by the vaudevillian aspects of the healthcare debate.
Carl Hiaasen

Easy, Debate, Healthcare

I've never had WiFi at home. I'm too easily distracted, and YouTube is too tempting.
Dave Eggers

Home, Tempting, Easily

I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
Florence Welch

Black, Learned, Dangerous

I haven't ever really relied on relationships with guys. They come around and it's cool, but it's never been a big thing. I guess I've just been really distracted by work.
Leighton Meester

Work, Cool, Big

It's a fallacy that writers have to shut themselves up in their ivory towers to write. I have all these interruptions, three of which I gave birth to. If I was thrown for a loop every time I was distracted I could never get anything done.
Jodi Picoult

Time, Done, Write

I've learned to be true to yourself, stick to the big arguments, don't get distracted by the everyday kerfuffle that is in the nature of any democratic system.
George Osborne

Nature, Yourself, True

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

Justice, Done, Why

I was rather a poor student, too easily distracted - did a lot of gazing out of windows, fine for training to be a writer, but not a great way to achieve in the classroom. The truth is that I was happy to bumble along and do enough to avoid detention, but not much more.
Michael Morpurgo

Great, Truth, Happy

I have a very beautiful room that in my house that we bought in Princeton. It's glass on three sides, and you'd think that's the perfect place to write. Somehow in that nice room I feel too exposed, and I can notice I'm too distracted by things going on, so I end up writing in a not-very-nice office bedroom.
Jeffrey Eugenides

Beautiful, Nice, End

I always work in a room where there's no Internet to keep from being distracted so easily.
Jeffrey Eugenides

Work, Keep, Room

I procrastinate so much and I get distracted by anything.
Zach Braff

I'm focused on energy only. And I know what I'm talking about. And I don't want to be distracted on other things.
T. Boone Pickens

Energy, Talking, Focused

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

Home, School, Him

I think my expectations for myself are much more severe and much more direct. You can't work on a film for six years without being your own toughest critic. So you can't really be distracted by the expectations based on your previous performance.
Ken Burns

Work, Film, Six

I don't have any blindness when it comes to my money. As an actor, you can get distracted by your work. I do keep an eye on my nest egg, if you will.
Judd Nelson

Work, Money, Keep

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