Famous Quotes & Sayings

There is more than a month before the inauguration, and people mustn't get distracted from work by these thoughts,

Kathy Baker

We take the puppies everywhere we go, ... Our job is to acclimate them to everyday life. A lot of it is learning not to be distracted by normal, everyday things. It takes time for them to learn that.

Rob Bell

It is better to be fully present and rested and engaged for one thing than rushed, distracted, and scattered for ten.

Jane Goldman

I'm not too easily distracted now I've had practice, but I write with nothing to look at. I used to rent an office that just had a view of a wall!

Kevin Hall

The mind formulates all the distractions golfers face, ... I'm deaf, yes, but I get distracted all the same.

Not as many as they should. More of them are distracted by what's on TV or what catches their ear.

Jevon Kearse

It's going to show if the veterans did a good job of keeping everyone focused and will let us know if we as professionals ... didn't let it distract us.

Patti Smith

Everything distracted me, but most of all myself.

Leonhard Euler

Now I will have less distraction.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Beauty is not required. Beauty is accuracy's distraction.

Malcolm Bradbury

Genitals are a great distraction to scholarship

John Stevens

As with all investigations, I shall go where the evidence leads. Our quest won't be distracted or diverted and if there's evidence of wrongdoing, it will be highlighted.

Michelle Pfeiffer

They were distracted for a split-second, which was all it took for the other man to jump into the car.

Whether we own shares for the short-term or long-term, it's a red-herring issue that incompetent management uses to distract people from the real issues, ... In this case, the issue is that Ligand is beset by Robinson's and Maier's incompetence and failure.

We're most impressionable when we're 12 to 24 years old, so that what we wore, what we watched, what we listened to has greater import at the time, when you had yet to be distracted by things like jobs and families.

Craig Newmark

During the bubble, we got distracted by the prospect of big bucks. Now it's much better balanced.

Giovanni Bisignani

A European solution is no solution at all. Unilateral regional efforts will only distract from this process,

J. Courtney Sullivan

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

The wave is intimidating enough, and with all those people in the way it can distract from your focus.

Barry Zito

There won't be any intangibles that can distract the clubhouse, we'll know what to expect. That's a major plus.

Kristin Gore

It's all discipline and schedule for me. I mean, it's very easy to get distracted by the real world and things that intrude constantly, and it takes dedication to live totally in your head and be tuned out.

There are early indications of a recovery if you're looking for them as opposed to being distracted by Senate hearings.

Distracted by all sorts of distractions, it wanders around aimlessly in the ten directions.

Scott Skiles

We did a much better job in the second half of getting aggressive. We were a little fatigued or distracted in the first half, there's no doubt. We felt at halftime it was one of our poorer halves in quite a while.

This was really positive for us, ... She's interested enough in us and food that we can distract her.

There's no question that we are not as safe as we need to be. Our leadership has been distracted in this country. Some of the failures are shocking.

Donald Byrd

Here in Seattle, I'm the most productive I've ever been. I don't allow myself personal distractions. I'm extremely disciplined here.

Tony La Russa

There are always distractions, if you allow them.

Tom Kite

You can always find a distraction if you're looking for one.

Nik Wallenda

I've trained all my life not to be distracted by distractions.

Marilyn Manson

Watching movies is my one distraction.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Music is usually resorted to as a form of self-therapy when you?re not involved enough in what you?re doing so that part of your mind needs to be distracted from what otherwise would become boring.

Marlin Fitzwater

I think this has a pervasive impact on how he conducts foreign policy on a number of levels. There's a perception the president is distracted and in trouble.