Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Craig Newmark

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

J. Courtney Sullivan

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

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.

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.

Rush Limbaugh

Do not be distracted from what we face.

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.

We'll be ready to go. I think our focus is back where it needs to be. Everybody was distracted by things they probably shouldn't be thinking about.

J. K. Rowling

I'm a very distracted person.

Rachel Sklar

I downloaded a Ricky Gervais podcast once at the persistent urging of a friend and found it funny but distracting - if I'm online, I'm surfing, which means I'm distracted from the podcast. So it's a form that doesn't really work for me.

I don't want to see resources distracted for something seen as your hobby.

Patti Smith

Everything distracted me, but most of all myself.

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.

Virat Kohli

In T20, you don't have time to get distracted - it's so quick, you have to run around in the field, and while batting, you don't actually think about anything else.

Sadie Jones

I don't get distracted until the weight of other things left undone finally tips the balance; my mind is flooded with calls, bills, supermarkets, letters, and I have to stop and sort things out.

We need to stay focused on the positive Gore message. We can't be distracted by things that are out of our control.

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!

I hope they will come back and just focus on solving the problems of how to pay for our schools and reduce property taxes, and not get distracted by special interest legislation.

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.

It's going to be crazy; it's going to be wild. I don't want our guys too distracted by that.

There are many things that people think have been done that simply haven't been done. Our leadership has been distracted in this country. Some of the failures are shocking.

Theo James

Read more. Read every time you go to bed; read in the day - because at least, reading a book, you can't be distracted by anything else.

Mike Rucker

We said, 'Hey, we're not going to be distracted by the lack of people. We're not going to be distracted by their record. We're not going to be distracted by the fact that we just played a Monday night game and had a short week of practice,'

We don't want to become a platform. I don't want my people to be distracted by going out there and finding ISV partners.

Rob Bell

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