Distracted Quotes - Page 12

• 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

  Stupid, Winning, Enemy

  Twitter post from Aug 26, 2010

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• There is another side [to ego] that can wreck a team or an organization. That is being distracted by your own importance. It can come from your insecurity in working with others. It can be the need to draw attention to yourself in the public arena. It can be a feeling that others are a threat to your own territory. These are all negative manifestations of ego, and if you are not alert to them, you get diverted and your work becomes diffused. Ego in these cases makes people insensitive to how they work with others and it ends up interfering with the real goal of any group efforts.

  Bill Walsh

  Real, Team, Organization

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• It's just I might get distracted, and I get lost kind of easily, and sometimes I have really bad days...when, you know, I just want to hide or scream or bleed or something, and...all that...

  Neil Gaiman

  Suicide, Self Harm, Bad Day

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• I know what it’s like to be distracted. To seek out distractions. To exhaust yourself doing every other little thing rather than face a blank page

  Rainbow Rowell

  Littles, Pages, Faces

  Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Fangirl”, p.147, Pan Macmillan

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• I'm having a psychic moment. It involves you and me." Distracted, Gansey glanced up from the computer screen. "Were you talking to me or Ronan?" "Either. I'm flexible." Blue made a small, terrible noise. "I would appreciate if you'd turn your inner eye towards the water.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Eye, Talking, Psychics

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.168, Scholastic Inc.

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• Sorry...I got distracted listening to you and hot glued myself to my unicorn

  Mira Grant

  Sorry, Listening, Hot

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• Was I the only person who was distracted by this future without a chance?

  Charles Bukowski

  Chance, Persons

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• God doesn't want religious duty. He doesn't want a distracted, half-hearted, 'Fine, I'll read a chapter...now are You happy?' attitude. God wants His word to be a delight to us, so much that we meditate on it day and night.

  Francis Chan

  Religious, Attitude, Night

  Francis Chan (2013). “Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God”, p.142, David C Cook

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• He was distracted by a giggle, and turned to see a rare sight: a girl.

  Dave Barry

  Girl, Sight, Giggle

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• Tell you what, you let me go, and I’ll ask you plenty of questions about your race. Until then, I’m slightly distracted with how this little vacation on the good ship Holy Sh*t is going to pan out for me.

  J.R. Ward

  Vacation, Race, Littles

  J.R. Ward (2007). “Lover Unbound: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.171, Penguin

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• 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

  Writing, Ivory Tower, Three

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• Sometimes I can be distracted by the glamour and the fabulousness.

  Katy Perry

  Sometimes, Glamour, I Can

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• 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

  Patience, Moving, Grandmother

  "Michelle Obama DNC speech". www.politico.com.

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• 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

  Birthday, Hurt, Opportunity

  "Behind-the-Scenes with Lindsay Lohan". Interview with Lauren Hutton, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 7, 2009.

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• What I love about photography, and it's the same thing I love about acting, really, is that it forces you, like, right into the moment, where you can't be distracted, where you can't be, like, thinking about other things or ahead of yourself or behind yourself.

  Jessica Lange

  Photography, Thinking, Acting

  "Actress Jessica Lange". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. October 8, 2013.

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• 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, Energy

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

  Norah Jones

  Home, Trying, Records

  "Spiritual Home: Los Feliz, L.A." by Seth Plattner, www.elle.com. May 1, 2012.

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

  LeBron James

  Basketball, Laughing, Jokes

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

  Carl Hiaasen

  Healthcare, Debate, Easy

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• Before a race, I block out what's going on in the stadium. It's different for everyone. But for me, I've always been able to block it out. For a sprint race, it's important not to get distracted.

  Allyson Felix

  Block, Race, Important

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• It's a struggle for me to watch things I've been in because I'm just distracted and self-critical.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Struggle, Self, Watches

  "Sitting Down and Having Pizza With Jesse Eisenberg and Aziz Ansari". Interview with Cyrus Saatsaz, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 24, 2011.

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• I defy any woman who is pregnant and trying to concentrate really hard not to feel distracted.

  Jill Scott

  Trying, Feels, Pregnant

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• I spent many years of my life as an economist and demographer. I was finally distracted by writing my novels and poetry. I'm enormously happy that was the case. I feel that with writing I have found my metier.

  Vikram Seth

  Writing, Years, Found

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• All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate.

  Julio Cortazar

  Doors, Profound, Distraction

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• Being a reader is sort of like being president, except reading involves fewer state dinners, usually. You have this agenda you want to get through, but you get distracted by life events, e.g., books arriving in the mail/World War III, and you are temporarily deflected from your chosen path.

  Nick Hornby

  War, Book, Reading

  Nick Hornby (2004). “The Polysyllabic Spree”, McSweeneys Books

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