Distracted Quotes - Page 7

• Sometimes I start with music on and then I get distracted because I'm working to a different rhythm; I'm not working to myself. So, I don't have music on when I'm working.

  Sue Tompkins

  Different, Sometimes, Rhythm

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I used to suspect that in the brain, time is its own representation. I now think the problem is so much more complicated. Initially I was rather impressed by the experiments showing that on complex problems, subjects who are distracted do better in getting an answer than either those who answer immediately or those who spend time reflecting on the problem.

  Patricia Churchland

  Thinking, Brain, Answers

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Generally we waste our lives, distracted from our true selves, in endless activity. Meditation is the way to bring us back to ourselves, where we can really experience and taste our full being.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Spiritual, Self, Meditation

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• If I keep going outside, I get distracted - and all these lunches and things I get invited to, I just don't care. I just want to make the work. New York is very distracting.

  Kesh

  New York, Lunch, Care

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In fact, now for whatever reason, if we're recording in the same room, I get a little distracted because I'm watching the actor instead of listening to the actor. The way we do it now, they're on the phone, and we're sitting here with scripts in front of us taking notes seriously and marking takes and doing some adlibs. I can really focus on the words and not the surroundings.

  Adam Reed

  Phones, Focus, Listening

  Interview with Vlada Gelman, www.avclub.com. February 24, 2011.

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• I think what has happened to our basketball team, we've been badly distracted. They're not reading too many positive things in the paper.

  Bill Russell

  Basketball, Team, Reading

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• When you are passionate, you always have your destination in sight and you are not distracted by obstacles. Because you love what you are pursuing, things like rejection and setbacks will not hinder you in your pursuit. You believe that nothing can stop you!

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Believe, Sight

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• The mind is easily distracted; it loses its focus and becomes restless. If it is not directed positively, its power will be diffused.

  Chin-Ning Chu

  Positive, Focus, Mind

  Chin-Ning Chu (2010). “Thick Face, Black Heart: The Warrior Philosophy for Conquering the Challenges of Business and Life”, p.165, Hachette UK

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• My take on the whole dot-com bubble was that a lot of people who wanted to make a lot of money got too excited and hyped up the commercial aspects of the Internet prematurely. I think the vision of the Internet as a democratizing medium - as everyone's printing press - is real. We got distracted from that by the mass hallucinations of the bubble.

  Craig Newmark

  Money, Business, Real

  "CRAIGSLIST / On the record: Craig Newmark". San Francisco Chronicle Interview, www.sfgate.com. August 15, 2004.

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• The materialistic pattern of life is that where money predominates over everything. The non-materialistic life is that where money is just a means - happiness predominates, joy predominates; your own individuality predominates. You know who you are and where you are going, and you are not distracted. Then suddenly you will see your life has a meditative quality to it.

  Rajneesh

  Money, Mean, Joy

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• We have been distracted into unnatural motivations: money, prestige, power. Listening to the cuckoo is not going to give you money. Listening to the cuckoo is not going to give you power, prestige. Watching the butterfly is not going to help you economically, politically, socially. These things are not paying, but these things make you happy.

  Rajneesh

  Money, Motivation, Butterfly

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• If the old dog hadn't got distracted by the fire plug, he would have caught the rabbit.

  Hayes McClerkin

  Dog, Fire, Rabbits

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• The critical element in meditation practice is beginning again. Everyone loses focus at times, everyone loses interest at times, and everyone gets distracted over and over again. What is essential, and also incredibly transforming, is realizing that we have the ability to begin again, without blaming or judging ourselves, without thinking we have failed, without losing heart, we can, and need to, constantly be beginning again.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Yoga, Heart, Thinking

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• what we call a home is merely any place that succeeds in making more consistenly available to us the important truths which the wider world ignores, or which our distracted and irresolute selves have trouble holding onto." (p123) Architecture of Happiness

  Alain de Botton

  Home, Self, Important

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• There's no greater sign of the failure of the American educational system than the extent to which Americans are distracted by the possibility that Earth might end on December 21, 2012. It's a profound absence of awareness of the laws of physics and how nature works. So they're missing some science classes in their training in high school or in college that would empower them to understand and to judge when someone else is basically just full of it. Science is like an inoculation against charlatans who would have you believe whatever it is they tell you.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Educational, Believe, School

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• There are a lot of celebrities that I think can get a little bit distracted by the way that our society views celebrity. All of a sudden, the film becomes about, "Come see this celebrity!" I'm not interested in that. I want to see a story.

  Condola Rashad

  Thinking, Views, Stories

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I focus on my work. If I let myself get distracted by the insults and slanders I wouldn't get anything substantive done.

  Norman Finkelstein

  Hard Work, Focus, Insulting

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• It was also her nature that caused her letters to avoid emotional pitfalls and confine themselves to relating the events of her daily life in the utilitarian style of a ship's log. In reality they were distracted letters, intended to keep the coals alive without putting her hand in the fire, while Florentino Ariza burned himself alive in every line.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Reality, Emotional, Fire

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• Everything distracted me, but most of all myself.

  Patti Smith

  Patti Smith (2010). “Just Kids”, p.152, A&C Black

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• I think as women, you know, if you are considered a pioneer in these things, you can get really distracted by these other things - you know, people's demands of you reflecting on your otherness. And for this white critic to say, "I don't understand why she doesn't do that" - and you're like, "It's because I'm running a show on a major network and I want the show to continue" - and to sort of guilt me.

  Mindy Kaling

  Running, Thinking, White

  "Mindy Kaling On Refusing To Be An Outsider And Sexism On Set". www.wbur.org. October 16, 2014.

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

  Noam Chomsky

  Population, Force, Consumption

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• It's been reinforced to me, and it's a little cliche, but I've learned that you can't make a movie that even works, much less that's good, without really good writing and really good acting. That lesson has led me to not be distracted, so much, by the other stuff going on in filmmaking and to focus on the essence of a story, and the words and the events and the way that those are interpreted by the actors. That philosophy has taken me to a place that I really like.

  Ben Affleck

  Philosophy, Taken, Writing

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 8, 2012.

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• We are probably the most frustrating band to soundcheck because we always go off on jams and our sound-man is sitting there going: "oh god, I don't want to interrupt this, but... we've got to get things moving along..." We're just easily distracted because we want to be writing all the time!

  Theresa Wayman

  Moving, Writing, Men

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• I'm a very distracted person.

  J. K. Rowling

  Persons

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Last winter, when so many Living joined the Dead and our prey became scarce, I watched some of my friends become full-dead. The transition was undramatic. They just slowed down, then stopped, and after a while I realised they were corpses. It disquieted me at first, but it’s against etiquette to notice when one of us dies. I distracted myself with some groaning.

  Isaac Marion

  Winter, Transition, Lasts

  Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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