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“I'm not a pop act, churning stuff out really quickly. I find the music that arises from that style of working is distracted, not particularly profound.”

Stuff Style Profound Pops Arise Distracted Churning

Author:Paloma Faith

“I procrastinate so much and I get distracted by anything.”

Distracted Procrastinating

Author:Zach Braff

“The thing to remember is that the work comes first, and not to get distracted by anything else. If you keep focused on the work, everything else will fall into place. That's my mantra now.”

Ifs Firsts Remember Fall Focused Distracted Mantras Fall Into Place

Author:James Nesbitt

“A person is alive only to the degree that he or she is aware. To make the most of life we must constantly strive to be aware of the importance of being aware. Be aware of your senses and use them: So often we are distracted and unconscious of the riches our senses can pour into our lives. We eat food without tasting it, listen to music without hearing it, smell without experiencing the pungency of odors and the delicacy of perfumes, touch without feeling the grain or texture, and see without appreciating the beauty around us.”

“Life offers its wisdom generously. Everything teaches. Not everyone learns. Life asks of us the same thing we have been asked in every class: "Stay awake." "Pay attention." But paying attention is no simple matter. It requires us not to be distracted by expectations, past experiences, labels, and masks. It asks that we not jump to early conclusions and that we remain open to surprise.”

Has Beens Matter Past Asks Simple Pay Attention Class Teach Awareness Offers Expectations Surprise Conclusion Labels Pay Attention Awake Mask Distracted Past Experiences

Author:Rachel Naomi Remen

“Finally, everybody agrees that no one pursuit can be successfully followed by a man who is preoccupied with many things-eloquence cannot, nor the liberal studies-since the mind, when distracted, takes in nothing very deeply, but rejects everything that is, as it were, crammed into it. There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living: there is nothing that is harder to learn.”

Men Mind Study Harder Agree Busy Pursuit Rejects Distracted Eloquence Very Deep Busy Man

Author:Seneca the Younger

“The self cannot be escaped, but it can be, with ingenuity and hard work, distracted.”

Self Hard Hard Work Distracted Ingenuity

Author:Donald Barthelme

“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.”

Important Different Able Race Block Distracted Stadiums Sprint

Author:Allyson Felix

“The Procrastinator has the opposite problem. He can’t selectively focus his attention and might endure frequent accusations about his laziness. In truth, he’s so distracted by stimuli that he can’t figure out where or how to get started. Sounds, smells, sights and the random wanderings of his thoughts continually vie for his attention.”

Problem Might Sound Attention Focus Figures Opposites Sight Endure Smell Wander Laziness Distracted Stimulus Accusation Procrastinator

Book:You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy?!: The Classic Self-Help Book for Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder

Source: You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy?!: The Classic Self-Help Book for Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder

“Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes; this is partly because it gets unobstructed hold of the hearer’s mind without his being distracted by secondary thoughts, and partly because he feels that here he is not being corrupted or deceived by the arts of rhetoric, but that the whole effect is got from the thing itself.”

Feels Mind Art Whole Beautiful Effects Honesty Expression Deeper Impression Naked Rhetoric Deceived Distracted

Book:Essays of Schopenhauer: Top Essays

Source: Essays of Schopenhauer: Top Essays

“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.”

Thinking Years Film Six Expectations Direct Performances Critics Severe Distracted

Author:Ken Burns

“Come to me. Are you lost? I can see another way from where I live. The heart can see a path that's out of sight to the head-a path you'll surely overlook, left alone on your lofty perch up there, too distracted by your world to see the real world where I live. I live on the level of laughter, tears, and-yes-prayer.”

World Way Heart I Can Real Lost Left Prayer Levels Path Tears Laughter Sight Real World Another Way Distracted Lofty Left Alone

Author:Robert H. Schuller

“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.”

Knows Want Energy Talking Focused Distracted

Author:T. Boone Pickens

“The more completely we focus our attention on our Creator and Lord, the less chance there is of our being distracted by creatures.”

Chance Attention Lord Focus Creatures Creator Distracted

Author:Ignatius of Loyola

“I can't cook. I don't have the right brain for it, somehow. I can't walk into a room and tidy it up. I get distracted. I pick up one thing and I start looking at it. And my cooking is truly heinous.”

I Can Walks Rooms Brain One Thing Picks Cooking Cooks Distracted Tidy

Author:Sophie Kinsella

“This motion-picture muddle had distracted me from my writing.”

Writing Distracted Motion Pictures Muddle

Author:Zane Grey

“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.”

Bigs Guy Havens Big Things Distracted

Author:Leighton Meester

“I'm a fairly ascetic person. And I do most of my writing at night. You don't get distracted, your brain goes into what you are writing about, into the world you're writing about, rather than into the world you're in.”

World Writing Persons Night Brain Distracted

Author:Caleb Carr

“I made sure that instead of people making fun of me, like every comedian probably says, I made fun of myself first so they would get distracted and just laugh. I was pretty brutally picked on for a while growing up. It was always the really pretty girls, the hot girls and then there was me. So I had to do something to get any sort of attention.”

People Firsts Made Girl Fun Attention Laughing Growing Up Growing Hot Comedian Distracted Pretty Girl Really Pretty Hot Girl

Author:Eliza Coupe

“My favorite books are a constantly changing list, but one favorite has remained constant: the dictionary. Is the word I want to use spelled practice or practise? The dictionary knows. The dictionary also slows down my writing because it is such interesting reading that I am distracted.”

Knows Want Writing Book Use Reading Interesting Practice Constant My Favorite Lists Slow Down Distracted Dictionary Practise Favorite Book

Author:Beverly Cleary

“Well, the first year I lost my voice I didn't mind so much because I was going to have a baby and I was distracted with him anyway, I didn't even think about it that much, well, OK, this is what's happening.”

Thinking Years Mind Firsts Wells Lost Voice Baby Happenings Distracted

Author:Rosanne Cash

“You can't be distracted by the noise of misinformation.”

Noise Distracted Misinformation

Author:James Daly

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

Rooms Technology Internet Distracted

Author:Jeffrey Eugenides

“If you are interested in ideas, radio is way more pure than television. You're not distracted by somebody's nose or hair or posture. You can really see how someone thinks and penetrate to the essence of who that person is.”

Ifs Thinking Way Persons Ideas Television Hair Pure Essence Radio Noses Distracted Penetrate Posture

Author:Terry Gross

“I think a lot of times we can get distracted and not be in the moment with people and be missing all the life happening in the moment.”

People Thinking Moments Missing Happenings Distracted Life Happens

Author:Angela Kinsey

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