I like to write in coffee shops in countries in which languages I do not speak are spoken. That way, you're surrounded by the buzz of humanity, but you aren't distracted by people's conversations.
Adam Mansbach
We say that children are bad at paying attention, but we really mean that they're bad at not paying attention - they easily get distracted by anything interesting.
Alison Gopnik
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
I was in so much emotional pain as a young girl that whatever distracted me from how I felt about myself was fine by me.
Amanda de Cadenet
People get distracted by box-office figures and take jobs because they think it will advance their careers.
Andrew Scott
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.
Angela Kinsey
I think sometimes people get distracted in interviews.
Angela Yee
When people didn't really know who I was, and I would get on stage, they would be distracted by what I looked like, so I would have to dumb myself down, in a way, for people to feel safe to laugh.
Anjelah Johnson
What was interesting about Trump, I mean, people always say they want a non-politician. Well, you got it with Donald Trump. And there's good to that, and there's bad to that. The bad is that he can be distracted by talking about these stupid things that - I promise you, no one cares about his taxes.
Ann Coulter
I don't look at other people's work because I don't want to be distracted by their ideas.
Ann Demeulemeester
It is true that a lot of people are easily distracted online. As a result, too many of us have given up on digital audiences for ambitious work, and this is a mistake.
Anna Wintour
When you have a laser focus, and you get distracted by what other people say, you can lose that laser focus.
Anne Wojcicki
I have a worry of people not liking me. I get scared walking into a room first, so I have to have people walk in before me so then people are distracted. It's hard.
Anne-Marie
I know not to let myself get distracted and to concentrate on what happens on the pitch.
Anthony Martial
I didn't start boxing until I was 18 but I believe that is a big advantage now. If you start too young, it's easy to become distracted.
Anthony Yarde
I can't do too much of one thing, or I get very distracted.
Antoni Porowski
I am severely distracted these days. It's hard to sit in front of the computer, uploading bad music for hours, when you have a wonderful boyfriend who treats you like a Goddess.
April Winchell
We continue to focus on actually solving problems that real people have and not being distracted by what power users want.
Arash Ferdowsi
We shall never understand the ethical system taught by Jesus unless we realize that he was a Jew, not only by birth, but that he lived and taught as a Jew; the Sermon on the Mount was addressed to his distracted fellow nationals.
Arthur Keith
You want less of the annoying nonsense that interferes with your portfolios and more of the significant data that allow you to become a less distracted, more purposeful investor.
Barry Ritholtz
I don't really like encouraging people to go on the Internet too much, we're constantly distracted with the Internet and computers.
Refuse to be disheartened, discouraged, distracted from your goals in life.
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.
I would make a genuinely terrible guide. I can't remember things. I would get half way through telling a story or explaining something and I would get distracted. Oh, and I have absolutely no sense of direction at all.
I've never been a bad person and always had quite good morals. There's always been a side of me that's been quite proper, but it's got distracted here and there. Now I'm the person I should be.
I'm easily distracted by other things in the world around me.
The nation certainly would have been better off if President Clinton could have focused on Osama bin Laden without being distracted by the Paula Jones sexual harassment case and its criminal investigation offshoots.
I feel like it's easy to get lost in your own world and get distracted, and sometimes seeing things from different perspectives helps you appreciate your life a little bit more.
What I love about piano and vocal is it's incredibly pure, and it gets down to the essence of the song because you're not distracted by an orchestra. When it's just a piano and a voice, it's about the purity of singing the song.
I started doing a Twitter feed when my father was dying. I was very distracted, preoccupied. It was upsetting.
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.
I never really do the New Year's Resolution thing. I kind of just try to stay focused, not get too distracted, and do the best I can. And that's something I like to tell myself every year around New Year's.
I personally like to talk to people when I'm not doing a scene, still acting as if I'm in Gotham when I'm on set because I don't really like to break character, since I sometimes get distracted. I may get distracted when I'm talking to people and having fun; then I have to check myself.
It's easy to get distracted by the vaudevillian aspects of the healthcare debate.
I tend to write in coffee shops and restaurants with friends of mine because if I'm at home, I get distracted by the television or the cats or my husband, or... you know - all of those things that make it easy to procrastinate.
Our brains are designed to solve some of our most complex problems when we're distracted by routine habits.
We couldn't buy Google on the IPO, but I knew I wanted to own it. I was gonna go big. It came out and went down a bit. I got distracted by something and didn't get in.
Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.
I get more distracted by hair or a really bad wig than I do costumes any day of the week.
That's the problem with working and living in the same space - my studio is downstairs, so I often get distracted by domestic things.
We become distracted from productive labors by our perceived opponents; we become focused on them and not on our larger calling to advance our nation; our debate becomes more about scoring points against an adversary and less about advancing our common cause.
Some male colleagues, just as in accountancy, had doubts about whether women could perform some roles. There was a sense that women needed more protection or if men were out on the street they would be distracted by having to look after a female colleague.
I don't have an iPhone or anything. There's no TV. It's so easy to become distracted.
I've never had WiFi at home. I'm too easily distracted, and YouTube is too tempting.
If you pinpointed someone before the kick-off, probably you would become embroiled in a fight, and you would be distracted from what really matters and not play well.
Humans get distracted when we see and touch something.
Kissing on screen is just - funny enough, you're just acting, so you're distracted by that more than anything. Or at least I am.
I want to take a long-term view. Being distracted by short term things can be dangerous when you are making cold, calm, long-term decisions.
The idea is to recruit in a closed environment, rather than listening to the press or getting distracted by conflicting agents' claims. We try and make cold decisions based on information.
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.
