Top 66 Distract Quotes

When I am rehearsing for a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress.

I’m trying not to pay too much attention to the rankings because calculations can distract you.

By attracting attention to yourself, you distract people from the movie. Ideally, you like a movie to speak for itself. You don’t describe a song before you sing it or tell about a painting before you show it. You don’t reveal the recipe before you serve the dish. You taste it.

When a man comments on your physical appearance, the effect is often just to distract from your professional ability.

To distract from the president’s disappointing record, Team Obama has decided to base their entire campaign on attacking the private sector and Mitt Romney’s career as a successful businessman.

You must not let your negative emotions distract you from achieving your goals.

I don’t really do anything unless it’s from the heart – I don’t like to joke on people, or distract them from something they love.

As even a democracy like the United States has shown, waging war can benefit a leader in several ways: it can rally citizens around the flag, it can distract them from bleak economic times, and it can enrich a country’s elites.

The pictures are created by the listener, with a little help from the broadcaster. The pictures are perfect. If you’re showing pictures, different things in that picture can distract from the spoken word.

For me as a person, friendships are incredibly important to me, but in writing, they can distract me.

I don’t distract myself from work stuff with funny emails and surfing the internet when I’m at work; I don’t distract myself from my family when I’m with them.

The whole idea is preserving the music and the art and not having us and our faces and our individual characters distract from that. That was the original idea, and now it’s really become part of what Tool is. It has allowed us to really concentrate on our music and our show.

My son died from cancer. My granddaughter died from cancer. I have a lot of reasons to think that reality is not a friendly neighborhood. And the stories that I tell distract me, and if I do the job right, they distract people from things that are happening to them that they wish had never happened.

It is sad that the Republican leadership is not as interested as they say they are in protecting the institution of marriage as they are in waging a campaign to divide and distract the American people from the real issues that need to be addressed.

It’s also a more personal medium. It seems to go directly to one’s brain. There are no pictures to distract.

When working, my diet degrades to pizza three times a day, because I don’t want to distract myself from anything.

YI teamed up with the Allstate Foundation to basically inform teens why it’s important to drive safe. I feel I’m new on the road, so it’s important to do these three main things: The first one is buckle up, the second one is slow down, don’t speed, and the third one is don’t let your friends distract you in the car.

Carly Simon abandoned the stage for seven years after collapsing from nerves before a concert in Pittsburgh in 1981. When she resumed performing, she would sometimes ask members of her band to spank her before she went onstage, to distract her from her anxiety.

Because I have a dog, it’s easier to work at home: I sit in a horrible weird ‘Mastermind’-style chair and bask in my own mediocrity. Being single, I’ve no family life to distract me at the end of the day. Apart from taking the dog for a walk, I have no other responsibilities.

It’s such a psychological and mental game, golf, that the smallest wrong thing at the wrong time can distract you from what you’re trying to achieve.

I don’t think enough players channel the energy of the crowd. If it’s done properly, and you don’t let anger overwhelm and distract you, it’s like a shot of adrenaline in the arm, and it gets the crowd pumped up.

When you have fans who are hassling you the entire game and you ignore them, they respect you because their job is to try and distract you. And if they don’t distract you, that means you’re focused on doing your job. And who knows, by the end, sometimes you even win them over.

A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future… but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don’t let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.

The only thing I want to think about the moments before a race is competing. I don’t want the little things to distract me.

It’s easy to make something avant garde. To do something in the traditional way is much more brave in the sense that you’re – your technique is so much more exposed because there’s not all this flashy stuff to distract the viewer.

The whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even, one might say, elevate, has altered under commercial pressure, perhaps, into a different kind of purpose, which is to divert and distract and entertain.

Most of us believe, or should believe, that every child can learn, given the opportunity, but try substitute teaching just once and you will see firsthand the socioeconomic issues that distract our kids from taking advantage of that opportunity.

The Arabs could have peace tomorrow if sufficient numbers of Palestinians were not content to be used as cannon fodder in fruitless assaults on Israel, even as the surrounding Arab powers distract the Arab masses with the red herring of Israel while retarding their countries with their repression and corruption.

I’ve always been a sucker for any technology engineered primarily for the entertainment of the human race – even such technology as has been disguised as ‘useful’ or ‘improving’ when we all know the real virtue lies in its ability to distract and divert.

Because we spoke so loudly, opponents of reproductive health access demonized and smeared me and others on the public airwaves. These smears are obvious attempts to distract from meaningful policy discussions and to silence women’s voices regarding their own health care.

Part of a horror movie has to be a bit fakey for me to really enjoy it. The new ones are so realistic that they distract me from the ride through the horror.

Cliches about supporting the troops are designed to distract from failed policies, policies promoted by powerful special interests that benefit from war, anything to steer the discussion away from the real reasons the war in Iraq will not end anytime soon.

I think we live in a time where we can all distract ourselves from facing the pain or the reality of all of our lives – tons of ways to hide, to kill pain, to deal with pain.

I’ve never seen a theater community to rival that of Chicago. Neither New York nor L.A. has the raw talent or integrity that Chicago theater has, and I think it’s because Chicago doesn’t have Broadway or the film and TV business to distract it.

I will do whatever I can to become the character. I have no right to distract the audience from the mood of the film.

There’s a lot of fuss that comes with playing with Tiger, big crowds, noise and such. You either let it distract you, or you tunnel up and let it energize you. He’s a great playing competitor. He recognizes good golf and he’s very complimentary when good golf is played, so he’s cool to be around.

I think about cars to try and distract myself. It’s a good way to relax, take your mind off everything.

There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from the problems of war and poverty.

‘Rectify’ is un-busy. It might soothe you, if not distract you, from all you got going on.

For most of my 20s I felt the need to focus solely on my goals and let nothing distract me.

Make sure you have that conviction to do what you know is right, and once you have it, don’t let skeptics distract you from your path.

Fluted sleeves or any sleeve that flares out before coming in again at the wrist are very feminine and a great way to distract from the dreaded ‘bingo wings.’

I think I do a pretty good job of not letting things distract me from what I want to do and what I want to accomplish as a football player.

Without question, the material world and your everyday needs distract you from living meaningfully.

Writing is the process of finding something to distract you from writing, and of all the helpful distractions – adultery, alcohol and acedia, all of which aided our writing fathers – none can equal the Internet.

When I attack a role, be it TV, film or stage, the first thing I say is, I don’t want to know anything. If it’s good I don’t want to hear it; if it’s bad I don’t want to hear it. The only thing either thing can do is distract me. I like to stay focused.

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.

Coming off the field and having a young family, it’s very easy to distract yourself.