Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jose Theodore

When you start you lose your focus, you don't play as well. You can't get distracted by good publicity or bad. You have to make sure you do your job and that's what he's been doing.

Whether we own shares for the short-term or long-term, it's a red-herring issue that incompetent management uses to distract people from the real issues, ... In this case, the issue is that Ligand is beset by Robinson's and Maier's incompetence and failure.

We're most impressionable when we're 12 to 24 years old, so that what we wore, what we watched, what we listened to has greater import at the time, when you had yet to be distracted by things like jobs and families.

Kristin Gore

It's all discipline and schedule for me. I mean, it's very easy to get distracted by the real world and things that intrude constantly, and it takes dedication to live totally in your head and be tuned out.

Aristotle

The greatest threat to the state is not faction but distraction

Sadie Jones

I don't get distracted until the weight of other things left undone finally tips the balance; my mind is flooded with calls, bills, supermarkets, letters, and I have to stop and sort things out.

Karin Slaughter

When you read a book, you are letting another person distract your thoughts and work your emotions. If they are adept, there's nothing better than turning off and getting lost.

Virat Kohli

In T20, you don't have time to get distracted - it's so quick, you have to run around in the field, and while batting, you don't actually think about anything else.

There are early indications of a recovery if you're looking for them as opposed to being distracted by Senate hearings.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Music is usually resorted to as a form of self-therapy when you?re not involved enough in what you?re doing so that part of your mind needs to be distracted from what otherwise would become boring.

E. B. White

Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.

Donald Byrd

Here in Seattle, I'm the most productive I've ever been. I don't allow myself personal distractions. I'm extremely disciplined here.

Delmore Schwartz

I am of Russian-Jewish distraction.

Dan Millman

Freedom from mental distraction equals power.

There is more than a month before the inauguration, and people mustn't get distracted from work by these thoughts,

Kathy Baker

We take the puppies everywhere we go, ... Our job is to acclimate them to everyday life. A lot of it is learning not to be distracted by normal, everyday things. It takes time for them to learn that.

We told our guys early on that we're going to play or we ain't going to play. You can't let things like that distract you.

Theo James

Read more. Read every time you go to bed; read in the day - because at least, reading a book, you can't be distracted by anything else.

Bill Halter

When campaigns use one-word labels, typically it's meant to distract and destroy.

There are many things that people think have been done that simply haven't been done. Our leadership has been distracted in this country. Some of the failures are shocking.

We don't want to become a platform. I don't want my people to be distracted by going out there and finding ISV partners.

Mike Rucker

We said, 'Hey, we're not going to be distracted by the lack of people. We're not going to be distracted by their record. We're not going to be distracted by the fact that we just played a Monday night game and had a short week of practice,'

Marlin Fitzwater

I think this has a pervasive impact on how he conducts foreign policy on a number of levels. There's a perception the president is distracted and in trouble.

We need to stay focused on the positive Gore message. We can't be distracted by things that are out of our control.

We have to work really hard not to let any other teams distract us. Our main goal is more solidarity and more consistency.

We'll be ready to go. I think our focus is back where it needs to be. Everybody was distracted by things they probably shouldn't be thinking about.

Scott Skiles

We did a much better job in the second half of getting aggressive. We were a little fatigued or distracted in the first half, there's no doubt. We felt at halftime it was one of our poorer halves in quite a while.

Malcolm Bradbury

Genitals are a great distraction to scholarship

Giovanni Bisignani

A European solution is no solution at all. Unilateral regional efforts will only distract from this process,

Distracted by all sorts of distractions, it wanders around aimlessly in the ten directions.

Michelle Pfeiffer

They were distracted for a split-second, which was all it took for the other man to jump into the car.

Craig Newmark

During the bubble, we got distracted by the prospect of big bucks. Now it's much better balanced.

This was really positive for us, ... She's interested enough in us and food that we can distract her.