Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Distracted Quotes from famous persons: Tim Griffin, Stephen Covey, Ed Woodward, Anna Wintour, Ken Burns. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Distracted Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.
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I think sometimes people get distracted in interviews.
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My main thing is not being distracted, being present at dinner time. I’ll make sure my phone’s not there and I’m not replying to emails.
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I’m a person of whim, and easily distracted. I don’t like multitasking. When I’m doing one thing, I like to do just that thing.
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I get distracted easily.
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The X is an amazing car, but we kind of got carried away with the art and technology. Obviously, you want great art. You want great technology. But we did get a little distracted from our mission, which was to advance the cause of electric vehicles. And it probably delayed us a little bit with the Model 3 as well.
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I laugh and joke, but I don’t get distracted very easily.
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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.
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We just believe when you have parental involvement, we are going to get a better bang for the buck, so to speak. And we also encourage parents to speak with their young people about the importance of safe driving. And also remind them, too, they cannot be distracted.
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There are a lot of distractions in London, which is the downside to things, for a lot of young footballers as well, and my aim is to beat that. I don’t want to get distracted by anything, my aim is to concentrate on football and do the best I can.
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I have a very beautiful room that in my house that we bought in Princeton. It’s glass on three sides, and you’d think that’s the perfect place to write. Somehow in that nice room I feel too exposed, and I can notice I’m too distracted by things going on, so I end up writing in a not-very-nice office bedroom.
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People say sometimes that I’m distracted. I’m not distracted. I’m being smart. I’m capitalizing while the iron is hot. That’s why I’m trying to do movies. I do the podcast. I do a radio show. I work on FOX. I have a gym; I have a lot of things going on. That’s because when I’m done, I want to be set up.
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Women’s bodies are amazing; what our bodies can do is incredible, so it’s sad that we get distracted – all this stuff about being skinny, be this, be that – they’re all distractions.
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The more you let yourself be distracted from where you are going, the more you are the person that you are. It’s not so much like getting lost as it is like getting found.
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Much of everyday life is filled with opportunities to be distracted. Our possessions… entertainment… cares and anxieties… and even the passionate desire and pursuit of things, some good and not so good, can keep our minds and hearts caught up in a flurry of activity.
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Sometimes when you’re trying to do a record too close to home, you can get really distracted.
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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.
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I wanted to focus on creating a solid foundation, creating my blueprint, and understanding who I was. You can get distracted easily, and people take you off course with just a compliment. I wanted the focus to be on Karen Civil the businessperson, not what I wore, not what I looked like.
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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.
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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.
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What I love about photography, and it’s the same thing I love about acting, really, is that it forces you, like, right into the moment, where you can’t be distracted, where you can’t be, like, thinking about other things or ahead of yourself or behind yourself.
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One of the best ways to see how critical being present is to effective leadership is to notice what being absent, distracted, hiding something, and/or agenda-driven does to people’s ability to trust, respect, and have confidence in you.
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I write slowly and get distracted a lot.
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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.
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I don’t look at other people’s work because I don’t want to be distracted by their ideas.
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I think there are times when you walk onto a set you can potentially be either intimidated or distracted by what’s going on around you.
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I can’t do too much of one thing, or I get very distracted.
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Sometimes I can be distracted by the glamour and the fabulousness.
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To help you focus, to help you really understand what you’re doing, you have to say no a lot. When you say yes to everything, you get distracted. When you say no, you have to get the one thing you’re doing really right.
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For much of its existence, design was all about convenience. We wanted to hide technology so that users are not distracted into thinking about the tools they use.
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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.
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That can happen sometimes: We see what’s good but need to be given the motivation or strength to do it when we’re tired or distracted by something else. That’s one of the major things a family is for, and I look forward to that with the family that I start one day.
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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.
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We don’t want to get distracted by looking back; we need to move forward.
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I suppose even when I was growing up, I noticed I was most happy when I was absorbed in something, lost in the moment and forgot the time, whether was conversation, movie, or a game I was playing. That was my definition of happiness. And I was least happy when I was all over the place, distracted and restless.
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That’s a big part of the process: making the right choice from the beginning. Not getting distracted by shiny things.
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I want to focus on crimes that affect families and not get distracted going for high-publicity cases. I want to see us move away from politics and focus more on prosecution.
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If I’m being honest, I was messing up on every other level in my life growing up – whether it was in school or in my jobs. I was always distracted by my love for music.
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You can’t be distracted by the noise of misinformation.
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I only tend to think of the week ahead, to keep my eye on the ball and question whether a full stop is in the right place. It’s easy to get distracted by the wrong things. If you start thinking of grand gestures, it’s going to be a lot of hot air. You have to be logical. The theatre is a very logical place.
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I feel like I’ve kinda danced around telling the truest story I can for many years of my life. I’ve been a little distracted by trying to be shocking or edgy or cool or whatever, and by letting go of that and telling the truest story I can – even if it’s about aliens and talking raccoons – it works.
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You’ve just got to focus on excellence and try not to be distracted by the news and the rumors and the absurdities of the stories that were coming out.
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You have to do a good job controlling the things you can control for performance and not get distracted by all the noise.
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Whether my film becomes commercially successful or not, only God can tell, or the box-office numbers. So why worry about it and get distracted?
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I started doing a Twitter feed when my father was dying. I was very distracted, preoccupied. It was upsetting.
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I get lonely – I’m not going to lie about that… I kind of signed up in my mind that I’m giving myself wholeheartedly, full-throttle to my creative life, and I don’t want to be distracted.
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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.
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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.
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I’m easily distracted by other things in the world around me.
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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.
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When you have a laser focus, and you get distracted by what other people say, you can lose that laser focus.
