Distracted Quotes

"It was the frustration, not being able to get in my car and drive home to center myself. I was in this surreal world full of nobody I trusted and getting hit on the head constantly. You`re thinking `this is the best I can do and it`s not working, what more can I do?` It was a cheap escape - well it wasn`t cheap - but it was just a pathetic escape mechanism. I couldn`t leave so I left by being somewhere else in my head. It wasn`t the greatest career move, it distracted me from music. But when your entire life is centred on this one goal, are you really going let the drugs take it away from you?"

I don`t have any blindness when it comes to my money. As an actor, you can get distracted by your work. I do keep an eye on my nest egg, if you will.

I was going to after-Oscar parties. I was mingling with the Hollywood crowd. It`s really easy to become distracted when you have opportunities to do that kind of stuff. There`s no way I would ever turn that stuff down, but it`s important for me to realize why I`m here, what I`m trying to do and the goals I`m trying to accomplish.

I guess I was kind of distracted at the beginning. But then I chilled out and made it.

(on his role in "The Daily Show" (1996)): Liberal and conservative have lost their meaning in America. I represent the distracted center. (March 2003).

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.

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.

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

Sometimes you really dig a girl, the moment you kiss her, And then you get distracted by her older sister.

For me, if they don`t talk to me before the season starts, I won`t talk to anybody then, ... I don`t want to get distracted talking about a contract.

It`s quite autobiographical. It talks about relationships. The last record was naïve because we were. At that point, we would have done anything to succeed. And it`s easy to get distracted and surround yourself with toys. But I wanted to get back to a sense of normality. I needed that sense of reality.

We would not have our politics distracted and embittered by the dissensions of other lands.

Because the demands on a goalie are mostly mental, it means that for a goalie the biggest enemy is himself. Not a puck, not an opponent, not a quirk of size or style. Him. The stress and anxiety he feels when he plays, the fear of failing, the fear of being embarrassed, the fear of being physically hurt, all the symptoms of his position, in constant ebb and flow, but never disappearing. The successful goalie understands these neuroses, accepts them, and puts them under control. The unsuccessful goalie is distracted by them, his mind in knots, his body quickly following.

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted, it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience.

It`s true that I tend to daydream. I`m the same person in business as I am in music: I can be distracted and absentminded. It`s my style.

The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.

The mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways. The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion.

A man is hindered and distracted in proportion as he draws outward things to himself.

Perhaps they`re hoping that Californians are so distracted by the unfolding tragedy in New Orleans that they won`t notice their out-of-control politicians in Sacramento. Gov. Schwarzenegger has the power to terminate this radical plan to create counterfeit marriage. He can either side with the 61 percent of Californians who voted to protect marriage in a statewide initiative, or he can side with the radical Democrats.

If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master`s presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole of your hour but bring your heart back and place it again in Our Lord`s presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.