#distracted

I've trained all my life not to be distracted by distractions. ↗

— Nik Wallenda

#distractions #i #life #my life #trained

I procrastinate so much and I get distracted by anything. ↗

— Zach Braff

#distracted #get #i #much #procrastinate

Whenever Percy stopped by to see [Annabeth], she was so lost in thought that the conversation went something like this: Percy: 'Hey, how's it going?' Annabeth: 'Uh, no thanks.' Percy: 'Okay...have you eaten anything today?' Annabeth: 'I think Leo is on duty. Ask him.' Percy: 'So, my hair is on fire.' Annabeth: 'Okay, in a while. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#cute #distracted #hair-on-fire #mark-of-athena #not-listening

And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#being #books #distracted #dodging #elevation

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. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#bedroom #bought #distracted #end #exposed

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

— Malcolm De Chazal

#distracted #diversion #exclusive #gets #heart

People should decide what success means for them, and not be distracted by accepting others' definitions of success. ↗

— Tony Levin

#decide #distracted #means #others

I get a lot of kids distracted. Sometimes they got to go cover left field, but they're over here talking to me, getting an autograph. ↗

— Pedro Martinez

#cover #distracted #field #get #getting

It's a fallacy that writers have to shut themselves up in their ivory towers to write. I have all these interruptions, three of which I gave birth to. If I was thrown for a loop every time I was distracted I could never get anything done. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#birth #could #distracted #done #every

You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#consumption #control #distracted #force #own