Distract Quotes

• If you love something, you have to stay really focused and can't let outside things distract you.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Love
  • Focused
  • Outside

• A lot of times when I ran, to be honest, I didn't know where I was in the race. So I always was looking up at the scoreboard to say, 'Just call my name to see where I am,' because I tried to have such tunnel vision not to distract myself.

  Gail Devers
  • Vision
  • Name
  • Race

• Someone – a man – advised me not to become a news anchor because my eyelashes were too long, and they would distract the viewers.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Man
  • News
  • Viewers

• Every session attended by the analyst must have no history and no future. What is 'known' about the patient is of no further consequence: it is either false or irrelevant. If it is 'known' by patient and analyst, it is obsolete....The only point of importance in any session is the unknown. Nothing must be allowed to distract from intuiting that. In any session, evolution takes place. Out of the darkness and formlessness something evolves.

  

  Wilfred Bion
  • History
  • Darkness
  • Evolution

• 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.'

  

  Lesley Lawson
  • Great
  • Feminine
  • Sleeves

• Well, at first the band were simply called Horsepower, but a lot of people thought that was something to do with heroin. That really pissed me off, so I decided to put something in front of it to distract them. “I got '16' from a traditional American folk song, where a man is singing about his dead wife and 16 black horses are pulling her casket up to the cemetery. I liked the image of 16 working horses.

  

  David Eugene Edwards
  • American
  • Decided
  • Horses

• I never look back, darling. It distracts from the now.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Now
  • Look Back
  • Distract

• Cheese crumbs spread before a pair of copulating rats will distract the female but not the male.

  

  Alfred Kinsey
  • Female
  • Cheese
  • MAle

• 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.

  

  Benji Madden Good Charlotte
  • Reality
  • Pain
  • Distract

• Want to play baseball?’” she asked. Shane’s eyes opened, and he stopped stroking her hair. “What?’” “First base,’” she said. “You’re already there.’” “I’m not running the bases.’” “Well, you could at least steal second.’” “Jeez, Claire. I used to distract myself with sports stats at times like these, but now you’ve gone and ruined it.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • She
  • Running
  • Eyes

• Believe me, blond hair can take you really far, especially with the older men. It can really distract from the face. I am convinced I could have had sex with both Tony Bennett and John McCain if we weren't each happily married at the time we all met.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Men

• The most famous people in the world today don’t address the world’s most pressing needs. Rather, they distract us from them.They provide amusement, not sustenance.

  

  Eric Burns
  • Famous
  • Address
  • Pressing Needs

• If nothing else, my analysis of George W.’s oratory style had taught me that a sincere countenance and a confident stance were sufficient to distract your audience from the fact that you were talking rubbish.

  

  Colin Cotterill
  • Confident
  • Sincere
  • Rubbish

• Gossip is just a tool to distract people who have nothing better to do from feeling jealous of those few of us still remaining with noble hearts.

  

  Anna Godbersen
  • Gossip
  • Tool
  • Distract

• What most of all enables a man to serve the public is not wealth, but content and independence; which, requiring no superfluity at home, distracts not the mind from the common good.

  

  Plutarch
  • Mind
  • Public
  • Independence

• Within our control are our own opinions, aspirations, and desires and the demons that distract us from these goals. Outside of our control are such things as what kind of body we have, whether or not we are born into wealth, and how we are regarded by others.

  

  Epictetus
  • Goals
  • Opinions
  • Distract

• Guys don't go for me. Period. I don't distract them. They don't sneak glances in my direction. They don't think of me when I'm not standing right in front of them. I'm scenery. I'm background.

  

  Dana Reinhardt
  • Guys
  • Direction
  • Standing

• We distract ourselves with details. It's a way of coping.

  

  Andrew Taylor
  • Way
  • Details
  • Distract

• I can't distract myself enough here, for sketches to a new opera are constantly buzzing around in my head, to the extent that I need all my strength to wrest myself from them.

  

  Richard Wagner
  • Myself
  • Around
  • Sketches

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

  

  Ray McKinnon
  • Going
  • Rectify
  • Soothe