Best Distracted Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“I get distracted easily.”

“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.”

“Many times I have gotten distracted. That has hurt or impeded success.”

“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.”

“Human nature we get easily distracted.”

“I'm working for solutions, and I won't be distracted from the fight to save our education system.”

“I work best under pressure. At home I look at a script for about 10 minutes then I get distracted bymy records, or my tape, or my videotape machine, or Scotty.”

“Anything that can keep me distracted and from my own brain, it's good.”

“We must not become perpetually distracted from the great challenges facing our country and the world.”

“Focus on what needs to be done that day. Don't think too far ahead. Once you start thinking too far ahead, you get distracted by things that don't matter on that day.”

“I don't get distracted easily. I'm very focused.”

“I get easily distracted and become a bit of a giddy giggler. I'm not good at taking myself seriously, and laughing at myself helps ease the pressure.”

“I was in so much emotional pain as a young girl that whatever distracted me from how I felt about myself was fine by me.”

“When I'm writing, I don't read much crime at all - you don't want to get distracted by other people's plots.”

“I've not been distracted by a long-running TV show or visits to America for pilot season.”

“I don't look at other people's work because I don't want to be distracted by their ideas.”

“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.”

“I always work in a room where there's no Internet to keep from being distracted so easily.”

“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.”

“If you are interested in ideas, radio is way more pure than television. You're not distracted by somebody's nose or hair or posture. You can really see how someone thinks and penetrate to the essence of who that person is.”

“When one is young, one can become distracted and overconfident.”

“I find it so easy to get distracted - I try not to do more than one thing at any one time.”

“Humans get distracted when we see and touch something.”

“Writers have a reputation for being distracted. That's because writers are distracted. They are always tuned into that other voice, the one in their head that rarely turns off.”

“We don't want to get distracted by looking back; we need to move forward.”

“I am quite a dreamer, and usually when someone tells a story, I tend to get distracted easily.”

“If I fall into a city, I fall into a scene, and I just don't want to get distracted and enjoy myself too much. There's too much work to be done.”

“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.”

“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.”

“If I didn't have children I'd be a much better actress. I wouldn't be so distracted. I could pour 100 percent of my energies into it, to promote the investigation which acting is.”

“I've never had WiFi at home. I'm too easily distracted, and YouTube is too tempting.”

“Sometimes when you're trying to do a record too close to home, you can get really distracted.”

“You may go to the temple for mental peace. But you may be distracted there and forget the purpose of your visit. But this does not happen when you hear good music.”

“The Wall Street Dow Jones up and down thing that's moving when the stock market's open? That thing freaks me out. It's up, it's down, it's just maddening to me. I guess I'm such a super-focused kind of person that I get distracted really easy. I'll watch that thing, and it's like I'm losing money, I'm getting money. It's just crazy.”

“Good music just makes me happy and keeps me from getting distracted.”

“I have so much on my mind in golf, really. You have to be in the moment, and I get distracted. It's hard to play on the road because you play, like, five holes, and then you kind of start to think about the show. And so you just kind of start playing terrible.”

“Sometimes it's best to speak from ignorance: that way, you can see the wood without being distracted by the trees.”

“I need to focus on what's important in my life and stop being distracted by words.”

“You're either on, and you're connected and distracted all the time, or you're off, but then you're wondering, am I missing something important? In other words, you're either distracted or you have fear of missing out.”

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

“It's a struggle for me to watch things I've been in because I'm just distracted and self-critical.”

“I don't mind being distracted.”

“While others may get distracted, I will continue to focus on the problem of unemployment and seek to help create good, high-paying jobs for Arkansans.”

“If you pinpointed someone before the kick-off, probably you would become embroiled in a fight, and you would be distracted from what really matters and not play well.”

“Olympics is a place where you can be easily distracted to a lot of things and it will seem like a magic world.”

“I have to prove myself every game and not let myself be distracted by rumours.”

“I laugh and joke, but I don't get distracted very easily.”

“I'm easily distracted by other things in the world around me.”

“I think a lot of times we can get distracted and not be in the moment with people and be missing all the life happening in the moment.”

“That's the problem with working and living in the same space - my studio is downstairs, so I often get distracted by domestic things.”

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

“I write slowly and get distracted a lot.”

“What I love about piano and vocal is it's incredibly pure, and it gets down to the essence of the song because you're not distracted by an orchestra. When it's just a piano and a voice, it's about the purity of singing the song.”

“I prefer home school because you learn more by yourself than when you're around other people because you get distracted.”

“Sometimes I can be distracted by the glamour and the fabulousness.”

“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.”

“I don't have an iPhone or anything. There's no TV. It's so easy to become distracted.”

“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.”

“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?”

“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.”

“I started doing a Twitter feed when my father was dying. I was very distracted, preoccupied. It was upsetting.”

“When you're younger, you're distracted by the life.”

“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.”

“We continue to focus on actually solving problems that real people have and not being distracted by what power users want.”

“When people didn't really know who I was, and I would get on stage, they would be distracted by what I looked like, so I would have to dumb myself down, in a way, for people to feel safe to laugh.”

“When you have a laser focus, and you get distracted by what other people say, you can lose that laser focus.”

“I think sometimes people get distracted in interviews.”

“I procrastinate so much and I get distracted by anything.”

“If you've ever had the experience of being in conversation with someone when they were fully present, listening deeply to you when you're sharing with them, you know that five minutes of a fully present conversation like that can be more powerful than 30 minutes of distracted conversation.”

“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.”

“I don't think we realise just how fast we go until you stop for a minute and realise just how loud and how hectic your life is, and how easily distracted you can get.”

“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.”

“Sometimes you can get distracted by figures that are thrown out there and you're doing things you wouldn't normally try to do.”

“I'm not too easily distracted now I've had practice, but I write with nothing to look at. I used to rent an office that just had a view of a wall!”

“Kissing on screen is just - funny enough, you're just acting, so you're distracted by that more than anything. Or at least I am.”

“I distracted myself from the fear and terrorism by thinking about things like how the universe began and whether time travel is possible.”

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

“You can't be distracted by the noise of misinformation.”

“Education is the most important thing and a lot of kids in south London get distracted from education.”

“When I work, I get really distracted, so I'm bad at taking care of myself then to be quite honest.”

“I think that we get so distracted with our smartphones... It takes your body and your brain time to switch between tasks. If we can focus on what we're doing, we'll be more productive at that task.”

“You don't want to get so distracted, focusing on what the opposition is putting forth that you forget to remind America that the real issue is 8.3 percent unemployment, virtually no growth at all in an economy that has been in shambles for the last four years under Obama.”

“I can't do too much of one thing, or I get very distracted.”

“I have a worry of people not liking me. I get scared walking into a room first, so I have to have people walk in before me so then people are distracted. It's hard.”

“We couldn't buy Google on the IPO, but I knew I wanted to own it. I was gonna go big. It came out and went down a bit. I got distracted by something and didn't get in.”

“Children are born with pureness, and gradually become distracted with all the little pressures going on.”

“I am often too consumed with living to determine if that’s what I’m actually doing.”

“People won't admit it, they're too busy grabbing to see that the lights have fused. They can't see the darkness and the spider-face beyond and the great web of it all. That there's always this if you scratch at the surface of happiness and goodness.”