#distracted

She usually worked at night, claiming that the racket he made about the house distracted her during the day; she needed silence, total silence, in which to pursue her inspiration - else it fled away and left her with a splitting headache to show for it. ↗

— Helen Hodgman

#headache #inspiration #silence #inspirational

You have a small period of time when you can perfect your career and become good at it. A lot of guys get distracted, which only hurts them. You must stay focused and work very hard at boxing. ↗

— Gerry Cooney

#boxing #career #distracted #focused #get

I feel like saying we need to all calm down a little. Let's take the time to breathe. I have no intention of allowing myself be distracted. ↗

— Pauline Marois

#breathe #calm #calm down #distracted #down

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

— John Sebastian

#distracted #get #girl #her #kiss

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. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#distracted #energy #focused #i #know

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

— Boz Scaggs

#distracted #easily #i #me #other

She told me she loved me. She told me a lot of things. Some of those things were true, and some of those may or may not have been true. It’s kind of hard to tell, because to be honest, I wasn’t listening.
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— Dark Jar Tin Zoo

#distracted #distraction #funny #humor #listening

...I keep breaking things - appointments and porcelain, thinking of your lips... ↗

— John Geddes

#lips #love #love

It's sort of a meat market, the whole awards thing, and I don't think you can predict it anymore - who's going to like what you've done, if it's worthy or not. And hopefully, that's not why you make a film, because if you're distracted by that, or only striving for that, you don't do it justice. ↗

— Emily Blunt

#awards #because #distracted #done #film

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

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#being #distracted #easily #i #i always