#distracted

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. ↗

— Jack Schwartz

#arab #department #distracted #fixed #followers

I'm more of a visual person, but I think that reading's extremely important. But I'm very easily distracted. It takes certain books to really grab you in. ↗

— Jason Marsden

#certain #distracted #easily #extremely #grab

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

— John Geddes

#lips #love #love

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. ↗

— Ken Burns

#being #critic #direct #distracted #expectations

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

— Norah Jones

#distracted #get #home #really #record

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

— Nik Wallenda

#distractions #i #life #my life #trained

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. ↗

— John Sununu

#been #distracted #economy #focusing #forget

Hold still, Meg, you’re dripping blood on my car seats.” I reached behind the passenger seat of Tennyson’s car looking for the white sheet she’d thrown in for mopping up bodily fluids. Quinn, sitting in the back seat, read my mind and handed it to me. “Thank you.” “No problem.” He leaned forward, pulling a corner of the sheet up to wipe off a small stream of blood on my neck. “You okay? ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#distracted-driving #glass-girl #henry-whitmire #high-school #laura-anderson-kurk