Nothing will distract me from my focus, my galactic mind.
Once I decided football was the way for me, there was no looking back. Nothing was going to distract me.
For most of my 20s I felt the need to focus solely on my goals and let nothing distract me.
There is nothing finer than to be alone with nothing to distract you.
I have a dream that I will fulfill. And nothing else will distract me from my path.
My son died from cancer. My granddaughter died from cancer. I have a lot of reasons to think that reality is not a friendly neighborhood. And the stories that I tell distract me, and if I do the job right, they distract people from things that are happening to them that they wish had never happened.
I was never, ever physically afraid. My terms of reference were basic and simple: put the ball in the net. That was my job, that's the way I saw it, and I allowed nothing and nobody to distract me from that purpose.
They whom trifles distract and nothing occupies are but children.
I've seen many great performers on stage, from Dean Martin to Celine Dion, but nothing beats the first time I saw Elvis. There was no pomp, no pyrotechnics, nothing to distract you from the raw talent of the man in the white jumpsuit.
You turn inward. There's nothing to distract you, so you begin to look at yourself.
Nothing surprises me anymore. We'll keep doing what we're doing. I'm going to keep going forward with solutions that I want to see applied to this great country, the challenges that we're facing. And things like that [e-mails as governor published] are going to be perhaps a distraction for others. They won't distract me.
When I am rehearsing for a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress.
People are constantly not feeling, but numbing themselves, either through medication or playing on their phones. If you start feeling bad, it's like, 'Distract! Distract! Put on Storage Wars!' And I know because I'm guilty of it, too.
While I am rehearsing a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress.
I don't distract myself from work stuff with funny emails and surfing the internet when I'm at work; I don't distract myself from my family when I'm with them.
When you have fans who are hassling you the entire game and you ignore them, they respect you because their job is to try and distract you. And if they don't distract you, that means you're focused on doing your job. And who knows, by the end, sometimes you even win them over.