Sentences with word «distracted»

Start being more focused: If you want to succeed, you have to stop being distracted by everything around you and be more focused in what you want to achieve, your distractions are wasting your time, and keeping from being focused.

It takes a metric ton of concentration to resist slamming on the brakes, so I play the role of distracted driver.

These entrepreneurs are rarely distracted or influenced by other factors, either internal or external.

«Reading articles I found online distracted me from the real work I had to do.

He cites the Oxford Internet Institute's James Williams, who argues that «distracted moments can quickly lead to distracted days,» and former Google employee Tristan Harris, who argues that smartphone technologies are designed to «hijack the mind.»

«This book takes the position that mastering the ability to focus on a demanding task all the way through — without allowing yourself to get distracted — helps you more effectively process complex information and deliver better results in less time.

The size of the databases can be a business's secret weapon — especially with everyone else distracted by their friends and followers.

For employers, especially smaller companies, summer is a challenging time as management tries to rein in distracted staff and accommodate vacation requests while maintaining productivity.

«I love Uber more than anything in the world and at this difficult moment in my personal life I have accepted the investors request to step aside so that Uber can go back to building rather than be distracted with another fight,» Kalanick said in a statement to the Times.

Every day, about 9 people are killed and more than 1,153 people are injured in crashes that are reported to involve a distracted driver, according to the CDC.

«It's raising awareness and helping drivers understand what's going on while they're distracted» he says.

«When I'm distracted, they totally sense it.

Tofu gets easily distracted and likes to move around, so for every 10 to 15 shots we take, usually only one ends up being good.

While there are surely some who are distracted by the «hedonistic treadmill,» most of us — by competing for money, professional standing, love — are gunning for self - respect and the esteem of peers.

But being the short - sighted mammals we are, a few months of sub-dollar gas prices distracted us from that very reasonable thesis.

«We have so many casualties proliferating of women and men collapsing from burnout, being distracted, depleted and unfulfilled,» says Huffington, who is herself one of those casualties: She collapsed from exhaustion and broke her cheekbone as a result of the fall — an accident that resulted from working regular 18 - hour days for the preceding two years while she was building HuffPo.

When you feel unmotivated or distracted, go talk to a co-worker or invite your colleagues to lunch.

And the NTSB has listed distracted driving — everything from cell phones to in - dash systems and other hands - free devices — on its 2014 «Most Wanted» list, which identifies the year's biggest transportation challenges.

According to Sam Waltz, founder and president of Sam Waltz & Associates Business and Communications Counsel of Wilmington, Delaware, most audiences are way too sophisticated to get distracted by flashy drawings that designers tend to hold in front of executives as being what branding is all about.

Sometimes personal challenges follow employees to work, leaving them distracted and unmotivated.

I can focus on problems that I used to get really easily distracted by.

«Don't be distracted by criticism.

Plus, if you minimize your web browser to find the Preview window to look at a PDF, you might get distracted by iTunes or iMessage along the way.

The less your phone is chiming with email notifications and your outlook is importing new messages, the less distracted you will be.

You're also more likely to be tired, hungry, and distracted by thoughts of home.

If you are living a distracted life, your goals are being sidelined.

Don't be distracted by your ego.

The study, which wasn't named in Hollauf's column, found that subjects spent an average of only 31 seconds on their schoolwork before getting distracted by another task.

In Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and Creative Self (and a matching TED talk from last spring), Manoush Zomorodi writes (and talks) about how our creativity and brainstorming works better when we are more present in the moment and not so distracted by gadgets.

... You know, he's a leveraged buyout guy, so he had a lot of debt, and he wasn't able to continue to invest in the team the way he had been, and I think he got distracted.

But when every company is trying to develop deeper bonds with the consumer, consumers» attention is distracted and diluted.

So yes, in this sense Blodget is right: we're often distracted in the presence of our families.

Pick what you would call a «semi-typical» day running your business and on paper, describe that day in detail, looking for a theme: When do you find yourself getting distracted?

We're too distracted.

If you find yourself easily distracted, maybe you've been working on one assignment for too long.

While it's important to recharge during the summer months, it can be easy to lose focus, get distracted and sometimes stop working altogether.

I found it makes me much less likely to be distracted during a meeting or checking email all the time.

Pressed by Tapper about Trump's repeated falsehoods, with the CNN anchor asking whether they distracted from what Conway said were «the many things that he says that are true that are making a difference in people's lives,» she said they served as distractions only «if they're covered.»

It's easy to get distracted when you work from home.

I'm a big fan of binge watching movies and TV on my flights, which keeps me distracted from turbulence and helps pass the time.

Don't be distracted by the source.

Developed by the creators of Freedom, it's good for the entrepreneur who needs to be online for their business but is easily distracted.

When it comes to focus and innovation, Wipp advises entrepreneurs «to not pay attention to competition because you can get distracted and lessen your ability to differentiate.»

Deborah Hersman, National Safety Council president and CEO, discusses the Department of Transportation's newly proposed guidelines for distracted driving.

How do you find people who can focus relentlessly for days on end, without being distracted by the noise around them?

But Republicans are too distracted by Trump's predatory comments to take capitalize on the moment.

But don't be distracted: Just two years after Democrats lost control of the upper chamber in the 2014 midterms, they're poised to snatch it right back.

The margin between being productive and distracted really isn't that big.

The reality is that most founders are distracted and oftentimes overlook developing and putting in place a viable disaster recovery plan.

She cited that this allows people to return to work less busy and distracted because their email inbox is how they left it.