Sentences with phrase «distracted by thinking»

I can lead you into a turn, but if you don't know how to turn... If you are distracted by thinking about where do you step next, or other things (what is he thinking of me), then you can easily miss the cues.

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

This allows me to get my day started with a clear head, so that I'm not distracted by a thought buzzing through my unconscious mind.

Of course now I'm a little distracted by the thought of delicious soft bread with berry bursts!

We were tidying up this morning, and then my daughter got distracted by the thought of making tissue paper flowers.

An extroverted friend — and maybe even an introverted one — likely won't guess that you were distracted by your thoughts or by too much sensory stimulation, and your explanation will make all the difference.

If you have trouble concentrating for long periods of time, or if you get distracted by thoughts and stories that run through your mind, try listening to a guided meditation to help relax you.

Peter tries to fall back into his normal daily routine — distracted by thoughts of proving himself to be more than just your friendly neighborhood Spider - Man — but when the Vulture (Michael Keaton) emerges as a new villain, everything that Peter holds most important will be threatened.

Think about everything these jobs will involve and don't let yourself get distracted by thoughts of the salary for example, or working hours.

Not exact matches

This task may seem too easy or even a little silly, but you'll be surprised by how calm you feel afterward and how much easier it is to let go of distracting thoughts that otherwise seem to have lodged permanently inside your brain.

Unpleasant weather is thought to improve concentration and productivity, in part because a rainy day or snowy day kills the potential for leisure time outdoors; if we aren't distracted by the sunny possibilities outside our window, we're free to focus on the task at hand.

But I think the danger is that people get distracted by the talented part and prematurely give up before they give themselves a chance.

The leaders of Animal Farm maintain thought control by obscuring the facts with smokescreens, rewriting history, creating conspiracy theories about pending attacks, faking victims, slander, scapegoating, murdering opposition, outrageous public works projects to keep the animals busy, and through a large group of useful idiots — sheep — that spread their message unthinkingly and distract dissenters.

The reasoning, as was explained to me was that it was thought a good shepherd could not lead if distracted by his own familial flock [this aside from the fact that a youngest son in a family would typically not inherit enough to support a family and was therefore sent to join a church].

I don't think the statue itself did much besides distract drivers passing by on I - 75.

I also think many well meaning Christians are often distracted by a few social issues (things that I believe are personal and have more to do with our precious American freedoms than religion) and lose site of the larger picture.

Chris, I honestly kept thinking you were trying to distract from the very real healing and conversation that was happening here by throwing in your theoretical and abstract musings.

Distracted by other projects, and always gracious to the demands of others on his time, he did not complete what came to be recognized as the first systematic theology shaped by process thought until 1967.

Think how we are bombarded by music and noise and how often now we are distracted by the new social media, and seldom to any good purpose.

Others cared for their needs, so that they could direct all their thoughts to God and not be distracted by the complexities of worldly life.

But — if I do happen to be distracted by her lovely form, I do not feel the slightest bit of guilt... because I now know that what I am thinking is not «sinful» or wrong in any way.

Perhaps we are too distracted by technological illusions to think of God.

Even though the voice's enthusiasm for the world of higher motion seems to have suspended my own doubts, it is disturbing to think how easily a skeptical oyster could argue from all this that ballerinas do not exist, but rather are nothing more than a distracting hypothesis invented by oysters who can not face the grimness of existence without flinching.

Brooks wants us to think that Where The Wild Things Are is good democratic art because it shows that the best way to save democratic life is by defining health around the useful, prosocial activities we engage in to distract us from the riot of uncontrollable novelties that is our smithereens of non-individual selflets.

I think their intentions were mostly good — they knew they were distracted by social media in particular, perhaps, and so they wanted to give their best attention to their children.

They were quite good (think Bombay veggie burgers meets a falafel), but Tony was quickly distracted by something he said was the perfect inspiration for me... a big stuffed broccoli.

I kept being distracted by the gorgeous photos and thoughts of travel and then drawn back to the crepes.

If you think texting by a fellow guest in a movie theater is distracting, imagine how annoying it is listening to clattering knives on china as he or she cuts into a filet.

AHHH INEED TO MAKE THESE as Im now so distracted by how much I think Id love them right from the freezer!

an improvement over wolacott campbell and ox... is this a difficult ask... do nt think so just that we have been completely distracted by the aubameyang none signing

Therefore the Gunners should not distract their thoughts & attentions from the business at hand by wayward thinking, but concentrate fully on wrestling Chelsea down to a 3 counts call to collect all the 3 points price and go home with them to Emirates Stadium.

You can not help but think the players will be distracted by that in the back of their minds.

Asked if Costa has been distracted by interest from China, Costa added: «I think the player wants to stay at Chelsea.

I want to have some epic psychic Master Cleanse and I've tried everything I can think of to facilitate this, but every morning I still wake up wracked with anxiety and distracted by a million zinging thoughts and unable to find the kind of focus that it takes for me to write anything longer than a blog post.

I personally think my red hair is too pretty to cover with a hat and I'm afraid people will see my big Italian nose if they aren't distracted by my hair!

Think of all the times are children get persuaded or distracted out of their tears by well - meaning adults before they've finished crying.

When you find yourself getting distracted by other thoughts, be kind with yourself and just notice this, and then take another nice deep clearing breath and focus on baby's breathing.

His flow falters more often, when distracted by the noise in the Commons, leaving him repeating his words to find his train of thought again.

He added: «The thing the party's got to do is focus on the [European] elections, and not get distracted by other thoughts.»

Not because it would lead to a re-run of the immigration - dominated 2005 campaign (as argued in the Sunday Telegraph by my old friend Peter Oborne, who, not for the first time, has come to the right conclusion but for the wrong reason), but because I do not think he is needed and would become a distracting influence.

«However they are increasingly being distracted by the latest muddled thinking to emanate from Government ministers.

But soon he «got distracted,» he says, by a course taught by Vladimir Filkov that got him thinking about applying computational tools to his research.

Though it is possible that blindness may have con - tributed to his incredible memory (not being distracted by visual stimuli, he could focus, like Democritus before him, 13 on his thoughts and the stream of his remembrance), Borges's youthful realization that he, like his father, would lose his eyesight took him on a monumental quest for knowledge while he could still see.

«Because plants make their decisions based on physiological processes and are not distracted from the best course of action by subjective thought, they could even be better models than animals and people,» says Bernhard Schmid from the University of Zurich.

Without it, I tend to more easily be distracted by external «wants» or «needs» that I think will fulfill me, that I think can replace my inner peace.

You may think you're «getting stuff done» by not having to call people back, but odds are, you are distracting yourself.

Once I recognize this, I will start by trying to distract myself with relaxing thoughts and images — a favorite vacation with my family is a good one!»

New research has found seven out of 10 Australian adults are unable to concentrate on one task for more than half an hour at a time — less than the length of an average school period — while over half confessed to being distracted by other thoughts and losing concentration within just 15 minutes of starting a task.

«I think people get distracted by the fancy acrobatics of yoga, and think that's what yoga is, so they can't do it,» she said.

Prepare to be distracted for a while by thoughts of what you could be eating.