Or distractions.

Distractions, television, internet.

But oftentimes they'll cite distractions

Because those are voluntary distractions.

We can't afford any distractions!

Now there are different kinds of distractions, but not the really bad distractions, which I'll talk about in a minute.

Because I like it here. Life is simple,no distractions.

I need to get rid of distractions for a bit.

You find a lot of other distractions, but not managers and meetings.

You're lucky... no distractions. You have your work and you do it.

And r is my boss. He really doesn't like me to have distractions.

These boys were locked up on their own for ten years with no distractions.

Trivial things become distractions. The truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising.

So now all of these distractions that worked against training now become rewards that work for training.

Morph? Keep an eye on this pup... and let me know if there be any more distractions.

At the office, most of the interruptions and distractions that really cause people not to get work done are involuntary.

looks into the mom's eyes, they connect, and while doing that she can capture this beautiful moment without any distractions.

Here I continued my research undisturbed by the myriad ...distractions of modern civilization and far from the groves of academe.

It's about curating our lives actively, removing distractions, removing something before adding something new, or finding that wider negative space in life.

If you talk to certain managers, they'll tell you that they don't want their employees to work at home because of these distractions.

We're competing against a whole world of distractions and we're fighting for space in an attention span that continues to shrink across generations.

Our visual system tries to compensate for shadows and other distractions so that we can properly perceive the nature of the objects in view.

In our age of increasing distractions, it's more important than ever to find ways to maintain perspective, and remember that life is brief and tender.

In the isolation tank, you'll be freed from sensory distractions, and so the part of your brain which enables you to travel between universes should be more accessible.

And the more you're able to use just a little bit of willpower to remove the distractions that are keeping you from practicing, the more likely you are to actually sit down and practice, right?

Now, managers and bosses will often have you think that the real distractions at work are things like Facebook and Twitter and YouTube and other websites, and in fact, they'll go so far as to actually ban these sites at work.

This is her in the 2012 Olympics, she's clearly very relaxed, she lies back, she covers herself in a close, this has the effect of shutting out any distractions but also it has the effect of relaxing her and relieving the pressure.

And this is why people choose to do work at home, or they might go to the office, but they might go to the office really early in the day, or late at night when no one's around, or they stick around after everyone's left, or go in on the weekends, or they get work done on the plane, in the car or in the train, because there are no distractions.