Jane Fonda

Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to people and what kind of an impact you have on the people around you and the community around you and the world, so that when you go out, you can feel you have made a positive difference.

American Actress

Barry Humphries

I feel like I've cheated. I never knew what to do. I was never a good enough painter to earn a living, and so I drifted into the theatre, and I've had a successful life. I feel guilty that I've never done a day's work in my life!

Australian Comedian

Ellen DeGeneres

I do have ADD and in real life, I'm all over the place and can hardly focus. If we were talking for, for more than an hour or so, I'd start drifting off... I can't sit still too long.

American Comedian

Jon Ronson

The world outside Twitter was great. I read books. I reconnected with people I knew from real life and met them for drinks in person. Then I drifted back on to Twitter.

Welsh Journalist

Keren Woodward

We wouldn't ever sit down and pretend that our friendship didn't fall apart back in the late '80s. It wasn't like there was a massive bust-up. We just drifted apart.

English Musician

Susan Orlean

I don't turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture.

American Journalist

Robert Sheehan

As a kid, I didn't drift into the comic world too much because I preferred to read fantasies novels and science fiction.

Irish Actor

Rick Warren

You drift through life and let things happen to you, or go by design and say, 'This is what I'm intended to do.

American Writer

Eleanor Catton

I can feel the public side of my life and the private side of my life sort of drifting away from one another.

New Zealander Author

Terry Brooks

Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination.

Used when something or someone moves without purpose or guidance, often at the mercy of external forces.

Lack of control

Describes movement that is not driven by any intention, seeming natural or unguided.

Passive action

Refers to movement that is gentle or gradual, almost unnoticeable at first.

Subtle movement

Emphasizes a change that happens slowly over time, sometimes without immediate realization.

Gradual change

Drift can be so slight that it's difficult to notice until significant over time.

Imperceptible shift

A visual accumulation of natural elements like snow or sand, often creating mounds.

Natural buildup

Can refer to a problem caused by natural accumulation, needing human intervention.

Obstacle formation

Signifies a gentle transition to sleep, usually felt as calming and unforced.

Ease into sleep

Implies a calming process of falling asleep, without the abruptness of falling or jumping.

Soothing transition

Use when the main point or overall direction of something is vague or not straightforward.

Unclear intention

Focus on getting the general meaning rather than all the details; common in speech.

Follow the meaning

Describes a gradual loss of closeness or common ground between people, often used in relationships.

Emotional distance

Portrays a slow, often unnoticed growing apart in relationships or friendships.

Subtle disconnection

Reflects how relationships can change passively over time, without a specific cause.

Time's impact

Used to describe someone living without clear goals, passing time without direction.

Aimless existence

Can indicate a relaxed attitude, accepting things as they come without stress.

Easygoing approach

 The instruction was simple enough but I was missing something really important. So why is it so hard to pay attention? Well, studies show that even when we're really trying to pay attention to something -- like maybe this talk -- at some point, about half of us will drift off into a daydream,

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 Marine snow is basically organic matter, things like particles of dead algae, plants, and animals, drifting down into the depths and acting as food for deep-sea animals. Largely thanks to that, abundant life forms exist in the darkness,

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 which means be allowed to with can taking over the former function that may have but of course you know this is basically what languages do they kind of the means drift bit by bit new speakers reanalyze old forms of a language and

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 and now if i turn on the lights of the submersible we may catch a glimpse of one of these strange deep sea creatures as it drifts by the pilot has remote controls for the camera outside the sub to search for them in the blackness

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 hunting methods, and technologies. In the deepest zone, no human has ever walked. This area has been submerged since well before mankind evolved. The only artifacts we find are those that have drifted down from above,

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 like a real-life Spider Woman she sprays strands of silk they one long continuous flow the threads fan out like a sail and drift on air currents blowing across the water every few seconds she crimps the

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 But before the poisons could end his life, a leaf drifted into his mouth. He chewed on it and it revived him, and that is how we discovered tea. Or so an ancient legend goes at least.

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 Without the sun's gravity these celestial bodies would drift off into deep space Another critical property of the Sun is its magnetic field which encapsulates the entire solar system

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 on its journey it gathers an abundance of life and becomes laden with sand and sediments which drift in its current