Talk to anyone about himself positively and he'll listen without interruption. — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The ancestors of printed comics drew, painted and carved their time-paths from beginning to end, without interruption, ... the infinite canvas. — Scott McCloud Copy Share Image
Join The 5 am Club. Your most valuable hours are 5am-8am. They have the least interruptions. — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
I relish the time I have when there are no interruptions. Most often the best time for writing is late at night. — Franny Armstrong Copy Share Image
“At home, at work, and outdoors, you must design for constant interruptions.” — Giles Colborne Copy Share Image
Sometimes success needs interruption to regain focus and shake off complacency. — Lennox Lewis Copy Share Image
The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work. — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
To find recreation in amusements is not happiness; for this joy springs from alien and extrinsic sources, and is therefore dependent upon… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Interruptions were sometimes more frequent than statements. The process, compared to a well-managed executive conference, was a slab of raw beef compared… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
If someone wants to transmit a high-quality service with no interruptions and 'guaranteed this, guaranteed that,' they should be willing to pay… — Edward Whitacre, Jr Copy Share Image
Coleridge received the Person from Porlock And ever after called him a curse, Then why did he hurry to let him in?… — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
Some day some one will write a book about that frantic search of the creative worker for silence and freedom, not only… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
In the beginning, I had considered these stops on my journey as interruptions - but I'm coming to understand that perhaps these… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
It is happily and kindly provided that in every life there are certain pauses, and interruptions, which force consideration upon the careless,… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
The monotony of a long heroic poem may often be pleasantly relieved by judicious interruptions in the perfect succession of rhymes, just… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
The inducements of interest for observing [neutral] conduct . . . has been to endeavour to gain time to our country to… — George Washington Copy Share Image
He came, not as a flash of light or as an unapproachable conqueror, but as one whose first cries were heard by… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Few people...have had much training in listening. The training of most oververbalized professional intellectuals is in the opposite direction. Living in a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Advertising isn't just the disruption of aesthetics, the insults to your intelligence and the interruption of your train of thought. At every… — Jan Koum Copy Share Image
To some men peace merely means the liberty to exploit other people without fear of retaliation or interference. To others peace means… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Among well bred people a mutual deference is affected, contempt for others is disguised; authority concealed; attention given to each in his… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Facts do not find their way into the world in which our beliefs reside; they did not produce our beliefs, they do… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Rather, it is the opening or the interruption that allows us to experience what is hidden, and to accept with our hearts… — Nathaniel Dorsky Copy Share Image
The fact is, both callers and work thicken - the former sadly interfering with the latter. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is distraction, not meditation, that becomes habitual; interruption, not continuity; spasmodic, not constant toil. — Tillie Olsen Copy Share Image
“all information and interruptions that are irrelevant, unimportant, or unactionable.” — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
A hermit is one who renounces the world of fragments that he may enjoy the world wholly and without interruption. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
... programming requires more concentration than other activities. It's the reason programmers get upset about 'quick interruptions' - such interruptions are tantamount… — Steve McConnell Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wake up before dawn, and I love sitting up in the middle of the bed with all the lights off,… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
customary interruptions are not only gratifying and cheering, but they are also really necessary in order to gain breath and voice to… — Sarah Siddons Copy Share Image
“I do my best thinking at night when everyone else is sleeping. No interruptions. No noise. I like the feeling of being… — Jennifer Niven Copy Share Image
One of the major keys to success is to keep moving forward on the journey, making the best of the detours and… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
I think most writers would like a quiet space, complete isolation, in which they control their own time. Spaces of creativity in… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Sorrow has the fortunate peculiarity that it preys upon itself. It dies of starvation. Since it is essentially an interruption of habits,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's a fallacy that writers have to shut themselves up in their ivory towers to write. I have all these interruptions, three… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Being constantly the hub of a network of potential interruptions provides the excitement and importance of crisis management. As well as the… — Michael Foley Copy Share Image
Mobile notifications put people in a state of perpetual emergency interruption - similar to what 911 operators and air traffic controllers experienced… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
In solitude... one can think and feel deeply without interruption. I have definitely grown far closer to myself rather than to others… — Nancy Crow Copy Share Image
The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image