The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions. — Andre Maurois 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
Meditation is a practice of detaching and then stopping ourselves from thinking; our thoughts are interruptions in the flow of awareness. Consciousness,… — Frederick Lenz 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
I'm always aware that I risk being taken for a neurasthenic prima donna when I explain to someone who wants 'just a… — Gail Godwin Copy Share Image
Subplots bring realism to your main plot simply by existing – by interrupting the flow. Why is this? Because life doesn’t move… — Elizabeth Sims Copy Share Image
There are times ... when any visitor - in person, by phone, by mail - is an intruder, a burglar, a space… — Toni Cade Bambara 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
[T]he normal and the everyday are often amazingly unstoppable, and what is unimaginable is the cessation of them. The world is resilient,… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
It is impossible to foretell the future with any degree of accuracy, that it is impossible to rehearse life. A fault in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Day and night will not cease. Yet, you need not continue viewing them as opposites. There is no longer a need to… — Glenda Green Copy Share Image
But I too hate long books: the better, the worse. If they're bad they merely make me pant with the effort of… — Vikram Seth 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
I have made it a practice for several years to read the Bible through in the course of every year. I usually… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
We may be assured by past experience, that such a practice [as some states charging high taxes on goods from other states]… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The interruptions of the telephone seem to us to waste half the life of the ordinary American engaged in public or private… — Beatrice Webb 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
Downworld?" Tessa echoed, puzzled. "Is that a place in London?" "Never mind that," said Will. "I'm boasting of my investigative skills, and… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, hateful as saying 'No' always is to an imaginative person, and certain as the offence may be that it will cause… — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
The fact is, both callers and work thicken - the former sadly interfering with the latter. — George Eliot 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
They were always doing something. Quietly, without interruption, and with great concentration, they carried on with the hundred-and-one small things that made… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
We would never get away from it. ... It's bad enough as it is, but with the wireless telephone one could be… — Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin Copy Share Image
I am hungry to be interrupted For ever and ever amen O Person from Porlock come quickly And bring my thoughts to… — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
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