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
No poem is worth anything unless it starts from a poetic trance, out of which you can be wakened by interruption as… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
The life of the arts is far from an interruption, a distraction, in the life of a nation, is close to the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
People talk about skating, puck handling and shooting, but the whole sport is angles and caroms, forgetting the straight direction the puck… — Wayne Gretzky Copy Share Image
We shall never have a science of economics unless we learn to discern the operation of law even among the most perplexing… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
A poet or novelist will invent interruptions to avoid long consecutive days at the ordained page; and of these the most pernicious… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
“[Loosen] up your life enough to be ready for interruptions. Don't structure your days so rigidly that you lock out God from… — Christine Caine Copy Share Image
A few years ago I met an old professor at the University of Notre Dame. Looking back on his long life of… — Henri Nouwen 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
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
One of the manifestations of depression for me is that I lose my will. And I thereby lose my ability to focus.… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
This variety of objects will suspend, for some time, the course of the narrative; but the interruption will be censured only by… — Edward Gibbon 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
One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing one. One… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Spent the fortnight gone in the music room reworking my year's fragments into a 'sextet for overlapping soloists': piano, clarinet, 'cello, flute,… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
...nuclear warfare is not necessary to cause a breakdown of our society. You take a large city like Los Angeles, New York,… — Gene Roddenberry Copy Share Image
The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions. The door that slams shut, the plan that got… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The good work proceeds with tenacity, intention, without interruption, with an equal measure of passion and reason and it must surpass that… — Odilon Redon Copy Share Image
My family doesn't do happy endings. We do sad endings or frustrating endings or no endings at all. We are hardwired to… — Hope Solo Copy Share Image
I find that when I have any appointment, even an afternoon one, it changes the whole quality of time. I feel overcharged.… — May Sarton 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
I just love the idea that people disappear into the story for a while. You grab a book, and you want to… — Bernard Beckett Copy Share Image
One thinks one's something unique and wonderful at the center of the universe, when in fact one's just a slight interruption in… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Establish an atmosphere that energizes you. Some creative people flourish in confusion; others need to be free from interruption. Many prepare themselves… — Nita Leland Copy Share Image
I have a very set routine. I work six days a week, but only half days. I work from 9 in the… — Peter Mayle 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
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
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
How I treat a brother or sister from day to day, how I react to the sin-scarred wino on the street, how… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Life consists not of a series of illustrious actions or elegant enjoyments. The greater part of our time passes in compliance with… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I used to be able to sit in a chair and for four hours straight in a very focused meditative way be… — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
I slid closer, feeling his arms close around me, tightening. Our lips touched-- "Derek?" his dad called. "Chloe?" Derek let out a… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
It is amazing how little effort most people make to improve control of their attention. If reading a book seems too difficult,… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 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
Time is life. Anyone who wastes my time is killing me. Please don't! — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share Image
What is life but an unpleasant interruption to a peaceful nonexistence. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
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