Sometimes success needs interruption to regain focus and shake off complacency. — Lennox Lewis Copy Share Image
It is distraction, not meditation, that becomes habitual; interruption, not continuity; spasmodic, not constant toil. — Tillie Olsen 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
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
I don't have much of a problem with interruptions. I keep a detailed record of paint and materials as a work on… — Mike Thompson Copy Share Image
The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principle subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why;… — Samuel Johnson 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
The inducements of interest for observing [neutral] conduct . . . has been to endeavour to gain time to our country to… — George Washington 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
Consider what you have in the smallest well-chosen library-a company of the wisest and wittiest men which can be plucked out of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Humans have been riding a roller coaster of ups and downs for thousands of years. The yoga tradition, which started at least… — Rajmani Tigunait Copy Share Image
Our system works. Over time, people will live better and better. We have a system that unleashes human potential, and now China… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Recollect that to a woman who gets her living by her pen, 'time is money,' as it is to an artist. Therefore,… — Eliza Leslie Copy Share Image
The Internet, like all intellectual technologies has a trade off. As we train our brains to use it, as we adapt to… — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
For me the process works best with no interruptions, no breaks in the steady application, no letters to be answered, very little… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
It is only when the correct practice is followed for a long time, without interruptions and with a quality of positive attitude… — Patanjali Copy Share Image
We 'have all we want' is a terrible saying when 'all' does not include God. We find God an interruption. As St.… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Bringing my two children up while writing was just a part of life. I'd much rather have had their interruptions than been… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime. I've came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
One of the biggest problems of our contemporary civilization is that there's been an interruption of transmission. People have no past in… — Eugene Green Copy Share Image
Learn this great secret of life: What people call interruption or disturbance to their routine is just as much a part of… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
If I have to spend a lot of time on planes, I try to think of this as time off. In certain… — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
Ramil met Tashi's eyes with a mischievous look. "Now Wife we have a long voyage ahead of us with no interruptions, no… — Julia Golding Copy Share Image
It may be a brief interruption - just a few seconds - but what if someone sitting near you is trying to… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
If the word is not dead when it reaches the hearer, he murders it at once by a contradiction, a stipulation, a… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Unfortunately I don't live by a Target now, so I just go to a regular Starbucks as opposed to a Starbucks nested… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
I admire the Shabbat tradition, and no matter which faith you are of, there is nothing more wonderful than dedicating a certain… — Joyce Giraud Copy Share Image
The great thing is, if one can, to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions in one's own or real life.… — CS Lewis Copy Share Image
Most people, I've noticed, are instinctively harsh to strangers. They expect every approach to be an attack, every question to be an… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
The arts do live continuously, and they live literally by faith; their names and their shapes and their uses and their basic… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Distractions are everywhere. And with the always-on technologies of today, they take a heavy toll on productivity. One study found that office… — David Rock Copy Share Image
We have a culture that is indirect in the extreme, where by the time you're five years old, you've watched tons of… — Michael Ventura Copy Share Image
Give yourself the gift of uninterrupted time. It can be the first hour of your day. Or the last hour. A lunch… — Geri Larkin Copy Share Image
The Eucharist is the secret of my day. It gives strength and meaning to all my activities of service to the Church… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Isolation offered its own form of companionship: the reliable silence of her rooms, the steadfast tranquility of the evenings. The promise that… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
“BLAMING IDIOTS FOR interruptions is like blaming clowns for scaring children—they can’t help it. It’s their nature. Then again, I had (who… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image