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
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
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
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
“When we understand that He is Lord of our time, we realize that interruptions are of His planning. They become opportunities to… — Karen Burton Mains 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
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
“[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
Interruption, incoherence, surprise are the ordinary conditions of our life. They have even become real needs for many people, whose minds are… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
If we were controlling the performance, we never would have had someone push a button to make the pellet stove come on… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Looking, Walking, Being, I look and look. Looking's a way of being: one becomes, sometimes, a pair of eyes walking. Walking wherever… — Denise Levertov 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
time spent in being interrupted is not time lost. ... How do we know but that the interruption we snarl at is… — Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay 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
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
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
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
There is no interruption between my older paintings and my cutouts. Just that with an increasing sense of the absolute, and more… — Henri Matisse 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
...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
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
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
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
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
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