Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Make your judgment trustworthy by trusting it. Cultivate regular periods of silence and meditation. The best time to build judgment is in… — Grenville Kleiser Copy Share Image
He who works with the door open gets all kinds of interruptions, but he also occasionally gets clues as to what the… — Richard Hamming Copy Share Image
I suppose one has to remember that 'life' is important too, though it's something I forget in some moods, everything except work… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Families need to have a time when they can cook together. They can eat at the table and you can look eye-to-eye.… — Kay Robertson Copy Share Image
I am furious at all the letters to answer, when all I want to do is think and write poems. ... I… — May Sarton 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
There was such a thing as women's work and it consisted chiefly, Hilary sometimes thought, in being able to stand constant interruption… — May Sarton 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
What's happening now with technology is we live with very porous boundaries. All those little interruptions fragment our time and attention and… — Brigid Schulte Copy Share Image
Jesus . . . wants us to see that the neighbor next door or the people sitting next to us on a… — Rebecca Pippert Copy Share Image
Young people are going to go to someone, somewhere. And we had better see that that 'someone' is us when the opportunity… — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
His mouth opens. From inside him comes a slow stream, without breath, without interruption. It flows up through his body and out… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A smile flickered across Coral’s face. “Have you ever noticed that once you have had a taste of certain sweets—raspberry trifle is… — Elizabeth Hoyt 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
Difficulties are not interruptions to our journey; they are part of it, as if they're part of the weave of the cloth… — Kimora Lee Simmons Copy Share Image
There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle promise… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Endings are not our destiny...They are merely interruptions-temporary pauses that one day will seem small compared to the eternal joy awaiting the… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
At root, a pearl is a 'disturbance' a beauty caused by something that isn't supposed to be there, about which something needs… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
A Student is the most important person ever in this school...in person, on the telephone, or by mail. A Student is not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Interruptions: The average worker gets interrupted five times each hour. It takes an average of 5 minutes to handle each interruption and… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
When you are happy, so happy you have no sense of needing Him, so happy that you are tempted to feel His… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The men who wrote the First Amendment religion clause did not view paid legislative chaplains and opening prayers as a violation of… — Warren E. Burger Copy Share Image
You’re not the only one who calls them that; the other Downworlders do the same,” said Will. “I discovered that fact while… — Cassandra Clare 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
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
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
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
The inducements of interest for observing [neutral] conduct . . . has been to endeavour to gain time to our country to… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own' or one's 'real'… — C.S. Lewis 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
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