Interrupted Quotes

201 quotes by 160 authors

What advice can we give to new mothers? Their children need to work at an interesting occupation: they should not be helped unnecessarily, nor interrupted,… — Maria Montessori
Here's why this matters: Studies show that a person who is interrupted takes 50 percent longer to accomplish a task. Not only that, he or… — John Medina
The brain cannot multitask. Multitasking, when it comes to paying attention, is a myth. The brain naturally focuses on concepts sequentially, one at a timeâ€¦To… — John Medina
I used to say that, as Solicitor General, I made three arguments of every case. First came the one that I planned-as I thought, logical,… — Robert H. Jackson
The word baptism means derailment. Christ baptizes Peter on the rock when he tells him: "Because you confessed your love for me, your life is… — Ronald Rolheiser
I wish children could grow according to their natural pace: sleep when sleepy, wake up when rested, eat when hungry, cry when upset, play and… — Magda Gerber
It is the Band which unites the Interests of Individuals; it secures to them their respective Rights, and preserves them from Injuries; it is the… — Charles Inglis
Above all, in comedy, and again and again since classical times, passages can be found in which the level of representation is interrupted by references… — Paul Watzlawick
Ax: 100 Every thing doth naturally persevere in yt state in wch it is unlesse it bee interrupted by some externall cause, hence... [a] body… — Isaac Newton
A number of the major terrorist captures we have made, the terrorist operations designed for the United States that we have interrupted, were enabled by… — Christopher Bond
"Can you do Addition?" the White Queen said. "What's one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and… — Lewis Carroll
The old incapacity. Interrupted my writing for barely ten days and already cast out. Once again prodigious efforts stand before me. You have to dive… — Franz Kafka
I heave the basketball; I know it sails in a parabola, exhibiting perfect symmetry, which is interrupted by the basket. It's funny, but it is… — Michael Jordan
Human beings are on a journey of awareness, which has momentarily been interrupted by extraneous forces. — Carlos Castaneda
How can you put on a meaningful drama when, every fifteen minutes, proceedings are interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits with toilet paper? — Rod Serling
Up to a point you welcome being interrupted because it is only by interacting with other people that you get anything interesting done. — Ken Robinson
The man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it. — Harry Emerson Fosdick
I was born in London, England, in 1938, a few months before the war, and spent the first years of my life there, although I… — Anne Perry
Tradition is but a meteor, which, if it once falls, cannot be rekindled. Memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. But written learning is… — Samuel Johnson
The game's finest mistakes were perpetrated by Djimi Traore, who interrupted his general competence with one air shot, one slice over his own head and… — Phil Cornwell

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