Interruption Quotes

77 quotes by 76 authors

To some men peace merely means the liberty to exploit other people without fear of retaliation or interference. To others peace means the freedom to… — Thomas Merton
The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principle subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last… — Samuel Johnson
It is the leisured, I have noticed, who rebel the most at an interruption of routine. — Phyllis McGinley
To be a serious writer requires discipline that is iron fisted. It's sitting down and doing it whether you think you have it in you… — Harper Lee
Today baseball is currently enjoying a run of more than 14 years without interruption, a record that would have been inconceivable in the 1990s. — David Cone
Writing is my only interest. Even speaking is an interruption. — Isaac Asimov
There is no interruption between my older paintings and my cutouts. Just that with an increasing sense of the absolute, and more abstraction, I have… — Henri Matisse
The good work proceeds with tenacity, intention, without interruption, with an equal measure of passion and reason and it must surpass that goal the artist… — Odilon Redon
Distractions are everywhere. And with the always-on technologies of today, they take a heavy toll on productivity. One study found that office distractions eat an… — David Rock
In a digital world, there are numerous technologies that we are attached to that create infinite interruption. — Tim Ferriss
Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime. I've came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for… — Christopher Hitchens
There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going… — Lyndon B. Johnson
Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet. — Lewis Mumford
Mobile notifications put people in a state of perpetual emergency interruption - similar to what 911 operators and air traffic controllers experienced back in the… — Douglas Rushkoff
I canâ€™t think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, endlessly, even though I feel that here in… — Franz Kafka
Few people...have had much training in listening. The training of most oververbalized professional intellectuals is in the opposite direction. Living in a competitive culture, most… — S I Hayakawa
His mouth opens. From inside him comes a slow stream, without breath, without interruption. It flows up through his body and out upon me; it… — J M Coetzee
Facts do not find their way into the world in which our beliefs reside; they did not produce our beliefs, they do not destroy them;… — Marcel Proust
A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an… — Mahatma Gandhi
With everything so perfect, reality seemed somehow fragile, as if the slightest interruption could imperil her pretty future... all of it felt as tenuous as… — Scott Westerfeld

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