Best Interruptions Quotations
118 Interruptions quotes by 108 unique authors
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The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.
— W. Edwards Deming
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In a digital world, there are numerous technologies that we are attached to that create infinite interruption.
— Tim Ferriss
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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
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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
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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.
— Andre Maurois
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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
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It's a fallacy that writers have to shut themselves up in their ivory towers to write. I have all these interruptions, three of which I…
— Jodi Picoult
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Sometimes I wake up before dawn, and I love sitting up in the middle of the bed with all the lights off, pitch-black dark, and…
— Charles R. Swindoll
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I don't have much of a problem with interruptions. I keep a detailed record of paint and materials as a work on each painting. I…
— Mike Thompson
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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
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I can’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
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The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is…
— C.S. Lewis
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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
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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
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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
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But I too hate long books: the better, the worse. If they're bad they merely make me pant with the effort of holding them up…
— Vikram Seth
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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
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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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The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions. The door that slams shut, the plan that got sidetracked, the marriage…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Ramil met Tashi's eyes with a mischievous look. "Now Wife we have a long voyage ahead of us with no interruptions, no affairs of state…
— Julia Golding
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Downworld?" Tessa echoed, puzzled. "Is that a place in London?" "Never mind that," said Will. "I'm boasting of my investigative skills, and I would prefer…
— Cassandra Clare
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You’re not the only one who calls them that; the other Downworlders do the same,” said Will. “I discovered that fact while investigating the symbol.…
— Cassandra Clare
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I slid closer, feeling his arms close around me, tightening. Our lips touched-- "Derek?" his dad called. "Chloe?" Derek let out a growl. I laughed…
— Kelley Armstrong
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A smile flickered across Coral’s face. “Have you ever noticed that once you have had a taste of certain sweets—raspberry trifle is my own despair—it…
— Elizabeth Hoyt
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When you are happy, so happy you have no sense of needing Him, so happy that you are tempted to feel His claims upon you…
— C.S. Lewis
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