Auditorium Quote by Johannes Rau

Another study, of 38,000 knowledge workers across different sectors, found that the simple act of being interrupted is one of the biggest barriers to…

— Susan Cain

“interrupting technology workers is easy, because the consequences are invisible to almost everyone, even though the negative impact to productivity may be far greater…

— Gene Kim

“Researchers estimate that workers are interrupted every 11 minutes and then spend almost a third of their day recovering from these distractions. And yet…

— Gary Keller

What I worry about is that people are losing confidence, losing energy, losing enthusiasm, and there's a real opportunity to get them into work.

— Boris Johnson

If you are really working on something intensely, your social skills fall away and you are not fit to be brought out into public.

— Jay Cassidy

Working is a great distraction technique.

— Phyllis Logan

I think there's too much mult-tasking going on. I think people need to quiet down and focus and be still more.

— Ellen DeGeneres

The bureaucrats tremble because they don't perform. In the past nobody checked their work. Now that I do it they are scared.

— Mayawati

I think, when you are working in a public space, there needs to be a certain level of understanding that you need to have…

— Shibani Dandekar

My biggest worry is that no one seems to notice that we are not going to stop the technical progress that is going to…

— Harper Reed

“Open offices, for example, might create more opportunities for collaboration,* but they do so at the cost of “massive distraction,” to quote the results…

— Cal Newport

A big part of doing your work is defending your time and your attention so you can do your work.

— Seth Godin