Interrupting People Quotes

#1. Selling to people who actually want to hear from you is more effective than interrupting strangers who don't.

Seth Godin

#2. I do much of my creative thinking while golfing. If people know you're working at home they think nothing of walking in for a cup of coffee, but wouldn't dream of interrupting on the golf course.

Harper Lee

#3. The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other.

Anita Hill

#4. I love shooting, when the character is interesting and the script is interesting, but the research beforehand is really fun. The whole process makes me anxious and restless, and I have trouble sleeping, just trying to figure out the character.

Matt Damon

#5. And yet, because people knew how easily they could happen, because they didn't go around with the illusion that they understood perfectly the things other people said, they were used to interrupting each other to ask if they had understood correctly.

Nicole Krauss

#6. All the rappers my age are getting Audemars and Rolexes. I want to find my own thing. That's why I travel the world - for me, that's my B-side, why we go places. I have a Hublot on from time to time but I want a home base watch - something that's elegant but has got a little pizzazz to it.

Wale

#7. I'm from Kentucky. I used to be very personable and make eye contact and smile at people, and now all I do is look down. When I'm at dinner and one person after another keeps interrupting to take pictures, it's like, 'I can't live like this'.

Jennifer Lawrence

#8. Life was too often a series of interruptions. Phone calls, family crises, other people always interrupting,

Tess Gerritsen

#9. Well, they're Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of walking right in for coffee. But they wouldn't dream of interrupting you at golf.

Harper Lee

#10. The truth came slowly like a story told by people interrupting each other.

Paula Fox

#11. Many people feel they must multi-task because everybody else is multitasking, but this is partly because they are all interrupting each other so much.

Marilyn Vos Savant

#12. I took a long view in order to not destroy the core Galvin-defined principles imbued in Motorola, such as constant respect for people, its instincts for breakthrough innovation, and continuous renewal in thinking and process rigor.

Christopher Galvin

#13. This is like the calm after the storm. Everything has settled, and even though it left destruction in its wake, you know the worst is over.

Kasie West

#14. Mr. Vice President, I know you're under a lot of duress to make up for lost ground but I think people would be better served if we don't keep interrupting each other.

Paul Ryan

#15. Writers get exactly the right amount of fame: just enough to get a good table in a restaurant but not enough so that people are constantly interrupting you while you're eating dinner.

Fran Lebowitz

#16. Words, isolated in the velvet of radio, took on a jeweled particularity. Television has quite the opposite effect: words are drowned in the visual soup in which they are obliged to be served.

Frederic Raphael

#17. The trouble is that neutrality is confused with hostility. We're not disrupting churches, or interrupting people's prayers. We're not fighting religion.

Dan Barker

#18. If I can live through this, he thought, I can live through anything. If I can live through this, I WILL live through anything.

Paullina Simons

#19. There is nothing so annoying as having two people talking when you're busy interrupting.

Mark Twain

#20. I never dreamed I'd be in Congress, or even in the NFL, for that matter. Well, I guess I dreamed about being in the NFL, but I didn't believe it would happen. I'm not the biggest guy. But I guess that's the story of my life.

Steve Largent

#21. She exists as in dreams. She has no sense of reality. She gets nervous because people are always interrupting her daydreams.

Clarice Lispector

#22. With subjectivism in philosophy, anarchism in politics goes hand in hand.

Bertrand Russell

#23. I just go out there and play. I don't know if it's being young and not getting calls, or some other circumstances. I'm just trying to make a play.

Kevin Love

#24. When you work, live, love and play without waiting for the next moment, everything you are and encounter flourishes.

Ryan Kurczak

#25. When one great passion seizes possession of the soul all other feelings are crowded out.

L.M. Montgomery

#26. All day long, one storm then another - and I take your hands like gentle flowers that blossom into awareness

John Geddes