Quotes About Interruptions

#1. Join The 5 am Club. Your most valuable hours are 5am-8am. They have the least interruptions.

Robin Sharma

#2. [Loosen] up your life enough to be ready for interruptions. Don't structure your days so rigidly that you lock out God from working with you in the middle of them.

Christine Caine

#3. Interruptions were sometimes more frequent than statements. The process, compared to a well-managed executive conference, was a slab of raw beef compared to a wiring diagram. Raw beef, however, functions better than a wiring diagram would, in its place - inside a living animal.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#4. We shall never have a science of economics unless we learn to discern the operation of law even among the most perplexing complications and apparent interruptions.

William Stanley Jevons

#5. One of the major keys to success is to keep moving forward on the journey, making the best of the detours and interruptions, turning adversity into advantage.

John C. Maxwell

#6. People talk about skating, puck handling and shooting, but the whole sport is angles and caroms, forgetting the straight direction the puck is going, calculating where it will be directed, factoring in all the interruptions. Basically, my whole game is angles.

Wayne Gretzky

#7. 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 talking to the Father, with no interruptions and nothing that reminds me that there's anything in life but me and Him.

Charles R. Swindoll

#8. There are no interruptions, really - there are simply mismanaged occurrences.

David Allen

#9. If someone wants to transmit a high-quality service with no interruptions and 'guaranteed this, guaranteed that,' they should be willing to pay for that.

Edward Whitacre Jr.

#10. The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Andre Maurois

#11. Families need to have a time when they can cook together. They can eat at the table and you can look eye-to-eye. Phones are put away and there are no interruptions. And what you do is concentrate on each other. Listen to what they have to say, and let them listen to you.

Kay Robertson

#12. When money talks, there are few interruptions.

Herbert V. Prochnow

#13. If I have to spend a lot of time on planes, I try to think of this as time off. In certain ways, it's more restful than home: no Internet, no phones, no interruptions.

Margaret Heffernan

#14. 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 can restart exactly where I left off.

Mike Thompson

#15. It is happily and kindly provided that in every life there are certain pauses, and interruptions, which force consideration upon the careless, and seriousness upon the light, points of time where one course of action ends and another begins.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#16. Being constantly the hub of a network of potential interruptions provides the excitement and importance of crisis management. As well as the false sense of efficiency in multitasking, there is the false sense of urgency in multi-interrupt processing.

Michael Foley

#17. I'm interested in discontinuities and interruptions, people having to rewrite the narrative of their lives because of sudden changes.

Lenny Abrahamson

#18. He who works with the door open gets all kinds of interruptions, but he also occasionally gets clues as to what the world is and what might be important.

Richard Hamming

#19. Go ahead with your life, your plans ... Don't waste time by stopping before the interruptions have started.

Richard L. Evans

#20. All problems are simply interruptions in the transmission and preservation of data, he reminded himself.

G. Willow Wilson

#21. Keep your mind clear to create simple solutions. Remove any distractions, like the TV, email prompts, unnecessary interruptions or telephone calls.

Lisa A. Mininni

#22. I admire the Shabbat tradition, and no matter which faith you are of, there is nothing more wonderful than dedicating a certain day to spend time with your family and loved ones, absent of TV, phone, and other interruptions.

Joyce Giraud

#23. 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 that failed. Or that lovely poem that didn't get written because someone knocked on the door.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#24. If I'm really feeling good and not having a lot of interruptions, I can do a minute of animation a day, so theoretically, I could do a film in three months without any interruptions.

Bill Plympton

#25. For me the process works best with no interruptions, no breaks in the steady application, no letters to be answered, very little social life, no holidays; it is therefore a form of happy imprisonment.

Patrick O'Brian

#26. 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 gave birth to. If I was thrown for a loop every time I was distracted I could never get anything done.

Jodi Picoult

#27. Other people's interruptions of your work are relatively insignificant compared with the countless times you interrupt yourself.

Brendan Behan

#28. I do my best thinking at night when everyone else is sleeping. No interruptions. No noise. I like the feeling of being awake when no one else is.

Jennifer Niven

#29. The monotony of a long heroic poem may often be pleasantly relieved by judicious interruptions in the perfect succession of rhymes, just as the metre may sometimes be adorned with occasional triplets and Alexandrines.

H.P. Lovecraft

#30. By God's grace I can resist the temptation to treat my children as interruptions to my will for my life. Instead, God enables me to treat my children as precious gifts he is using to shape me into his image according to his will for my life.

Gloria Furman

#31. A poet or novelist will invent interruptions to avoid long consecutive days at the ordained page; and of these the most pernicious are other kinds of writing
articles, lectures, reviews, a wide correspondence.

Shirley Hazzard

#32. I don't really care about interruptions. I accept technology, and I don't turn things off. I've found a peace with fragmentation and a harmony with switching gears quickly to other things.

Doug Aitken

#33. Customary interruptions are not only gratifying and cheering, but they are also really necessary in order to gain breath and voice to carry one on through some violent exertions; though after all it must be confessed that silence is the most flattering applause an Actor can receive.

Sarah Siddons

#34. People outside of mental institutions need to have good morals so that the world will continue to work without any major interruptions - and happy endings will flourish.

Matthew Quick

#35. The interruptions of the telephone seem to us to waste half the life of the ordinary American engaged in public or private business; he has seldom half an hour consecutively at his own disposal - a telephone is a veritable time scatterer.

Beatrice Webb

#36. Working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation.

Winston Churchill

#37. Permission marketing is marketing without interruptions.

Seth Godin

#38. Talking on a landline with no interruptions used to be an everyday thing. Now it's exotic; the jewel in the crown.

Sherry Turkle

#39. Interruptions are the spice of life.

Don Herold

#40. No interruptions, stereos pumpin from the dungeon, coming live from Flatbush Junction

Capital STEEZ

#41. Baseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the situation on the field: This is what a fan loves most about the game

Edward Abbey

#42. I need noise and interruptions and irritation: irritation and discomfort are a great starter. The loneliness of doing it any other way would kill me.

Anita Brookner

#43. Difficulties are not interruptions to our journey; they are part of it, as if they're part of the weave of the cloth of our lives. They weave in and become an essential part of the whole. Because the more challenges we face, the more capable we realize we are and the less there is to fear.

Kimora Lee Simmons

#44. Programming requires more concentration than other activities. It's the reason programmers get upset about 'quick interruptions' - such interruptions are tantamount to asking a juggler to keep three balls in the air and hold your groceries at the same time.

Steve McConnell

#45. She said interruptions were simply God's appointments.

Debbie Macomber

#46. In the beginning, I had considered these stops on my journey as interruptions - but I'm coming to understand that perhaps these detours are my journey.

Richard Paul Evans

#47. Believing that life interruptions - divine interruptions - are a privilege not only causes us to handle them differently but to await them eagerly.

Priscilla Shirer

#48. There are no interruptions, only mismanaged inputs

David Allen

#49. Those who can sit in a chair, undistracted for hours, mastering subjects and creating things will rule the world - while the rest of us frantically and futilely try to keep up with texts, tweets, and other incessant interruptions.

Arianna Huffington

#50. I like to see your eyes praise me and, during such recitals, there are interruptions, not ungrateful to the heart, when the honey that drops from the lips is not merely words.

Mary Wollstonecraft

#51. Bringing my two children up while writing was just a part of life. I'd much rather have had their interruptions than been stuck in a sterile office. This way, I had welcome distractions. I had to load the washing machine, I had to go out and buy lemons.

Deborah Moggach

#52. if you really want it, you'll keep at it. Despite setbacks, interruptions, and sidetracks. No matter how long you get off course, you'll eventually return - if you really want what you say you do.

M.J. Ryan

#53. Living a life of following Christ means constant interruptions.

Bob Goff

#54. Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal.

Mario Andretti

#55. Interrupted again! if it's not Jules it's the cat! that's the female speciality: interruptions!

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#56. The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.

W. Edwards Deming

#57. If I know somebody is coming 'round, it is incredibly difficult for me to work because I'm waiting for this interruption - even the children's comings and goings are interruptions. Cake-making is a good way of coming out of that space.

Rachel Cusk

#58. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life - the life God is sending one day by day; what one calls one's "real life" is a phantom of one's own imagination.

Tim Challies

#59. 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 to sidetrack us." He brushed his fingers againist the lacings of her neck. "Isn't it time you returned that shirt to its owner?

Julia Golding

#60. When we understand that He is Lord of our time, we realize that interruptions are of His planning. They become opportunities to serve rather than plagues to keep us from functioning.

Karen Burton Mains

#61. And there will be no more interruptions and you will be staying for dessert, coffee, and cigars.

Abraham Verghese

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

Tess Gerritsen

#63. I relish the time I have when there are no interruptions. Most often the best time for writing is late at night.

Franny Armstrong

#64. If you really want to focus on something, says Castellanos, the optimum amount of time to spend on it is ninety minutes. Then change tasks. And watch out for interruptions once you're really concentrating, because it will take you twenty minutes to recover.

Winifred Gallagher

#65. Nowhere you can go is more peaceful - more free of interruptions - than your own soul. Especially

Marcus Aurelius

#66. Endings are not our destiny ... They are merely interruptions-temporary pauses that one day will seem small compared to the eternal joy awaiting the faithful.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#67. The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life.

C.S. Lewis

#68. Loving people the way Jesus did, means living a life of constant interruptions. Bring it.

Bob Goff

#69. It is only when the correct practice is followed for a long time, without interruptions and with a quality of positive attitude and eagerness, that it can succeed.

Patanjali

#70. Meditation is a practice of detaching and then stopping ourselves from thinking; our thoughts are interruptions in the flow of awareness. Consciousness, in its highest aspect, is perfect and formless.

Frederick Lenz

#71. 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 of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life
the life God is sending one day by day.

C.S. Lewis

#72. A few years ago I met an old professor at the University of Notre Dame. Looking back on his long life of teaching, he said with a funny wrinkle in his eyes: I have always been complaining that my work was constantly interrupted, until I slowly discovered that my interruptions were my work.

Henri Nouwen

#73. Have you ever noticed that life consists mostly of interruptions, with occasional spells of rush work in between?

Buwei Yang Chao

#74. Sunday is the one day I keep reminding myself that I should lay around and take it easy, but because I am O.C.D. and an extreme multitasker, I find it hard to get lazy. I love Sundays for painting because it's quieter; the gallery is closed, and there are no interruptions.

April Gornik

#75. I have always been complaining that my work was constantly interrupted; then I realized that the interruptions were my work.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#76. all information and interruptions that are irrelevant, unimportant, or unactionable.

Timothy Ferriss

#77. I have a very set routine. I work six days a week, but only half days. I work from 9 in the morning till 1 in the afternoon, without any interruptions, a fair slug.

Peter Mayle

#78. We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.

C.S. Lewis

#79. Unfortunately I don't live by a Target now, so I just go to a regular Starbucks as opposed to a Starbucks nested inside a Target, which is my ideal situation. That works out for me. I like that white noise, those interruptions, and the people around me.

Diablo Cody

#80. What goes on inside the school is an interruption of education.

Marshall McLuhan

#81. Because each of you has his or her own death, you carry it with you in a secret place from the moment you're born, it belongs to you and you belong to it.

Jose Saramago

#82. Talk to anyone about himself positively and he'll listen without interruption.

Dale Carnegie

#83. What is life but an unpleasant interruption to a peaceful nonexistence.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#84. What appears to be an interruption is often an intervention.

Rich Wilkerson Jr.

#85. Ideals do exist, the rest is just temporary interruption.

Vanna Bonta

#86. The shortest definition of religion: interruption.

Johann Baptist Metz

#87. The present's just a pleasant interruption to the past.

Andrew McMahon

#88. When you take my time, you take something I had meant to use ...

Marianne Moore

#89. It is the leisured, I have noticed, who rebel the most at an interruption of routine.

Phyllis McGinley

#90. First, let me finish. Then interrupt.

Brian Spellman

#91. Just about the only interruption we don't object to is applause.

Sydney J. Harris

#92. Writing is my only interest. Even speaking is an interruption.

Isaac Asimov

#93. The only thing nicer than a phone that didn't ring all the time (or indeed at all) was six phones that didn't ring all the time (or indeed at all).

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