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• Interruptions: The average worker gets interrupted five times each hour. It takes an average of 5 minutes to handle each interruption and 1 minute to get back to what you were doing. This adds up to 30 minutes each hour or 50% of your time!!
  You've got to think about "big things" while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.

  Alvin Toffler

  Thinking, Average, Add

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• When women are seen with pen in hand, they are met immediately with shrieks commanding a return to that life of pain which their writing had interrupted, a life devoted to the women's work of needle and distaff.

  Arcangela Tarabotti

  Pain, Writing, Hands

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• For relationships, too, must be like islands. One must accept them for what they are here and now, within their limits - islands surrounded and interrupted by the sea, continuously visited and abandoned by the tides. One must accept the serenity of the winged life, of ebb and flow, of intermittency.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Life, Islands, Sea

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• The way we move within time is a kind of dance. We are always keeping time within one rhythm or another. Music, of course, is exemplary. One reason we love music so much is that it's so complete and the notes harmonize with one another in time to make a beautiful, ideal statement; not like our daily life where the rhythms are more subtle or hard to find or are constantly being interrupted or changed in ways that aren't so easy to handle.

  Mel Weitsman

  Beautiful, Moving, Way

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• One should share their dreams with others right away in the morning. One can use my Lightning Dreamwork process. First, the person shares the dream without being interrupted. Then each person shares their thoughts about the dream by saying, "If it were my dream," not presuming to tell the person what the dream means in an objective way. Lastly, the dreamer is helped to make an action plan for embodying the energy and guidance from the dream.

  Robert Moss

  Dream, Morning, Mean

  "If You Want To Be A Shaman, Start At The Breakfast Table. An Interview with Dreamer Robert Moss". Interview with Krysta Gibson, nhne-pulse.org.

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• I'm at a point where I let my mind go with flow of the music I'm making and it's not interrupted by me trying to please everybody.

  Mic Geronimo

  Mind, Trying, Flow

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• He came, not as a flash of light or as an unapproachable conqueror, but as one whose first cries were heard by a peasant girl and a sleepy carpenter. God tapped humanity on its collective shoulder, "Pardon me," he said, and eternity interrupted time, divinity interrupted carnality, and heaven interrupted the earth in the form of a baby. Christianity was born in one big heavenly interruption.

  Max Lucado

  Christmas, Girl, Baby

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• A perfectly happy marriage? There is no such thing. There are strong marriages that can survive problems, but happiness is such a brief condition, interrupted by difficulties and plain, boring routine.

  Ursula Hegi

  Strong, Routine, Happy Marriage

  Ursula Hegi (2012). “Intrusions”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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• Many men go into the ministry not only for the power trip involved, but also so that they will never have to be interrupted or contradicted.

  Frank Zindler

  Men, Ministry, Contradiction

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• How can you expect someone to get a good day's work if they are interrupted all day?

  Jason Fried

  Good Day, Ifs

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• Hurricane Sandy interrupted Mr. Romney’s momentum and allowed Mr. Obama to look presidential and bipartisan.

  Karl Rove

  Presidential, Momentum, Looks

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• I was interviewed on the Israeli radio for five minutes and I said that more than 2000 years ago, Euclid proved that there are infinitely many primes.  Immediately the host interrupted me and asked, 'Are there still infinitely many primes?'

  Noga Alon

  Science, Years, Radio

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• Off to one side sits a group of shepherds. They sit silently on the floor, perhaps perplexed, perhaps in awe, no doubt in amazement. Their night watch had been interrupted by an explosion of light from heaven and a symphony of angels. God goes to those who have time to hear him-and so on this cloudless night he went to simple shepherds.

  Max Lucado

  Christmas, Angel, Simple

  Max Lucado (2010). “God Came Near Deluxe Edition”, p.4, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• A long sea implies an uniform and steady motion of long and extensive waves; on the contrary, a short sea is when they run irregularly, broken, and interrupted; so as frequently to burst over a vessel's side or quarter.

  William Falconer

  Running, Sea, Long

  William Falconer (1784). “An Universal Dictionary of the Marine: Or, A Copious Explanation of the Technical Terms and Phrases Employed in the Construction, Equipment, Furniture, Machinery, Movements, and Military Operations of a Ship”, p.201

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• Sleep, riches, and health, to be truly enjoyed, must be interrupted.

  Jean Paul

  Inspirational, Strength, Get Well Soon

  "Flower, Fruit and Thorn Pieces: Or, The Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel".

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• I find it difficult to imagine an afterlife, such as Christians, or at any rate many religious people, conceive it, believing that the conversations with relatives and friends interrupted here on earth will be continued in the hereafter.

  Edvard Munch

  Christian, Religious, Believe

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• Nobody kicks on being interrupted if it's by applause.

  Kin Hubbard

  Literature, Applause, Kicks

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• I adore tradition. I cannot stand habit. Simply to repeat is nothing, also to destroy is nothing. Tradition is never interrupted, we are always evolving but never interrupted.

  Nadia Boulanger

  Tradition, Habit, Adore

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• There is so much information that our ability to focus on any piece of it is interrupted by other information, so that we bathe in information but hardly absorb or analyse it. Data are interrupted by other data before we've thought about the first round, and contemplating three streams of data at once may be a way to think about none of them.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Thinking, Data, Focus

  "Diary" by Rebecca Solnit, www.lrb.co.uk. August 29, 2013.

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• Tradition is a more interrupted and feebler memory.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Memories, Tradition

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.309

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• That afternoon the sky was scattered with black clouds galloping in from the sea and clustering over the city. Flashes of lightening echoed on the horizon and a charged warm wind smelling of dust announced a powerful summer storm. When I reached the station I noticed the first few drops, shiny and heavy, like coins falling from heaven...Night seemed to fall suddenly, interrupted only by the lightning now bursting over the city, leaving a trail of noise and fury.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Summer, Powerful, Fall

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• Know, then, that now, precisely now, these people are more certain than ever before that they are completely free, and at the same time they themselves have brought us their freedom and obediently laid it at our feet. It is our doing, but is it what you wanted? This sort of freedom?' Again I don't understand', Alyosha interrupted, 'Is he being ironic? Is he laughing?' Not in the least. He precisely lays it to his and his colleagues' credit that they have finally overcome freedom, and have done so in order to make people happy.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Order, Feet, People

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• Leroy interrupted Chantal's fantasies: "Freedom? As you live our your desolation, you can be either unhappy or happy. Having that choice is what constitutes your freedom. You're free to melt your own individuality into the cauldron of the multitude either with a feeling of defeat or euphoria.

  Milan Kundera

  Choices, Feelings, Individuality

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• No," Dimitri interrupted gently. He moved his face toward mine, our foreheads nearly touching. "It won't happen to you. You're too strong. You'll fight it, just like you did this time." "I only did because you were here." He wrapped his arms around me, and I buried my face in his chest. "I can't do it by myself," I whispered. "You can," he said. There was a tremulous note in his voice. "You're strong—you're so, so strong. It's why I love you.

  Richelle Mead

  Love, Strong, Fighting

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.535, Penguin

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• We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God... It is a strange fact that Christians and even ministers frequently consider their work so important and urgent that they will allow nothing to disturb them. They think they are doing God a service in this but actually they are disdaining God's "crooked but straight path". It is part of the discipline of humility that we must not spare our hand where it can perform service and that we do not assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God.

  Brennan Manning

  Christian, Humility, Thinking

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