Interrupted Quotes - Page 9

• A free and open society is an ongoing conflict, interrupted periodically by compromises.

  Saul Alinsky

  Society, Ongoing, Compromise

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.59, Vintage

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• I wish children could grow according to their natural pace: sleep when sleepy, wake up when rested, eat when hungry, cry when upset, play and explore without being unnecessarily interrupted; in other words, be allowed to grow and blossom as each was meant to.

  Magda Gerber

  Children, Sleep, Play

  Magda Gerber (1998). “Dear Parent: Caring for Infants with Respect”

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• For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed and gratefully appreciated, they must be interrupted so the person can see that not having them is not as good as having them.

  Jean Paul

  Gratitude, Sleep, Riches

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• Web media needs to move to TV metaphor - with full-screen imagery and other content interrupted with full-screen ads.

  Nick Denton

  Moving, Media, Needs

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• At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked us with an age of poetic decorum, of a preoccupation with poetic sounds.

  Salvatore Quasimodo

  Age, Sound, Nuclear

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• A Seattle lawyer once interrupted his lengthy cross-examination of a witness and exclaimed, "Your Honor, one of the jurors is asleep." "You put him to sleep," replied the judge. "Suppose you wake him up."

  James Keller

  Sleep, Judging, Honor

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• I don't consider myself to be a painter. I think of myself as someone who has used the medium of painting in an attempt to extend - give an extra dimension to - the medium of words. It happens very often my writing with a pen is interrupted with my writing with a brush - but I think of both as writing.

  Kenneth Patchen

  Writing, Thinking, Giving

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• Slavery is not African history. Slavery interrupted African history.

  Mutabaruka

  Slavery

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• My graduate study was interrupted, like that of many others, by World War II.

  Kenneth Arrow

  War, World, Study

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• Got Bin Laden AND interrupted Celebrity Apprentice? Win for Obama all around.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Winning, Bin Laden, Apprentice

  Twitter post from May 1, 2011

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• Decide that you don’t mind being inconvenienced or interrupted, and God will use you to make a difference.

  Joyce Meyer

  Differences, Mind, Making A Difference

  Twitter post from Jun 3, 2013

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• What advice can we give to new mothers? Their children need to work at an interesting occupation: they should not be helped unnecessarily, nor interrupted, once they have begun to do something intelligent.

  Maria Montessori

  Mother, Children, Intelligent

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• My whole life I have been complaining
  that my work was constantly interrupted, until I discovered
  that my interruptions
  were my work.

  Henri Nouwen

  Complaining, Whole Life, Interruptions

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “Reaching Out”, p.51, Image

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• Here's why this matters: Studies show that a person who is interrupted takes 50 percent longer to accomplish a task. Not only that, he or she makes up to 50 percent more errors.

  John Medina

  Errors, Tasks, Matter

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• The brain cannot multitask. Multitasking, when it comes to paying attention, is a myth. The brain naturally focuses on concepts sequentially, one at a time…To put it bluntly, research shows that we can’t multitask. We are biologically incapable of processing information-rich inputs simultaneously…Studies show that a person who is interrupted takes 50 percent longer to accomplish a task. Not only that, he or she makes up to 50 percent more errors.

  John Medina

  Errors, Brain, Tasks

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• I used to say that, as Solicitor General, I made three arguments of every case. First came the one that I planned-as I thought, logical, coherent, complete. Second was the one actually presented-interrupted, incoherent, disjointed, disappointing. The third was the utterly devastating argument that I thought of after going to bed that night.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Night, Law, Bed

  Lecture before State Bar of California, San Francisco, Cal., 23 Aug. 1951

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• The word baptism means derailment. Christ baptizes Peter on the rock when he tells him: "Because you confessed your love for me, your life is no longer your own. Before you said this, you fastened your belt and you walked wherever you liked. Now, others will put a belt around you and take you where you would rather not go." To submit to love is to be baptized, that is, to let one's life be forever interrupted. To not let one's life be interrupted is to say no to love

  Ronald Rolheiser

  Faith, Mean, Love Is

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• My education was interrupted only by my schooling.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspiring, School, Schooling

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• If I'm interrupted, it's just a minor inconvenience, but not a disaster, because it's easy to get back where I was: that is, the paint has not changed consistency; the light has not moved.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Light, Consistency, Easy

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• Divine happiness, even the tiniest particle of a grain of it, never leaves one again; and when one attains to the essence of things and finds one's Self-this is supreme happiness. When it is found, nothing else remains to be found; the sense of want will not awaken anymore, and the heart's torment will be stilled forever. Do not be satisfied with fragmentary happiness, which is invariably interrupted by shocks and blows of fate; but become complete, and having attained to perfection, be YOURSELF.

  Anandamayi Ma

  Being Yourself, Heart, Fate

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• The Olympics have been with the world since 776 B.C., and have only been interrupted by war, especially in the modern era.

  Bill Toomey

  Motivational, War, Athlete

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• Mr. Huston (directed Marilyn in Asphalt Jungle and The Misfits) was an exciting looking man. He was tall, long-faced, and his hair was mussed. He interrupted everybody with outbursts of laughter as if he were drunk. But he wasn’t drunk. He was just happy for some mysterious reason, and he was also a genius – the first I had ever met

  Marilyn

  Laughter, Men, Hair

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• This time I read the title of the painting: Girl Interrupted at Her Music. Interrupted at her music: as my life had been, interrupted in the music of being seventeen, as her life had been, snatched and fixed on canvas: one moment made to stand still and to stand for all the other moments, whatever they would be or might have been. What life can recover from that?

  Susanna Kaysen

  Girl, Titles, Would Be

  Girl, Interrupted (1993)

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• 'Speak when you're spoken to!' The Queen sharply interrupted her. 'But if everybody obeyed that rule,' said Alice, who was always ready for a little argument, 'and if you only spoke when you were spoken to, and the other person always waited for you to begin, you see nobody would ever say anything, so that - ' 'Ridiculous!' cried the Queen. 'Why, don't you see, child - ' here she broke off with a frown, and, after thinking for a minute, suddenly changed the subject of the conversation.

  Lewis Carroll

  Queens, Children, Thinking

  Lewis Carroll “Alice in Wonderland”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• They arose in my mind as 'given' things, and as they came, separately, so too the links grew. An absorbing, though continually interrupted labour (especially, even apart from the necessities of life, since the mind would wing to the other pole and spread itself on the linguistics): yet always I had the sense of recording what was already 'there', somewhere: not of 'inventing'.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Wings, Mind, Links

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