Interruptions Quotes

• 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

  Real, One Day, Truth Is

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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, Has Beens

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

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

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Unexpected, Truth Is

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• Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. Prepare yourself in every way you can by increasing your knowledge and adding to your experience, so that you can make the most of opportunity when it occurs.

  Mario Andretti

  Motivational, Sports, Football

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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• What appears to be an interruption is often an intervention.

  Rich Wilkerson Jr.

  Intervention

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• 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

  Moving, Adversity, Journey

  John C. Maxwell (1997). “Your Roadmap for Success”

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• Living a life of following Christ means constant interruptions.

  Bob Goff

  Mean, Following Christ, Constant

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• At root, a pearl is a 'disturbance' a beauty caused by something that isn't supposed to be there, about which something needs to be done. It is the interruption of equilibrium that creates beauty. Beauty is a response to provocation, to intrusion. ... The pearl's beauty is made as a result of insult.

  Julia Cameron

  Beauty, Roots, Needs

  Julia Cameron (2005). “The Sound of Paper”, p.14, Penguin

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

  W. Edwards Deming

  Average, Time Management, Fifty

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• Focusing on one thing without interruption is how you get meaningful work done.

  Nate Green

  Meaningful, Done, Entrepreneurship

  "How to Do Work: 8 Strategies to Stop Wasting Time and Get Things Done" by Nate Green, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 11, 2014.

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• The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Problem, Life Is, Handle

  "Quick Guide & Transcript: Review the week's headlines, Reflect on the last days of MLK". "CNN Student News", www.cnn.com. January 18, 2007.

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

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Truth Is, Courses

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

  Sydney J. Harris

  Appreciation, Applause, Objects

  Sydney J. Harris (1986). “Clearing the ground”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

  Journey, Detours, My Journey

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

  Mario Andretti

  Motivational, Sight, Goal

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Bob Goff

  Jesus, Mean, People

  FaceBook post by Bob Goff from Oct 03, 2014

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• In a digital world, there are numerous technologies that we are attached to that create infinite interruption.

  Tim Ferriss

  Technology, World, Digital

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• Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.

  Alain Badiou

  Evil, Pressure, Individual

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• Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose.

  C. S. Lewis

  Life, Happiness, Happy

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.132, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

  Journey, Challenges, Essentials

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• We 'have all we want' is a terrible saying when 'all' does not include God. We find God an interruption. As St. Augustine says somewhere, 'God wants to give us something, but cannot, because our hands are full - there's nowhere for Him to put it.'

  C. S. Lewis

  Hands, Giving, Doe

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.210, Simon and Schuster

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

  Brendan Behan

  People, Concentration, Insignificant

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• Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet.

  Lewis Mumford

  Life, Aggravation, Sacred

  Lewis Mumford (2016). “The Culture of Cities”, p.38, Open Road Media

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