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

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Peaceful, What Is Life

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• The shortest definition of religion: interruption.

  Johann Baptist Metz

  Definitions

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• 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.

  Doors, Lovely, Problem

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• Learn this great secret of life: What people call interruption or disturbance to their routine is just as much a part of living as the routine. To split life into two parts, one called routine and the other called interruption, is to be caught between them.

  Vernon Howard

  Life, Two, People

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• I slid closer, feeling his arms close around me, tightening. Our lips touched-- "Derek?" his dad called. "Chloe?" Derek let out a growl. I laughed and backed up. "We seem to get a lot of that, don't we?" I said. "Too much. After we eat, we're going for a walk. A long walk. Far from every possible interruption." I grinned up at him. "Sounds like a plan

  Kelley Armstrong

  Dad, Long Walks, Feelings

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• I am hungry to be interrupted
  For ever and ever amen
  O Person from Porlock come quickly
  And bring my thoughts to an end.

  Stevie Smith

  Thoughtful, Thinking, Hungry

  Stevie Smith, James MacGibbon (1983). “Collected Poems”, p.386, New Directions Publishing

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• There was such a thing as women's work and it consisted chiefly, Hilary sometimes thought, in being able to stand constant interruption and keep your temper. . . .

  May Sarton

  Able, Sometimes, Dishes

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

  Franny Armstrong

  Writing, Night, Late

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• Our system works. Over time, people will live better and better. We have a system that unleashes human potential, and now China has a system that unleashes human potential. We will have interruptions. We overshoot and undershoot sometimes, but your kids and grandkids will live better than you. Over time, we move ahead at a pretty damn rapid rate.

  Warren Buffett

  Moving, Kids, People

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• Give yourself the gift of uninterrupted time. It can be the first hour of your day. Or the last hour. A lunch hour. You want time free from phone calls, visitors, mail, things to read. Unplug the phone if you have to. Lock your door. Put a sign on it that warns people of the consequences of entering. Do what you have to and watch the results. One hour of uninterrupted time can double a person's productivity for the day.

  Geri Larkin

  Phones, Doors, Lunch

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• Downworld?" Tessa echoed, puzzled. "Is that a place in London?" "Never mind that," said Will. "I'm boasting of my investigative skills, and I would prefer to do it without interruption.

  Cassandra Clare

  Skills, Mind, London

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Angel”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• A Student is the most important person ever in this school...in person, on the telephone, or by mail.
  A Student is not dependent on us...we are dependent on the Student.
  A Student is not an interruption of our work..the Studenti s the purpose of it. We are not doing a favor by serving the Student...the Student is doing us a favor by giving us the opportunity to do so.
  A Student is a person who brings us his or her desire to learn. It is our job to handle each Student in a manner which is beneficial to the Student and ourselves.

  William Watson Purkey

  Education, Jobs, School

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• Day and night will not cease. Yet, you need not continue viewing them as opposites. There is no longer a need to think that night has the same power as day. There is just the power of light, with variations of intensity and interruption. Once the full scope of understanding is attained, duality fades away. Higher intelligence is manifested through integrated perceptions of wholeness which restore your recognition of the one spirit. The sons of God are those who do not explain life or manage it with dualistic concepts. The sons of God are those who seek to perceive wholeness in all things.

  Glenda Green

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Son

  Glenda Green (2002). “Love Without End: Jesus Speaks--”, p.237, Fideli Publishing Inc.

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• Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Powerful, Maturity, Empires

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

  Phyllis McGinley

  Rebel, Routine

  Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”

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• We would never get away from it. ... It's bad enough as it is, but with the wireless telephone one could be called up at the opera, in church, in our beds. Where could one be free from interruption?

  Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin

  Science, Church, Telephones

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• Ideals do exist, the rest is just temporary interruption.

  Vanna Bonta

  Optimism, Ideals, Temporary

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• It may be a brief interruption - just a few seconds - but what if someone sitting near you is trying to make a decent bootleg? Did you ever think of that? Now all those street-corner copies are permanently defiled by your so-called 'emergency.' Don't be so damn selfish.

  Brad Pitt

  Selfish, Thinking, What If

  "Ask a Basterd: Can I Answer my cell at a movie if it seems urgent?". www.wired.com. July 15, 2009.

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• 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

  Multitasking, Management, Excitement

  Michael Foley (2010). “The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life makes it Hard to be Happy”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• Advertising isnt just the disruption of aesthetics, the insults to your intelligence and the interruption of your train of thought. At every company that sells ads, a significant portion of their engineering team spends their day tuning data mining, writing better code to collect all your personal data.

  Jan Koum

  Team, Writing, Engineering

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• Looking, Walking, Being, I look and look. Looking's a way of being: one becomes, sometimes, a pair of eyes walking. Walking wherever looking takes one. The eyes dig and burrow into the world. They touch, fanfare, howl, madrigal, clamor. World and the past of it, not only visible present, solid and shadow that looks at one looking. And language? Rhythms of echo and interruption? That's a way of breathing. breathing to sustain looking, walking and looking, through the world, in it.

  Denise Levertov

  Eye, Past, Echoes

  Denise Levertov (1998). “Sands of the Well”, p.91, New Directions Publishing

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• The Eucharist is the secret of my day. It gives strength and meaning to all my activities of service to the Church and to the whole world. . . . Let Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament speak to your hearts. It is he who is the true answer of life that you seek. He stays here with us: he is God with us. Seek him without tiring, welcome him without reserve, love him without interruption: today, tomorrow, forever.

  Pope John Paul II

  Jesus, Blessed, Heart

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• Rather, it is the opening or the interruption that allows us to experience what is hidden, and to accept with our hearts our given situation. When film does this, when it subverts our absorption in the temporal and reveals the depths of our own reality, it opens us to a fuller sense of ourselves and our world. It is alive as a devotional form.

  Nathaniel Dorsky

  Heart, Reality, Our World

  Nathaniel Dorsky (2003). “Devotional Cinema”

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• Young people are going to go to someone, somewhere. And we had better see that that 'someone' is us when the opportunity is ours, for there will come a time when we will wish they would come, and do we know but that the interruption we now impatiently put off may be the most important thing we could be doing at this particular time?

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Communication, Opportunity, People

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• The interruption we now impatiently put off may be the most important thing we could be doing at this particular time?

  Richard L. Evans

  Listening, Important, May

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