“ Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but is also a disruption of thought. ”
- Arthur Schopenhauer- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest. ”
- Unknown- Copy
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“ If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you It may break your heart, but it will fill your heart before it breaks it; it will make you a person in your own right. ”
- Maxwell Anderson- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests. ”
- Alain Badiou- Copy
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“ For each of us, there are certain parallelisms between our intellect, our habits, and our character, which develop without interruption and are broken only by life's great upheavals. ”
- Victor Hugo- Copy
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“ The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions. ”
- Andre Maurois- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ Other people's interruptions of your work are relatively insignificant compared with the countless times you interrupt yourself. ”
- Brendan Francis- Copy
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“ In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment. ”
- George Ade- Copy
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“ Go ahead with your life, your plans… Don't waste time by stopping before the interruptions have started. ”
- Richard L. Evans- Copy
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“ Every sincere break with Communism is a religious experience, though the Communists fail to identify its true nature, though he fail to go to the end of the experience. His break is the political expression of the perpetual need of the soul whose first faint stirring he has felt within him, years, months or days before he breaks… ”
- Whittaker Chambers- Copy
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“ I didn't have to think up so much as a comma or a semicolon; it was all given, straight from the celestial recording room. Weary, I would beg for a break, an intermission, time enough, let's say, to go to the toilet or take a breath of fresh air on the balcony… ”
- Henry Miller- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle "promise" from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed. ”
- Ezra- Copy
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“ The studious class are their own victims: they are thin and pale, their feet are cold, their heads are hot, the night is without sleep, the day a fear of interruption — pallor, squalor, hunger, and egotism. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principle subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last throws away the book, which he has too diligently studied. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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