Quotes About Disruption

The Unexpected always comes at the most awkward times.

Vendors cursed as their baskets of fruit and vegetables toppled. A bamboo birdcage fell and burst open, scattering a flock of tiny white birds into the dusty air. Barrels rolled wildly through the streets, gushing wine as red as blood.

Nate tried not to stare at Paul, but he kept thinking of the devilish teenager who'd clowned around on Papa's ships. He'd sneak vinegar into the men's canteens. He'd taught the ship's parrot to cuss in French. Nobody drove Papa and his men crazier — or made them laugh harder.

creating earthquakes, moving mountains.

For a long time many believed that there would be an automatic adjustment and counted on a rapid increase in the wages of the emerging nations, on our advances in technology and the costs of transport preventing disruption. But this reassuring analysis is out of date.

with no warning, skid spectacularly off course.

how your life could trundle along on its safe little track and then, with no warning, skid spectacularly off course.

Ela havia aprendido (...) que a vida podia estar seguindo seu caminhozinho seguro e então, sem qualquer aviso, descarrilhar de forma impressionante.

She had learned, with Izzy's birth, how your life could trundle along on its safe little track and then, with no warning, skid spectacularly off course.

There was a pothole thump, and "Wind of Change" jumped back to "Show Me the Way.

You fat fuck," I said and jumped up and decked him. I broke his jaw, and they expelled me permanently on the spot. Naturally,

As Hamlet says, Hercules may lay about him with his club in every possible direction, but he can't prevent the cats from making a most intolerable row on the roofs of the houses, or the dogs from being shot in the hot weather if they run about the streets unmuzzled

As if, in the gap he had left, the wedge of change were driven to the head, rending what was a solid mass to fragments, things cemented and held together by the usages of years, burst asunder in as many weeks. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Our peaceful hearts change the situation, disrupting the story in which hate comes naturally and offering an experience that suggests a new one.

Unfortunately at this point I was interrupted by that dubiously time-saving device the telephone.

People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.

The man who kicks up a shindy will probably improve the morals of mankind; he will beyond any question improve his own. In short, I believe getting into hot water. I think it keeps you clean.

But what if a large part of your business consists of selling things that put people out of work. Including many of the people who actually pay for the things you're trying to sell.

Two keys to offensive play: creating chaos and executing on chances.

When life vibrates at a harmonious frequency there is no need to seek something better. It's only when the rhythm of life is disrupted that people pay attention.

All it takes is an instant. To overturn your entire existence.

La vida transcurre a velocidades y ritmos disímiles. Por largos periodos avanza con lentitud y de súbito, en lapsos cortísimos, suceden eventos frenéticos y radicales que la trastornan hasta dejarla irreconocible.

En algún punto de la evolución el esperma podrido, el mas corrupto entró por la puerta trasera del óvulo. Y todo se fue al carajo.

The beginning of a revolution is in reality the end of a belief