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Quotes About Pause

Would there be no end to publishing? he wondered. Perhaps it would be a good idea if everyone just stopped writing for a couple of years and allowed readers to catch up.
~ John Boyne
The Law of Reflection Learning to Pause Allows Growth to Catch Up with You "Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action." —PETER F. DRUCKER
~ John C. Maxwell
Learning to pause and ask questions turns experience into insight.
~ John C. Maxwell
I didn't give up, but you did all I'm doing is taking a break form crying & being heartbroken! I'snt that okay?
~ Unknown
A simple pause of silence between friends, even if merely for one beautiful second, is a chance for their souls to mingle and truly appreciate the intricacies of each other.
~ Unknown
As soon as I look up, his eyes click onto my face. The breath whooshes out of my body and everything freezes for a second, as though I'm looking at him through my camera lens, zoomed in all the way, the world pausing for that tiny span of time between the opening and closing of the shutter.
~ Lauren Oliver
Stop the world I wanna get off.
~ Unknown
Give your mouth and legs a break and shut them for once.
~ Unknown
You're confronted with the quandary: do I grind things to a halt? Ideally you would, but I have better things to do than educate people.
~ Wentworth Miller
I went through a lazy period.
~ Michael Keaton
A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.
~ William Howard Taft
I took a two month break after 'Maine Dil Tujhko Diya.'
~ Sameera Reddy
I used to have a theory about photographing. It was a sense of getting in between two actions, or in between acton and repose.
~ Diane Arbus
I'm done talking to you for today, my chips are worn out. ~Roc
~ Unknown
There was another pause. We waited to learn if the dialogue was over. Then we set to eating again. We traded unwanted parts in silence, stuck our hands in cartoons of rippled fries. Wilder liked the soft white fries and people picked these out and gave them to him. Denise distributed ketchup in little watery pouches. The interior of the car smelled of grease and licked flesh. We traded parts and gnawed.
~ Don DeLillo
It's only when you stop to think about it. I don't stop. - From Morning
~ Donald Barthelme
Commas are not your friend.
~ Donald Miller
Right," I said, after an off-balance pause. A knocker, in the trade, was a shark who charmed his way into old people's homes: to cheat them of valuables
~ Donna Tartt
MUGGER: Your money or your life. (long, awkward pause) Look bud. I said, your money or your life. JACK: I'm thinking it over!
~ Jack Benny
Take a breath, look around, make a call.
~ Unknown
Words become meaningless, the mind cuts itself off from reality for a little while, a necessary breathing space until one is ready to cope.
~ Jack Higgins
The Joy of Being Alive Now and then it's good to pause in your pursuit of happiness, and just be happy. —GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE
~ Jack Kornfield
thinking that this conversation was going
~ Jackie Collins
You noticed things. You're not sure when you start. It's only when you've noticed - noticed that you know you've noticed. Maybe between the first time when you're staring to think, Is this what I think it is? and the second time when you think, Yes, between those two times, there's a silence. A pause.
~ Jackie Kay