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Quotes About Interruption

I don't like the outside world to intrude when I'm making a film. I like to either see my family or work, but I don't like to go out.
~ Jodie Foster
The bald fact is that many companies provide developers with a workplace that is so crowded, noisy, and interruptive as to fill their days with frustration. That alone could explain reduced efficiency as well as a tendency for good people to migrate elsewhere.
~ Tom DeMarco
How much longer?"he asked, trying to be casual. "For ever, if you keep interrupting.
~ Unknown
This interruption broke the flow of whatever Redd was trying to tell them. And, by Navajo standards, such an interruption was rude. One let a speaker finish, and then waited to make sure he was indeed finished, before one spoke. But then Janet Pete was really Navajo only by blood and birth. She hadn't been raised on the Reservation in the Navajo Way. Had
~ Tony Hillerman
You saved us in the nick of time." "Have I saved you?" asked the Hemulen in surprise. "I didn't mean to. I was looking for the caterpillars that were making such a noise down there." (Hemulens are generally a bit slow in grasping an idea, but they are very pleasant if you don't annoy them.)
~ Tove Jansson
How could she ever plan her future when there was always someone who would go out of her way to step in and try to plan it for her?
~ Tricia Goyer
he should leave us alone," Zoe said, "and then we won't really need nose plugs." "Famous last words," Logan said.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Because men interrupt more often than women do, you need to learn to handle being interrupted rather than allowing the interruption to silence you. Think of an interruption not as a period in a sentence that ends a thought, but as a comma that merely pauses the thought. Your job is to complete the rest of the sentence.
~ Unknown
Today's art has been cancelled due to police activity.
~ Banksy
A good musical comedy consists largely of disorderly conduct occassionally interrupted by talk.
~ George Ade
You're not going to go around poking at the fire and straightening up the room again, are you?
~ Dashiell Hammett
The Zeigarnik Effect, as it has come to be known today, states simply that the brain naturally remembers and holds on to anything that is interrupted or incomplete. These interruptions and incompletions are called open loops.
~ David Allen
Sorry if I interrupted your baking." Bond waved this off. "I was already done. The loaf's out of the oven now. It's one of my few pleasures left. I bake at all hours of the day and night.
~ David Baldacci
I want to tell you,' the voice on the phone said. 'My head is filled with things to say.' ... 'I don't mind,' Hal said softly. 'I could wait forever.' 'That's what you think,' the voice said. The connection was cut.
~ David Foster Wallace
By the way, I do think that awareness is different from thinking. I am similar to most other people, I believe, in that I do not really do my most important thinking in large, intentional blocks where I sit down uninterrupted in a chair and know in advance what it is I'm going to think about... It doesn't work like that for me.
~ David Foster Wallace
Mi educación se vio interrumpida por mi ingreso a la escuela".
~ William Ospina
Distraction and diversion. It was more than Luke had dared hope for. He planned to make a move no matter what—he had to—come what may at whatever cost to himself. Then Cal and Jed had blundered along, scared witless and thinking only of getting off the street before the shooting started. Their timely interruption broke the concentration of Cort and Devon Randle.
~ William W. Johnstone
My education was interrupted only by my schooling.
~ Winston Churchill
I've interrupted a party. Is it in celebration of the peace or in honor of the next war?
~ Winston Graham
Once aware of my isolation, I was afraid not of it but of its interruption.
~ Claire Messud
They were fine and slender. At any given moment they stopped every bit as much lines, every bit much in the same state as at the beginning. Interrupted, always interrupted not because they terminated, but because no one could take them to the end. Circles were more perfect, less tragic and didn't move her enough. Circles were the work of man, finished before death and not even God could finish them better. While straight, fine, freestanding lines – were like thoughts.
~ Clarice Lispector
La vida es una sucesión de actos miserables interrumpidos por unos pocos y pequeños actos heroicos, y es en el promedio de todos ellos donde logramos sentirnos dignos. Donde queremos que al menos un testigo nos sepa dignos. Aunque no lo seamos.
~ Unknown
I went back to the door of Georges's study and pushed it open. He and Camille were sitting at either side of the empty fireplace, not speaking, just staring into each other's faces. "Am I interrupting you?" "No," Camille said, "we were just staring into each other's faces. I hope you weren't discomfitted by what you heard when you were listening at the door just now?
~ Hilary Mantel
Jude never loved Locke.' My face feels hot, but my shame is an excellent cover to hide behind. 'She loved someone else. He's the one she'd want dead.' I am pleased to see Cardan flinch. 'Enough,' he says before I can go on. 'I have heard all I care to on this subject-
~ Holly Black