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Quotes About Disturbance

A los hombres que me apartan de mis vicios sólo para hacerme perder el tiempo, mi compañía no les resulta agradable.
~ C.L. Werner
Sleep was a bumpy road for Willie that night. In between dozing and leaning out the window to plead with Booboo to be quiet, Willie was kept awake by his dog's howls, yowls, whines, whimpers, barks, yips, and moans. Booboo's range of loud noises was impressive.
~ C.S. Adler
network tools are distracting us from work that requires unbroken concentration, while simultaneously degrading our capacity to remain focused.
~ Cal newport
although our current embrace of distraction is a real phenomenon, it's built on an unstable foundation and can be easily dismissed once you decide
~ Cal newport
toward distracting behavior, because in an Internet-centric technopoly such behavior is not up for discussion.
~ Cal newport
It is not the "disturbance" of the normal course of events; it is the manifestation of something utterly new. Eternal life has appeared in the midst of mortality.13
~ George Eldon Ladd
When I first saw you, it was like being thrown from a shuttle before it touched the ground. I fell and when I landed, I felt it in every cell of my body. You disturbed me. You took away my inner peace…
~ Ilona Andrews
160Any change makes me apprehensive, even if it offers the greatest promise of improving my condition, and I am persuaded by this natural instinct of mine that I must take heed if I wish that the threads which the Fates spin so thin and weak in my case to be spun to any length. My great thanks, to my well-wishers and friends, who think so kindly of me as to undertake my welfare, but at the same time a most humble request to protect me in my current condition from any disturbance.
~ Immanuel Kant
The police moved us on at about six a.m. This is the hour when, for some reason, one begins to be a menace to law and order.
~ Iris Murdoch
Yet she knew that it was not really the sharp tragic knife of passion that disturbed her now, it was some vaguer nervous storm out of her unsatisfied woman's nature.
~ Iris Murdoch
Gaia is just an extension of the desire for comfort and security extended to an entire planet. What's wrong with that?" "What's wrong with that," said Trevize, "is that my house or my ship is engineered to suit me. I am not engineered to suit it. If I were part of Gaia, then no matter how ideally the planet was devised to suit me, I would be greatly disturbed over the fact that I was also being devised to suit it.
~ Isaac Asimov
I can't tell you how many guys have approached me when I'm doing cardio. Like, I have my headphones on; I'm in the zone, so don't bother me.
~ Nikki Bella
Living upon a basis of unsatisfied demands, we were in a state of continual disturbance and frustration. Therefore, no peace was to be had unless we could find a means of reducing these demands.
~ Anonymous
I feel squeezed like a lemon - interviewers and people keep turning up unannounced at my office!
~ Francois Englert
One look at an email can rob you of 15 minutes of focus. One call on your cell phone, one tweet, one instant message can destroy your schedule, forcing you to move meetings, or blow off really important things, like love, and friendship.
~ Jacqueline Leo
Um, guys, I hate to interrupt whatever weirdness you two are partaking in, but we have a situation in here you might want to check on. (Phobos)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I'm reading! I don't want to be disturbed!
~ Italo Calvino
I don't like to be disturbed at home; I tell the cable office not to call me before 6:30 AM, unless there's a war.
~ U Thant
Wives bleeding and bruised often denied abuse when police appeared to check out a domestic disturbance. They feared even worse if they put their spouses in jail. It happened every day. "Jenny's
~ Susan McBride
so even though all the senses bring in sensations from nature, the ocean-like heart of the sage knows no disturbance, knows no fear
~ Swami Vivekananda
that the burden of evidence is on those who disturb natural systems
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I am never bothered by normal people; it is the bull***tter in the "intellectual" profession who bothers me.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nero believes, draw people to focus on noise rather than the signal (the
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
the burden of proof lies on someone disturbing a complex system, not on the person protecting the status quo.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb