#interrupt

The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work. ↗

— W. Edwards Deming

#american worker #average #average american #day #fifty

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done. ↗

— Amelia Earhart

#done #interrupt #never #said #someone

I was born in London, England, in 1938, a few months before the war, and spent the first years of my life there, although I was evacuated a couple of times for short periods. My schooling was very interrupted, both by frequent moves and by ill health. ↗

— Anne Perry

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The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions. The door that slams shut, the plan that got sidetracked, the marriage that failed. Or that lovely poem that didn't get written because someone knocked on the door. ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#interruption #life #overcome #problem #life

If someone wants to transmit a high-quality service with no interruptions and 'guaranteed this, guaranteed that,' they should be willing to pay for that. ↗

— Edward Whitacre, Jr.

#high-quality #interruptions #pay #service #should

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper. ↗

— Rod Serling

#both #dancing #difficult #documentary #every

Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#done #interrupted #others #say #those

Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests. ↗

— Alain Badiou

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The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

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Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the efforts and the demands of others. ↗

— Elizabeth Janeway

#beings #demands #efforts #existence #fragmented