#interrupt

Well, they're Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of walking right in for coffee. But they wouldn't dream of interrupting you at golf. ↗

— Harper Lee

#dream #golf #home #interrupting #know

The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of nervous stimulation which results from the swift and uninterrupted change of outer and inner stimuli. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#change #consists #individuality #inner #intensification

You're in the public eye and you just hope that people don't come up and interrupt you while your in the middle of a meal or a conversation or something like that. ↗

— Wayne Rogers

#conversation #eye #hope #interrupt #just

Being constantly the hub of a network of potential interruptions provides the excitement and importance of crisis management. As well as the false sense of efficiency in multitasking, there is the false sense of urgency in multi-interrupt processing. ↗

— Michael Foley

#multi-tasking #work #age

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt. ↗

— Henry J. Kaiser

#interrupt #itself #speaks #your

The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life -- the life God is sending one day by day. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#life #life

The debate was wearing me out. Once you've posed that question, it won't go away. I think many people kill themselves simply to stop the debate about whether they will or they won't. Anything I thought or did was immediately drawn into the debate. Made a stupid remark—why not kill myself? Missed the bus—better put an end to it all. Even the good got in there. I liked that movie—maybe I shouldn’t kill myself. ↗

— Susanna Kaysen

#philosophy #suicide #movies

Are you crazy? It's a common phrase, I know. But it means something particular to me: the tunnels, the security screens, the plastic forks, the shimmering, ever-shifting borderline that like all boundaries beckons and asks to be crossed. I do not want to cross it again. ↗

— Susanna Kaysen

#girl-interrupted #insanity #mental-illness #mental-illness

I don't have much of a problem with interruptions. I keep a detailed record of paint and materials as a work on each painting. I can restart exactly where I left off. ↗

— Mike Thompson

#each #exactly #i #i can #interruptions

Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#being #deceived #deception #habitual #life