#interruption

Today baseball is currently enjoying a run of more than 14 years without interruption, a record that would have been inconceivable in the 1990s. ↗

— David Cone

#been #currently #enjoying #inconceivable #interruption

I am among the few who continue to draw after childhood is ended, continuing and perfecting childhood drawing - without the traditional interruption of academic training. ↗

— Saul Steinberg

#after #am #among #childhood #continue

Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#fact #inner #inner life #interruption #life

We were now, as I before mentioned, upon this St. Joseph's trail. It was evident, by the traces, that large parties were a few days in advance of us; and as we too supposed them to be Mormons, we had some apprehension of interruption. ↗

— Francis Parkman

#apprehension #before #days #evident #few

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

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

Because each of you has his or her own death, you carry it with you in a secret place from the moment you're born, it belongs to you and you belong to it. ↗

— José Saramago

#death-with-interruptions #life #philosophy #death

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

— Alain Badiou

#individual #interests #interruption #particular #pressure

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

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