#interruptions

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

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

Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. ↗

— Mario Andretti

#circumstances #delays #goal #interruptions #lose

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions. ↗

— Andre Maurois

#effectiveness #geometric #increases #interruptions #progression

It's a fallacy that writers have to shut themselves up in their ivory towers to write. I have all these interruptions, three of which I gave birth to. If I was thrown for a loop every time I was distracted I could never get anything done. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#birth #could #distracted #done #every

Viewed from a distance, or through the eye of the All-Knowing CEO of the Universe, the crash of 2008 followed the usual pattern. A long-lived boom driven by cheap credit, going back as far as 1982 (though subject to interruptions in the mid-1980s and 1990s, and in 2001), came to grief because of a rise in the cost of borrowing money. ↗

— James Buchan

#back #because #boom #borrowing #came

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