#interrupt

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

— Andre Maurois

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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

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Many people feel they must multi-task because everybody else is multitasking, but this is partly because they are all interrupting each other so much. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

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People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

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I told her once I wasn’t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent. ↗

— Susanna Kaysen

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

— Amelia Earhart

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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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Above all, in comedy, and again and again since classical times, passages can be found in which the level of representation is interrupted by references to the spectators or to the fictive nature of the play. ↗

— Paul Watzlawick

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A number of the major terrorist captures we have made, the terrorist operations designed for the United States that we have interrupted, were enabled by the terrorist tracking program. ↗

— Kit Bond

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