#interruption

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

— Alain Badiou

#individual #interests #interruption #particular #pressure

There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#congress #continuously #deal #going #got

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

Tris: "I was reading." Sandry: "You're always reading. The only way people can ever talk to you is to interrupt." Tris: "Then maybe they shouldn't talk to me. ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#reading #sandry #talk #tris #magic

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

Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime. I've came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#came #candidate #day #did #die

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

— Mario Andretti

#circumstances #delays #goal #interruptions #lose

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