Interruptions Quotes

• 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

  Real, One Day, Truth Is

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• My whole life I have been complaining
  that my work was constantly interrupted, until I discovered
  that my interruptions
  were my work.

  Henri Nouwen

  Complaining, Whole Life, Has Beens

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “Reaching Out”, p.51, Image

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• We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Unexpected, Truth Is

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• Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. Prepare yourself in every way you can by increasing your knowledge and adding to your experience, so that you can make the most of opportunity when it occurs.

  Mario Andretti

  Motivational, Sports, Football

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What appears to be an interruption is often an intervention.

  Rich Wilkerson Jr.

  Intervention

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• He came, not as a flash of light or as an unapproachable conqueror, but as one whose first cries were heard by a peasant girl and a sleepy carpenter. God tapped humanity on its collective shoulder, "Pardon me," he said, and eternity interrupted time, divinity interrupted carnality, and heaven interrupted the earth in the form of a baby. Christianity was born in one big heavenly interruption.

  Max Lucado

  Christmas, Girl, Baby

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• One of the major keys to success is to keep moving forward on the journey, making the best of the detours and interruptions, turning adversity into advantage.

  John C. Maxwell

  Moving, Adversity, Journey

  John C. Maxwell (1997). “Your Roadmap for Success”

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• The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Average, Time Management, Fifty

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• Living a life of following Christ means constant interruptions.

  Bob Goff

  Mean, Following Christ, Constant

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• She said interruptions were simply God's appointments.

  Debbie Macomber

  Said, Appointments, God's Will

  Debbie Macomber (2014). “Choir of Angels: Shirley, Goodness and Mercy\Those Christmas Angels\Where Angels Go”, p.339, Harlequin

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• Focusing on one thing without interruption is how you get meaningful work done.

  Nate Green

  Meaningful, Done, Entrepreneurship

  "How to Do Work: 8 Strategies to Stop Wasting Time and Get Things Done" by Nate Green, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 11, 2014.

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• The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Problem, Life Is, Handle

  "Quick Guide & Transcript: Review the week's headlines, Reflect on the last days of MLK". "CNN Student News", www.cnn.com. January 18, 2007.

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• He who works with the door open gets all kinds of interruptions, but he also occasionally gets clues as to what the world is and what might be important.

  Richard Hamming

  Hard Work, Science, Doors

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• At root, a pearl is a 'disturbance' a beauty caused by something that isn't supposed to be there, about which something needs to be done. It is the interruption of equilibrium that creates beauty. Beauty is a response to provocation, to intrusion. ... The pearl's beauty is made as a result of insult.

  Julia Cameron

  Beauty, Roots, Needs

  Julia Cameron (2005). “The Sound of Paper”, p.14, Penguin

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• The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Truth Is, Courses

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• Just about the only interruption we don't object to is applause.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Appreciation, Applause, Objects

  Sydney J. Harris (1986). “Clearing the ground”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Loving people the way Jesus did, means living a life of constant interruptions. Bring it.

  Bob Goff

  Jesus, Mean, People

  FaceBook post by Bob Goff from Oct 03, 2014

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• In the beginning, I had considered these stops on my journey as interruptions - but I'm coming to understand that perhaps these detours are my journey.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Journey, Detours, My Journey

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

  Mario Andretti

  Motivational, Sight, Goal

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Jesus . . . wants us to see that the neighbor next door or the people sitting next to us on a plane or in a classroom are not interruptions to our schedule. They are there by divine appointment. Jesus wants us to see their needs, their loneliness, their longings, and he wants to give us the courage to reach out to them.

  Rebecca Pippert

  Jesus, Loneliness, Doors

  David Peterson, Rebecca Manley-Pippert (2013). “Out of the Saltshaker and into the World: Evangelism As A Way Of Life”, p.104, SPCK

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• We 'have all we want' is a terrible saying when 'all' does not include God. We find God an interruption. As St. Augustine says somewhere, 'God wants to give us something, but cannot, because our hands are full - there's nowhere for Him to put it.'

  C. S. Lewis

  Hands, Giving, Doe

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.210, Simon and Schuster

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• Interruptions are the spice of life.

  Don Herold

  Life, Spices, Spice Of Life

  Don Herold (1930). “Strange Bedfellows: My Crazy-quilt Memoirs, Life-maxims and What-not”

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• How I treat a brother or sister from day to day, how I react to the sin-scarred wino on the street, how I respond to interruptions from people I dislike, how I deal with normal people in their normal confusion on a normal day may be a better indication of my reverence for life than the antiabortion sticker on the bumper of my car.

  Brennan Manning

  Brother, People, Confusion

  Brennan Manning, Michael W. Smith (2000). “The ragamuffin Gospel”, Multnomah

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• There are no interruptions, only mismanaged inputs

  David Allen

  Input

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• Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Noise, Pessimism, Form

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.269, Simon and Schuster

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