Browsing Topic Best Interrupting Quotes

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

Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.

Perhaps the window is not a sun but an asterisk, interrupting the grammar of the sky, with me sitting below it like a footnote.

Repentance is a divine gift, and there should be a smile on our faces when we speak of it. It points us to freedom, confidence, and peace. Rather than interrupting the celebration, the gift of repentance is the cause for true celebration.

The trouble is that neutrality is confused with hostility. We’re not disrupting churches, or interrupting people’s prayers. We’re not fighting religion.

What an odd, ruminating, noisy, self-interrupting conversation we conduct with ourselves from birth to death.

Writers get exactly the right amount of fame: just enough to get a good table in a restaurant but not enough so that people are constantly interrupting you while you’re eating dinner.

The fact that I am interrupting serious work to answer these questions proves that I am so stupid that I should be penalized severely. I will be. Don’t worry.

Recent research has indicated that the average individual listens for only seventeen seconds before interrupting and interjecting his own ideas.

Subplots bring realism to your main plot simply by existing – by interrupting the flow. Why is this? Because life doesn’t move forward all at once. Interruptions happen, change rushes in, we juggle three or ten balls at once. Readers don’t expect continuous narratives.

If I was just allowed to talk and handle the whole thing by myself without the audience interrupting with laughter, the show would be much more interesting. Think about all the time we waste by waiting for them to finish their noise, you know?

Recollect that to a woman who gets her living by her pen, ‘time is money,’ as it is to an artist. Therefore, encroaching on her time is lessening her income. And yet how often is this done (either heedlessly or selfishly) by persons professing to be her friends, and who are habitually in the practice of interrupting her in her writing hours.

You’re like Marilyn Monroe,’ Ken tells me, which I take as a compliment and say a nervous Thank You. Interrupting, he adds, ‘You’re all velvet and Velcro. Men want you because you’re sexy and broken and when it gets too rough they can say Hey! This toy is broken! and toss you aside without feeling bad.

The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself. Check yourself against this list of obstacles to a pleasing personality: interrupting others; sarcasm; vanity; being a poor listener; insincere flattery; finding fault; challenging others without good cause; giving unsolicited advice; complaining; attitude of superiority; envy of others’ success; poor posture and dress.

Dear Lord, make me a better parent. Teach me to understand my children, to listen patiently to what they have to say and to answer all their questions kindly. Keep me from interrupting them, talking back to them, and contradicting them. Make me as courteous to them as I would have them to be to me.

The horrible truth is we are linear beings; we can’t multitask, and we shouldn’t keep interrupting important connections to each other with the latest message coming in.

God interrupt whatever we are doing so that we can join You in what You’re doing

I do much of my creative thinking while golfing. If people know you’re working at home they think nothing of walking in for a cup of coffee, but wouldn’t dream of interrupting on the golf course.

Opening a book in the middle of a chapter always made me feel like I was interrupting a group of strangers, wandering unannounced into their villages and apartments and taxis and slums.

Allowing an unimportant mistake to pass without a comment is a wonderful social grace … Children who have the habit of constantly correcting should be stopped before they grow up to drive spouses and everyone else crazy by interrupting stories to say, ‘No, dear — it was Tuesday, not Wednesday.

Dresden. Am I interrupting something?Well, I was going to settle down with a porn video and a bottle of baby oil, but I really don’t have enough for two.

Looking back, you realize that everything would have explained itself if you had only stopped interrupting.

For me to praise is interrupting praise.

Selling to people who actually want to hear from you is more effective than interrupting strangers who don’t.

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.

Don’t talk to me while I’m interrupting.

It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money.

I doubt; I am uncertain; I am restless, prone to wander. And yet glimmers of holy keep interrupting my gaze.

Remember that this is not something we do just once or twice. Interrupting our destructive habits and awakening our heart is the work of a lifetime.

The truth came slowly like a story told by people interrupting each other.

Everything is allowed, except interrupting a manifestation of love.

Don’t interrupt me while I’m interrupting.