(74 quotes found)
“The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it”
Chinese Proverbs
“Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.”
Amelia Earhart
“Interruptions can be viewed as sources of irritation or opportunities for service, as moments lost or experience gained, as time wasted or horizons widened. They can annoy us or enrich us, get under our skin or give us a shot in the arm. Monopolize our minutes or spice our schedules, depending on our attitude toward them.”
William Arthur Ward
“Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.”
James Arthur Baldwin
“The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.”
W. Edwards Deming
“There is no interruption between my older paintings and my cutouts. Just that with an increasing sense of the absolute, and more abstraction, I have achieved a form that is simplified to its essence,”
Henri Matisse
“But the only things that interrupted our happy family life came out there on the field, injuries and accidents and sickness, as the boys gave it all they had.”
Casey Stengel
“What the deuce is it to me? he interrupted impatiently; "you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work."”
Arthur Conan Doyle Sr.
“Those who say something can't be done should not interrupt those doing it.”
Author unknown
“Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but is also a disruption of thought.”
Arthur Schopenhauer