Source: 1980s-1990s, Sensemaking in Organizations, 1995, p. 48-49, as cited in: Magala, Slawomir J. " Book Review Essay: Karl E. Weick: Sensemaking in Organizations 1995, London: Sage. 231 pages. http://www.sagepub.com/mcdonaldizationstudy5/articles/Book%20Reviews_Articles%20PDFs/Magala.pdf," Organization studies 18.2 (1997): p. 324.
“When you interrupt, you've stopped listening. People need to be heard.”
“There is nothing so annoying as having two people talking when you're busy interrupting.”
“You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you.”
Paris Review interview (1958)
Context: You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.
“What people call an "Interruption" is simply new input inappropriately managed.”
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Ann Wilson, from her talks in the Summer of 1972 at Agnes Martin's home in Mexico - an unpublished document; as quoted in Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art, Chapter 7 - 'Departures', Nancy Princenthal; Thames and Hudson, New York, p. 195-196
Wilson's visit to Cuba in Mexico was to work towards the publication accompanying Martin's exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia in 1973, curated by Suzanne Delehanty
1970's
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
As quoted in The Military Quotation Book (2002) by James Charlton, p. 93
Attributed
“Interrupt your thoughts of "I should", with your action of doing.”
Variant: Interrupt your own speaking with your own actions.
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 159
2010 Senate Campaign
Source: Hard-Core Free-Marketeer A Conversation With Peter Schiff: Investor, Critic, Candidate, Ahran, Frank, Sunday, October 4, 2009, Outlook & Opinions, 2009-10-03 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/01/AR2009100103890.html,
Source: Looking for Jake and Other Stories
Théorie des peines et des récompenses (1811); translation by Richard Smith, The Rationale of Reward, J. & H. L. Hunt, London, 1825, Bk. 3, Ch. 1
Context: Judges of elegance and taste consider themselves as benefactors to the human race, whilst they are really only the interrupters of their pleasure … There is no taste which deserves the epithet good, unless it be the taste for such employments which, to the pleasure actually produced by them, conjoin some contingent or future utility: there is no taste which deserves to be characterized as bad, unless it be a taste for some occupation which has mischievous tendency.
