Do you know that all great spurts in. . . progress came just after some unorthodox ideas or exotic impressions had penetrated into a closed system?
Comedy is a blood sport. It flays the truth and spurts twisted logic. In America, people become comics because we don't have bullfighting.
It is hard to try and find a rhythm when you're only out there for short spurts, but it's fine.
I work hard, but in spurts.
(About parenting:). . . all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.
I have an erratic drummer for anybody who's just listening to this, he can keep time, but just in spurts.
The key to the Toyota Way and what makes Toyota stand out is not any of the individual elements…But what is important is having all the elements together as a system. It must be practiced every day in a very consistent manner, not in spurts.
The mind reaches great heights only by spurts.
Growth in the ability to write comes in spurts.
Step by step you get ahead, but rarely in fast spurts.
I think there's more stressful periods than others when you're launching new things or going into a new business, or there are many things that can stress you out. Having to let people go, that's stressful. Never fun. But for the most part, I try to manage a schedule that's achievable and try not to make a schedule that's not. And a lot of times, sometimes it becomes a little unmanageable, but in spurts. So I think being able to make an achievable schedule, one that I know I can accomplish.
I've always kept my overhead low so I could do whatever I want. I think of myself as lazy with spurts of getting a lot done. I find myself rooting against things sometimes because I get excited at the thought of a clean slate.
I develop my own film. And I work in spurts. I pile it up.
History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again.
Really, I'm incredibly disjointed and not candid. Just in general, my thoughts tend to come out in little spurts that don't necessarily connect. If you hang around long enough, you can find the linear path. But it will take a second. That is why these interviews never go well for me.
English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.
Boys do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the hands of clocks in railway stations.
