I'm disturbing you.

Let's leave her alone.

Sorry... for confusing you.

I didn't mean to disturb you.

Now, there are different kinds of distractions, but there aren't the really bad kinds of distractions that I'll talk about in just a minute.

It's clearly undisturbed by us.

May I bother you for a moment?

I hope I'm not disturbing you.

iv. Policy to combat sexual harassment

I will try not to interrupt you while you are studying.

I'm the one who doesn't want to be interrupted.

You were considerate not to disturb us.

Don't disturb me while I'm studying.

Don't distract me while I am studying.

Excuse me. Is the supermarket open?

I am sorry to bother you at this time.

Don't disturb me while I'm studying.

Don't distract me while I am studying.

Excuse me, could you pass me the sugar?

Excuse me for interrupting you, but would you mind opening the window?

Excuse me, could you please show me your driving licence?

I will play Sudoku then instead of continuing to bother you.

Excuse me, would you mind if I peruse your stock portfolio?

If you're interrupted and woken up, you have to start again.

And managers are basically people whose job it is to interrupt people.

So I went over, Excuse me, sir, are you my driver?

Now, it could happen, but I'm not going to plan my life around it.

That's pretty much what managers are for. They're for interrupting people.

In practice, interviews have only occasionally had to be stopped because of disruption by children.

Excuse me. Can you direct me to the nearest subway station?

The police have taken several measures to combat sexual harassment.

To make matters worse, he isn't even conscious of annoying his neighbors.

Show me what's up, and this sort of thing and they keep interrupting you at the wrong time, while you're actually trying to do something they're paying you to do, they tend to interrupt you.

I say, Terry, please, I'm trying to fry an egg in here. Give me a break.

Don't let the people counting down from 100 interfere with your counting to 50.

In our daily life we are continuously disturbed by aggressive sounds.

How can we possibly expect people to do their job if they're going to the office to be interrupted?

So what are these interruptions that happen at the office that don't happen at other places?

Now, what usually happens when we're learning to be mindful is that we get distracted by a thought.

At the office, most of the interruptions and distractions that really cause people not to get work done are involuntary.

If I'm cooking, the door is shut, the kids are out, the phone's on the hook, if she comes in I get annoyed.

Why do we expect people to work well if they're being interrupted all day at the office?

I think I should want to, but actually I'd rather just do things on my Blackberry.

When I do these experiments with older colonies so ones that are five years or older they're much more consistent from one time to another and much more homeostatic. The worse things get, the more I hassle them, the more they act like undisturbed colonies.

There needed to be stronger measures to ensure equal pay for women and to combat sexual harassment in the workplace.