Detached Quotes - Page 6

• I once read that the only way to enjoy life is to observe everything with a sense of detached amusement. I don't always do that, but it serves you well to keep it in mind.

  Bryant Gumbel

  Life, Happiness, Reading

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• I am a Piscean, and they have a lovingly detached attitude towards life.

  Shahid Kapoor

  Attitude, Attitude Towards Life

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• Some people see me as dissecting my characters in some kind of heartless, coldblooded, analytical way, when in truth making these movies is a passionate, intensely emotional experience for me. I'm detached from the characters only to the degree that I have to be in order to write honestly about them.

  Todd Solondz

  Writing, Character, Emotional

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• At last I feel identified with the mountains, clean, cold, hard, detached.

  Anna Kavan

  Mountain, Lasts, Cold

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• Psychopaths have a grandiose self-structure which demands a scornful and detached devaluation of others, in order to ward off their envy toward the good perceived in other people. He will choose you, disarm you with his words, and control you with his presence. He will delight you with his wit and his plans. He will show you a good time but you will always get the bill. He will smile and deceive you, and he will scare you with his eyes. And when he is through with you, and he will be through with you, he will desert you and take with him your innocence and your pride.

  Robert D. Hare

  Eye, Pride, Self

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• Detachment from things does not mean setting up a contradiction between 'things' and 'God' as if God were another thing and as if creatures were His rivals. We do not detach ourselves from things in order to attach ourselves to God, but rather we become detached from ourselves in order to see and use all things in and for God.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Mean, Order

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.21, New Directions Publishing

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• I'm working on new techniques. I'm trying to find a way to make fresco that can be detached from a wall, and I'm trying to find new people who can help me work on a very large scale in bronze.

  Camille Henrot

  Wall, People, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The real meaning of detached love is to let others exist without forcing our will upon them. That is spiritual love.

  Harold Klemp

  Spiritual, Real, Love Is

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• You will never be able to have perfect interior peace and recollection unless you are detached even from the desire of peace and recollection. You will never be able to pray perfectly until you are detached from the pleasures of prayer.

  Thomas Merton

  Prayer, Perfect, Desire

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, New Directions Publishing

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• What it does remind us is that 'God' is not to be separated from the quest for the Kingdom of God and is not and cannot be the object of any detached 'scientific' contemplation. Heidegger's critique of onto-theology is also driving a wedge between speaking of God and the aims of science - not so as to get rid of God but rather to free God from a false objectification.

  George Pattison

  Kingdoms, Objectification, Doe

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• With the business growing, work has become a little more detached from my life. But in the start, before I had a separate studio and a team, everything happened in my house and it was hard to separate the two.

  Garance Dore

  Team, Two, House

  "BYT Interviews: Garance Dore". Interview with Svetlana Legetic, brightestyoungthings.com. February 19, 2016.

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• I had the idea to become really emotionally detached, and a lot of the time I've treated people that I've cared about a lot really unfairly.

  George Clarke

  Ideas, People, Treated

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I really wanted to be able to make the music that acknowledged the metaphysical aspect of extreme sports because when I started watching GoPro videos, the thing that struck me the most was that the sound seemed completely detached from the imagery.

  Taraka Larson

  Sports, Sound, Video

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It was a film that I knew, that I had seen, that I was familiar with, but I wasn't anxious about it at any point during the screening. I snoozed twice, and this is something I couldn't have imagined that I would feel detached, as I did with this film [Certified Copy].

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Film, Anxious, Familiar

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. March 17, 2011.

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• If someone is feeling out of sorts or detached it's a great time to bring them in and restate why we are here and what we are trying to do.

  John Petrucci

  Feelings, Trying, Why We Are Here

  Source: myglobalmind.com

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• How do we awaken to this true Self? By going within and putting our attention on the silent presence in our heart - the silent witness that is detached from sensory experience and at the same time enjoys that experience in complete freedom.

  Deepak Chopra

  Heart, Self, Attention

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• If the individual is narrowly concentrated on the goal, to the exclusion of other relevant aspects of the problem situation, he is often unable to achieve a solution. The creative thinker must stand sufficiently detached from his work.

  Mary Henle

  Creativity, Goal, Creative

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• The creative thinker must stand sufficiently detached from his work.

  Mary Henle

  Creativity, Creative, Thinker

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• Some prisons don't allow guitar because the strings can be detached and used as weapons.

  Truman Capote

  Guitar, Weapons, Prison

  Source: capote.wordpress.com

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• When I've taught writing to five, six, and seven year olds, it's not very different than talking to an adult writer. They're writers then, and when they get to be young teenagers they're not anymore. You might go and talk to them about writing, and they'll be very self-conscious or will have detached themselves from the group.

  Alice Mattison

  Teenager, Writing, Self

  Source: therumpus.net

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• One can be a good critic and a moral observer, but one remains professionally detached as a writer and a filmmaker.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Moral, Filmmaker, Critics

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The Palestinians are not going anywhere - -they have nowhere to go. The Israeli Jews also aren't going anywhere - they have nowhere to go. But we cannot become one happy family, because we are not. So, we have to divide the house into two smaller apartments and learn how to say, "good morning" in the hall every day. Eventually, perhaps we will pop in on each other for a cup of coffee. But we need this semi-detached house, a two-family unit.

  Amos Oz

  Morning, Coffee, Two

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I think of futurists as people who have a particular attitude about the future. They're advocates for a certain kind of outcome. As a forecaster I am something very different. I am a professional bystander. I have opinions about the future, of course. But my whole posture is to be detached and to identify what I think will happen and not allow my judgments of what should happen to get involved.

  Paul Saffo

  Attitude, Thinking, Bystanders

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Ultimately spiritual awareness unfolds when you're flexible, when you're spontaneous, when you're detached, when you're easy on yourself and easy on others.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Awareness, Spontaneous

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• I am religious by nature, I'm not a nihilist. I don't follow, I don't even know what the tenets of things like deconstructionism are, and all those schools that come up and their way of looking at things that people strive to incorporate into what they write. I don't even know what they are. Because I sense from a distance that I don't want to know. And therefore even if I had no politics, actual politics, my cultural point of view is hopelessly out of date with the modern literary sensibility. Which is nihilistic, and ironic, detached, cool, and cowardly.

  Mark Helprin

  Religious, Distance, Writing

  Source: americasfuture.org

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