Disconnected Quotes - Page 6

• I disconnected and made a mental note not to call Tank unless I was bleeding profusely, and he was the only other person on earth.

  Janet Evanovich

  Tanks, Earth, Bleeding

  Janet Evanovich (2007). “Twelve Sharp”, p.67, Macmillan

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• I would be at home reading, because I felt so disconnected from humanity.

  Joel Stein

  Reading, Home, Humanity

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In Buddhist ideology, the conventional self is that which is constructed in a way by the use of the pronoun, and when you realize there is no absolute ego there, no disconnected one, self, or ego, then that actually strengthens your conventional ego. It does so in the sense that then you realize it's a construction, and you can strengthen it in order to help others, or do whatever you're trying to do, it's not like you no longer know who you are. Then you can organize your behavior by using your ego, as it's now the pronoun.

  Robert Thurman

  Buddhist, Helping Others, Self

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• I always try to connect with what's happening in the world-reality, modernity, the 21st century, all that - and with Jil it started to feel very disconnected from the outside and how women were looking at fashion, experiencing fashion, interpreting fashion.

  Raf Simons

  Fashion, Reality, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Cognitive psychology has shown that the mind best understands facts when they are woven into a conceptual fabric, such as a narrative, mental map, or intuitive theory. Disconnected facts in the mind are like unlinked pages on the Web: They might as well not exist.

  Steven Pinker

  Psychology, Mind, Woven

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• From very early on in my childhood - four, five years old - I felt alien to the human race. I felt very comfortable with thinking I was from another planet, because I felt disconnected - I was very tall and skinny, and I didn't look like anybody else, I didn't even look like any member of my family.

  Patti Smith

  Thinking, Race, Years

  "'Even as a child, I felt like an alien'". Interview with Simon Reynolds, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2005.

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• Transition is always a relief. Destination means death to me. If I could figure out a way to remain forever in transition, in the disconnected and unfamiliar, I could remain in a state of perpetual freedom.

  David Wojnarowicz

  Mean, Forever, Transition

  David Wojnarowicz (1994). “David Wojnarowicz: brush fires in the social landscape”

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• Is there anything else you need from me?" Ranger asked. "Not right now." "There will come a time," Ranger said. "Let me know when." And he disconnected. I opened the freezer and stuck my head in to cool off. If there'd been any more innuendo in that conversation, I could have fried an egg on my forehead.

  Janet Evanovich

  Eggs, Needs, Conversation

  Janet Evanovich (2008). “Fearless Fourteen: A Stephanie Plum Novel”, p.215, Macmillan

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• I disconnected as a sleepy Seth stepped out of the bedroom. “Who’s Dante? Was that a collect call to the Inferno?” “They won’t accept the charges,” I murmured.

  Richelle Mead

  Sleepy, Bedroom, Inferno

  Richelle Mead (2012). “Succubus Dreams”, p.207, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• Ranger picked up and there was a moment of silence as if he was sensing me at the other end, taking my body temperature and heart rate long distance. “Babe,” he finally said. “Do you know the slum apartment building Bobby Sunflower owns on Stark?” “Yes. It’s on the same block as his funeral home.” “That’s the one. I’m going in to look for someone. If you don’t hear from me in a half hour maybe you could send someone to check.” “Is this a smart thing to do?” “Probably not.” “As long as you know,” Ranger said. And he disconnected.

  Janet Evanovich

  Block, Smart, Distance

  Janet Evanovich (2010). “Sizzling Sixteen”, p.20, Macmillan

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• I don't see a huge difference between the African condition and the black American condition. The only real difference is that black Americans live in the richest country on Earth surrounded by a majority white population and are almost entirely disconnected from their original culture and their God-given identity.

  Kola Boof

  Country, Real, White

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• In schools the main problem is not the absence of innovations but the presence of too many disconnected... piecemeal, superficially adorned projects... We are over our heads.

  Michael Fullan

  Teaching, School, Innovation

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• I became disconnected from the childlike play that art could be. I spent so much time fearing I wasn't good enough that I lost the sense that my artistic expression was worthy.

  Elisabeth Shue

  Art, Expression, Play

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• Squandering our gifts brings distress to our lives. As it turns out, it's not merely benign or 'too bad' if we don't use the gifts that we've been given; we pay for it with our emotional and physical well-being. When we don't use our talents to cultivate meaningful work, we struggle. We feel disconnected and weighted down by feelings of emptiness, frustration, resentment, shame, disappointment, fear, and even grief.

  Brené Brown

  Motivational, Meaningful, Disappointment

  Brené Brown (2010). “The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are”, p.123, Simon and Schuster

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• Once the Western mind was disconnected from its sense of divine responsibility and genuine reverence towards nature, all hell broke loose. And that’s where we are now.

  Marianne Williamson

  Responsibility, Mind, Hell

  "Marianne Williamson on Consciousness, Women and Politics". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2012.

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• ...from schools to universities to research institutes, we teach about origins in disconnected fragments. We seem incapable of offering a unified account of how things came to be the way they are.

  David Christian

  School, Offering, Research

  David Christian (2011). “Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History”, p.2, Univ of California Press

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• When we lack etiquette, we trash things. We trash each other. We trash the environment. We lose sight of the value of things. We suffer alienation when our spirit is disconnected from our physical awareness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Sight

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• My new work deals with emptying my body: 'Boat emptying, stream entering.' This means that you have to empty the body/boat to the point where you can really be connected with the fields of energy around you. I think that men and women in our Western culture are completely disconnected from that energy, and in my new work I want to make this connection possible.

  Marina Abramovic

  Mean, Men, Thinking

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• The Nazis, for him, are merely available movie tropes--articulate monsters with a talent for sadism. By making the Americans cruel, too, he escapes the customary division of good and evil along national lines, but he escapes any sense of moral accountability as well. In a Tarantino war, everyone commits atrocities. Like all the director's work after 'Jackie Brown,' the movie is pure sensation. It's disconnected from feeling, and an eerie blankness--it's too shallow to be called nihilism--undermines even the best scenes.

  David Denby

  War, Eerie, Evil

  David Denby (2013). “Do the Movies Have a Future?”, p.252, Simon and Schuster

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• God is not aloof. He is not disconnected. He says continually through the centuries, I’ll help you, I really will. When you don’t know where to turn, then turn to me. When you’re ready to throw up your hands - throw them up to me. Put your voice behind them too, and I’ll come and help you.

  Jim Cymbala

  Hands, Voice, Helping

  Jim Cymbala (2010). “Fresh Wind Fresh Fire: What Happens When God's Spirit Invades the Hearts of His People”, p.57, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• From the moment we are born, the world tends to have a box already built for us to fit inside. Our umbilical cord never seems to be severed; we only find new needs to fill. If we disconnected and severed our attachments, would we shatter our confinements and expand beyond our shell? Would the world look different? Would we recognize ourselves? Are we the box that we are inside, and to be authentically 'un-contained' would we still be able to exist? This is the irony of containment. As long as we don't push on the walls of our surroundings, we may never know how strong we really are.

  Paige Bradley

  Strong, Wall, Attachment

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• I play only classical music. My pianos are my only big indulgence, but they're a necessity. When I'm playing the piano is literally the only time I can be completely abstract and disconnected from the regular world and yet be connected - to my music.

  Rafael Vinoly

  Play, Piano, World

  "Classical Piano and Modern Design" by Robin Finn, www.nytimes.com. November 11, 2011.

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• Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall, let us trace the pattern, however disconnected and incoherent in appearance, which each sight or incident scores upon the consciousness. Let us not take it for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.

  Virginia Woolf

  Fall, Sight, Order

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “The Common Reader”, p.122, Lulu Press, Inc

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• We must remember that man is not an island, totally isolated and disconnected from others. We are all part of a universal chain, or the universal consciousness. What happens to one happens to all.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Men, Islands, Remember

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Most of us have become Ecozombies, desensitized, environmental deadheads. On average, society conditions us to spend over 95% of our time and 99.9% of our thinking disconnected from nature. Nature's extreme absence in our lives leaves us abandoned and wanting. We feel we never have enough. We greedily, destructively, consume and, can't stop. Nature's loss in our psyche produces a hurt, hungering, void within us that bullies us into our dilemmas.

  Michael J Cohen

  Hurt, Loss, Emotional

  Michael J. Cohen (2003). “The Web of Life Imperative: Regenerative Ecopsychology Techniques That Help People Think in Balance with Natural Systems”, p.83, Trafford Publishing

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