Disconnected Quotes - Page 7

• The experience of life that you and I have is pretty much a jigsaw puzzle in the box: Day-to-day experiences of disconnected pieces that don't seem to justify the efforts we make each day.

  Robert Adams

  Jigsaw Puzzles, Effort, Pieces

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• I like Mitch Daniels on the fiscal conservative issues. You disagree with him on this idea that social issues, you takeoff the table. I do that for two reasons. I think the fiscal issues in a sense are a symptom of a lot of the deeper cultural issues in America. I don't think they are as disconnected as he thinks.

  Mark Steyn

  Thinking, Ideas, Two

  "Mark Steyn: RomneyCare Was A 'Technocratic Solution'". www.realclearpolitics.com. May 12, 2011.

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• In making certain things easier for people, technology has actually demotivated people from using their brains. We have all these devices that keep us connected, and yet we’re more disconnected than ever before. Why is that?

  Emilio Estevez

  Technology, People, Brain

  "Emilio Estevez On ‘The Way’: Actor Discusses New Movie, Life, Love, Faith And Micro-Farms". Interview with Lauren Rosenblum, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 14, 2011.

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• I think the really cool and compelling thing about math and physics is that it opens up entry to all these hypotheticals - or at least, it gives you the language to talk about them. But at the same time, if a scenario is completely disconnected from reality, it's not all that interesting.

  Randall Munroe

  Math, Reality, Thinking

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• I had a very angry father and was disconnected from my family.

  William P. Young

  Father, My Family, Angry

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• My books have been translated into various languages and sold in other countries, but I never have any contact with the foreign publishers and am so disconnected from that process that it seems almost imaginary. With 'How to Save a Life', I worked closely with Usborne editors and have been involved in the publicity.

  Sara Zarr

  Country, Book, Editors

  "Teen book club: Cat Clarke interviews Sara Zarr" by Cat Clarke, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2012.

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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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• Part of what we admire about a painting or a piece of music is the order which the artist has imposed upon what would otherwise have appeared disconnected or chaotic.

  Anthony Storr

  Artist, Order, Pieces

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• If an organ is somehow severed from its body, it will shrivel and die. It cannot exist on its own, and neither can you. Disconnected and cut off from the lifeblood of a local body, your spiritual life will wither and eventually cease to exist.

  Rick Warren

  Spiritual, Cutting, Body

  "The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?". Book by Rick Warren, 2002.

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• When I get on the World Cup tour, I'm kind of disconnected from the world. I just kind of get wrapped up in my world and wrapped up in trying to ski fast every day, and I forget about everything else.

  Lindsey Vonn

  Trying, World, Cups

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• They're all tied together: taxes, Medicare, Social Security, and the debt. We've got to have a setting of priorities, and looking at it - at each of them as disconnected, I think, doesn't properly address these major challenges.

  John McCain

  Thinking, Priorities, Challenges

  "Tax cuts likely to be an issue in 2000 elections" by Beth Fouhy, www.cnn.com. July 28, 1999.

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• A person deprived of beauty and pleasure puts me in mind of the Haitian notion of a zombie - a person disconnected from his or her soul, a person who works for others' profit but never his own, a person who mindlessly does the bidding of the boss and exists in an emotional and mental limbo.

  Ben Fountain

  Emotional, Boss, Soul

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I like the way Microsoft participates in other-than-mainstream activities, such as academic research, charities, scholarships and connecting the disconnected by providing technology support to underserved people.

  Arfa Karim

  Technology, People, Support

  Source: arfakarim.wordpress.com

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• If your own strong ego clashes with other strong egos, you not going to get anywhere. I studied psychology and learned about the many parts of us that we need to integrate so we don't walk around feeling disconnected: personality, soul, ego. If you do feel disconnected, you need to ask which part is feeling that way. Your ego is there to boost you up, if recognized and used correctly.

  Agapi Stassinopoulos

  Strong, Personality, Soul

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I think we've unplugged and become very apathetic to a lot of things that are happening. There's so much going on and we're sort of disconnected.

  Morgan Spurlock

  Thinking, Apathetic, Happenings

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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