Quotes About Shutting off

New York has a deep culture of house and dance music, and to be able to tap into that is my way of shutting off. I go to friends' parties and local spots around the area: places I can go to, have a dance, and forget about being an actor and the attention.

When a family loses its ability to dream, children don't grow, love doesn't grow and life loses strength, eventually it shuts off.

There was no way that he could repair the damage done to their past; it was a task completely beyond his means. The path he chose–shutting himself off–was perhaps the only way of putting together a life for himself and avoiding damage from his mother's projections.

When you feel helpless, you'll do just about any old thing to shut off your head.

I was tortured fifteen times, thats total submission. They did that with shutting off your blood circulation with ropes, giving you claustrophobia and pain at the same time, bending you double.

There is a worst part, and it is this: we spend more time with each other than we do with our wives and children, and we work very long hours - we work non-stop - so when we need to shut off, we need to be separate, or else we - or else we just slip into our work mode.

Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery -- it recharges by running.

The internal dialogue is what grounds people in the daily world. The world is such and such or so and so, only because we talk to ourselves about its being such and such and so and so. The passageway into the world of shamans opens up after the warrior has learned to shut off his internal dialogue

Maybe he considers the kiss a moment of weakness or bad judgment, or maybe he's still attracted to me but trying to shut off the feelings—as practiced as I am at ignoring difficult emotions and hoping they'll go away.