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Quotes About Disengagement

Neoliberal democracy. Instead of citizens, it produces consumers. Instead of communities, it produces shopping malls. The net result is an atomized society of disengaged individuals who feel demoralized and socially powerless.
~ Noam Chomsky
A main cause of employee disengagement is poor leadership
~ W. Chan Kim
I don't want to know anything. I am not curious!
~ Charles Dickens
They weren't quite in their teens, yet their faces had the early trappings of apathy.
~ Gregg Hurwitz
He found trivial all that was meant to charm him and did not answer the glances which invited him to be bold.
~ James Joyce
Fear invariably and universally induces disengagement, and disengagement is negative division of labor.
~ Alan Greenspan
That's the thing: You don't understand burnout unless you've been burned out. And it's something you can't even explain. It's just doing something you have absolutely no passion for.
~ Elena Delle Donne
Man, I hated school. I'd stare at the buttons on the teacher's shirt the whole class.
~ John Prine
When people start hurling insults at you, you know their minds are closed and there's no point in debating. You disengage yourself as quickly as possible from the situation.
~ Judith Martin
I am really not interested in the cinema.
~ Brigitte Bardot
I am not involved with 'Hera Pheri 3.' I have told the makers that I am not interested.
~ Priyadarshan
I don't need a job. I don't want an appointment. I don't want to be on a commission. I don't want to be ambassador to nowhere.
~ Kenneth Langone
Self-focused Indifferent Indians.
~ Chetan Bhagat
I felt alienated by the experience and decided to stay away from corporate employment.
~ Lee Child
He was turning out to be one of those men whose interest diminished as they got to know you. You got into this pattern of trying to be interesting by revealing more and more of yourself, like a salesman unpacking his sample bag, but the man, though he looked like he was smiling and paying attention, was really shaking his head internally—not that, not that either, no I don't think so, not today.
~ Jane Smiley
I try to go unnoticed. I don't watch the news or read what they say. I try to stay on the sidelines.
~ Isco
I stopped being an engaged journalist and became a disengaged novelist.
~ Jim Crace
The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. They live as we all should live—undisturbed, indifferent, and without disquiet. They neither bring ruin upon others, nor ever receive it from alien hands.
~ Oscar Wilde
He backed away and so did she.
~ Dale Carnegie
At 12 I dropped out of school but I had lost interest in it at a much earlier age. For me, school was very very stressful.
~ Ahmet Zappa
He had been thinking about how easy it was to stay alive now that he didn't care about being alive anymore.
~ Leslie Marmon Silko
Take this job and shove it, I ain't working here no more.
~ Johnny Paycheck
I'm bored, I'm the chairman of the board.
~ Iggy Pop
If your employees are disengaged, and they don't take care of your customers, it doesn't matter how good your strategy is - your customers will still go somewhere else.
~ Ken Blanchard