Quotes About Disengagement

It's a disease. Nobody thinks or feels or cares any more; nobody gets excited or believes in anything except their own comfortable little God damn mediocrity.

Bad enough, but he was limp and vacant, passive and beyond caring. A walking invitation to the kind of man who doesn't need an invitation, prefers not to be invited.

I tend to avoid televisions, politics, and places with velvet ropes.

Scapegrace went to roll his eyes, but lost his enthusiasm halfway through and ended up looking at the ceiling.

evidence shows most workplaces filled with distrustful, disengaged, dissatisfied, despairing employees.

You did respond—your response was the worst kind—you did nothing.

Too often in our culture of BlackBerrys and cell phones, people are disengaged and disconnected and distracted from their immediate surroundings.

Politics is not my cup of tea.

I didn't know what to do with myself. I wasn't excited by the teaching of the school. If they'd been intent on really teaching you things, I would have been a little more attentive.

It was one of those situations where you just say fuck it. Fuck the job, fuck management.

La esencia de la actitud displicente surge de un embotamiento de la capacidad de discriminar.

I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear - it's an active disengagement.

Nobody has the energy to care anymore. We're all just counting down, passing time. Everyone knows where they're going, and the right now already feels like it's in the rearview.

Czarnow?osy, chudy i smag?y, wygl?da? na Cygana albo na kogo?, kto znalaz? si? tutaj przypadkiem. On zawsze wygl?da? tak, jakby si? przysiad?, bo akurat by?o wolne miejsce. My?la?, kpi?, nudzi? si? na w?asny rachunek.

I wasn't a troublemaker. I wasn't impertinent. The teachers liked me. But year after year, the comments on my report cards basically came down to a single point, and it was 100% accurate: I seemed to get nothing whatsoever out of all those long hours spent in the classroom.

we didn't really lose the war, the country just lost interest.

Society is the picnic certain individuals leave early, the party they fail to enjoy, the musical comedy they find not worth the price of admission.

That which besets me is indifference. I can't be bothered about people. Or rather, won't. For I avoid, carefully, all occasions for being bothered... Indifference is a form of sloth, and sloth in its turn is one of the symptoms of loveless-ness. One isn't lazy about what one loves. The problem is: how to love?

I promise you I try very hard to stay out of party politics. I run away from it.

The incompetent leading the unwilling to do the unnecessary

I'm not involved with the female world.

I never want to deal with a book once I'm finished writing.

I can't enter into politico-social subjects with any interest, for on the whole, I see that things are in a muddle, and I have no power or vocation to set them right in ever so little a degree.

just walked away.