Quotes About Disengagement

If I had to choose the form of betrayal that emerged most frequently from my research and that was the most dangerous in terms of corroding the trust connection, I would say disengagement.

Disengagement triggers shame and our greatest fears—the fears of being abandoned, unworthy, and unlovable.

I'm not an American any more, nor a New Yorker, and even less a European, or a Parisian. I haven't any allegiance, any responsibilities, any hatreds, any worries, any prejudices, any passion. I'm neither for nor against. I'm a neutral.

In niets onderscheidden ze zich van de heikneuters waar ze later hun voeten op zouden vegen. Het waren nullen in elke betekenis van het woord, nullen die de kern vormen van een fatsoenlijk en jammerlijk burgerdom. Ze sliepen best en klaagde nooit; ze waren niet vrolijk en niet ongelukkig. De onverschilligen die Dante naar het voorportaal van de Hel heeft verwezen. De lui van de bovenlaag.

In the final forms of moral disengagement, wrongdoers treat adversaries as subhuman animalistic, demonic beings. Expunging any sense of shared humanity eliminates moral restraints.

After I reached my teens I decided I didn't want to hang out with anyone. I couldn't handle the stupidity.

I was a smart kid, but I hated school.

Los periódicos tienen para mí una gran ventaja y es que no hacen ruido. Su aburrimiento es silencioso; no se entrometen; es posible dejarlos a un lado, meterlos en el cubo de la basura.

Because memory is time folding back on itself. To remember is to disengage from the present. In order to reach any kind of success in automobile racing, a driver must never remember.

memory is time folding back on itself. To remember is to disengage from the present. In order to reach any kind of success in automobile racing, a driver must never remember. Which

Reflective thinking and creativity require that we stop in the middle of a moment, reflect, and spend time "in our head." We reflect on the past and imagine the future, making dissociative disengagement a key part of daily life. And it's essential for relational interaction, as well.

I am allergic to almost every form of international agency, conference or committee.

I have been a youngster and I know speeches are boring.

After the death of the sadistic dictator Gen. Sanni Abacha in 1998, Nigeria underwent a one-year transitional military administration headed by Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, who uncharacteristically bowed out precisely on the promised date for military disengagement. Did the military truly disengage, however? No.

The cutthroat avenues of rock 'n' roll, I am fed up with. I don't want anything to do with it.

Donald Trump doesn't believe in much, doesn't want to do much.

I couldn't really be a part of high school, because I have a terrible time doing things that I don't want to do. I'm not good at it. It's not even like, I'm a rebel. I'm just bad at it, you know?

I was a very bad student. I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I knew I didn't want to go farther in school. I hated school and was always the bad one; I was always insulting the teachers.

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 active disengagement.

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Galen: Give me a minute to find the fucks I give… Galen: Still searching… Galen: Sorry. Can't find a single one.

He invited me to his pity party, and I really want to leave.

I am sorry, said Monty. I cannot respond to you in any way. I am just not sufficiently interested in anything you have to say.

Weeks passed, Vincent did nothing - just ate, slept or sat staring at one point. [...] He wandered around the neighborhood in order to stretch his legs or just for pleasure. He walked because he was annoyed to lie, to sit or to stand. When he got tired of walking, he was sitting, lying or standing.