Quotes About Distancing

If you want to know how Hillary Clinton could try to distance herself from President Obama's much-criticized foreign policy, listen closely to the words of her former top strategist, Anne-Marie Slaughter.

Not my circus, not my monkey." Yancy

I was tops at the Scarlet O'Hara school of emotional distancing. I always thought about the uncomfortable stuff tomorrow, and, as everyone knows, tomorrow never comes.

I don't want to be the poster boy for head injury. I shouldn't be the poster boy for head injury. I have really tried to distance myself from that.

To edit someone from your life must be a properly evaluated decision. After all, the act of distancing yourself is difficult and, if executed improperly, could prove even more troublesome than if you were to have done nothing at all. The key is to create the distance gradually - a 'fade out' as I like to call it.

I have nothing to do with Donald Trump.

I've had to realize I need to distance myself a bit from relying on the feedback. I think it's wonderful but can also be poison. You don't want to buy into it too much.

If I have a writing problem, the minute I step away, there's a solution.

It came in horrible flashes, and Cassie found herself fast-forwarding, getting the gist but not dwelling a second longer than necessary on the actual details.

He felt removed from reality.

In my professional life I do not have to like everyone, but when I feel negative energy with someone I try and avoid that person.

Also, I think having that comic gene kind of makes you look at things in a different way. If you take yourself so seriously, eventually you end up one of those people having a 'Do Not Disturb' sign on their lives. You see them drawing the curtains and they don't even realize that they've kind of drifted off somewhere.

Not our circus, not our monkeys," I murmur, and he nods.

Not his circus, not his monkeys

The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable... those aspects are too fundamental to ignore or gloss over.

knew straightaway, from his smile, that he wasn't a doctor; I'd already got the hang of the doctors' smiles, firm and distancing, expertly calibrated to tell you how much time was left in the conversation.

Staying occupied is a socially sanctioned way of remaining distant from our pain.

Within hours after Wise's appearance before the press, the State Department issued a statement distancing itself from Wise and refusing to back up his contention that Hitler had begun to exterminate the Jews of Europe.

She was feeling too much right now, and that was dangerous. Being a good psychiatrist was like reading a novel at forty. You needed to keep the words at arm's length or everything became a blur.

I simply avoid at all cost people I think are not good for me. So it's disgusting when uncouth, uneducated, dirty, downmarket, classless, characterless, perverted, degraded abominations like Rakhi Sawant claim to ever be friends with me.

Daba una conferencia sobre la psicología de los campos de concentración! Al delimitar científicamente los hechos, lo que me oprimía cobraba relieve y una cierta perspectiva. Con ese método conseguía distanciarme de la situación y superar de algún modo el sufrimiento, contemplándolo como si ya hubiera sucedido. Mis problemas se transformaban en el objeto de un estudio psicocientífico que yo mismo estaba realizando.

abstract' comes from a Latin verb which simply meant 'draw away' (abstrahere).

Toute relation soumise à une pression, même si son but est d'essayer de raccommoder les choses, finit toujours par se disloquer. Nous pouvons apprendre à faire mieux qu'à nous laisser diriger par cet esprit du moi malavisé. Nous pouvons apprendre à nous distancer de ses manigances autodestructrices.

In writing, you either stick with it and keep revising until it's done, no matter how long it takes — or set it aside a few years until you've distanced yourself enough to get it right. The wait is just as excruciating as the work.