Quotes About Detachment

It's amazing though," said Kenneth, "what you can get away with if you give up caring about anything else, like self-respect and pride and all that stuff. Turning yourself into a projectile, so to speak.

One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players. Suddenly one loses all interest in who will be champion.

When we were in bed, the only part of me she touched was my penis, because it was the most detached.

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of persons, and of oneself.

Even our strongest emotions die, don't you think? And we can look back to the woman we were three years ago with the same curiosity and detachment as if it were someone else.

People who have no emotional stake in a decision can see what needs to be done sooner.

While his life was impeccable on the surface, he felt he was behind glass; moving through the world in a separate compartment, touching no one else.

I could go away five or six weeks in a row and never touch a club. I would just look at them and say, 'I just don't want to; it's not that important.' And it wasn't that important. Golf - I don't want to answer loosely - I pay a lot of attention to it, but I don't ever really think about it.

When western culture developed, we became detached from nature, detached from our relationship with the animals. We saw animals perhaps as only the rhino horn, the elephant's tusk, we saw it as making money.

In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.

I'm trying to practice owning less stuff.

My motto is never to hold on to anything. I accept and then let go: not just the negatives, but the praise, too. Or it'll get to my head.

I don't take praise or criticism seriously.

You get so close to your own music that you can't see the beauty in it. I had to learn to let go. It's good to be less precious.

I would prefer not to be involved in party politics.

I prefer to stay out of politics, really.

I prefer being as far from the centre of celebrity as possible.

I think you could argue that President Obama could have watched a little cable news... I do think that there is value in understanding where the conversation is and having a little less detachment where the popular conversation is.

I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.

I purposefully isolate myself from anything that has to do with any press. I don't read any press about myself.

Something in a writer's brain needs to watch everything with a detached, amoral eye.

I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on.

I feel so detached from what I am on the outside. The person I am on the inside is very separate.