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Quotes About Detached

I no longer care about the financial system. I gave them my roadmap. OK? Thanks, bye. I've no idea what's going on. I'm disconnected. I'm totally disengaged.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
When I first started campaigning to become an MP in 2004, we were suffering as a party because our hierarchy and leadership were totally detached from the party's membership.
~ Emily Thornberry
I'm almost totally politically inactive.
~ Leon Russell
but there was no curiosity in those faces, and no anger, and no mercy.
~ Ayn Rand
I write and film history; I don't make it. One can be a good critic and a moral observer, but one remains professionally detached as a writer and a filmmaker.
~ Jean-Luc Godard
I've said before that I'm a remarkably unsentimental person.
~ John Carmack
I'm not a football fan, and not remotely interested in it.
~ Dervla Kirwan
I'm completely removed from any hype that comes my way.
~ Justin Timberlake
Meditation simply means a discipline that makes you capable of being aloof and detached from your mind. So even if the mind is sick, your consciousness is never sick. Even if your mind is going crazy, you are just witnessing it. Mind is only a machine. You are not.
~ Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
The waves from that thing are waking a thousand sleeping senses in us; senses which we inherit from aeons of evolution from the state of detached electrons to the state of organic humanity.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Personally, I could have cared less.
~ Max Brooks
In detective land, you have to deal with a lot of intense emotions, so you yourself have to remain mostly unemotional and detached. These are people, like law enforcement and surgeons, in professions that don't have the luxury of being able to be emotional or to break down. In my line of work, it's almost a requirement.
~ Juliette Lewis
I live a very simple life. I live away from all the Hollywood hype, and I try to keep it that way.
~ Scott Eastwood
automatic pilot, numb
~ Stuart Woods
It is the unemotional, reserved, calm, detached warrior who wins, not the hothead seeking vengeance and not the ambitious seeker of fortune.
~ Sun Tzu
'Lonerism' is such an insular, detached album.
~ Kevin Parker
Still water wasn't cruel and wasn't kind. It didn't care whether you swam or drowned.
~ Frances Hardinge
On the outside, he's all cold and detached," she said. "But underneath that—way down deep inside—he's all cold and detached.
~ Harlan Coben
I'd be smiling and chatting away, and my mind would be floating around somewhere else, like a balloon with a broken string.
~ Haruki Murakami
She had a cheerful countenance, and that sometimes disguised her habit of looking on the world with what she called "detached malevolence.
~ Stacy A. Cordery
There are days, weeks and maybe months and years during which we are so overwhelmed by our sense of loneliness that we can hardly believe that the solitude of heart is within our horizon. But when we have once sensed what this solitude can mean, we will never stop searching for it. Once we have tasted this solitude a new life becomes possible, in which we can become detached from false ties and attached to God and each other in a surprisingly new way.
~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
Post-minimalism implies music that's genre-less. Minimalism was very important because it came at a time when contemporary music had become so complex, so experimental and detached that people turned away from it. Minimalism broke that trend and brought music back to the people.
~ Maya Beiser
I'm not political and I don't judge.
~ David Bailey
Detachment is simply watching the events that are unfolding around you, getting involved only when your journey is part of the experience.
~ Karen Casey