Quotes About Disconnect

When you're connected to the ocean, you really don't think about what's going on with your email or texts or any of that. You're just a lot more liberated.

It's very powerful to shut down your computer and escape into the real world.

When elections are not democratic, even the most populist discussions become superficial, disconnected from real power; they are theatre.

Our deeper emotional experiences are pushed further away, and we tend, thus, to become emptier and lonelier.

He doesn't communicate with us; he's put up an impenetrable wall that excludes us from his life.

She has spent most of the day reading and is feeling rather out of touch with reality, as if her own life has become insubstantial in the face of the fiction she's been absorbed in.

Build into every single day an hour, for everyone in the household, free from the promises and demands of our devices.

They were here all at once, but not together. Survival took self-absorption, and it made them strangers with nothing to do and no way to relate

He wanted to care, he wanted to care so badly, but there was this gap between what he felt and what he wanted to feel, a space where something important had been carved out.

At best, we base our thinking on disconnected facts or snippets of scientific knowledge uninformed by a broader evolutionary perspective.

I have stared long enough at the glowing flat rectangles of computer screens. Let us give more time for doing things in the real world . . . plant a plant, walk the dogs, read a real book, go to the opera.

You speak so many bloody languages, and you never want to talk.

The biggest problem with the education system is that it does not teach sycophancy, which is invariably required to grow in a private company and that's the main disconnect between an organization and an institution.

FullContact, a Denver software company, gives employees a $7,500 bonus if they follow three rules: "1. You have to go on vacation, or you don't get the money. 2. You must disconnect. 3. You can't work while on vacation.

Whenever we look around the world, we see smart leaders – in politics, in business, in media – making terrible decisions. What they're lacking is not IQ, but wisdom. Which is no surprise; it has never been harder to tap into our inner wisdom, because in order to do so, we have to disconnect from all our omnipresent devices – our gadgets, our screens, our social media – and reconnect with ourselves.

Rule 5. Tune out: Disconnect more from the unproductive debates.

Turn off the TV, turn off the Internet, just go out, and I bet you your life will get better really quick.

I am a homebody and don't socialise. If it was left to me, I would also quit social media.

Illiteracy is rampant. People are out of communication.

I've experienced firsthand the disconnect between furniture, their environments, and the way people work.

You want to be leaders and you're black and I'm here to tell you how to do it. Disconnect from this social media garbage; disconnect from these celebrity athletes who don't really care nothing about you.

I'm very old fashioned. I'm from an era where your phone is in the house so if you are pottering in the garden then you won't hear it ring.

I feel that we Germans are spending less and less time talking to each other. And even less time listening to each other.

There are certainly days that we can convince ourselves in Washington that everybody's talking about one thing, and then I'll go home to my district and realize that everybody's actually talking about something different.