Quotes About Disconnect

I feel very meditative when I ride. A horse does not know whether my movie is a hit or a flop or what is happening in my relationship.

You guys not closed?' she asked. 'We are the definition of not close.

I have often felt the worlds of social media and the Internet are like a weird dreamscape. Even physically, when you are looking at your phone, you are out of it.

One of the big changes in politics has been because families, individuals, have felt worried, insecure... worried about the economy, worried about their jobs, worried about their kids' futures... actually the disconnect between the public and media discourse and people's everyday concerns has become bigger not smaller.

Some 70% to 80% of all who join the military will return to the civilian workforce. They'll return to communities, and one of the things I've worried about is the increasing disconnect between the American people and our men and women in uniform. We come from fewer and fewer places. We're less than 1% of the population.

Social media worries me because it's not part of my world.

Facebook? I have no clue about it. MySpace, none of that. I'm the worst.

The worst thing ever for me is go see a movie, and the next day I go, 'What did I do last night? I have no memory of this $300 million movie I watched because I felt nothing.'

My belief, for what it is worth, is that city dwellers cannot understand the world. Insulated from reality by complex and expert systems of provision and police, baffled by fashion and spectacle, city dwellers can distinguish neither the sources of their existence nor the consequences.

Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

I don't like being able to be reached. I enjoy my solitude. Even people having my phone number seems like too much.

I try not to spend too much time on my computer.

If you took a child in London and took their iPhone and took them somewhere else in the country, they'd probably not be able to find their way back. That's a shame.

I think some actors are very smart and have the tools. They know how to disconnect themselves from the characters, but I think for a lot of them, it's very difficult.

People think, and by the way I think most people are right: 'The Tory party is run by people who basically don't care about people like me.' That is what most people in the country have thought about the Tory party for decades. I know a lot of Tory MPs and I am sad to say the public is basically correct.

Computers make me totally blank out.

The public is often accused of being disconnected from its military, but frankly it's disconnected from just about everything. Farming, mineral extraction, gas and oil production, bulk cargo transport, logging, fishing, infrastructure construction—all the industries that keep the nation going are mostly unacknowledged by the people who depend on them most.

Caí en la cuenta de que no tenía amigos (yo no tenía amigos). Los había perdido, había dejado de verlos, de llamarlos, de interesarme por ellos.

The nice thing about anger is that, as an emotion, it's strong enough to unplug me from the comedian's mind for a minute and just be a frustrated member of the citizenry.

The world is a deaf machine

Take Time Out. It's not a real vacation if you're reading email or calling in for messages.

We tend to block off many of our senses when we're staring at a screen. Nature time can literally bring us to our senses.

Spend time alone in areas of low population density, where you can feel the stillness. Go out into the desert or up into the mountains or to the ocean where there aren't too many people.

You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.