Quotes About Disconnect

Yoga, working out, go to class, group settings where you can't be on your phone, that's a great way to unplug!

It's been a concern of mine for years that the mainstream media coverage of culture and politics takes place in two nodes, Washington and New York, and yet all the voting goes on somewhere else.

If you sort of treat the environment in sort of this mechanical, industrial way that there's a disconnect between man and the environment, it's very easy to treat people that way.

I'm going to go away on vacation, I'm going to try to get away from the phone, away from scripts. I think it's important to sit back and think about what you want

Just because people want to eat the burger doesn't mean they want to meet the cow.

I think politicians are so far out of step with what people really want.

People change, they end up having nothing to say to each other, even if they were were best friends a year earlier.

People change, they end up having nothing to say to each other, even if they were were best friends a year earlier. Amy in Tape.

Now, I am about to be nailed as the man who disliked 'Howl's Moving Castle.' Lord, give me strength! Also, IT, please disconnect the e-mail thing.

Then he hung up, the scoundrel!

Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far-off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding

That conversation with the taxi driver suddenly made clear to me the essence of the writer's occupation. We write books because our children aren't interested in us. We address ourselves to an anonymous world because our wives plug their ears when we speak to them.

When a person you love moves by you with flat eyes that will not see you, it is a shock to believe it.

There is music playing somewhere but I can't hear it.

15. Technology is a terrible master: Take back your time from enslaving technological addictions. Learn to often turn devices off and leave them off.

If you're going to get technical, you're going to lose all your friends.

Meat comes from the supermarket, where it's wrapped in plastic. No guts involved.

Illiteracy is rampant. People are out of communication.

people were just out of control! . . . They've all got cell phones stuck to their ears and yet I've never seen such distance between people trying so hard to be close.

Sometimes I feel like I'm looking at someone else," he said. "Sometimes it seems like I'm getting further away

I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear.

It just hurts too much to feel. As a result, we lose touch with others and find ourselves more and more removed, isolated, and alone. We also become detached from the world. Our sensibilities slowly glaze over, become numb and may eventually turn off. At this juncture, we become dis-connected, not only from others, but from our Self This condition occurs unconsciously as a result of being human and alive.

People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.

So I must ask myself, what role can I play in a world where men worship the moving-picture box, where they make and consume potions that eat away their own brains, where they ravage and pillage entire mountains, kill the very earth itself? "Mankind has lost its connection to the land, to the earth, to the beasts and spirits. They gather their food not from the forest and fields, but from plastic bins and ice boxes.