Quotes About Disconnect

This whole social media scene makes me sick.

I shut down social media because I needed to shut out online distractions and engage with the people, issues, and work right in front of me.

I'm not on any social media; I don't even know what things are. I'm so behind the times.

This time was different. The tools of this era--phones, computers--enabled people to move at a blurring pace. Yet despite all they accomplished, they were never at peace.

But you can touch everything and be connected to nothing.

They had always seemed to Brenda antiseptically unaware that such a thing as romance existed.

The further you get up the corporate ladder, the farther you get from the actual filmmaking process.

I think once you've finished a movie you really have to detach from it so that you can come back and watch it as an audience member.

I have a place in Costa Rica that is in the middle of the jungle. There's no Internet. There's no TV. Do I work there? Hell no.

The disconnect between America and its military is shocking.

We have a million ways to get ahold of people, and we're the loneliest we've ever been.

In the end we remember all the students we've gone to school with and invite them to our homes only to find out that we no longer have the least thing in common with them, I thought.

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

She did not go so far as to tell the machine goodnight.

but the fact we knew less seemed to suit us better. Now we know everything and talk to nobody.

These days you couldn't keep things separate even in your mind. If we could only disconnect—

looks t o t a l l y s p a c e

We collectively create results that nobody wants because decision-makers are increasingly disconnected from the people affected by their decisions. As a consequence, we are hitting the limits to leadership—that is, the limits to traditional top-down leadership that works through the mechanisms of institutional silos.

it just seems like men aren't interested in knowing women. Even the decent ones. Everything is lonely after the excitement.

in our civilized life, we have stripped so many ideas of their emotional energy, we do not really respond to them any more. We

It's now possible to completely banish solitude from your life. Thoreau and Storr worried about people enjoying less solitude. We must now wonder if people might forget this state of being altogether.

Finally, it's worth noting that refusing to use social media icons & comments to interact means that some people will inevitably fall out of your social orbit - in particular, those whose relationship with you exists only over social media. Here's my tough love reassurance: let them go.

Do what Thoreau did, which is learn to have a little disconnectedness within the connected world—don't run away.

Over a hundred years earlier, Thoreau demonstrated similar concern, famously writing in Walden that "we are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.