Quotes about Detached

Nothing succeeds like Detached success. Votes: 3

Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife. Votes: 3

Keep a cool surface. Calm. Detached. As inside a part of you has been shattered. Votes: 3

Money should never be separated from values. Detached from values it may indeed be the root of all evil. Linked effectively to social purpose it can be the root of opportunity. Votes: 3

I am a Piscean, and they have a lovingly detached attitude towards life. Votes: 2

I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis. Votes: 2

A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it. Votes: 2

'Cool' is detached and emotionally cool. My instinct is to battle anything that seems overly cool. Votes: 2

I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it. Votes: 2

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. Votes: 2

I'm quite detached from failure and success. Once a shooting is done, I kind of close that chapter in my life. Votes: 2

Ultimately spiritual awareness unfolds when you're flexible, when you're spontaneous, when you're detached, when you're easy on yourself and easy on others. Votes: 2

Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it and go up with it, but be detached. Then it is not difficult. Votes: 2

I learned to fly a few years ago in England. It's the only place I'm completely alone - up in the air, detached from everything. Votes: 2

Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham. Votes: 2

Jim Thompson understood something about the serial killer before the psychology caught up to it, which is that they are detached to it and they do want to get caught. Votes: 2

I felt along with her - not the physical pain, of course, but all her mental anguish. You can't be detached. She needed to have someone who understood what was happening in her mind. Votes: 2

I got to read some writings by serial killers, and they got inside my head. They were quite disturbing. I read disturbing stuff about that very detached way of manipulating people to do things. Votes: 2

He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive. Votes: 2

You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It's very real. It's very strong. Votes: 2

Every life of a character is within a context. If I write detached from a social and political background, my story looks like a soap opera where everybody is indoors, not working and living off their emotions. Votes: 2

There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause. Votes: 2

What kind of man would I have been if I had not been there to help her? I felt along with her - not the physical pain, of course, but all her mental anguish. You can't be detached. Votes: 2

Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers. Votes: 2

It's not that I am not emotional, but I am extremely secure and curb it, as I am afraid to let go and be broken. So, I have cultivated myself to be detached in life, specially where movies are concerned. Votes: 2

Anybody who dedicates himself to exploring the human condition, there's always a detached eye that's watching. In any situation, a little part of me is observing it, to see if there are any raw materials to create something else later. Votes: 2

Backstage, I get sleepy, and want to curl up and snooze. I never get nervous, whatever the event. I feel quite detached until I walk on stage, and then some gear inside me clicks and off I go like a wind up doll. Votes: 2

That balance between involvement and detachment is what novelists do. It's the ideal relationship between a novelist and a character, I think, total involvement and identity and empathy, stopping short of being autobiographical - in my case, anyway - but also quite detached. Votes: 2

It's amazing people get so detached from what they eat and what they wear. No one has any contact with how things are made that are put in their body and put in their mouths and I just find it alarming that no one questions it. Votes: 2

I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life. Votes: 2

My specialty is detached malevolence. Votes: 0

Mercy detached from justice grows unmerciful. Votes: 0

Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space. Votes: 0

Unless and until you are detached, you cannot ascend. Votes: 0

In order to travel far you have to be detached. Votes: 0

I am pretty detached from the local music crowd though. Votes: 0

The detached observer's view is one window on the world. Votes: 0

The detached observer's view is one window on the world. Votes: 0

The creative thinker must stand sufficiently detached from his work. Votes: 0

Science is not neutral in its judgments, nor dispassionate, nor detached ... Votes: 0

A speech is entertaining only when serenely detached from all information. Votes: 0

At last I feel identified with the mountains, clean, cold, hard, detached. Votes: 0

I try to be objective. I do not claim to be detached. Votes: 0

Give me ten truly detached men. and I will convert the world with them. Votes: 0

I feel alone, free, and detached from everything in the world, and I'm happy. Votes: 0

Something in a writer's brain needs to watch everything with a detached, amoral eye. Votes: 0

Danger lurks when people are dissociated and detached from their own story or feelings. Votes: 0

Attachment is a manufacturer of illusion and whoever wants reality ought to be detached. Votes: 0

You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way. You can't be detached and effective. Votes: 0

It is a rare photographer who can take a detached, cold-blooded view of his work. Votes: 0

Some prisons don't allow guitar because the strings can be detached and used as weapons. Votes: 0

I feel completely detached from any country, any group. I am a metaphysically displaced person Votes: 0

But perhaps he had enough animal strength and detached intelligence that he could make another start. Votes: 0

Surrendering means cleansing yourself completely, getting completely detached. Detachment is the only way you can rise. Votes: 0

Blessed be the ones that are free that have detached from possessions that can possess Thee. Votes: 0

This is a generation that is really detached from the core, human values that lead to dignity. Votes: 0

I learned that I' have to be detached if I was ever to achieve anything at all. Votes: 0

Become detached from your ego, become detached from your possessions. Become simply detached from every possible source of attachment. Votes: 0

Some young folks have wind-fall minds, prematurely detached from the tree of knowledge for a life-long sourness and pettiness. Votes: 0

I still felt fondness for her - fondness, that pleasant, detached mix of admiration and sentiment, appreciation and nostalgia. Votes: 0

When even the scrupulously detached BBC is exhorting us to talk to God, you know something is going on. Votes: 0

I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on Votes: 0

Hamlet is egotism as it appears to itself, and Don Quixote is egotism as it appears to the detached observer. Votes: 0

To claim you are more detached, more alien to everything than anyone, and to be merely a fanatic of indifference! Votes: 0

I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on. Votes: 0

When we were in bed, the only part of me she touched was my penis, because it was the most detached. Votes: 0

The perfection of yoga is to become detached. And the perfection of detachment is to become completely attached, attached to God. Votes: 0

Let us realize that engagement and detachment aren't opposite-the more engaged we become, the more detached we will have to be.. Votes: 0

If the Buddhist's job is to be detached, I think that the artist's job is to be both detached and attached. Votes: 0

Of all the views that are detached from reality, the most delusional is that Christians are persecuted in the U.S. Votes: 0

One can be a good critic and a moral observer, but one remains professionally detached as a writer and a filmmaker. Votes: 0

The highest perfection of human life consists in the mind of man being detached from care, for the sake of God. Votes: 0

The real meaning of detached love is to let others exist without forcing our will upon them. That is spiritual love. Votes: 0

Watch the functioning of your own mind in a calm and detached manner so you can gain insight into your own behavior. Votes: 0

Obama is a guy who claims to be unaware that there was a Tea Party, a guy that's detached from the country. Votes: 0

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.... Votes: 0

The American suffrage movement has been, until very recently, altogether a parlor affair, absolutely detached from the economic needs of the people. Votes: 0

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.... Votes: 0

A lone walker is both present and detached, more than an audience but less than a participant. Walking assuages or legitimizes this alienation. Votes: 0

And never have I felt so deeply at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the world. Votes: 0

We are all much more simply human than otherwise, be we happy and successful, contented and detached, miserable and mentally disordered, or whatever. Votes: 0

Perhaps there is no more dangerous place for a Christian to be than in safety and comfort, detached from the suffering of others. Votes: 0

Not only has one to do one's best, one must, while doing one's best, remain detached from whatever one is trying to achieve. Votes: 0

Never invest so much in anyone romantically that you lose your head. The Buddha of casual sex, I remain detached at all costs. Votes: 0

Give me lust, baby. Flash. Give me malice. Flash. Give me detached existentialist ennui. Flash. Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism. Flash. Votes: 0

True realism lies in the search for the expression of forms faithful to their content. But there is no content detached from human interest. Votes: 0

For writers, so much is done in isolation. It can be easy to feel detached, or to get a little lost along the way. Votes: 0

Mathematics, even in its present and most abstract state, is not detached from life. It is just the ideal handling of the problems of life. Votes: 0

The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side. Votes: 0

I had the idea to become really emotionally detached, and a lot of the time I've treated people that I've cared about a lot really unfairly. Votes: 0

Why did I desert Labour? Total bloody disillusionment. The party was a corpse. It had no ideology, it became detached, old, spineless and needed to go. Votes: 0

I've always felt you don't have to be completely detached, emotionally uninvolved to make precise observations. There's nothing wrong with feeling great empathy for your subjects. Votes: 0

Weight every purpose in the light of eternity. A trivial pursuit is that which is out side the will of God & detached from the glory of God. Votes: 0

It takes a lot of commitment to sit on a committee. Only the most courageous could boldly command all that power, yet remain detached from any personal blame. Votes: 0

The war consciousness is purposely cultivated to guide the male away from the natural, healthy balances between masculine and feminine energies, and toward more unbalanced and detached psychologies. Votes: 0

If you're as detached as that, why does the obsolete institution of marriage survive with you?Oh, it still has its uses. One couldn't be divorced without it. Votes: 0

If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. Votes: 0

If someone is feeling out of sorts or detached it's a great time to bring them in and restate why we are here and what we are trying to do. Votes: 0

We must get beyond passions, like a great work of art. In such miraculous harmony. We should learn to love each other so much to live outside of time... detached. Votes: 0

I think that there's a tendency for actors who play strong women to have them take on all the worst characteristics of men, to become cold and detached and hardened. Votes: 0

The idea of a detached art, of poetry as a charm which exists only to distract our leisure, is a decadent idea and an unmistakable symptom of our power to castrate. Votes: 0

As for men, those myriad little detached ponds with their own swarming corpuscular life, what were they but a way that water has of going about beyond the reach of rivers? Votes: 0

Noise is manufactured in the city, just as goods are manufactured. The city is the place where noise is kept in stock, completely detached from the object from which it came. Votes: 0

Like most artists and musicians, I considered myself detached from the political life...but I had an insight that maybe we would have a political contribution to make in the future. Votes: 0

You can get so well educated in America that your thoughts become detached from common sense. You can get so complicated in your thinking that the obvious isn't real to you anymore. Votes: 0

We have learnt through experience that when an electrical ray strikes the surface of an atom, an electron, and in some circumstances a second and even a third electron, can be detached. Votes: 0

The spirit is the only thing that is free within, which has no hang-ups, which has no habits, which does not stick on to anything, is completely detached and emitting joy to us. Votes: 0

Prosperity cannot be experienced by living detached from Nature. Everything else is only a gradation of materialistic, earthly ambitions. We came from the stars and there lies the path to our substantive evolution. Votes: 0

She would have liked to sit upon a rock and listen to words, not of any man, but detached, mysterious, poetic words that she alone would interpret through some sense inherited from sleep. Votes: 0

She watched me with a creepy sort of detached curiosity, as if I were a bug crawling across the sidewalk in front of her. I wondered briefly if she was the ant stomper type. Votes: 0

I do my work as an actor, but another part of my work goes to the piece as a whole. I can be fairly detached looking at my work and be brutal on myself. Votes: 0

Look, I've always said from the word go many years ago that I felt the whole bonus culture, they need to think very carefully about being detached from the rest of the British public. Votes: 0

I am grateful for the rare opportunities to look at my circumstances from a higher perspective, one detached from the dim outlook I normally insist on seeing. These periodic glimpses show me life's grandeur. Votes: 0

Glasgow's not a media center. When you're there, when you're hanging about, you feel quite detached from musical movements or fashions or anything like that. You do feel quite alone, in a good way. Votes: 0

I once read that the only way to enjoy life is to observe everything with a sense of detached amusement. I don't always do that, but it serves you well to keep it in mind. Votes: 0

I find acting in contact lenses is bizarre to me, because there's just a giant filter between you and the world. I know it sounds painfully, ridiculously obvious, but it's true. You're just so detached. Votes: 0

I do not like detached creation. Neither can I conceive of the mind as detached from itself. Each of my works, each diagram of myself, each glacial flowering of my inmost soul dribbles over me. Votes: 0

A poet is never one of the people. He is detached, remote, and the life of small-time dances and talk about football would not be for him. He might take part but could not belong. Votes: 0

If there's magic in boxing, it's the magic of fighting battles beyond endurance, beyond cracked ribs, ruptured kidneys and detached retinas. It's the magic of risking everything for a dream that nobody sees but you. Votes: 0