It’s not me to toot my horn. The minute you toot your horn, it seems like society will try and disconnect your battery. And if you do not toot your horn, they’ll try their darnedest to give you a horn to toot, or say that you should have a horn.
We are living in dystopia, in a world that is dominated by technology and disconnect, alienation, loneliness, and dysfunction.
I think there’s a fear of disconnect sometimes; communication is a huge issue for all of us, from adults to kids, as far as our face-to-face time and our ability to interact with each other without isolating itself to a phone. I think that has to be something that’s very challenging.
Nowadays we have so many things that take our attention – phones, Internet – and perhaps we need to disconnect from those and focus on the immediate world around us and the people that are actually present.
You really disconnect yourself from the world being in the middle of nowhere.
You start at a young age, going on auditions, and you think you did a good job and expect to get that role, and you don’t, and it’s a letdown, a disappointment. So you tell yourself to just do the work and disconnect, because you have no control over the outcome.
What strikes me when I leave Washington is the extent to which there’s a huge disconnect between Washington and the rest of the country. The rest of the country is not hyper partisan.
I was talking to Marylanders… What we were hearing, everywhere, was an overwhelming sense of frustration. People felt a huge disconnect between Annapolis and the rest of Maryland.
When you make successful movies, everyone on set takes care of you, everybody is so nice and you disconnect from reality.
I don’t want to get too detailed and personal, but my parents got divorced when I was about nine. A lot of that had to do with my dad being on the road and that disconnect.
Our efforts to disconnect ourselves from our own suffering end up disconnecting our suffering from God’s suffering for us. The way out of our loss and hurt is in and through.
The disconnect between America and its military is shocking.
A house is very much like a portrait. I cannot disconnect houses from people. The thought of arrangement, the curves and straight lines. It gives an indication of the character at the heart of it.
I’ve experienced firsthand the disconnect between furniture, their environments, and the way people work.
Sometimes you have to disconnect to stay connected. Remember the old days when you had eye contact during a conversation? When everyone wasn’t looking down at a device in their hands? We’ve become so focused on that tiny screen that we forget the big picture, the people right in front of us.
There is a disconnect between the performance in stock market and the performance in many companies.
Products are a way to connect with – or disconnect from – who you are.
Work is important, but you also need to disconnect, to unplug at times, in order to be even more concentrated when you do work.
I’m an Old Media guy. I don’t have a website; I don’t Twitter. I love magazines, yet I love video games. It’s a strange disconnect.
When you arrive at the training ground, you need to disconnect and focus on training.
Faffing is good. It is an important part of life. Faffing is when we disconnect from the matrix and idle for a while, like a car. Our body and spirit know deep down that human beings were not made for constant toil so subconsciously creates space through the mechanism of faffing.
Usually, the 24-hour, high-maintenance celebrity lifestyle can disconnect people from reality.
I think I’ve always had a disconnect from what I’m supposed to be like.
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.
The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality – it connects you to reality.
I am very busy. I work hard all the time. But I also need to relax; I need to disconnect. That’s why I like horse-racing, spending time with my friends. It helps me to recover energy.
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