#detached

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. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#ago #always #being #bonus #british

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. ↗

— Johannes Stark

#circumstances #detached #electrical #electron #even

It's amusing to me that we refer to people who live in their heads as detached, disturbed, or mad, when reality for anyone is actually a matter of the individual's state of mind. The mad truth--all people live in their heads. Whatever you think life is, it is. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#detached #disturbed #madness #outlook #outlook-in-life

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. ↗

— Bono

#allied #bend #bit #detached #dream

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. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#detached #easy #flexible #others #spiritual

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. ↗

— Alex Kapranos

#alone #anything #center #detached #fashions

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

— Grover Norquist

#country #detached #guy #obama #party

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

— Simone Weil

#attained #detached #great #illusions #only

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. ↗

— Grigoris Deoudis

#detached #evolution #living #materialistic #nature

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

— Prem Rawat

#difficult #down #float #go #life