That balance between involvement and detachment is what novelists do. It's the ideal relationship between a novelist and a character, I think,… — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
Despite the illusion of giving understanding, what seeing through photographs really invites is an acquisitive relation to the world that nourishes aesthetic… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
This morning I suddenly catch myself: I'm not there, I'm so lost in thought, I don't know what's going on around me.… — Anna Kamienska Copy Share Image
“(John F.) Kennedy was an elitist and not a populist. He was enthralled by a certain British aristocratic view of politics in… — Scott Farris Copy Share Image
“And do you see how beautiful and graceful the birds are when they are flying and soaring? The ground has many comforts… — Aleksandra Layland Copy Share Image
Better to operate with detachment, then; better to have a way but infuse it with a little humor; best, to have no… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
Detachment doesn’t mean you don’t let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate you fully. That’s how you… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
There are three conditions which often look alike Yet differ completely, flourish in the same hedgerow: Attachment to self and to things… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When you run up against someone else’s shamelessness, ask yourself this: Is a world without shamelessness possible? No. Then don’t ask the… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The detachment of the artist is kind of creepy. It's kind of rude, and yet really it's where art comes from. It's… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“Scientific advancement carries risk,” Kohler argued. “It always has. Space programs, genetic research, medicine—they all make mistakes. Science needs to survive its… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
I have sought earnestly and with great diligence that good and high virtue by which man may draw closest to God... and… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
If you want to be powerful in life you have to enjoy the process. You have to get pleasure out of making… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
In the desert the detachment of life from all normal intercourse imparts a sense of gravity to every rencontre, and each touch… — Mildred Cable Copy Share Image
“One or two things are all you need to travel over the blue pond, over the deep roughage of the trees and… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Concentration is not thinking of one thing. On the contrary, it is excluding all thoughts, since all thoughts obstruct the sense of… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
“The dilemma of the critic has always been that if he knows enough to speak with authority, he knows too much to… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
If you resort to violent methods because the other side has destroyed your monastery, for example, you then have lost not only… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I've been in wars and in riots and hung out of many helicopters in the early days. And there's a detachment that… — Haskell Wexler Copy Share Image
Peace ... was contingent upon a certain disposition of the soul, a disposition to receive the gift that only detachment from self… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
“When you have inferiority complex, people appear to be mocking you about it. Trying to detach from people won't work. Detach from… — Shunya Copy Share Image
However, the serious seeker of detachment will have to embrace the Holy Trinity of Ss - Solitude, Stillness and Silence - and… — Michael Foley Copy Share Image
Sometimes you'll see people give performances in comedy with an ironic detachment where they'll sort of be remarking on the character from… — Zach Woods Copy Share Image
“As the twelfth-century Tibetian yogi Milarepa said when he heard of his student Gampopa's peak experiences, 'They are neither good nor bad.… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
I felt a kind of numbness, an enervation, but more particularly an odd fragility - as if my body had actually become… — William Styron Copy Share Image
Sentimental assertions are always a form of detachment; they confront the acute, terrible awareness of individual pain, the sharp particularity of loss… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
Detachment and involvement: the artist must have both. The link between them is compassion. It has taken me over fifty years to… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Maybe being an artist is a kind of detachment. You're in the cave, you're isolated, you're apart from everything and it's there… — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
The property of the estate owners (pomeshchiks) doesn't belong to any particular detachment, but to the people as a whole. Let the… — Maria Nikiforova Copy Share Image
Outcast on a cold star, unable to feel anything but an awful helpless numbness. I look down into the warm, earthy world.… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
What we call a financial crisis is really at its core a crisis of management, and not just a crisis of management,… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
“It registers that I am sitting there topless, but this body I am in doesn't feel like mine anymore so the half-nakedness… — Lauren Miller Copy Share Image
Pain is a form of forced detachment. Like the loved one who hurts you again and again and again, the more they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Detachment is the prerogative of an elite; and as the dandy is the nineteenth century's surrogate for the aristocrat in matters ofculture,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
He'd been numb a long time, years. All his nights down Ninsei, his nights with Linda, numb in bed and numb at… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
The saying goes, 'The sage rests, truly rests and is at ease.' This manifests itself in calmness and detachment, so that worries… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
“Even if you have not awakened, if you realize that your perceptions and activities are all like dreams and you view them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Your superhuman power was to be able not to feel. Is it there inside everybody, this self that comes out while you… — Heather O'Neill Copy Share Image
Even when I try to stir myself up, I just get irritated because I can't make anything come out. And in the… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
It may be possible through detachment, to gain knowledge that is 'useful;' but only through participation is it possible to gain the… — Harry Stack Sullivan Copy Share Image
![“The detachment of the artist is kind of creepy. It's kind of rude, and yet really it's where art comes from. It's not the same as courage. It's closer to bad manners than to courage. [...] if you're going to be a writer, you basically have to say, 'this is just who I am […]'. There's a certain…” quote by Lorrie Moore](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/692/lorrie-moore-870_art_the-detachment-of-the-artist-is-kind-of_1687843.png)
