One detects creative power by its capacity to conquer one's detachment. — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Detachment does not mean to neglect what Krishna gives you. Detachment means to do the needful as an offering to Krishna. — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
“You must understand, owing to my loss of faith in life, I had gradually, inevitably embarked upon a small world of my… — Lawrence G. Taylor Copy Share Image
The questioners had that beautiful detachment and devotion to stern justice of men dealing in death without being in any danger of… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“Nothing is better for "spiritual advancement" & the detachment of the flesh than a close reading of the "Erotic Dictionary.” — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
Genuine historical knowledge requires nobility of character, a profound understanding of human existence - not detachment and objectivity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Unrealistic expectations often lead to disappointment, while simple unbiased attention and detachment to outcome often lead to pleasant surprises.” — Gary Hopkins Copy Share Image
She examined me, she looked at me critically and said, "Why are you trying to starve yourself?" To keep myself from feeling… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“The greatest asset to the human experience is the ability to navigate one’s emotions. By practicing the skill of detachment, one can… — Gary Hopkins Copy Share Image
I want to care, but I don't. I look at you and all I feel is tired. I walk through school and… — Elizabeth Scott Copy Share Image
They give me a shot and a handful of pills to swallow. I stare at the thin red wall of my inner… — Will Christopher Baer Copy Share Image
To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This… — Sam Snead Copy Share Image
What are we going to do?" asked the Professor. "At this moment," said Syme, with a scientific detachment, "I think we are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I’m already in the late stages of advanced detachment where my mother is concerned. With a little practice I could feel that… — Susan Juby Copy Share Image
Several decades ago, a detachment of the American right cut itself loose from reason, and it has been drifting along happily ever… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'We Were The Mulvaneys,' I was just old enough to look back upon my own family life and the… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I had the right amount of detachment to go back and really appreciate what I had grown up with. There’s a particular… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
The peculiarities of my childhood, of constantly moving through so many different cultures, of always being the outsider, may have made me… — Scott Anderson Copy Share Image
A defensive war is apt to betray us into too frequent detachment. Those generals who have had but little experience attempt to… — Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor Copy Share Image
Indifference looks like detachment, but it is not; indifference is simply no interest. Detachment is not absence of interest - detachment is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The list of qualities (an investor should have) include patience, self-reliance, common sense, a tolerance for pain, open-mindedness, detachment, persistence, humility, flexibility,… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
Woman's soul is present and lives more intensely in all parts of the body, and it is inwardly affected by that which… — Edith Stein Copy Share Image
“Also the natural sexual functions of establishing an intimate human contact frequently assume greater proportions. This is a well known fact about… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
I'm not prescribing non-doing as a universal response to our problems. Sometimes, something obviously needs to be done. And we retreat into… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
“Dr. Doris Parker: I have your ten week report. You know what it says "F, F, F… ". Do you know what… — Dr. Doris Parker Copy Share Image
Identification prevents and perverts the flow of thought-feeling. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
When I fell out of the light, I entered The stomach of indifference, the wordless cupboard. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“If I don't see the reason of someone being my friend, chances are, we are just floating and I need a ship… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Particularly on social media, there is that level of detachment, some people feel like they can say whatever pops in their head . — Bella Heathcote Copy Share Image
