Disengage Quotes
20 quotes by 19 authors
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A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied; he must know how to disengage what is essential from the…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. They repeat, they re-arrange, they clarify the lessons of life; they…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
— Gaston Bachelard
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Victory, speedy and complete, awaits the side which first employs air power as it should be employed. Germany, entangled in the meshes of vast land…
— Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet
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What we need very badly these days is a company of Christians who are prepared to trust God as completely now as they know they…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Take heed of driving so hard after this world, as to hinder thyself and family from those duties towards God, which thou art by grace…
— John Bunyan
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The fastest way to disengage an employee is to tell him his work is meaningful only because of the paycheck.
— Shawn Achor
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People tend to believe that to be modern you have to disengage from your heritage, but it's not true.
— Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned
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For every young person living on the streets tonight, there are many at home zoning out inside their homes through video games, and even more…
— Adam Fletcher
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Imagine your shadow burning off the page / As the dear world and the dead word disengage
— Don Paterson
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When a painter thinks to disengage from the world outside himself and fantasies unprecedented forms he thinks he will make a painting, he finds in…
— Pierre Alechinsky
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Nothing is more bothersome to me than retiring. Weird things happen when you disengage; first you get negative, then you start telling people about your…
— Charles R. Swindoll
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The intense horror of nightmare came over me: I tried to draw back my arm, but the hand clung to it, and a most melancholy…
— Emily Bronte
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[M]emory is time folding back on itself. To remember is to disengage from the present.
— Garth Stein
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Because memory is time folding back on itself. To remember is to disengage from the present. In order to reach any kind of success in…
— Garth Stein
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After the death of the sadistic dictator Gen. Sanni Abacha in 1998, Nigeria underwent a one-year transitional military administration headed by Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, who…
— Wole Soyinka
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What a sound money system does is to stabilize all the elements in it, and reduces the uncertainty that people confront. And the one thing…
— Alan Greenspan
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Turn off your email; turn off your phone; disconnect from the Internet; figure out a way to set limits so you can concentrate when you…
— Gretchen Rubin
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You have to disengage at some point in order to be fresh.
— Kathryn Bigelow
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So set yourself free and disengage from reality.
— Suicide Silence
Who Wrote These Disengage Quotes
19 authors contributed a total of 20 Disengage Quotes as follows: