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Detachment Quotes

Better to operate with detachment, then; better to have a way but infuse it with a little humor; best, to have no way at all but to have instead the wit constantly to make one’s way anew from the materials at hand Picture Quote #1

What we call a financial crisis is really at its core a crisis of management, and not just a crisis of management, but a crisis of management culture... In other words, what you had is a detachment of people who know the business from people who are running the business Picture Quote #1

Sentimental assertions are always a form of detachment; they confront the acute, terrible awareness of individual pain, the sharp particularity of loss or the fierce individuality of passion with the dulling universal certainty of platitude Picture Quote #1

Regard as free not those whose status makes them outwardly free, but those who are free in their character and conduct. For we should not call men truly free when they are wicked and dissolute, since they are slaves to worldly passions. Freedom and happiness of soul consist in genuine purity and detachment from transitory things Picture Quote #1

The true contemplative is one who has discovered the art of finding leisure even in the midst of his work, by working with such a spirit of detachment and recollection that even his work is a prayer Picture Quote #1

All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd Picture Quote #1

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It’s important to cultivate detachment. One way to do this is to practice imagining yourself dead, or in the process of dying. If there’s a window, you must imagine your body falling out of that window. If there’s a knife, you must imagine the knife piercing your skin. If there’s a train coming, you must imagine your torso flattened under its wheels. These excercises are necessary to achieving the proper distance Picture Quote #1

The yoga of selfless giving is easy for anyone to practice. The key is detachment. The spirit is unattachment to results Picture Quote #1

Peace... was contingent upon a certain disposition of the soul, a disposition to receive the gift that only detachment from self made possible Picture Quote #1

Detachment is not about refusing to feel or not caring or turning away from those you love. Detachment is profoundly honest, grounded firmly in the truth of what is Picture Quote #1

Despite the illusion of giving understanding, what seeing through photographs really invites is an acquisitive relation to the world that nourishes aesthetic awareness and promotes emotional detachment Picture Quote #1

There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too Picture Quote #1

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The dilemma of the critic has always been that if he knows enough to speak with authority, he knows too much to speak with detachment Picture Quote #1

The questioners had that beautiful detachment and devotion to stern justice of men dealing in death without being in any danger of it Picture Quote #1

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 are able to leave it Picture Quote #1

Some jobs required a certain level of detachment; a turning off of emotions in order to do the things that needed to be done Picture Quote #1

The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat Picture Quote #1

When a general, unable to estimate the enemy’s strength, allows an inferior force to engage a larger one, or hurls a weak detachment against a powerful one, and neglects to place picked soldiers in the front rank, the result must be rout Picture Quote #1

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To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment and thus true love Picture Quote #1

A mother’s sorrow is more true, honorable, and beautiful than the detachment of the sage Picture Quote #1

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Better to operate with detachment, then; better to have a way but infuse it with a little humor; best, to have no way at all but to have instead the wit constantly to make one’s way anew from the materials at hand (Detachment Quotes) What we call a financial crisis is really at its core a crisis of management, and not just a crisis of management, but a crisis of management culture... In other words, what you had is a detachment of people who know the business from people who are running the business (Detachment Quotes) Sentimental assertions are always a form of detachment; they confront the acute, terrible awareness of individual pain, the sharp particularity of loss or the fierce individuality of passion with the dulling universal certainty of platitude (Detachment Quotes) Regard as free not those whose status makes them outwardly free, but those who are free in their character and conduct. For we should not call men truly free when they are wicked and dissolute, since they are slaves to worldly passions. Freedom and happiness of soul consist in genuine purity and detachment from transitory things (Detachment Quotes) The true contemplative is one who has discovered the art of finding leisure even in the midst of his work, by working with such a spirit of detachment and recollection that even his work is a prayer (Detachment Quotes) All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd (Detachment Quotes) It’s important to cultivate detachment. One way to do this is to practice imagining yourself dead, or in the process of dying. If there’s a window, you must imagine your body falling out of that window. If there’s a knife, you must imagine the knife piercing your skin. If there’s a train coming, you must imagine your torso flattened under its wheels. These excercises are necessary to achieving the proper distance (Detachment Quotes) The yoga of selfless giving is easy for anyone to practice. The key is detachment. The spirit is unattachment to results (Detachment Quotes) Peace... was contingent upon a certain disposition of the soul, a disposition to receive the gift that only detachment from self made possible (Detachment Quotes) Detachment is not about refusing to feel or not caring or turning away from those you love. Detachment is profoundly honest, grounded firmly in the truth of what is (Detachment Quotes) Despite the illusion of giving understanding, what seeing through photographs really invites is an acquisitive relation to the world that nourishes aesthetic awareness and promotes emotional detachment (Detachment Quotes) There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too (Detachment Quotes) The dilemma of the critic has always been that if he knows enough to speak with authority, he knows too much to speak with detachment (Detachment Quotes) The questioners had that beautiful detachment and devotion to stern justice of men dealing in death without being in any danger of it (Detachment Quotes) 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 are able to leave it (Detachment Quotes) Some jobs required a certain level of detachment; a turning off of emotions in order to do the things that needed to be done (Detachment Quotes) The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat (Detachment Quotes) When a general, unable to estimate the enemy’s strength, allows an inferior force to engage a larger one, or hurls a weak detachment against a powerful one, and neglects to place picked soldiers in the front rank, the result must be rout (Detachment Quotes) To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment and thus true love (Detachment Quotes) A mother’s sorrow is more true, honorable, and beautiful than the detachment of the sage (Detachment Quotes)

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