Disengage Quotes

#1. When people value your leadership practices, they in effect buy your leadership. They're inspired to excel and act with commitment. But when employees don't buy your leadership, they disengage, becoming noncustomers of your leadership.

Anonymous

#2. The teacher calls on the first student whose hand went up, and everybody else understands that their participation is no longer required, and so they may immediately disengage.

John Hunter

#3. 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

#4. The things we always disengage with are one-sided stories or one-sided characters. They're very boring. When you feel like you're being hit over the head, you disengage.

John Krasinski

#5. 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 this expression the same effect - I would even say the same picture - that he had unconsciously acquired by his habit to experience reality intensely.

Pierre Alechinsky

#6. When we deny our stories and disengage from tough emotions, they don't go away; instead, they own us, they define us.

Brene Brown

#7. Shame can only rise so far in any system before people disengage to protect themselves. When we're disengaged, we don't show up, we don't contribute, and we stop caring.

Brene Brown

#8. Imagine your shadow burning off the page / As the dear world and the dead word disengage

Don Paterson

#9. When people start hurling insults at you, you know their minds are closed and there's no point in debating. You disengage yourself as quickly as possible from the situation.

Judith Martin

#10. You have to disengage at some point in order to be fresh.

Kathryn Bigelow

#11. Embrace your beautiful mess of a life with your child. No matter how hard it gets, do not disengage ... Do something - anything - to connect with and guide your child today. Parenting is an adventure of the greatest significance. It is your legacy. - Andy Kerckhoff, from Critical Connection

Andy Kerckhoff

#12. The fastest way to disengage an employee is to tell him his work is meaningful only because of the paycheck.

Shawn Achor

#13. You can't disengage yourself from that game if you are completely unaware of what people out there might be doing, you're just going to be tripped up, you're going to find yourself continually at a disadvantage.

Robert Greene

#14. Hence the genius of having Ken steer this ship as well. You have to invest these characters with a Shakespearian quality and not in a way that might disengage the audience but in a way that actually lets you play to an audience.

Ray Stevenson

#15. Are there situations where you get stupid - where you disengage your intelligence? Next time you're in one of those situations, get yourself into a growth mindset - think about learning and improvement, not judgment - and hook it back up.

Carol S. Dweck

#16. Death is a divorce nobody asked for; to live through it is to find a way to disengage from what you thought you couldn't stand to lose.

Gail Caldwell

#17. Our ability to selectively engage and disengage our moral standards . . . helps explain how people can be barbarically cruel in one moment and compassionate the next. - Albert Bandura20

Philip G. Zimbardo

#18. To reduce man to the duties of his own city, and to disengage him from duties to the members of other cities, is to break the universal society of the human race.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#19. We have to use our discontentment to engage rather than disengage - our hope has to be more powerful than our cynicism.

Shane Claiborne

#20. [M]emory is time folding back on itself. To remember is to disengage from the present.

Garth Stein

#21. There are some Christians who totally disengage from politics and set their minds on heaven so much that their faith is so heavenly minded that it is no earthly good.

Shane Claiborne

#22. America has remained highly engaged in global affairs throughout decades of growing energy dependency, so it's hard to imagine it would disengage if its quest for energy self-sufficiency failed - especially amidst a world of heightened resource competition.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

#23. 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 need to, and disengage when you need to. Technology is a good servant but a bad master.

Gretchen Rubin

#24. Simplicity slows down life and frees us from this modern hysteria to live faster. It finds freedom to disengage.

Joshua Becker

#25. 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 detail in which it is enwrapped, for everything cannot be equally considered; in a word, he must be able to simplify his duties, his business and his life.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#26. 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 who disengage from school. These are direct effects of internalized discrimination based on their age.

Adam Fletcher

#27. A line is a method of expressing the effect of light upon an object; but there are no lines in Nature, everything is solid. We draw by modeling, that is to say, that we disengage an object from its setting; the distribution of the light alone gives to a body the appearance by which we know it.

Honore De Balzac

#28. 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

#29. Ruth tells me at least once a day that old people, or people getting old, tend to disengage, back away, turn inward, listen only to themselves, and get self-righteous and censorious. And they mustn't. (I mustn't.)

Wallace Stegner

#30. What is it about our expectations, plans, or ideas that hold such sway over us? It is as if we've written a script for a play of our lives that runs about a month ahead of actual life; if reality varies from what we've created in our minds we disengage or pout.

Holly Sprink

#31. What if we saw differences in cultures, in moral choices, and in belief as reasons to engage people instead of excuses to disengage and quickly exit?

Holly Sprink

#32. 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 latest surgeries, and eventually you lose touch. I want to stay in touch.

Charles R. Swindoll

#33. Each time this identity announces itself, someone or something cries: Look out for the trap, youre caught. Take off, get free, disengage yourself.

Jacques Derrida

#34. We focus, in some ways, on how to disengage Jesus and the Bible from everything people know about Christianity as a religion.

Erwin McManus

#35. 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 automobile racing, a driver must never remember.

Garth Stein

#36. It is hard to write about physically difficult things without causing the reader to disengage.

Akhil Sharma

#37. When those who found this skeleton attempted to disengage it from that which it held in its grasp, it crumbled to dust.

Victor Hugo

#38. It is for little souls, that truckle under the weight of affairs, not to know how clearly to disengage themselves, and not to know how to lay them aside and take them up again.

Michel De Montaigne