Quotes About Disorientation

#1. The most prevalent poetic representation of contemporary experience is the mimesis of disorientation by non sequitor.

Tony Hoagland

#2. It's amazing how effective simple disorientation is as a mechanism for controlling people.

Mira Grant

#3. So he [Sigmund Freud] called this "the uncanny" and he also referred to cities as well, like the idea of walking through the city and the way the urban landscape could lead you to a sense of disorientation and to a kind of, you know, sense of repetition. And the way a city can unfold as you walk.

DJ Spooky

#4. Transition is the natural process of disorientation and reorientation that marks the turning points in the path of growth ... transitions are key times in the natural process of self-renewal

William Bridges

#5. Future shock is the disorientation that affects an individual, a corporation, or a country when he or it is overwhelmed by change and the prospect of change ... we are in collision with tomorrow.

Alvin Toffler

#6. A long flight. Jetlag. Immigration. Customs. And then finally, that first step into a new place, that moment of exhilaration and disorientation, each feeding the other. That moment when anything can happen

Gayle Forman

#7. Pornography is one of the branches of literature - science fiction is another - aiming at disorientation, at psychic dislocation.

Susan Sontag

#8. It seems positively unnatural to travel without taking a camera along ... The very activity of taking pictures is soothing and assuages general feelings of disorientation that are likely to be exacerbated by travel.

Susan Sontag

#9. Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.

Joyce Meyer

#10. Let us say that science fiction is a kind of conceptual disorientation of the familiar.

Adam Roberts

#11. The experiment suggested a strong correlation "between the number of links and disorientation or cognitive overload," wrote Zhu.

Nicholas Carr

#12. My first months in Sofia were a time of intense disorientation: I had never been to that part of the world before; I could barely speak the language; everything seemed strange to me.

Garth Greenwell

#13. They passed a series of wooden doors that she'd seen a few minutes ago. If she wanted to escape, she simply had to turn left at the next hallway and take the stairs down three flights. The only thing all the intended disorientation had accomplished was to familiarize her with the building. Idiots.

Sarah J. Maas

#14. It could be Paris. It could be Rio de Janeiro. It could be anywhere but home: someplace, anyplace, disorienting enough to make him notice what he wouldn't otherwise see. (The medicinal benefits of disorientation can never be overestimated.)

Bill Buford

#15. Strike noticed that, in spite of Duffield's air of disorientation and distress, he had made a good job of applying his eyeliner.

Robert Galbraith

#16. The disorientation, the distraction, the difficulty focusing-all classic. Phase One signs of deliria.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#17. Homo ferus: wild human. An unpredictable, nocturnal creature usually found in trees. Caution: may cause bewilderment and disorientation. Also, prone to teasing.

Jessica Khoury

#18. The elephant in the room has always been simulator sickness and disorientation. That's one of the biggest challenges.

Brendan Iribe

#19. Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.

Alvin Toffler

#20. One of my inspirations, Harry Houdini, remains an icon of the art because he defied our primal fears. His demonstrations in the early 20th century, especially his escape from the Chinese water torture cell, represented triumph over suffocation, drowning, disorientation and helplessness.

Criss Angel

#21. It is funny how we often want what we cannot have. What do we do in these prickly moments of disorientation and despair? we plunge in for one dance with our tormentor or we ignore our feelings, hoping in time, they will fade away..

Crystal Evans

#22. Future shock is the dizzying disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future.

Alvin Toffler

#23. The past is a stronger influence in the South. But I think everywhere you have this sense that the world changes faster than you can accommodate yourself to. Looking back and seeing how you got where you are is a useful way to combat disorientation.

Charles Frazier

#24. The web: yet another total disorientation that becomes status quo without anyone realizing it.

Richard Powers

#25. The disorientation and reorientation which comes with the initiation into any mystery is the most wonderful experience which is possible to have.

Henry Miller

#26. Naps can be devils of disorientation.

David Levithan

#27. With the sensation that he was passing through the Looking-Glass, Max stared at his father as if he had never seen him before - simultaneously impressed and unnerved at the thought that, after all these years, he still knew so little about him.

Sol Luckman

#28. He may take long walks
in the raining dark
almost aimlessly
to a spot of soaked grass
in a neighbor's open field.
He's decided this is the place
for you and him to meet again.

Kristen Henderson

#29. Outside the hospital, I squinted in the harsh morning sunlight. I could hear birds chirping in the tree, but even though I searched for them, they remained hidden from me.

Nicholas Sparks

#30. A disorienting change pleases no one yet it builds self made heroes.

Auliq Ice

#31. Rapid change, accommodating it can be one of the great human capacities. But living through it can be the stuff of stress and often suffering.

Ron Suskind

#32. If truth is relative, then it's cousin is anarchy.

Craig D. Lounsbrough