Social Distance Quotes

#1. Social distance makes it all the easier to focus on small differences between groups and to put a negative spin on the ways of others and a positive spin on our own.

Daniel Goleman

#2. The distance between taking social action and having the knowledge is as wide as the mouth of the Mississippi.

Mort Sahl

#3. Part of why I started a band was due to feelings of shyness and social ineptitude. I saw it as some way of being able to interact with people from a safe distance.

Jarvis Cocker

#4. The organization of science into disciplines sets up a series of ghettos with remarkable distances of artificial social space between them.

Kenneth E. Boulding

#5. In a social context, digital technology introduces you to neighbours of the mind - people who are separated by distance, but close to you in thought and interest.

Nick Harkaway

#6. Social stability comes at the price of wearing a mask, of learning to distance ourselves from our unique nature, from our personal desires, needs, and feelings; instead, we embrace a socially acceptable self.

Frederic Laloux

#7. The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.

Annie Dillard

#8. I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness, And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting.

William Shakespeare

#9. Four types of psychological distance can separate you from your goals: social (between yourself and other people), temporal (between the present and the future), spatial (between your physical location and faraway places), and experiential (between imagining something and experiencing it).

Anonymous

#10. Writers were a strange sort; I knew that much from the newspapers.

Chris Priestley

#11. When our customer leaves Urban Outfitters, the Main Line is the type of place where more of them go than don't.

Richard Hayne

#12. Dating is a social brain teaser, as it requires constantly changing ratios of intimacy and distance, an erotic mental cha-cha choreographed by chemistry, insight, and fear.

Marilyn Suzanne Miller

#13. There is a silent deference for one another, a distance that is kept, and lines that aren't crossed, but in their sharing, they each try to pay tribute to the bond in their own way. As often as possible, they open up a little and give what they can.

Dan Groat

#14. These sites have torn down the geographical divide that once prevented long distance social relationships from forming, allowing instant communication and connections to take place and a virtual second life to take hold for its users.

Mike Fitzpatrick

#15. Women have talent and intelligence but, due to social constraints and prejudices, it is still a long distance away from the goal of gender equality.

Pratibha Patil

#16. Even today we don't pay serious attention to the issue of poverty, because the powerful remain relatively untouched by it. Most people distance themselves from the issue by saying that if the poor worked harder, they wouldn't be poor.

Muhammad Yunus

#17. We don't have time, we just have a moment in time.

Tali Alexander

#18. I'm struck by how laughter connects you with people. It's almost impossible to maintain any kind of distance or any sense of social hierarchy when you're just howling with laughter. Laughter is a force for democracy.

John Cleese

#19. Social networking platforms drove man closer to those in neighboring continents, while driving him further apart from those in his neighborhood.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#20. Early on, I played one or two disturbed people, and I guess I must have been good at it, because it stuck. But, you know, I'm a regular guy. I stay home a lot, I make an effort to keep a distance from the whole social thing, the openings, the parties. I try to live in a calm way.

Christopher Walken

#21. If philosophy gets you lost in the labyrinth of symbols that distance us from reality, then it is part of the problem; if it motivates positive action that can create a better world, philosophy is usually a gift.

Oli Anderson

#22. Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form.

John French Sloan