Disconnect Quotes

• Right after undergrad, I started doing low-level work on health issues in sub-Saharan Africa, and what struck me was the disconnect between how people in New York would speak about some of the issues people were facing. At the time, 2006-ish, there were a number of big media campaigns to raise awareness about HIV in sub-Saharan Africa.

  

  Uzodinma Iweala
  • Health
  • New York
  • Issues

• There is absolutely no disconnect between common sense gun safety measures and protecting the Second Amendment rights of gun owners.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Gun
  • Second Amendment
  • Disconnect

• In 1855, a former American slave remarked: "Tisn't he who has stood and looked on, that can tell you what slavery is - tis he who has endured."I think the same holds true for women's rights. The incredulity in the question, "What rights don't women have presently that they are marching about?" reflects a troubling disconnect that comes from power and privilege.

  

  Carolyn Custis James
  • Power
  • Privilege
  • Reflects

• Sometimes you have to disconnect to stay connected. Remember the old days when you had eye contact during a conversation? When everyone wasn't looking down at a device in their hands? We've become so focused on that tiny screen that we forget the big picture, the people right in front of us.

  

  Regina Brett
  • People
  • Remember
  • Picture

• Even if I have to work, scheduling breaks where I disconnect from technology can be beneficial.

  

  Rana el Kaliouby
  • Technology
  • Even
  • Breaks

• I think that's Glassjaw's identity - the disconnect between what we think we are and what our fans think we're supposed to be. Whenever I read reviews of our stuff, I sense that.

  

  Daryl Palumbo
  • Think
  • Supposed
  • Whenever

• And because his narrator was characterized above all by his anxiety regarding the disconnect between his internal experience and his social self-presentation.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Experience
  • Disconnect
  • Self-presentation

• Though we feel extremely connected through all this technology, social networks, there's also this disconnect that happens. Because you're not actually talking to anyone. You're not actually meeting them for coffee. To me, social media is about "you". It's like, "Well, twenty people like this thing I said", so that's about me.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • Feel
  • Media
  • Social

• To create something that's genuinely new, you have to start again, and I think with great intent, you disconnect from the past.

  

  Jonathan Ive
  • Past
  • New
  • Create

• I was a young feminist in the '70s. Feminism saved my life. It gave me a life. But I saw how so much of what people were saying was not matching up with what they were doing. For example, we were talking about sister solidarity, and women were putting each other down. We were talking about standing up for our rights, and women weren't leaving abusive relationships with men. There were just so many disconnects.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Feminist
  • Relationships
  • Solidarity

• A script is a unique literary form, because it's not the end product; it's a blueprint. If you're not thinking of that end product, there's going to be a disconnect.

  

  Evan Daugherty
  • Thinking
  • Script
  • Disconnect