Jennifer Egan

With 'The Keep,' I began with a theory about pitting the isolated disconnection of the gothic realm against present-day hyperconnectedness. I emerged feeling that the gothic genre is all about hyperconnectedness - the possibility of disembodied communication - and that we now live in a kind of permanently gothic state.

American Novelist

John Sweeney

The church acknowledges some Scientologists choose to sever communications with family members who leave. The church says it is a fundamental human right to cease communication with someone. It adds disconnection is used against expelled members and those who attack the church.

American Politician

Dawn Foster

Technology can help us connect to people and viewpoints we'd never otherwise experience: using it as a way of avoiding awkward but straightforward conversations that are part of everyday life just increases our isolation and disconnection from each other.

British Journalist

Aaron Koblin

I grew up with the idea of the cyborg and the robot, but at the same time I felt this intense disconnection between the things I was engaged with and inspired by in terms of fun and play. It seemed like paintings and drawings were so static.

American Artist

Future

My day one fans - my fans from my mix tape days - know my life now. They know where I've been. You don't want to have a disconnection with those fans. You have to give them all of you because they feel like they've known you.

American Musician

James Turrell

There's traditionally been a large disconnection in contemporary art between the audience and the artist. Generally, audiences are looking towards what they like, and I can tell you, that's the last thing on an artist's mind.

Giorgio Agamben

Those who are truly contemporary are those who neither perfectly coincide with their time nor adapt to its demands... Contemporariness, then, is that relationship with time that adheres to it through a disconnection.

Italian Philosopher

Natalie Goldberg

Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.

American Author

Trevor Nunn

I've never had any feeling of disconnection between the classical theater, or the contemporary theater, or musical theater, or the thing that we call opera.

English Director

Mal Peet

Disconnection or alienation from the past has political consequences.

English Author

Used to describe when objects are no longer attached.

Physical Separation

Refers to disruptions in systems like power or internet.

Technical Interruptions

Describes feeling distant from others on an emotional level.

Emotional Distance

Highlights negative effects of being cut off socially or emotionally.

Isolation Impact

Specifically used when services like utilities are stopped.

Service Termination

Often implies a service is stopped due to non-payment.

Payment Related

Refers to the absence of social interactions and bonds.

Lacking Community

Can be used when someone deliberately isolates themselves.

Personal Withdrawal

Indicates missing links in reasoning or explanations.

Logical Gaps

Used when a narrative doesn't flow smoothly or logically.

Inconsistent Story

 I've been talking about how disconnection is a major driver of addiction and weird to say it's growing, because you think we're the most connected society that's ever been, surely. But I increasingly began to think that the connections we have or think we have, are like a kind of parody of human connection. If you have a crisis in your life, you'll notice something.

Everything you think you...

 and shame is really easily understood as the fear of disconnection is there something about me that if other people know it or see it that I won't be worthy of connection the things I can tell you about it it's universal we all have it the only people who don't experience

The power of vulnerabilit...

 And the main tool to achieve that? Curiosity. Stir your audience's curiosity. Use intriguing, provocative questions to identify why something doesn't make sense and needs explaining. If you can reveal a disconnection in someone's worldview,

TED's secret to great...

 because they don't keep us up awake at night wondering what crazy thing they're going to come up with next. And the truth is that we've come to rely on their complacency and sense of disconnection because it makes our work easier.

How we can help the...

 You see, it's our disconnection from each other. Hatred is born of ignorance. Fear is its father, and isolation is its mother. When we don't understand something, we tend to be afraid of it, and if we keep ourselves from it,

My descent into...

 a body that was scanned and had tubes shoved down it, a body that was burning from chemicals. Cancer exploded the wall of my disconnection. I suddenly understood that the crisis in my body was the crisis in the world,

Eve Ensler: Suddenly, my...

 I expected that, and I was willing to pay that cost in order to tell my truth. But that is not what happened. The world did not push me away. It pulled me closer. Through an act of disconnection, I found connection.

Three ideas. Three...

 We can do this with our siblings and our mates and our friends and our colleagues. We can do this with the disconnection and the discord all around us. We can do this for the soul of the world. Thank you.

Say your truths and seek...

 because sometimes, there's this disconnection that intensifies the emotion and makes you feel helpless. But if you can channel that anger, connect it with action that is toward creating

The path to ending...

 have happen a lot you know since this trip and I really enjoyed that sense of friendship and of closeness and of disconnection I also really enjoyed just