Andrew Weil

Technology has a shadow side. It accounts for real progress in medicine, but has also hurt it in many ways, making it more impersonal, expensive and dangerous. The false belief that a safety net of sophisticated drugs and machines stretches below us, permitting risky or lazy lifestyle choices, has undermined our spirit of self-reliance.

American Scientist

Mark Frost

Hill St.' was very good, but it was very impersonal work for me. I wrote about that place as if I was a visitor. It wasn't what my life was like. It was a great place to learn the craft of how to shape a scene, but I wanted a chance to write about more personal themes and obsessions.

American Novelist

Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

The average member of the public thinks of 'business' as an impersonal corporate entity owned by the very rich and managed by overpaid executives. There is an almost total failure to appreciate that 'business' actually embraces - in one way or another - most Americans.

American Judge

Stephen Hawking

God is the name people give to the reason we are here. But I think that reason is the laws of physics rather than someone with whom one can have a personal relationship. An impersonal God.

English Physicist

Grace Gealey

Connecting with people in person is so important. To look in the eyes of our girls and let them know that you really do support them transcends the impersonal connection of technology.

American Actress

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

American Leader

Georg Simmel

Thus, the technique of metropolitan life is unimaginable without the most punctual integration of all activities and mutual relations into a stable and impersonal time schedule.

German Sociologist

Herbert A. Simon

The world is vast, beautiful, and fascinating, even awe-inspiring - but impersonal. It demands nothing of me, and allows me to demand nothing of it.

American Economist

Hubert H. Humphrey

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.

American Politician

George A. Moore

An idea is so impersonal; it is yours today and the whole world's tomorrow.

Irish Novelist

Use 'impersonal' when describing a professional setting where emotions aren't shown.

Professional Distance

Describe someone's surprisingly calm reaction to dramatic events as 'impersonal'.

Unexpected Calm

Use 'impersonal' to suggest decisions made without personal biases.

Fair Judgment

Refer to economic or market factors as 'impersonal' to highlight their objectivity.

Market Dynamics

'Impersonal' can criticize places or things for lacking unique features.

Uninspired Design

Use 'impersonal' to describe something that feels mass-produced or cookie-cutter.

Mass-Produced Feel

Use 'impersonal' to describe an environment that doesn't feel welcoming or cozy.

Lack of Warmth

In hospitality, 'impersonal' suggests a lack of personal touch or care.

Hospitality Atmosphere

 that first mechanically then through analogs then digitally created a new and miraculous way of passing things on, albeit an impersonal one. People could now hear music all the time, even though it wasn't necessary for them to play an instrument, read music or even go to concerts.

Michael Tilson Thomas:...

 Now, I know some of you are thinking, global capital markets, positive social change, not usually in the same sentence or even the same paragraph. I think many people think of the capital markets kind of like an ocean. It's a vast, impersonal, uncaring force of nature

How to make a profit...

 Despite the potential benefits, the prospect of a massive network automatically scanning our photos, communications, and physiological signs is also quite disturbing. What are the implications for our privacy when such impersonal systems

Can machines read your...

 not so but an impersonal is something that gets lost in particular the news coverage of that and it is the absolute figures are important but somehow that is relative is relative to your capacity to service it as long as you can service

Pulling back the curtain...

 That to be able to talk about content, to break apart what you normally expect, to use humor and surprise, elegance and humanity in your work was really important to us. It was a very high, it was a very impersonal time in design

Maira Kalman: The...

 Instead, they trusted this idea of the impersonal system and the bureaucrat who would be detached and work in this system. And the impact of Beveridge on the way the modern state sees social issues just can't be underestimated.

Social Services Are...

 our weekly data the process was much more labor-intensive than just thriving standard metrics through using technological devices the very first week of dear data we chose a pretty cold and impersonal topic how many time do we

Pen Pal Experiment: Two...

 All too often though, the anti-hero is killed, or brainwashed to return to conformity with the masses. No heroic triumph here, no brave individual standing up against impersonal institutions of a modern world,

An anti-hero of one's...

 and I really mean this please do not ask for help over email or text. Really, seriously, please don't. Email and text are impersonal. I realize sometimes there's no alternative, but mostly what happens is,

How to ask for help --...

 from our common life, from the schools and neighborhoods and airports and amusement parks that we used to share. We face, then, a problem not of these large, impersonal forces.