Mental Distance Quotes

Globalisation has obliterated distance, not just physically but also, most dangerously, mentally. It creates the illusion of intimacy when, in fact, the mental distances have changed little. It has concertinaed the world without engendering the necessary respect, recognition and tolerance that must accompany it.

When I see a film I've finished, it's like another person made it. Like another mind.

...for some of us, one mile can be more to walk than thirty.

You're far from this. This story is just another few hundred pages of your mind.

I'm not disinterested in the rest of the world, but studies show the rest of the world is really freaking far away.

You often get a better hold upon a problem by going away from it for a time and dismissing it from your mind altogether.

Anybody can play decent golf like me, but people trip on their own minds. They need to create a little distance between what they think and what they do.

He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glances. He had an odd autobiographical habit which led him to compose in his mind from time to time a short sentence about himself containing a subject in the third person and a verb in the past tense.

It can take a surprisingly long time to get from one part of my mind to another.

After the 'Last Waltz' concert, it just seemed very healthy to me to put making a record as far out of my mind as I possibly could.