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"Oh, to awake from dreaming!"
"Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound."
"I will never tell another person, "I don't understand you... and why? Because if I say that, it means that I am disabled in a way. The inability to connect to another's perspective is, I believe, a disability."
"To cleave wood is a common every-day business, and yet it has its dangers; so then, reader, there are dangers connected with your calling and daily life which it will be well for you to be aware of. Your occupation may be as humble as log splitting, and yet the devil can tempt you in it. Nowhere is he safe who thinks himself so."
"At a Chamber of Commerce networking breakfast, two of my friends and I were standing in a circle talking. A stranger approached, interrupted our little reunion, and gave each of us her card. She then began talking about herself and her business without a hint of social awareness, or care about her interruption. She even had the tactless gall to ask us for referrals. When she left our small circle, we looked at each other and laughed, "What was that?"
"If you think everybody hates you, then your ignorance is beyond the limit, because there's a loving heart somewhere longing to see your face."
"Shattered edges of the diamonds rough sets to cut the unsuspecting."
"Vigilance of the wisest kind is to incessantly remain open to the reality that what I 'see' is but a single thread and solitary shard of what 'is', for to assume otherwise is to surrender the wisdom of vigilance to the decay of ignorance."
Explore more quotes by Sherry Turkle
"As adults, we can develop and change our opinions. In childhood, we establish the truth of our hearts."
"This is what technology wants, it wants to be a symptom. Like all psychological symptoms, it obscures a problem by 'solving' it without addressing it."
"If you're having a conversation with someone in speech, and it's not being tape-recorded, you can change your opinion, but on the Internet, it's not like that. On the Internet it's almost as if everything you say were being tape-recorded. You can't say, 'I changed my mind."
"There is a rich literature on how to break out of quandary thinking. It suggests that sometimes it helps to turn from the abstract to the concrete."
"Face-to-face with a computer, people reflected on who they were in the mirror of the machine."
"Children content with parents who are physically close, tantalizingly so, but mentally elsewhere."
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