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  • I try to create a place of disorientation.

    "'I try to create a place of disorientation' - interview with Kehinde Wiley". Interview With Anna Savitskaya, artdependence.com. February 16, 2015.
  • Pornography is one of the branches of literature - science fiction is another - aiming at disorientation, at psychic dislocation.

  • A long flight. Jetlag. Immigration. Customs. And then finally, that first step into a new place, that moment of exhilaration and disorientation, each feeding the other. That moment when anything can happen

    Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Year”, p.34, Penguin
  • Future shock is the dizzying disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future.

    Horizon, Summer 1965
  • Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.

    Change   Time   Stress  
    1970 Future Shock.
  • The most prevalent poetic representation of contemporary experience is the mimesis of disorientation by non sequitor.

  • By clarity I don't mean that we're always in kind of a simple area where everything is clear and comforting and understood. Clarity is certainly a way toward disorientation because if you don't start out - if the reader isn't grounded, if the reader is disoriented in the beginning of the poem, then the reader can't be led astray or disoriented later.

    "A Brisk Walk". Interview with Joel Whitney, www.guernicamag.com. June 14, 2006.
  • Every orientation presupposes a disorientation.

  • I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.

  • Future shock is the disorientation that affects an individual, a corporation, or a country when he or it is overwhelmed by change and the prospect of change ... we are in collision with tomorrow.

  • My first months in Sofia were a time of intense disorientation: I had never been to that part of the world before; I could barely speak the language; everything seemed strange to me.

    Months   Firsts   World  
    Source: therumpus.net
  • It seems positively unnatural to travel without taking a camera along... The very activity of taking pictures is soothing and assuages general feelings of disorientation that are likely to be exacerbated by travel.

    Susan Sontag (1978). “On photography”, Delta
  • Transition is the natural process of disorientation and reorientation that marks the turning points in the path of growth...transitions are key times in the natural process of self-renewal

    Keys   Self   Growth  
  • In certain cases, a man blind from birth may have an operation performed which gives him his sight. The result: frequently misery, confusion, disorientation. The light that illumines the madman is an unearthly light, but I do not believe it is a projection, an emanation from his mundane ego. He is irradiated by a light that is more than he. It may burn him out.

    Believe   Men   Light  
  • The past is a stronger influence in the South. But I think everywhere you have this sense that the world changes faster than you can accommodate yourself to. Looking back and seeing how you got where you are is a useful way to combat disorientation.

  • So he [Sigmund Freud] called this "the uncanny" and he also referred to cities as well, like the idea of walking through the city and the way the urban landscape could lead you to a sense of disorientation and to a kind of, you know, sense of repetition. And the way a city can unfold as you walk.

    Source: bigthink.com
  • Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream.

    Change   Dream   Feet  
  • I know what the problem is, of course. The disorientation, the distraction, the difficulty focusing - all classic Phase One signs of deliria. But I don't care. If pneumonia felt this good I'd stand out in the snow in the winter with bare feet and no coat, or march into the hospital and kiss pneumonia patients

    Winter   Kissing   Feet  
    Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.171, Hachette UK
  • Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.

  • One of my inspirations, Harry Houdini, remains an icon of the art because he defied our primal fears. His demonstrations in the early 20th century, especially his escape from the Chinese water torture cell, represented triumph over suffocation, drowning, disorientation and helplessness.

    Art   Inspiration   Cells  
  • The web: yet another total disorientation that becomes status quo without anyone realizing it.

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