It's just hard to watch isolation basketball.

It's easy to draw up isolation basketball - it's not easy to draw up great motion offense with passing and cutting.

— Kyle Korver

I think my assist numbers dropped off in Toronto with the way we were built. We played a lot of isolation basketball. I know…

— Lou Williams

Isolation basketball will always be part of the game. But the system has to be predicated on ball movement and, more importantly, player movement.

— B. J. Armstrong

“ISOLATION DOES STRANGE THINGS to a person’s mind. This is true for any social creature, human or otherwise. Monkeys taken from their mothers at…

— Derrick Jensen

Many people, especially young people, would like to be more independent and on their own. But it is very difficult and they suffer from…

— Haruki Murakami

“An overcrowded world is the ideal place in which to be lonely.”

— Brian W. Aldiss

“Because knowledge is only a cage if you dwell in isolation.”

— Penny Reid

Sometimes isolation can be shared.

— Ken Grimwood

Everyone is isolated from everyone else. The concept of society is like a cushion to protect us from the knowledge of that isolation. A…

— Paul Bowles

Against the suffering which may come upon one from human relationships the readiest safeguard is voluntary isolation, keeping oneself aloof from other people. The…

— Sigmund Freud

“This was the difference, she thought, between solitude and isolation. And now she knew something about herself she hadn’t known before. It was an…

— James S.A. Corey

“Two people who live their lives alone in rooms doing strange, gentle things can sometimes be together in the middle of a dangerous storm…

— Samantha Hunt

Something in our nature cries out to be loved by another. Isolation is devastating to the human psyche. That is why solitary confinement is…

— Gary Chapman

Isolation makes me lonesome, but when I'm lonely in a crowd, I feel desolate and forlorn.

— Steve Fowler

For years mental health professionals taught people that they could be psychologically healthy without social support, that “unless you love yourself, no one else…

— Bruce D. Perry