“The best way to convert your time into products is through the power of isolation.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
I've actually read that isolation is the enemy, so why do that to myself? — Phil Heath Copy Share Image
“Together we were something less, which felt like such a relief, to not be ourselves for a while.” — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
Social engaged intellectuals must accept reality as they found it and shape it toward positive social goals, not stand aside in self-righteous… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I'm always in the right headspace! I live pretty much in isolation, so there are really no distractions. That's not a manufactured… — Joey Jordison Copy Share Image
“...you are my Lady of Shalott lost in a dream of isolation - I care too much for you - I romanticize… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction - namely, complete isolation from other humans for 10,000 years. — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Talent--that is to say, the ability to see the world in a unique way--matures and grows in isolation. — Mieczyslaw Jastrun Copy Share Image
I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
I have spent years toiling away in the relative solitude of my chambers, with just my law clerks, in isolation. — Ketanji Brown Jackson Copy Share Image
Something in our nature cries out to be loved by another. Isolation is devastating to the human psyche. That is why solitary… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
“We have to live without sympathy, don't we? That's impossible of course. We act it to one another, all this hardness; but… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
“He had been for many years, a quiet silent man, associating but little with other men, and used to companionship with his… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
People who live in hermit states like North Korea, Burma, and Cuba already suffer from global isolation. Fed on a diet of… — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
When I wrote my novel, 'The Ministry of Special Cases,' I couldn't even brush my teeth. I had to write in isolation… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
The great waste comes from [the child's] inability to utilize the experience he gets outside of school in any complete and free… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“We are relational creatures. All humans live in community and most people seek social interaction. In western culture, isolation is seen as… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
Beethoven’s music always struck me. Always. He had this fire you know. I remember reading this story of him going deaf and… — Rodney Mullen Copy Share Image
The cave is a dark, shadowy place. It's a place that's very close and yet distant at the same time, and it's… — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
Contact with like-minded painters - a group means a great deal to me: nothing comes in isolation. We have worked out our… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
“This is one of the harshest after effects of the pandemic that I am witnessing some and experiencing some, a diminished ability… — Shellen Lubin Copy Share Image
There has been, for some reason (or more likely an unfortunate accumulation of reasons) a trend over the past several decades for… — Carolyn Hax Copy Share Image
I began to wonder whether anything truly existed, whether reality wasn't an unformed and gelatinous substance only half-captured by my senses…If that… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
A mighty wind of resolution sets in strong upon him and freshens the whole atmosphere of his soul, sweeping down before it… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
The opposite of addiction is human connection. And I think that has massive implications for the war on drugs. The treatment of… — Johann Hari Copy Share Image
“Do you know that, maybe, I shall leave off grieving over the crime and sin of my life? for such a life… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“The book was Shelley, and it opened at a passage that he had cherished greatly two years before, and marked as “very… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image