My feeling is that as far as creativity is concerned, isolation is required. Creation is embarrassing. For every new good idea you… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
By circumstance and perhaps also by inclination, I think in complete intellectual isolation. To expect others to help me think seems to… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The isolation of Eastern Europe actually helped me to be so original. I couldn't travel so much, I had to find my… — Krzysztof Penderecki Copy Share Image
“It is not queer, and both desolating and comforting, how, with all associations broken, one forms new ones, as a broken bone… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
I don't do isolation body building; I just do practical things that help me with the kind of things that are asked… — Jason Statham Copy Share Image
“I tell myself I’m fine on my own, but am I? No friends to fall back on, no relationships, no support. Left… — Jael McHenry Copy Share Image
“If you always keep your true feelings and your inner wounds to yourself, the best that can result is emotional isolation from… — Lizzie Velásquez Copy Share Image
I think any show has the potential to bring about social change. I do not think any one show in isolation can… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
We are living in a new ice age, and we need to apply the recipes of the Cold War to the Kremlin.… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
America has a history of political isolation and economic self-sufficiency; its citizens have tended to regard the rest of the world as… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
“She was a stray after all. A stray not only in its plantation meaning-orphaned, with no one to look after her-but in… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
I have learned so much more about Islam in conversation with Jews and Christians and Hindus. I feel like that is part… — Eboo Patel Copy Share Image
I feel certain God loves me just the way I am, and I have a huge sense of calling to communicate that… — Vicky Beeching Copy Share Image
“You know it will be sad to be left alone, utterly alone, and to have not even anything to regret - nothing,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Today the arts exist in isolation, from which they can be rescued only through the conscious, cooperative effort of all craftsmen. Architects,… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
“The isolation spins its mysterious cocoon, focusing the mind on one place, one time, one rhythm… …you can live any story you… — M L Stedman Copy Share Image
“I may have smiled to myself as I watched the familiar pattern of the town pass, the bus cruising through shade to… — Emma Cline Copy Share Image
Who shall blame him? Who will not secretly rejoice when the hero puts his armour off, and halts by the window and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The character structure of modern man, who reproduces a six-thousand-year-old patriarchal authoritarian culture is typified by characterological armoring against his inner nature… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
Now social media is a centerpiece of our lives. It can be a useful tool for connection and communication. It can ease… — Melania Trump Copy Share Image
“It is illness that makes us recognize that we do not live in isolation but are chained to a being from a… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
She had always been a reader… but now she was obsessed. Since her discovery of the book hoard downstairs from her job,… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“What do you mean by isolation?' I asked him. 'Why, the isolation that prevails everywhere, above all in our age-it has not… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“There is another powerful factor which works against the chance of any kind of peaceful reconstruction and which is equally negative for… — Andrei Amalrik Copy Share Image
I am succeeding quite well in my work and the future looks well. What special mission is God preparing me for? Cutting… — Ellen Swallow Richards Copy Share Image
I guess I'm attracted and repelled by isolation. It scares me. And it's why I tend to write about older characters, too,… — Conor McPherson Copy Share Image
The differences you perceive between Humans-between groups of Humans-are the result of isolation and inbreeding, mutation, and adaptation to different Earth environments — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I am a stranger in this world, and there is a severe solitude and painful lonesomeness in my exile.” — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
Seafaring can be lucrative - the elite, such as gas-tanker captains, can earn $100,000 for six months' work - but the isolation… — Rose George Copy Share Image
“It’s important, Madeleine, not to cut people out of our lives. Isolation doesn’t make us better at our job. It makes us… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
Over time as most people fail the survivor's exacting test of trustworthiness, she tends to withdraw from relationships. The isolation of the… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“Nothing exists in isolation. In fact, all beings and phenomena exist only because of their relationship with other beings or phenomena.” — Jeff Ourvan Copy Share Image
I rent houses in LA when I'm filming. I find the isolation there terrifying. There's nowhere to go, there's nowhere to be… — Kathleen Turner Copy Share Image
“Being a control freak is a weakness, not a strength. If you can't allow others to shine, you're exhibiting signs of narcissism… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
Love often leads to healing, while fear and isolation breed illness. And our biggest fear is abandonment. — Candace Pert Copy Share Image
“If we don’t express truth and love in relationships, they simply become a state of isolation with somebody (some body) still around.” — Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D Copy Share Image
Basketball teams, after the perfunctory lay-up drill, fall into the crowded isolation and personal style of 10 city kids shooting at the… — Ted Solotaroff Copy Share Image
He was part of a whole, a people scattered over the earth and yet eternally one and indivisible. Wherever a Jew lived,… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“It talked about the isolation felt by gifted young people whose social skills could not keep up with their intellects and who… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
I feel that our attitude to our borders is wrong; it's the first time that an awful lot of people think you… — Jeremy Hardy Copy Share Image
