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
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
“...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
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
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
“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
All People and things are interdependent. The world has become so small that no nation can solve its problems alone, in isolation… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“There is something inn expressly touching in nature round Petersburg, when at the approach of spring she puts forth all her might,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but also clouds their view of their descendants and isolates them from… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The more we study the major problems of our time, the more we come to realise that they cannot be understood in… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
“I know you don't think that any tongue I speak is mine; it must be rented. I am always denial, or pretense.… — Jasmine Ann Cooray Copy Share Image
I have become convinced that the more wealth a country accumulates, the more isolated and lonely its people become. The loneliest are… — Wess Stafford Copy Share Image
I just am trans. That's just the way it is. I knew this as a child. But I was told that because… — Janet Mock Copy Share Image
The wilderness is a place of rest - not in the sense of being motionless, for the lure, after all, is to… — David Douglas Copy Share Image
“She said, "Daddy thinks that all the world's magic is almost evolved out." I thought of Roebuck Lake, its swamps and sloughs… — Lewis Nordan Copy Share Image
So he was deserted. The whole world was clamouring: Kill yourself, kill yourself, for our sakes. But why should he kill himself… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
So far as photography satisfied a wish, it satisfied a wish not confined to painters, but a human wish, intensifying since the… — Stanley Cavell Copy Share Image
“In good company your thoughts run, in solitude your thought is still; it goes deeper and makes for itself a deeper groove,… — Rumer Godden Copy Share Image
We can't change the fossil fuel companies' behavior in isolation from the rest of the industrial system. As long as they have… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
“There are in our life any number of women whom we have never wished to see again, and who have quite naturally… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“The place was a truck stop town. Large 18 wheelers lined the sidewalks and cafes. Giant diesel motors roaring their exhaust into… — Jaime Allison Parker Copy Share Image
“I think that [William] Faulkner and I each had to escape certain particulars of our lives, and we found salvation through words.… — Tennessee Williams 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
The London music world isn't a particularly cohesive place. And when I'm composing, I'm not very friendly. I need isolation. — George Benjamin Copy Share Image
“I will leave and isolate myself rather than go through the futile task of trying to make everyone happy, which is impossible… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
“Can it be, then, that by that act of physical isolation, he signifies his spiritual withdrawal for the time, from all outward… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I think I'm Swedish because I like to live here on this island. You can't imagine the loneliness and isolation in this… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Whether splendidly isolated or dangerously isolated, I will not now debate; but for my part, I think splendidly isolated, because the isolation… — Wilfrid Laurier 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
“Solitude is a chosen separation for refining your soul. Isolation is what you crave when you neglect the first.” — Wayne Cordeiro Copy Share Image
When people wear you out, spend some time in isolation with Allah and your relationship with Him will improve as well as… — Omar Suleiman Copy Share Image
“Deep down in our bones we must know - we must know that nothing we do is done in isolation. Cause and… — Anna Krien Copy Share Image
If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a bunker mentality, the Internet does the… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
Discipline and unconditional support is earned by understanding and trust and inclusion. Not by isolation, not by nasty tricks. — Colm Keaveney Copy Share Image
![“I think that [William] Faulkner and I each had to escape certain particulars of our lives, and we found salvation through words. I understand the Bible story of Babel so much better now. I think that moments of extremity, desires of escape, lead us to foreign languages--not those learned in…” quote by Tennessee Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ae/tennessee-williams-745_better-now_i-think-that-william-faulkner-and-i-each_1247777.jpg)
