Isolation Quotes

423 quotes by 362 authors

Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show… — Aldous Huxley
Sending children away to get control of their anger perpetuates the feeling of 'badness" inside them...Chances are they were already feeling not very good about… — Otto Weininger
Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. It's like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea. You can't stop the raging… — Anne Lamott
For listening to the stories of others ... is a kind of water that breaks the fever of our isolation. If we listen closely enough,… — Mark Nepo
The opposite of addiction is human connection. And I think that has massive implications for the war on drugs. The treatment of drug addicts almost… — Johann Hari
You can be as earnest and ridiculous as you need to be, if you don't attempt it in isolation. The ridiculously earnest are known to… — Barbara Kingsolver
The chief misery of the decline of the faculties, and a main cause of the irritability that often goes with it, is evidently the isolation,… — Charles Horton Cooley
Munch writes poetry with color. He has taught himself to see the full potential of color in art His use of color is above all… — SigbjÃ¸rn Obstfelder
No matter what you are dealing with in life, be it resentment or regret, bitterness or sadness, anger or apathy, hatred or hesitation, depression or… — Widad Akrawi
The essential challenge is to transform the isolation and self-interest within our communities into connectedness and caring for the whole. — Peter Block
A good idea for a new business tends not to occur in isolation, and often the window of opportunity is very small. So speed is… — Richard Branson
A problem never exists in isolation; it is surrounded by other problems in space and time. The more of the context of a problem that… — Russell L. Ackoff
In April 1917 the illusion of isolation was destroyed, America came to the end of innocence, and of the exuberant freedom of bachelor independence. That… — Barbara Tuchman
I see the regions of snow and ice, I see the sharp-eyed Samoiede and the Finn, I see the seal-seeker in his boat poising his… — James Joyce
You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to… — Adam Arkin
If a man were living in isolation his income would be literally his product. Make him the monarch and owner of an island, and the… — John Bates Clark
One who shows signs of mental aberration is, inevitably, perhaps, but cruelly, shut off from familiar, thoughtless intercourse, partly excommunicated; his isolation is unwittingly proclaimed… — Charles Horton Cooley
I feel certain God loves me just the way I am, and I have a huge sense of calling to communicate that to young people.… — Vicky Beeching
Isolating mechanisms are biological properties of individuals that prevent the interbreeding of populations that are actually or potentially sympatric. — Ernst Mayr
The statement that although the past can be recorded, the future cannot, is translatable into the statistical statement: Isolated states of order are always postinteraction… — Hans Reichenbach

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