“There’s something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.”
“Remember you don’t do anything in isolation.”
“I think in the case of horror, it’s a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those fears usually have to do, ironically, with powerlessness and isolation.”
“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 everybody else.”
“When I’m writing, I’m in an isolation chamber. I’m not one to think about that outside world stuff when I’m writing.”
“The comics work is very slow, and it basically involves working for sometimes years in isolation and not knowing how the work is going to be received.”
“Just because Pluto orbits with many other dwarf planets doesn’t change what it is, just as whether an object is a mountain or not doesn’t depend on whether it’s in a group or in isolation.”
“The E.U. initially decided to end the isolation of Turkish Cyprus, to balance the accession of Cyprus. But the E.U. has not carried through on its promise.”
“Teamwork is better than isolation, especially for a columnist.”
“If there’s a silver bullet in the battle to recapture Albany, it is the re-engagement of our citizens. This capital has become a physical metaphor for the isolation and alienation of our people.”
“Perhaps because my town was so naturally gothic in its architecture and relative isolation – the roads often closed in winter – my stories tended toward the ghostly and the creepily suspenseful right from the get-go.”
“Overnight successes are generally years in the making. And most progress is made in isolation, far from the public eye.”
“Border strengthening is effective, but not if done in isolation. We also need to give priority to establishing public institutions that deliver a sustained level of security and justice for citizens. Border security can never come at the expense of migrants’ rights. Nor can it be used to legitimize inhumane treatment.”
“Nuclear tests poison the environment – and they also poison the political climate. They breed mistrust, isolation and fear.”
“Isolation is a dream killer.”
“In 2009, it was forecast that the number of single-person households would increase by two million in 10 years, suggesting that social isolation will only get worse.”
“Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.”
“Fixing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in isolation, without looking at the big picture, would be short-sighted.”
“At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.”
“The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation.”
“The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.”
“Isolation is a self-defeating dream.”
“Providing a writer isn’t put off by conventions – and some are – attending them can be a nice break from the necessary isolation of writing.”
“Short of taking monastic vows or trekking into the Kalahari, a freighter passage might just offer what our relentlessly connected age has made difficult, if not impossible: splendid isolation.”
“I would get a lot of writing done if I lived in isolation in a cave under a swamp.”
“Composing demands a degree of isolation.”
“Discipline and unconditional support is earned by understanding and trust and inclusion. Not by isolation, not by nasty tricks.”
“I guess I’m attracted and repelled by isolation. It scares me. And it’s why I tend to write about older characters, too, because for them the stakes are somewhat higher.”
“No one can live entirely on their own, nor can any country or society exist in isolation.”
“There’s a tendency to look at investments in isolation. Investors focus on the risk of individual securities.”
“There are estimated to be fewer that 50 prodigious savants worldwide. If we were brought together, it would be disappointing in the sense of us having different abilities. One thing that would make me feel united with them would be the sense of us having grown up in isolation.”
“I have music on when I write. I don’t like the isolation otherwise and find the silence deadening.”
“I was obsessed with the idea of fasting and isolation.”
“I’m not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and isolation and abandonment.”
“The arts don’t exist in isolation.”
“In seeking to counter challenges such as terrorist threats, hostile state activity, or nuclear proliferation, we cannot work in isolation.”
“The idea of the mystic solo, meditating away on his own, is only one path of yoga. Very early on, I chose the path of Life. One path is austerity and isolation, the other is Life. But they both lead to the same place.”
“David Cameron wants people to believe that his isolation in Europe is a result of Britain being outnumbered when it matters most.”
“Some books are serials, not to be mistaken for anything else. ‘The Two Towers,’ for example, ought never to be read in isolation.”
“Policymakers, elected and unelected, need to be ever-mindful that the U.S. economy does not exist in isolation.”
“The one happiness is to shut one’s door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.”
“I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity.”
“The Obama administration has been trying out a new policy toward Syria since the day it came to office. The Bush cold shoulder was viewed as a primitive reaction, now to be replaced by sophisticated diplomacy. Outreach would substitute for isolation.”
“I hope the seeds I have sown will be taken up by those who will follow me because the journey I have begun cannot be undertaken in isolation.”
“I am in no way different from anyone else, that my predicament, my sense of aloneness or isolation may be precisely what unites me with everyone.”
“So many writers grew up in tortured isolation, in revolt against their families. I and my sister were in a house where writing was considered the worthiest thing you could try to do.”
“My first two novels featured narrators who were aggressively unattached: They couldn’t form any sort of genuine relationship. So I had thoroughly explored the geography of loneliness and isolation.”
“Isolation is the one sure way to human happiness.”
“This way of working on individual songs in isolation from other songs is actually how we’ve always kind of done it.”
“My EP, ‘Room 93,’ was all about isolation – it was based on the idea of being in a hotel room and being totally alone with yourself or that other person.”
“We Muslims in the West, like Jews before us, grapple with the same issues that Jews of the past did: integration or isolation, tradition or reform, intermarriage or intra-marriage.”
“Civil war is a national crisis and also a private trauma: We suffer it collectively and in isolation.”
“We have to be very careful about acknowledging that the Internet is very good at combatting isolation, but it’s not very good at delivering justice.”
“National isolation breeds national neurosis.”
“The smallest wound or pain of the ego is examined under a microscope as if it were of eternal importance. The artist considers his isolation, his subjectivity, his individualism almost holy.”
“Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction – namely, complete isolation from other humans for 10,000 years.”
“At a macro level, it’s balancing the needs of consumers, advertisers and content owners. And if you talk to any one of those three customer sets in isolation, often times you won’t delight the other two. So the hurdle we faced with Hulu Plus was, how can we thread this needle in a way that delights all three customer sets?”
“When you’re just focused on nutrition and hunger, that’s a harder, harder lift in isolation.”
“I think the most satisfying part about filmmaking is seeing a production in full bloom. When I write, I write in isolation.”
“I’ve always been attracted to themes of isolation in my work – in my independent work and my DC work.”
“There’s an urgent need to stop reacting to each immediate vexing issue in isolation. Such response often creates unanticipated second-order effects and even more problems for us.”
“Isolation doesn’t bother me at all. It gives me a sense of security.”
“What if cities embraced a culture of sharing? I see a future of shared cities that bring us community and connection instead of isolation and separation.”
“I’m always in the right headspace! I live pretty much in isolation, so there are really no distractions. That’s not a manufactured thing; it’s just the way I live.”
“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 fruits that he raises and the clothing that he makes constitute, in themselves, his income. This ceases to be true when trading begins.”
“It’s important to have quiet time and isolation.”
“Unfortunately, we are not painters and authors, where we can do something in isolation. We require a lot of money to create what we create. It’s almost like being an architect: You can’t be an architect and build whatever buildings you want to.”
“I like the idea of isolation. I like the reality of it. You realize what you are… not that the knowledge is inevitably rewarding.”
“Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.”
“Solitude, isolation, are painful things and beyond human endurance.”
“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 with people. I’m not a beach bunny.”
“I am very convinced that I did not contract Ebola in the isolation unit, because our process is so safe.”
“I wasn’t afraid of treating Ebola patients in the isolation unit. That was the safest job. But seeing patients in the clinic, seeing patients in the emergency room, being in the community – those things gave me pause.”
“You got to be able when you get the ball, slow it down, read the defense, call for a pick, and go off a pick-and-roll instead of going isolation all the time. Just be able to use that screen.”
“It’s easy to draw up isolation basketball – it’s not easy to draw up great motion offense with passing and cutting.”
“When I did Google Wave, everyone had to be in Sydney, and a lot people actually traveled there to be part of it. There was a lot of isolation. There were a lot of things we kept secret from the company while working on Wave – just like you would at a startup.”
“I need some isolation, it’s necessary to me, that’s just who I am. I need to be left alone.”
“We live in a global village. No country can live in isolation of others like Robinson Crusoe.”
“When I married Paul, we lived in St John’s Wood in London. We had nice next-door neighbours, but you don’t know anyone else. Everyone lives in isolation.”
“One could not have isolated this retrovirus without knowledge of other retroviruses, that’s obvious. But I believe we have answered the criteria of isolation.”
“If you want to end your isolation, you must be honest about what you want at a core level and decide to go after it.”
“We can’t afford to live in isolation, and we need to teach our kids that the things that they do not only matter to others far away but impact others who live far away, and there are ripples of effect.”
“All these dismal things that are going on in the world – the isolation and the sickness and the governments and the pollution – it’s so frightful, over the whole world.”
“Some writers – most, I suspect – write in isolation. I think I’d always found that quite difficult.”
“With technology, there is so much isolation with people now, that there are very few places where you can connect.”
“Africa should not again face isolation or stigmatisation based on ignorance and unrepresentative imagery.”
“Isolation is a big part of songwriting.”
“The idea of a mentally ill vice president who suffers in complete isolation was obviously sparked by the behaviors I witnessed by Sarah Palin. What if somebody who was ill-equipped for the office were to ascend to the presidency or vice presidency? What would they do? How long would it take for people to figure it out?”
“Israel is following policies which maximise its security threats… policies which choose expansion over security… policies which lead to their moral degradation, their isolation, their delegitimation, as they call it now, and very likely ultimate destruction. That’s not impossible.”
“In 1853, American warships bullied Japan out of centuries of virtual isolation and into the modern world. The threat of force compelled Japan, like India and China before it, to accept trade agreements that were economically ruinous and eroded national sovereignty.”
“The power of storytelling is to free us from isolation, shame, and whatever the situation.”
“If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.”
“The geographical isolation and lack of television made world happenings and problems seem remote.”
“I like the idea of isolation, I like the idea of solitude. You can be connected and have a phone and still be lonely.”
“It’s just hard to watch isolation basketball.”
“At Pixar, of course, we have all these people, and they’re just used to our process now where it’s a discussion; it’s a discovery. It’s not individual artists going and fussing off by themselves in isolation and then handing their work in.”
“I’ve actually read that isolation is the enemy, so why do that to myself?”
“I cannot write in isolation. I write with people around me.”
“There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.”
“Growing up in the icy isolation of Hibbing, Minn., Dylan, who was still Robert Allen Zimmerman then, found comfort in the country, blues, and early rock ‘n’ roll that he heard at night on a Louisiana radio station whose signal came in strong and clear.”
“One of the biggest changes that ever occurred in my life was going from the isolation of working part-time as a house painter in Henderson County, to Cornell, where everybody was a literary person.”
“We don’t function well as human beings when we’re in isolation.”
“Seafaring can be lucrative – the elite, such as gas-tanker captains, can earn $100,000 for six months’ work – but the isolation is a heavy price to pay.”
“I never really had any close friends in India, and I felt a terrible loneliness and isolation for many years. Westernized Indians don’t like my books and I tend not to like westernized Indians – so we’re quits.”
“Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.”
“Receiving the National Medal of Science is the thrill of a lifetime, but good science does not happen in isolation.”
“The question is: How are you able to organize your information, your tasks, and get stuff done spanning those different roles? Nobody lives in isolation.”
“Something people don’t recognize is that being on the space station is probably a lot like being in some kind of confinement – like isolation.”
“Unprecedented financial pressures, and an ever-increasingly aggressive public culture, along with social, moral and spiritual fragmentation, are leading to lives being overwhelmed by stress, intolerable interior isolation and even quiet despair.”
“We feel no isolation. But, having said that, I want to emphasise in particular that we do not want to go to extremes and abandon the European and American directions in our foreign economic cooperation.”
“Whereas China has set about systematically striving for Olympic success since it re-entered global competition after years of isolation, India has remained complacent about its lack of sporting prowess.”
“Any country that grants asylum to Snowden risks retaliation from the United States, including diplomatic isolation and costly trade sanctions. Several don’t seem to care.”
“As much as we sometimes roll our eyes at the ivory-tower isolation of universities, they continue to serve as remarkable engines of innovation.”
“The worst cruelty that can be inflicted on a human being is isolation.”
“Slowly but surely, I went through different phases of fame, and each rises you further into isolation and alienation.”
“When we have built up armor against all the bad things we think might happen in the world, we have a false sense of protection and have only built up isolation.”
“Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.”
“Too much of what is called ‘education’ is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.”
“Greater technological connectivity makes the world wider, and the walls of isolation – thinner.”
“Helping reproductive services doesn’t just help women in isolation. It helps men just as much.”
“The Israeli public has been brainwashed into believing that its global isolation stems from delegitimization and anti-Semitism.”
“I believe that dialogue is the key to breaking through our tendency to separate and isolate. Dialogue changes isolation and loneliness into connection and interdependence. This, I believe, is the essence of Buddhism.”
“Coming to know one another based on a shared humanity through dialogue is the key to breaking down the walls of isolation and reversing the decline of life-to-life bonds among human beings.”
“From 1949 to 1953, I studied towards the diploma in Natural Sciences at the Swiss Polytechnical School in Zurich. It is in the last year of this study that I made my first contacts with fundamental research, when working on the isolation and characterization of a new isomer of Cl34 with a half-life of 1.5 seconds.”
“When I’m in Senegal, I can’t just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.”
“I cite these events because I think they underline two very disturbing phenomena – the loss of U.S. international credibility, the growing U.S. international isolation.”
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