Isolation Quotes - Page 12

• Women can also be creative in total isolation. I know excellent women artists who do original work without any response to speak of. Maybe they are used to lack of feedback. Maybe they are tougher.

  Elaine de Kooning

  Artist, Creative, Speak

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• I love isolation. It's very important for me to have time and space to myself when I can sit and read or write as well as paint. It's all part of the process.

  Stuart Pearson Wright

  Writing, Love Is, Space

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• When one chooses to be a writer, psychologically there's a reason for that because you like the isolation and you like to be by yourself and you are by nature timid.

  Woody Allen

  Reason

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2001.

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• Isolation in creative work is an onerous thing. Better to have negative criticism than nothing at all.

  Anton Chekhov

  Creative, Criticism, Negative

  Anton Chekhov's letter to his brother A.P. Chekhov, May 10, 1886.

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• Indifference is isolation. In difference is texture and wonder.

  Edwin Schlossberg

  Differences, Texture, Wonder

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• One of the sayings in our country is Ubuntu - the essence of being human. Ubuntu speaks particularly about the fact that you can't exist as a human being in isolation. It speaks about our interconnectedness. You can't be human all by yourself, and when you have this quality - Ubuntu - you are known for your generosity. We think of ourselves far too frequently as just individuals, separated from one another, whereas you are connected and what you do affects the whole World. When you do well, it spreads out; it is for the whole of humanity.

  Desmond Tutu

  Country, Thinking, Ubuntu

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• Climate change, demographics, water, food, energy, global health, women's empowerment - these issues are all intertwined. We cannot look at one strand in isolation. Instead, we must examine how these strands are woven together.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Issues, Water, Empowerment

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• What were once felt to be defects-isolation, institutional simplicity, primitiveness of manners, multiplicity of religions, weaknesses in the authority of the state-could now be seen as virtues, not only by Americans themselves but by enlightened spokesmen of reform, renewal and hope wherever they may be-in London coffeehouses, in Parisian salons, in the courts of German princes.

  Bernard Bailyn

  Simplicity, Weakness, Reform

  Bernard Bailyn (1992). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, p.160, Harvard University Press

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• It is the incongruous thing in my entire life, this isolation.. ... My work requires it - but I myself have no need or use for it - Perhaps once on a time I found isolation imperative - I think all chrysalides do - all embryos go for the underside of the leaf in the time of body-change preparing for the final reassertion -resurrection - the establishment of the entity. But now I've come up tot the outside of my casements.

  Marsden Hartley

  Thinking, Finals, Needs

  "Marsden Hartley". Book by Gail R. Scott, p. 151, 1988.

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• One of the booby traps of freedom - which is bordered on all sides by isolation - is that we think so well of ourselves. I now see that I have helped myself to the best cuts at life's banquet.

  Saul Bellow

  Freedom, Cutting, Thinking

  Saul Bellow (2015). “There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction”, p.301, Penguin

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• Individuals of the earlier species had suffered from an almost insurmountable spiritual isolation from one another. Not even lovers, and scarcely even the geniuses with special insight into personality, ever had anything like accurate vision of one another... The most precious gift that a lover could bring to the beloved was not virginity but sexual experience. The union, it was felt, was the more pregnant the more each party could contribute from previous sexual and spiritual intimacy with others.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Spiritual, Party, Personality

  "Last and First Men" by Olaf Stapledon, Dover Books, (pp. 102, 112), 1930.

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• Psychotherapy is a cyclical process from isolation into relationship. It is cyclical because the patient, in terror of existential isolation, relates deeply and meaningfully to the therapist and then, strengthened by this encounter, is led back again to a confrontation with existential isolation.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Encounters, Patient, Existential

  Irvin D. Yalom (1980). “Existential Psychotherapy”, p.406, Basic Books

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• The wonder of an artist's performance grows with the range of his penetration, with the instinctive sympathy that makes him, in his mortal isolation, considerate of other men's fate and a great diviner of their secret, so that his work speaks to them kindly, with a deeper assurance than they could have spoken with to themselves.

  George Santayana

  Fate, Artist, Men

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.357, 谷月社

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• Religion and nationalism, as well as any custom and any belief however absurd and degrading, if it only connects the individual with others, are refuges from what man most dreads: isolation.

  Erich Fromm

  Men, Belief, Individual

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.30, Open Road Media

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• I'm always writing. It's kind of a curse: You never stop. But I need isolation to write. So the real meat of the material comes when I'm off the road.

  Taylor Momsen

  Real, Writing, Meat

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• Delirious as it can be, sex is only one kind of intimacy, and yet has become the cultural catchment area for all kinds of needs because our understanding of intimacy is so poor. Brutal work schedules, related geographic isolation, and the concomitant fracturing of families has meant that there is little time for intimacy, and even less to teach the necessary skills. But intimacy, the axis of romance, is slow, based on the sharing of a life rather than show. In terms of intimacy, folding laundry together or sharing the feeding of a child can have more impact than the most extravagant bouquet.

  Antonella Gambotto-Burke

  Sex, Children, Impact

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• Man is alone in the world, in tremendous eternal isolation. He has no object outside himself; lives for nothing else; he is far removed from being the slave of his wishes, of his abilities, of his necessities; he stands far above social ethics; he is alone. Thus he becomes one and all.

  Otto Weininger

  Men, Wish, World

  Otto Weininger (1906). “Sex & Character”, p.162, Рипол Классик

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• Why do leaders fail? Isolation and inability to learn. They are afraid to express doubt, admit vulnerability or seek advice from subordinates. Leaders must actively work to seek feedback and a reality check. They must be open to asking questions and framing issues. As the world becomes more complex and global, the risk of isolation becomes greater. The need for leaders to be open to learning becomes greater. Great leaders will need to ask the right questions and balance inquiry with advocacy.

  Robert S. Kaplan

  Reality, Leader, Advice

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Trump might well choose to renege on US obligations (so much for the sanctity of contracts!) and no doubt he would have the agreement of Zionist politicians like Schumer. But the consequences will be the increased isolation of the US - particularly from Europe, whose businesses will just move into Iran while US companies will lose out.

  Lawrence Davidson

  Moving, Agreement, Iran

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Acting alone in a world that's alive in political stirring is to condemn oneself to isolation and probably protracted warfare of the kind that can be dissipating.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Political, Acting, Warfare

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• I think most writers would like a quiet space, complete isolation, in which they control their own time. Spaces of creativity in which there's very little interruption.

  Wole Soyinka

  Creativity, Thinking, Space

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• Music does not exist in isolation, it is rooted in the political, the social, the cultural. We need to remember this at all times, and especially in these times! Our voices have never been so very critical.

  Lawrence English

  Voice, Political, Doe

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Finally, ultimately, you write music for yourself. I mean, I need a public, I need people to play, I need everything else. I'm not working in isolation. But finally the man that writes the music is alone. And I have to respond to those criteria which are almost like inner needs or inner responses.

  Philip Glass

  Writing, Mean, Men

  Source: thomasmoore.info

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• [Mikhail Bakunin] expectations were generally confirmed, including his prediction that some would seek to gain state power on the backs of popular revolution, then constructing a "Red bureaucracy" that would be one of the worst tyrannies in history, while others would recognize that power lies elsewhere and would serve as its apologists, becoming mystifies, "disablers," and managers while demanding the right to function in "technocratic isolation," in World Bank lingo.

  Noam Chomsky

  Lying, Expectations, World

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• We are awakening from the dream of isolation, from the dream of loneliness, and it's a terrible shock.

  Leonard Cohen

  Dream, Loneliness, Awakening

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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