Isolation Quotes - Page 17

• Authentic thinking, thinking that is concerned about reality, does not take place in ivory tower isolation, but only in communication. If it is true that thought has meaning only when generated by action upon the world, the subordination of students to teachers becomes impossible.

  Paulo Freire

  Teacher, Communication, Reality

  Paulo Freire, Elizabeth Galligan, Romelia Hurtado de Vivas (2008). “Pioneers in Education: Essays in Honor of Paulo Freire”, p.109, Nova Publishers

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• Art and architecture - all the arts - do not have to exist in isolation.

  Donald Judd

  Art, Architecture

  Donald Judd (1987). “Complete Writings, 1975-1986”

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• Teamwork is better than isolation, especially for a columnist.

  Allan Sloan

  Teamwork, Columnists, Teamwork And Love

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• Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.

  Jules Verne

  Solitude, Endurance, Painful

  Jules Verne (2016). “The Mysterious Island (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.361, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• Isolation breeds conceit.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Solitude, Conceit

  Charles Dudley Warner “The Complete Works of Charles Dudley Warner”, Library of Alexandria

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• Work cure is the best of all psychotherapy, in my opinion.... As well might we expect a patient to recover without food as to recover without work.... The sound man needs work to keep him sound, but the nervous invalid has an even greater need of work to draw him out of his isolation, and to stop the miseries of doubt and self-scrutiny, to win back self-respect and the support of fellowship.

  Richard Clarke Cabot

  Winning, Men, Self

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• Market moralities and mentalities-- fueled by economic imperatives to make a profit at nearly any cost-- yield unprecedented levels of loneliness, isolation, and sadness. And our public life lies in shambles, shot through with icy cynicism and paralyzing pessimism. To put it bluntly, beneath the record-breaking stock markets on Wall Street and bipartisan budget-balancing deals in the White House lurk ominous clouds of despair across this nation.

  Cornel West

  Wall, Loneliness, Lying

  Cornel West (1998). “Restoring Hope: Conversations on the Future of Black America”, G K Hall & Company

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• The goal is not to improve one measurement in isolation. The goal is to reduce operational expenses AND reduce inventories and increase throughput simultaneously.

  Eliyahu M. Goldratt

  Goal, Inventory, Measurement

  Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox (2016). “The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement”, p.84, Routledge

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• The gospel is never heard in isolation. It is always heard against the background of the cultural milieu in which one lives. A person raised in a cultural milieu in which Christianity is still seen as an intellectually viable option will display an openness to the gospel which a person who is secularized will not [as such] part of the broader task of Christian scholarship is to help create and sustain a cultural milieu in which the gospel can be heard as an intellectually viable option for thinking men and women.

  William Lane Craig

  Christian, Men, Thinking

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• He was part of a whole, a people scattered over the earth and yet eternally one and indivisible. Wherever a Jew lived, in whatever safety and isolation, he still belonged to his people.

  Pearl S. Buck

  People, Safety, Earth

  Pearl S. Buck (2012). “Peony: A Novel of China”, p.119, Open Road Media

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• I was keenly conscious of the comrades-in-arms who had fallen with me. A bond surpassing by a hundredfold that which I had known in life bound me to them. I felt a sense of inexpressible relief and realized that I had feared, more than death, separation from them. I apprehended that excruciating war survivor's torment, the sense of isolation and self-betrayal experienced by those who had elected to cling yet to breath when their comrades had let loose their grip.

  Steven Pressfield

  Betrayal, War, Self

  Steven Pressfield (2010). “Gates Of Fire”, p.29, Random House

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• I'm still prone to periods of isolation, still more fearful of the world out there and more averse to pleasure and risk than I'd like to be; I still direct more energy toward controlling and minimizing appetites than toward indulging them.

  Caroline Knapp

  Risk, Energy, World

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• They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the world: where then could we look for reassurerance of our identities? I tell you, my dear, Narcissus was so egotist...he was merely another of us who, in our unshatterable isolation, recognized, on seeing his reflection, the beautiful comrade, the only inseparatable love...poor Narcissus, possibly the only human who was ever honest on this point.

  Truman Capote

  Beautiful, Reflection, Mirrors

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• Action, as distinguished from fabrication, is never possible in isolation; to be isolated is to be deprived of the capacity to act.

  Hannah Arendt

  Action, Capacity, Distinguished

  Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.188, University of Chicago Press

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• The American people are not cowardly. But, living in prosperous isolation, they have been the spoiled children of modern history.

  Herman Wouk

  Children, America, People

  Herman Wouk (1986). “Winds of War”, Pocket

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• Sex for many has become a sorry business, a mechanical release involving neither discovery nor triumph, stressing human isolation more dishearte-ingly than ever before.

  Germaine Greer

  Sex, Sorry, Stress

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• As much as we sometimes roll our eyes at the ivory-tower isolation of universities, they continue to serve as remarkable engines of innovation.

  Steven Johnson

  Eye, Ivory Tower, Innovation

  "Kevin Kelly and Steven Johnson on Where Ideas Come From". Interview with Kevin Kelly, www.wired.com. September 27, 2010.

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• Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.

  William Feather

  Good Morning, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

  William Feather (1949). “The Business of Life”

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• I have never belonged wholeheartedly to country or State, to my circle of friends or even to my own family... Such isolation is sometimes bitter, but I do not regret being cut off from the understanding and sympathy of other men. I lose something by it,to be sure, but I am compensated for it in being rendered independent of the customs, opinions and prejudices of others, and am not tempted to rest my peace of mind upon such shifting foundations.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Country, Regret

  Albert Einstein (1933). “The fight against war”

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• As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.

  Ann Brashares

  Book, Imagine, Hard

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• 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.

  Youssou N'Dour

  Country, People, Needs

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• Contact with like-minded painters - a group means a great deal to me: nothing comes in isolation. We have worked out our ideas largely by talking them through. Shutting myself away in the country, for instance, would do nothing for me. One depends on one's surroundings. And so the exchange with other artists - and especially the collaboration with Lueg and Polke - matters a lot to me: it is part of the input that I need.

  Gerhard Richter

  Country, Art, Mean

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007”

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• The American woman has not yet slipped into a cocoon, but she has tumbled down a rabbit hole into sudden isolation.

  Susan Faludi

  Women, Rabbits, Cocoons

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”

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• Since social relationships are always ambiguous, since my thought is only a unit, since my thoughts create rifts as much as they unite, since my words establish contacts by being spoken and create isolation by remaining unspoken, since an immense moat separates the subjective certitude that I have for myself from the objective reality that I represent to others, since I never stop finding myself guilty even though I feel I am innocent.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Reality, Moats, Rift

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• The new contract between writers and readers is one I'm prepared to sign up to. I've met some fascinating people at events and online. Down with the isolation of writers I say! And long live Twitter.

  Sara Sheridan

  Writing, Long, People

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