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There is no such thing as a good or bad ad in isolation. What is good at one moment is bad at another. Research can trap you into the past.
Being the “best you can be” is really only possible when you are deeply connected to another. Splendid isolation is for planets, not people.
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.
The gift economy represents a shift from consumption to contribution, transaction to trust, scarcity to abundance and isolation to community.
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.
You cannot judge the performance of an actor in isolation. A performance becomes good because of so many factors, including the other actors.
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.
The writer labors in isolation, yet all that intensive, lonely work is in the service of communicating, is an attempt to reach another person.
Whether we learn how to love ourselves and others will depend on the presence of a loving environment. Self-love cannot flourish 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.
As much as we sometimes roll our eyes at the ivory-tower isolation of universities, they continue to serve as remarkable engines of innovation.
I guess there are a lot of people out there that think they're supposed to define themselves in isolation, but that's not necessarily the case.
Isolation among older people is a massive problem, and my grandad used to come round for Sunday lunch every week for as long as I can remember.
There is a dark side to being single in a great big city like New York. There's this sense of isolation and I think you can get fairly desperate.
What was Dionysus going to go? Send him back to his hellish isolation? He’d been there, done that, and had the Ozzy T-shirt to prove it.’ (Styxx)
We don't live in isolation. Most people don't like working in isolation - some do, but they typically don't end up playing Major League Baseball.
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.
Isolation basketball will always be part of the game. But the system has to be predicated on ball movement and, more importantly, player movement.
Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.
we love as soon as we learn to distinguish a separate 'you' and 'me.' Love is our attempt to assuage the terror and isolation of that separateness.
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.
People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family.
If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a bunker mentality, the Internet does the opposite.
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.
Isolating mechanisms are biological properties of individuals that prevent the interbreeding of populations that are actually or potentially sympatric.
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.
Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction - namely, complete isolation from other humans for 10,000 years.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.
Oh, the solitariness of sin! There is nothing like it, except, perhaps, the solitariness of death. In that isolation none can reach you, none can feed you.
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.
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.
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.
So if North Korea continues present isolation, then with such economic difficulties the North Korean government must meet a very serious situation in the future.
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.
I think that the problem for any player you want to select for England, not just in isolation, is that it'll be a concern if that player doesn't play for his team.
Part of me still feels like I've never had the opportunity to properly express all my earliest influences, so for now, I find isolation to be my biggest influence.
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.
The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.
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.
Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.
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.
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.
China on the world stage, in terms of interaction with the rest of the world, has been relatively very new due to the long isolation period until Deng Xiaoping's times.
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.
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 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.