Isolated Quotes - Page 23

• I see the role of IT as a change agent. It empowers, connects and can bind isolated parts of India and create harmony. IT can join people with governments, bridge the gap between demand and supply, and can bring us closer to knowledge.

  Narendra Modi

  Technology, Government, Bridges

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• Things we think of as tremendous advantages can get in the way of being happy, and wealth is one of those things where people can become isolated within this luxury and not connect.

  Bruce Greenwood

  Thinking, Luxury, People

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• When we lived in Juneau, Alaska, it was a town of about 7,000 people, and totally isolated; the only way to get to it was by ship.

  John Hawkes

  Alaska, People, Ships

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• The philosophic aim of education must be to get each one out of his isolated class and into the one humanity.

  Paul Goodman

  Education, Class, Humanity

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• We don't have an isolated group [of senior managers] surrounded by servants. Berkshire's headquarters is a tiny little suite. We just came back from Berkshire's board meeting; it had moved up to the board room of the Kiewit company and [it was so large and luxurious that] I felt uncomfortable.

  Charlie Munger

  Senior, Groups, Boards

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• Tthe first rule is that you can't really know anything if you just remember isolated facts and try and bang 'em back. If the facts don't hang together on a latticework of theory, you don't have them in a usable form.... You may have noticed students who just try to remember and pound back what is remembered. Well, they fail in school and in life.

  Charlie Munger

  School, Trying, Together

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• If you want good behavior, don't pay on a commission basis. Our judges aren't paid so much a case. We keep them pretty well isolated with a fixed salary. Judges in this whole thing have come out pretty well - there have been relatively few scandals.

  Charlie Munger

  Judging, Salary, Want

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• Home is where one starts from. As we grow older
  The world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicatied
  Of dead and living, Not the intense moment
  Isolated, with no before and after,
  But a lifetime burning in every moment . . .

  T. S. Eliot

  Home, Intense Moments, Burning

  Four Quartets "East Coker" pt. 5 (1940)

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• A father acts on behalf of his children by working, providing, intervening, struggling, and suffering for them. In so doing, he really stands in their place. He is not an isolated individual, but incorporates the selves of several people in his own self.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Children, Father, Struggle

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• Tom Walls' buddies remain an isolated minority, except during times of economic or social stress, when a mass following develops to blame cranky sociopaths for the problems besetting society. If it weren't for brown-nosing evil firebrands, he would have no friends. The ideas backing up his rejoinders are extremely superficial and sex-crazed.

  Linda Chavez

  Sex, Wall, Stress

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• I have a family and you know very well the time that that takes. That's good time. I have a couple hobbies. I'm a runner and play tennis. In the summer my family and I uproot ourselves and go live in Maine for the summer. We have a house on a very tiny island in Maine. Which is really my spiritual center. We've been going there for ten years, and it has no ferry service, no bridges, no telephone service. It's really isolated.

  Alan Lightman

  Summer, Spiritual, Couple

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• To become a painter or a sculptor or a graphic designer is quite an isolated way to spend your life.

  Cate Blanchett

  Way, Designer, Painter

  Interview with Jack White, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 23, 2008.

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• I'm getting more and more isolated as I get on in years. I think people's insanity starts to slowly take over.

  Jim Shaw

  Thinking, Years, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've made some really good friends from movies, but a lot of the time it's a very isolated experience that lives and dies during the production.

  Rooney Mara

  Good Friend, Made, Dies

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think that all writers feel alienated. ... I know that I do. ... I still feel, as I think most creative people do, absolutely isolated.

  John le Carre

  Thinking, People, Creative

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• I went from the glamour of working with Karl Lagerfeld and John Galliano to living on an isolated hilltop, with my husband gone most of the time.

  Liberty Ross

  Husband, Gone, Glamour

  "Kristen Stewart's 'humiliated' boyfriend Robert Pattinson moves out, wife of Rupert Sanders bemoans 'isolation' from husband". www.foxnews.com. July 26, 2012.

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• Sometimes I felt lonely because I pushed people away for so long that I honestly didn't have many close connections left. I was physically isolated and disconnected from the world. Sometimes I felt lonely in a crowded room. This kind of loneliness pierced my soul and ached to the core. I not only felt disconnected from the world, but I also felt like no one ever loved me. Intellectually, I knew that people did, but I still felt that way.

  Jenni Schaefer

  Lonely, Loneliness, Long

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• Everybody lives in this world, except lovers! They live in an isolated small place called 'You and I' planet!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  World, Lovers, Planets

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• I suppose the danger when you have a job that involves writing is you can be a bit isolated.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Jobs, Writing, Danger

  "Interview: Sinéad O’Connor Isn’t Bossy; She’s the Boss". Interview with Sarah Toce, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 28, 2014.

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• I'd die if I was Madonna. I'd die. God, what a horrible way to live. And Michael Jackson! To be so famous and to feel so isolated. I feel so bad for them. I don't know how it feels, and I hope it never happens to me.

  Alicia Silverstone

  Way To Live, Horrible, Feels

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• If I found myself married with children and had tons of puppies and a fun place to live, I imagine I'd be happier, but I kind of like being a little bit isolated and lonely.

  Moby

  Lonely, Children, Fun

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• Of course, mysticism is very hard to isolate because, given the kind of consciousness that I was sort of instructed in as religious consciousness; that borders on mysticism so closely that it's hard to know whether you qualify or not, or whether mysticism is artificially isolated when it is treated as a separate thing from experience. Obviously, mysticism can be a form of madness, but then consciousness can be a form of madness.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Religious, Borders, Madness

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Be isolated, be ignored, be attacked, be in doubt, be frightened, but do not be silenced.

  Bertrand Russell

  Doubt, Ignored, Frightened

  Bertrand Russell, Barry Feinberg, Ronald Kasrils (1969). “Dear Bertrand Russell ... a selection of his correspondence with the general public, 1950-1968”, Allen & Unwin

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• So far from being an isolated phenomenon the late war is only an example of the disruptive result that we may constantly expect from the progress of science.

  John B. S. Haldane

  War, Progress, Example

  "Daedalus or Science and the Future". An address, February 4, 1923.

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• It's fine to talk about politics with people you agree with. But it is rude to argue about politics with people you disagree with. Political discourse becomes isolated, and isolated discourse becomes more extreme.

  Lawrence Lessig

  People, Rude, Political

  Lawrence Lessig “Free Culture”, Lulu.com

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