"I like that I can't insulate myself from the natural world here," she said as we hiked the Maze Loop.
"But that just shows the lengths I took to insulate myself.
Yet I had managed to insulate myself from it, so what I heard on Sunday surprised and pleased me all the more.
"By going to college and graduate school, I thought I was insulating myself from being broke and sleeping on friends' couches and being hungry again.
By the same token, whenever I'm tempted to insulate myself from the painful emotional consequences of some business decision, Gene's experience reminds me that it's more productive to listen to objections and complaints, to understand what subordinates are thinking and feeling, to open up to their arguments and their displeasure.
His quote on the piece was, 'I wanted to isolate myself, insulate myself, see nothing of America other than the coyote.' I once read an article about the piece entitled "Art Shows We'd Hate To Clean Up After".
"It was at that point that I became concerned that I might not be able to insulate myself from knowledge of my holdings, that this trust instrument wasn't working the way I wanted it to," Mr. Obama said.
Whether I'm running on the beach without my shirt or whether I'm going out with my kids or going to church or going out to dinner -- I don't choose to insulate myself in engaging in real life.
Over time I used the potential for failure as a way to insulate myself from other worries I had about the outcome of the donation and the character of the recipients.
"But if they are thinking long-term then they'll be thinking 'I should probably hold on to them and insulate myself for the future'".
