how do you get good pictures in the 50mm-85mm range on a crop sensor?

no subject i see is ever far away enough to get it all in frame. anything other than a headshot of someone is basically impossible unless you're on the other side of a field. but then you're too far to get subject isolation!!!

i think my mentality is wrong.

any good photo books / famous long mm photographs?

pls no dumbshit gimmicks like natgeo pics of birds taken from a telescope or macro.