“I don’t want to be alone, I want to be left alone.”
“Let’s face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me.”
Paolo Coelho
“Blessed are those who do not fear solitude, who are not afraid of their own company, who are not always desperately looking for something to do, something to amuse themselves with, something to judge.”
“They say that extroverts are unhappier than introverts and have to compensate for this by constantly proving to themselves how happy and contented and at ease with life they are.”
Charles Darwin
“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”
“The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.”
Mark Zuckerberg
“A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.”
Michael Jordan
“You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.”
“Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.”
“To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don’t isolate.”
Nikola Tesla
“Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind. Be alone—that is the secret of invention: be alone, that is when ideas are born.”~ Nikola Tesla
Warren Buffett
“You’ve gotta keep control of your time, and you can’t unless you say no. You can’t let people set your agenda in life.”
“The most important investment you can make is in yourself.”
Steve Wozniak
“I don’t believe anything really revolutionary has ever been invented by committee… I’m going to give you some advice that might be hard to take. That advice is: Work alone… Not on a committee. Not on a team.”
“Most inventors and engineers I’ve met are like me. They’re shy and they live in their heads. The very best of them are artists. And artists work best alone…”
Aldous Huxley
“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”
Steven Spielberg
“Every time I go to a movie, it’s magic, no matter what the movie’s about.”
“The public has an appetite for anything about imagination – anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.”
Sir Isaac Newton
“If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.”
“Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.”
Stephen Hawking
“Quiet people have the loudest minds.”
Dr. Seuss
“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
“Think and wonder, wonder and think.”
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”
“Why fit in when you were born to stand out?”
Anne Frank
“I think a lot, but I don’t say much.”
Jimi Hendrix
“I’m the one that has to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.”
“Knowledge speaks but wisdom listens.”
Bob Dylan
“Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.”
“I kinda live where I find myself. “
Tom Hanks
“Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.”
Barack Obama
“Why can’t I just eat my waffle?”
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