#lone

As regards intellectual work it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realm of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions of problems are only possible to an individual, working in solitude. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#analysis #discoveries #greatness #intellect #intellectual-thought

That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe. ↗

— John Berger

#beautiful #believe #course #crystal #deeply

Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it. ↗

— John Green

#introverts #profession #story #storytelling #writing

And loneliness. I should say something of loneliness. The panic, the sweeping hysteria that comes not when you are without others, but when you are without yourself, adrift. I should describe the filthy province of mind, the blighted district inside, the place so crowded you cannot raise the lids of your eyes. Your shoulders are drawn and your head has fallen and your chest is bruised by the constant assault of your heart. (p. 37) ↗

— Hilary Thayer Hamann

#loneliness #hilarious

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true. ↗

— Napoleon Hill

#come #dream #dreams #his #into

Nobody was playing the soprano saxophone and certainly nobody was trying to do anything with it. So I was all alone. I didn't know that at first. ↗

— Steve Lacy

#anything #certainly #first #i #know

You can work on the saxophone alone, but ultimately you must perform with others. ↗

— Steve Lacy

#must #others #perform #saxophone #ultimately

I've performed solo for 20 years now, but I don't do much of it, because if you only play alone, you go crazy and out of tune and play foolish music. ↗

— Steve Lacy

#because #crazy #foolish #go #i

Being a good host offsets the deprivation and loneliness of my youth. ↗

— Alan Ladd

#deprivation #good #host #loneliness #youth

Government spending is taxation. When you look at this, I've never heard of a poor person spending himself into prosperity; let alone I've never heard of a poor person taxing himself into prosperity. ↗

— Arthur Laffer

#government #government spending #heard #himself #i