#lone

The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone. ↗

— Kofi Annan

#advantage #alone #being #had #lord

I got a lot of problems, but I'm really good at intuiting what I need to do to be happy with whatever I create. I know when to stop myself, I know when to start, I know when to leave something alone. I guess I just kind of indulge that completely, and so I just take my time. ↗

— Fiona Apple

#be happy #completely #create #good #got

I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#i #like #loner #lose #silence

I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some essential way, I am something of a loner. ↗

— Arthur Ashe

#am #around #essential #face #i

Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter. ↗

— Jane Austen

#alone #better #endearing #enough #fashion

The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#average #collaboration #come #could #essentially

The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated; distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#alone #been #beneficial #concentrated #country

I am essentially a loner. ↗

— Lauren Bacall

#essentially #i #i am #loner

I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world. ↗

— Russell Baker

#began #between #coded #gave #hostile

Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign policy were astonished when in 1985 he met alone at Geneva - alone, not a single strategic thinker at his elbow! - with the Soviet Communist master Gorbachev. ↗

— Russell Baker

#astonished #cold #cold war #communist #culture