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4. “No one would choose this sort of painful adolescence, but the fact is that the solitude of Woz’s teens, and the single-minded focus on what would turn out to be a lifelong passion, is typical for highly creative people.”
Susan Cain
Painful Adolescence, Solitude, Focus, Creative Individuals, Personal Growth
5. “From outside the evangelical community, this seems an astonishing confession. Since when is solitude one of the Seven Deadly Sins? But to a fellow evangelical, McHugh’s sense of spiritual failure would make perfect sense. Contemporary evangelicalism says that every person you fail to meet and proselytize is another soul you might have saved.” Susan Cain Evangelical Community, Solitude, Spiritual Beliefs, Outreach, Societal Expectations
7. “Outstanding introverted leaders, such as Charles Darwin, Marie Curie, Patrick White and Arthur Boyd, who have created either new fields of thought or rearranged existing knowledge, have spent long periods of their lives in solitude.” Susan Cain Introverted Leaders, Historical Figures, Solitude, Intellectual Contributions, Personal Achievements
10. “I’m not saying abolish group work – I think there’s a time and a place for people to come together and exchange ideas, but let’s restore the respect we once had for solitude. And we need to be much more mindful of the way we come together.” Susan Cain Group Work, Solitude, Mindful Collaboration, Idea Exchange, Balance In Teamwork
22. “Out of the corner of his eye Gatsby saw that the blocks of the sidewalks really formed a ladder and mounted to a secret place above the trees – he could climb to it, if he climbed alone, and once there he could suck on the pap of life, gulp down the incomparable milk of wonder.” F. Scott Fitzgerald Ambition, Imagination, Solitude, Life’s Mysteries, Perception
24. “When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep; yes, and when I walk alone in a beautiful orchard, if my thoughts drift to far-off matters for some part of the time for some other part I lead them back again to the walk, the orchard, to the sweetness of this solitude, to myself.” Michel de Montaigne Mindfulness, Presence, Nature, Solitude, Self-awareness
27. “For what a man is in himself, what accompanies him when he is alone, what no one can give or take away from him, is obviously more essential for him than everything he has in the way of possessions, or even what he may be in the eyes of the world. An intellectual man in complete solitude has excellent entertainment in his own thoughts and fancies, while no amount of diversity or social pleasure, theatres, excursions and amusements, can ward off boredom from a dullard.” Arthur Schopenhauer Self-worth, Solitude, Intellectual Life, Human Experience, Inner Richness
Solitude Quotes by Famous Authors
4. “No one would choose this sort of painful adolescence, but the fact is that the solitude of Woz’s teens, and the single-minded focus on what would turn out to be a lifelong passion, is typical for highly creative people.”
Susan Cain Painful Adolescence, Solitude, Focus, Creative Individuals, Personal Growth
5. “From outside the evangelical community, this seems an astonishing confession. Since when is solitude one of the Seven Deadly Sins? But to a fellow evangelical, McHugh’s sense of spiritual failure would make perfect sense. Contemporary evangelicalism says that every person you fail to meet and proselytize is another soul you might have saved.”
Susan Cain Evangelical Community, Solitude, Spiritual Beliefs, Outreach, Societal Expectations
7. “Outstanding introverted leaders, such as Charles Darwin, Marie Curie, Patrick White and Arthur Boyd, who have created either new fields of thought or rearranged existing knowledge, have spent long periods of their lives in solitude.”
Susan Cain Introverted Leaders, Historical Figures, Solitude, Intellectual Contributions, Personal Achievements
10. “I’m not saying abolish group work – I think there’s a time and a place for people to come together and exchange ideas, but let’s restore the respect we once had for solitude. And we need to be much more mindful of the way we come together.”
Susan Cain Group Work, Solitude, Mindful Collaboration, Idea Exchange, Balance In Teamwork
22. “Out of the corner of his eye Gatsby saw that the blocks of the sidewalks really formed a ladder and mounted to a secret place above the trees – he could climb to it, if he climbed alone, and once there he could suck on the pap of life, gulp down the incomparable milk of wonder.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald Ambition, Imagination, Solitude, Life’s Mysteries, Perception
24. “When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep; yes, and when I walk alone in a beautiful orchard, if my thoughts drift to far-off matters for some part of the time for some other part I lead them back again to the walk, the orchard, to the sweetness of this solitude, to myself.”
Michel de Montaigne Mindfulness, Presence, Nature, Solitude, Self-awareness
27. “For what a man is in himself, what accompanies him when he is alone, what no one can give or take away from him, is obviously more essential for him than everything he has in the way of possessions, or even what he may be in the eyes of the world. An intellectual man in complete solitude has excellent entertainment in his own thoughts and fancies, while no amount of diversity or social pleasure, theatres, excursions and amusements, can ward off boredom from a dullard.”
Arthur Schopenhauer Self-worth, Solitude, Intellectual Life, Human Experience, Inner Richness
