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" The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it. "

William Temple

Value

Rules

Opinions

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Unknown

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" Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone. "

Rudyard Kipling

Who

" You can't change the world alone - you will need some help - and to truly get from your starting point to your destination takes friends, colleagues, the good will of strangers and a strong coxswain to guide them. "

" Originally, technology was pretty clearly on the side of introversion. It allowed introverts to connect with people, to express their ideas in a less stimulating way: you're sitting alone behind a computer. But I'm starting to think that the pressure to self-present constantly online is becoming so extreme. "

" One of the happier ironies of recent history is that even as Tibet is being wiped off the map in Tibet itself, here it is in California, in Switzerland, in Japan. All over the world, Tibetan Buddhism is now part of the neighborhood. In 1968, there were two Tibetan Buddhist centers in the West. By 2000, there were 40 in New York alone. "

" My reputation as a ladies' man was a joke. It caused me to laugh bitterly through the 10,000 nights I spent alone. "

" A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people; but a strong people can alone build up a great nation. "

Thomas Francis Meagher

People

Great

" For me, running against the Poles and Czechs would be like running against high school kids. And I hate all this gung-ho, run-for-the-red-white-and-blue attitude that the AAU spouts. If that's important to some people, fine, more power to 'em. But, damn it, I wish they'd leave me alone to do what I want to do - run against the best. "

Steve Prefontaine

Alone

Best

" Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed. "

" I'm very happy alone. "

" An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness. "

" Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well. "

" I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the difference. "

" The drive toward Life is protective, thoughtful, vulnerable, and invested in immaculate love. It is this last that marks the difference between a wise heart muddy with real life experiences in the trenches and a dry heart that functions on rote concepts alone. "

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Life

Drive

Heart

" We're constantly re-evaluating the potential for life. We're finding it where we didn't think it could exist, such as volcanic vents and other extreme conditions like under arctic ice. We're finding life in these incredibly harsh and dynamic conditions, so we're having to re-evaluate our own ideas of what's possible on this planet alone. "

" The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory. "

" I was really from the streets, and I really did hustle in a major way. When I got my record deal, I left the streets alone as far as hustling. I never, ever hustled again. I said, 'I'm gonna change my life, I'm going legit. This is where I'm at.' "

" Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want. "

" There are worlds and more worlds below them, and there are a hundred thousand skies over them. No one has been able to find the limits and boundaries of God. If there be any account of God, then alone the mortal can write the same; but God's account does not finish, and the mortal himself dies while still writing. "

" I like being alone and I think this movie, as much as it is an investigation of connection and people bonding, I also think it's just as much about loneliness. "

" You only grow when you are alone. "

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

" No one is alone, and each change here brings about another change there. "

" Now everybody's got a crazy notion of their own. Some like to mix up with a crowd, some like to be alone. It's no one elses' business as far as I can see, but every time that I go out the people stare at me, with me little ukulele in me hand. "

George Formby

Business

People

" To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity. "

" My classmates could see I was not similar. So they made me their scapegoat. They hit me or locked me in the toilets. During the break, I would take refuge in the chapel, or I would arrange to stay alone in the classroom. "

Yves Saint Laurent

Alone

Classroom

" For each one of us stands alone in the midst of a universe. "

John Buchanan Robinson

Each

Midst

" Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement. "