Donna Tartt Quotes

We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly - spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.

Since I was young, I've been aware that I need time to myself to process everything.

I don't think people take enough time to themselves or like to be alone anymore, but it's really important.

If you spend enough time with yourself in silence, you'll be surprised what goes through your head.

Being alone & actually sitting with our own thoughts can lead to such growth and realizations that are rare in our everyday busy lives.

I enjoy my own thoughts sometimes.

I'm a super spiritual person, so every now and then I'll say, "Everyone, get out of my room because I need 15 minutes by myself to just sit alone." I have a chapter in my book [How to Be a Bawse] called "Pause," and basically, the idea is one of the ways to be successful is to reflect back on your successes and everything you've achieved.

I like to be alone. I am focused on what I am doing. I feel the nature and I feel my body. It's so simple.

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.

I thought about how we need to make children feel that there are times in their lives when they need to be alone and quiet and to be able to accept their aloneness.

I enjoy my time alone.

I personally think that's incredibly therapeutic to just be alone in your own thoughts and not be freaking out.

The starting point of discovering who you are, your gifts, your talents, your dreams, is being comfortable with yourself. Spend time alone. Write in a journal. Take long walks in the woods.

The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline... because you need to be alone to find out anything.

I have always practiced by myself. It's just because that is when I can do the most work, the most efficient work, is when I am by myself, and I think I just find a little bit of peace when it comes to being able to be out here on the golf course, and you are just you and yourself and your thoughts.

I think alone time is good to know how to be alone with your own thoughts. I think it just helps you kind of be a better, more grounded person.

All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get antsy and irritable.

I love to sit on my own and think, not to be photographed all the time.

I feel most at home when I'm alone. That's not sad. It's just I feel closest to source and connection when I'm by myself.

Whether you call it meditation, self-reflection or just shutting everything out, I am quite good at that.

I use solitude as a judge and as a person - a lot.

Don't get me wrong: if I'm having fun, I'm going to have fun. But I need a lot of quiet time.

Quiet time and solitude are vital to helping me keep perspective. I consider myself fortunate to have so much quiet built into my profession. I spend long hours by myself at my easel. And while I work, I think-of the future, of my loved ones, of God's goodness and the many exciting opportunities that surround me. I ponder the challenges I face, the needs of others, the direction my life is going.

Productive work, love and thought are possible only if a person can be, when necessary, quiet and alone. To be able to listen to oneself is the necessary condition for relating oneself to others.