Working Alone Quotes

• Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Leadership, Loyalty

  "Helen and Teacher: The Story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy". Book by Joseph P. Lash, 1980.

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  I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.

  Cyrano de Bergerac

  Single, Hiking, May

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• Most inventors and engineers I've met are like me. They're shy and they live in their heads. The very best of them are artists. And artists work best alone.

  Steve Wozniak

  Artist, Shy, Introvert

  Steve Wozniak (2007). “iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon”, p.290, W. W. Norton & Company

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• One is too small a number to achieve greatness. No accomplishment of real value has ever been achieved by a human being working alone.

  John C. Maxwell

  Motivational, Leadership, Real

  John C. Maxwell (2015). “The Leadership Handbook: 26 Critical Lessons Every Leader Needs”, p.7, Thomas Nelson

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• A single leaf working alone provides no shade.

  Chuck Page

  Teamwork, Team Building, Team Work

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• You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.

  Wayne Dyer

  Confidence, Lonely, Clever

  "Dr. Wayne Dyer Lives On" by Stephanie Seibel, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 3, 2015.

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• When you work alone, you need to socialize at some level.

  Jeffery Deaver

  Needs, Levels

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• Freelance isn't for everyone - you've got to be aggressive and enjoy working alone. But you could make more money than you ever imagined.

  Nicole Williams

  More Money, Enjoy, Aggressive

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• The good thing about working alone is I get a lot done and I can experiment more. The bad thing is I miss out on the gregarious, social way that most musicians work.

  Moby

  Missing, Musician, Done

  "Musician Moby". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 20, 2011.

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• I'm used to working alone. Frankly with some of the actors I've worked with, I've felt like I was working alone.

  Claudia Christian

  Actors, Used, Felt

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• You are not the same person working alone as you are in a group; in a romantic setting versus an educational one; when you are with close friends or in an anonymous crowd; or when you are traveling abroad as when at home base.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Educational, Home, Groups

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• Science is a field which grows continuously with ever expanding frontiers. Further, it is truly international in scope. Science is a collaborative effort. The combined results of several people working together is often much more effective than could be that of an individual scientist working alone.

  John Bardeen

  Hard Work, Science, People

  Nobel Banquet Speech, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1972.

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• The reward of a successful collaboration is a thing that cannot be produced by either of the parties working alone. It is akin to the benefits of sex with a partner, as opposed to masturbation. The latter is fun, but you show me anyone who has gotten a baby from playing with him or herself, and I'll show you an ugly baby, with just a whole bunch of knuckles.

  Harlan Ellison

  Baby, Sex, Fun

  Harlan Ellison (1975). “Partners in Wonder”

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• Working alone on stories, I began to feel the anonymity of motels on interstate highways reached by jet planes and rental cars. It was hard to have a good time, and the only way I could make the loneliness excusable was by taking pictures I thought were very good, even valuable.

  John Loengard

  Loneliness, Car, Stories

  John Loengard (1987). “Pictures under discussion”, Amphoto Books

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• Can an idea a notion as abstract as Relativism produce by itself the effects alleged? cause all the harm, destroy all the lives and reputations? I am as far as anyone can be from denying the power of ideas in history, but the suggestion that a philosophy (as Relativism is often called) has perverted millions and debased daily life is on the face of it absurd. No idea working alone has ever demoralized society, and there have been plenty of ideas simpler and more exciting than Relativism.

  Jacques Barzun

  Philosophy, Ideas, Suggestions

  Jacques Barzun (1989). “The Culture We Deserve”, p.89, Wesleyan University Press

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• I get so fed up with the making of an album taking over my life - it's all I can think about or talk about. You find yourself in a rut and lacking inspiration and it's hard to get out of that because I'm working alone in the studio.

  Imogen Heap

  Inspiration, Thinking, Finding Yourself

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