To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think about, I need to spend large amounts of time alone.
Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.
I've accepted I can't rely on my work alone; I must market myself. The truly spectacular roles do go to the girls who actively promote their popularity.
Most photographers work best alone, myself included.
The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact is most self-evident in our work.
I'm a huge Wes Anderson fan; I would faint if I met him, let alone got to work with him.
I need to be able to work for 20 or 30 hours in one go in complete darkness, alone with just the computer glow.
Pickpockets either work alone or in pairs, or what is called a mob.
I'm vulnerable to criticism. Any artist is, because you work alone in your studio and, until recently, critics were the only way you'd get any feedback.
After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.
I was a team sports guy, but I don't do that anymore. When I work out, it's alone.
When you work alone, you need to socialize at some level.
A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, ...
It's necessary to start most work alone. But I'm tickled to death when I can pull somebody in or join someone, whether it's borrowing poetry or traveling with an associate.
I started to do a study on how not to do stand-up comedy. Yeah, it's lonely work. You die, you die alone. It's you, the light, and the audience. If you win, you win big. If you lose, you lose big time.
Work alone will efface the footsteps of work.
I don't ascribe to the idea of the ivory tower composer who sits alone in a room composing his masterpieces and then comes down from Mount Sinai with the tablets. It doesn't work like that. The job of a composer is putting something down on a piece o...
The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone.
I am always sort of delightedly surprised when someone recognizes me because as far as I'm concerned, I'm just going to work and getting paid to act, and that alone is fantastic; I forget people watch it, too.
Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.
When I work alone, my process is like painting. With Fleetwood Mac, it's more like movie making.
