Paul Newman Quotes

I had friends but I was spending a great deal of my time alone and for me that was vital because there's an awful lot you learn about yourself when you're alone.

So it is necessary that we should learn to be alone.

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

I was never less alone than when by myself.

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

I'm learning a lot about myself being alone, and doing what I'm doing.

I do say all I've ever written about is being alone. And most people take that as, 'Oh, that's so sad.' And I always say, 'No. No, all I ever write about is being alone, and sometimes that's a beautiful, beautiful thing.'

It took living alone for me to really get to know myself.

People don't acknowledge loneliness in themselves, and don't appreciate its benefits, the reflection and attentiveness that come with it, the deepened acquaintance with oneself.

It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources.

I am still a person with a sense of superficiality that I'm trying to challenge.

Getting close to books, and spending time by myself, I was obliged to think about things I would never have thought about if I was busy romping around with a brother and sister.

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.

In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

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

For the moment, I'm concentrating on my own stuff.

I've done thousands of interviews in my life, and it's a format that I quite enjoy, because I think of questions in interviews as an opportunity to sort of gauge my growth in a way. It gives me an idea of how I'm navigating this world that I'm in.

Census figures be damned: If you choose to be alone, you're destined to spend a certain amount of time wondering why.

I guess I am basically most comfortable when I'm alone. As a kid, I was very much a loner. I love long distance running and long distance biking. A director once pointed out that those are all very isolated exercises you do for hours at a time.

I've been in therapy. I know enough about myself now to know that I really don't need to know anymore.

To go into therapy is an adventure, not really to iron anything out.

I enjoy my own thoughts sometimes.

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.

I'm quite a loner. I realized that I'm very introverted, and I get energy by being alone instead of being with other people.