Deresiewicz Solitude Quotes & Sayings

If I had only one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem, and only five minutes finding the solution. — Albert Einstein

The American essayist William Deresiewicz wrote that "no real excellence, personal or social, artistic, philosophical, scientific, or moral, can arise without solitude. — Michael Finkel

The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do. — Bear Grylls

To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us. — John Henry Newman

The world is a great volume, and man the index of that book; even in the body of man, you may turn to the whole world. — John Donne

It is my considered opinion that in the fullness of time history will record the greatness of Michael Collins and it will be recorded at my expense. — Eamon De Valera

That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don't know nothing about it. — Mark Twain

There isn't a book that has changed me, but I have favourites such as 'Pride and Prejudice' which I often re-read. — Carolina Herrera