Another man Quote by A.S. Byatt

“When he thought of all he’d seen, done and experienced in his life, all he’d gained, lost, desired and agonized over, he found it…

— D.E. Sievers

“But he did not think....thoughts formed in him and dissolved without control, almost like a reverie. And since he had got through life in…

— Victor Serge

“he never allowed himself to think about unpleasant things, which answered very well, and could be supported in times of really inescapable stress by…

— Georgette Heyer

“The primary indication, to my thinking, of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own…

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“I believed, rather more accurately, that a work resolutely thought out and sought for in the hazards of the mind, systematically, and through a…

— Paul Valery

“What manner of man would lose a loved one and still have the right mind-frame to perform his work?”

— S. A. David

“Formerly (it had begun almost from childhood and kept growing till full maturity), whenever he had tried to do something that would be good…

— Leo Tolstoy

“He was perpetually on guard against the ways that abstract thinking (especially thinking about your own thinking) can draw you away from something more…

— James Ryerson

“A man act according to his thoughts.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“There was within him a deep unexpressed conviction that all would be well, but that one must not trust to this and still less…

— Leo Tolstoy

“He was inefficient in the old sense of the word; not incapable, but unwilling to be seduced by work--unwilling to be singleminded. Those things…

— David Rhodes

“The man of ambition thinks to find his good in the operations of others; the man of pleasure in his own sensations; but the…

— marcus aurelius