Personal Quotes

I'm an actor I'm not a politician. I always kick myself when I talk too much about family, or personal things.

My personal life was fair game. And that's what hurt me.

I used to talk about my personal life all the time. It's the most fun thing to talk about, the people in my life are hurt.

I feel like it's been important for me to use my own personal experiences with food and money to help people to not feel ashamed. I felt so much shame about my own experiences.

It's powerfully important that our kids get an education in personal finance.

Look at Picasso. O’Neill. Tennessee Williams. Capote. Were these shiny happy people spreading sunshine? No. Only the greatest of personal demons can force you to do powerful work.

I channel a lot of my own personal relationships anytime I prep for something.

The woman's personal identity is a vast undiscovered country -- with which Society has yet to acquaint itself, and by which it is yet to be revolutionized.

The beginning of personal transformation is absurdly easy. We have only to pay attention to the flow of attention itself.

Focus on quality of life, and enjoy a life worth living. Researchers have said that only 4% of people enjoy both their work and their personal life.

I would have taken the time to learn how to listen earlier. Learning about non-violent communication and how to take feedback has been integral to both my personal happiness and professional success.

Projects of personal transformation rarely succeed by accident, drift, or imposition.

Our policies must be premised on, and must reinforce, values such as family, hard work, integrity and personal responsibility.

Songwriting helps me sort out my personal problems. With acting, you're just a tool for someone's ideas.

Having a personal philosophy is like having a pet marmoset, because it may be very attractive when you acquire it, but there may be situations when it will not come in handy at all.

... when personal happiness conflicts with any great human ideal, the right to claim such happiness is as nothing compared to the privilege of resigning it.

If you don't have personal goals, you're controlled by those who do.

Religion is entirely a personal matter. Each one could approach his Creator as he liked.

Realty exists only through experience, and it must be personal experience.

Personal love is concentrated universal love.

The only reason I write at all is because I am going through, and growing through, something in my life I want to share with others through my personal experiences.

My family's great and everybody's happy and healthy and my career is good. But personally, I had to sacrifice a lot in my own personal life. And I regret that.

You can't ever guess at life, at pain. All pain is real, and all pain is personal. It's the most personal thing we have. It eats each of us differently.

My personal opinion is that you can't be racist towards white people. You can be prejudiced about them, but being prejudiced isn't an illegal act, whereas being racist can be.

Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.

Testimony is personal knowledge, based upon the witness of the Holy Ghost, that certain facts of eternal significance are true.

I've always had a strong feeling for the Statue of Liberty, because it became the statue of my personal liberty.

I'd learned a long time ago that one of the finest weapons in my arsenal was my ability to invade personal space

I think the personal relationships I established mattered in terms of what I was able to get done. And I did bring women's issues to the center of our foreign policy.

My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.

The assumption is that your personal life has to be a mess to create, but how much chaos can you allow in before it takes over?

Ingrid Kristiansen then has smashed the world record, running the 5000 metres in 14:58.89. Truly amazing. Incidentally, this is a personal best for Ingrid Kristiansen.

I was not at all apprehensive about ... disease ... [it] had no terrors for me. The thing I most feared in the world was hunger. That was something of which I had personal knowledge.

I believe in working with songs that have personal value for me.

Throughout my entire public career I have followed the personal philosophy that I am a free man, an American, a public servant, and a member of my party, in that order always and only.

The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy.

There are no choices without personal freedom, Buckeroo. It's not us who are dead inside. These things you find so weak and contemptible in us - these are just the hazards of being free.

I want to get into producing and writing more for myself - setting up my own films and seeing what kind of personal touch I can put on movies, as opposed to just being in them.

I told personal stories the way [Bill] Cosby would spin a yarn for ten minutes. I think in hindsight it works better as a long story than as a condensed monologue.

My personal life, my normal life, is so important to me. To be able to go back to my personal life and leave characters behind is important; I don't keep them with me.

Why become enlightened? Why join the military? Why get married? Why cross the ocean? It is a personal choice. There is something in a person that draws them to the light.

Art is the most benign cultural practice, and yet art has an upper bound of personal revelation that is so far away it is basically a horizon.

Life goes by rapidly. Don't delay. Don't put it off. Don't wait until you have some spare time. Don't wait until the time's 'right'.

In my personal life, my family makes me laugh more than anybody; I think that is the same for everybody. I certainly hope it is.

I like putting a lot of personal touches in the music.

I love coaching. I would probably be coaching. I would work in athletes and work with the youth. I would maybe do personal development and athletics. I would coach in high school or college.

I'm not told what to say by any Republicans and I've never done a personal appearance topless.

The next step in meditation is not just to focus, but to stop thought completely without having to focus; you gain a tremendous amount of personal power.

The average person just sees through their senses. The world is filled with wonderful mysteries and beauty. You need personal power to open up all of that, without it - these are just words.

The key to all enlightenment is to have personal experiences in the world of light. All you need to do that is to meditate.