Personal Quotes

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

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.

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 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.

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.

Personal love is concentrated universal love.

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

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

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

... 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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Your own personal health is your own personal choice, all the way down the line.

I think it would count more, if we did less personal appearances.

It's just so much more fun to play bad than good. Plus it's just good to get that out of your system so it doesn't show up in your personal life.

Honestly, I don't go out of my way to see animated movies. I'm mostly influenced by.. the films I tend to like are the small films, small personal stories. With characters you can believe.

Without deep personal transformation, collective transformation is not possible.

I'll do things that maybe other people would be afraid to do or afraid to say. But in my personal life, I'm actually very responsible with my personal relationships.

I do not agree that NIMBYism is wrong morally. I believe that NIMBYism is wrong ethically. It's a personal choice.

Nothing puts the dignity in personal dignity (or the freedom in personal freedom) like the self in self-rule.

Anger simply means that your personal power - your personal space, your personal sense of being - has been violated

Communication is vital when it comes to excelling in the workplace and in your personal relationships.

Tara Reid is charging $3,500 for a personal appearance fee. So, for only $3,500 you can either buy a 1998 Jetta with 130,000 miles on it... or Tara Reid, who only has 98,000 miles on her.

My parents and my grandmother inspire me every day and, every day, in my work and personal life.

I would never sign up to film my personal life.

I think the honesty not only shines through in my work, but also my personal life. And I get in trouble for being honest. I'm extremely old-fashioned. I'm a nobleman. I'm chivalrous.

When you think about justifiable anger in one's personal life, we look at those scenarios in everyday life and through our story with a superhero, we heighten them.

It [moviemaking] is all a relationship business. It's a personal business. It's all personal relationships, if you're lucky enough to build on one to the other.

If anything, I've probably tended more toward humor in my writing and veered more toward pleasure in my personal life.

Every personal experience of my life impacts my music.

I like just having that separation between my music life and my personal life.

I think people pick up on that. You use personal stuff and mix it all in - I definitely pull on that stuff in my acting.

Anything that strengthens the private sector vs. the state is protective of personal freedom.

Every person has parallel tracks. You have your personal life or your life as an artist, or whatever it is you do.

A personal belief is that if you're not personally invested in what you're working on, you'll fail.

You don't get to see all my family drama, you don't get in my relationships, and you don't get to live inside my personal life. But if you don't pick at me, I'm pretty open to just let you in.

L.A. is so isolated and unhip in a way; it gives you room to figure out who you are and explore more personal stuff.