Personal Quotes
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My personal favourites include J. J. Cale, R. D. Burman, Mehdi Hassan, and Ghulam Ali.
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I'm not one of those people that has to share personal experiences. That's not really the kind of writer I am. I'm a very private person to begin with.
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When you write, no matter what, it ends up personal.
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Personal beauty requires that one should be tall; little people may have charm and elegance, but beauty-no.
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Money has always been framed as a public good, one that must be stewarded by governments, when in fact, it is a private enterprise like any other which is fueled by personal agendas, regulation, and the quest for geopolitical hegemony.
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I never let politics get personal. You can have the most intense, heated debate on issues, and so long as you keep it on issues, you can go out and have coffee afterwards and you're good friends.
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Songwriting is one thing that I have blessed to myself. It's a very personal thing for me, the business is very shared and you're constantly around people. So it just kinda happens when it happens and I write when I want to write and that's the way it's going to be or else I wouldn't even be doing this.
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There are so many things I want to do! Some are personal. Some are professional.
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The thing that I think a director has to have in order to make a movie really work, and to certainly make a film that feels personal, is that you have to have a sense of the feeling that you want to create in people, the tone which you want to tell the story, and the basic themes you want to come out. You can't compromise on those because you are then not making the movie that you are going to be good at telling.
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I don't differentiate between personal and professional work. Everything I do is personal.
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Our Constitution was not intended to be used by ... any group to foist its personal religious beliefs on the rest of us.
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Uncertainty is a personal matter; it is not the uncertainty but your uncertainty.
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All the great spiritual traditions have placed major emphasis upon meditation as a path to personal growth.
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The worst drugs are as bad as anybody's told you. It's just a dumb trip, which I can't condemn people if they get into it, because one gets into it for one's own personal, social, emotional reasons. It's something to be avoided if one can help it.
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Writing is always personal in some way but not always in a direct way.
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When you write a song that is so personal to yourself, it's really hard to picture anybody else understanding it when you're singing it. There's things that are very broad and universal topics. Those are the songs that might work for others.
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There's always a personal satisfaction in writing a song by yourself. You get the inspiration, and see it through, and you're done. It's focused and very personal.
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This represents a monumental step backward for personal privacy for women.
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It’s his life. One tends to privilege personal insights in such matters.
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Why would a person prefer the accusations of guilt, unworthiness, ineptitude — even dishonor and betrayal — to real possibility? This may not seem to be the choice, but it is: complete self-effacement, surrender to the “others,” disavowal of any personal dignity or freedom — on the one hand; and freedom and independence, movement away from the others, extrication of oneself from the binding links of family and social duties-on the other hand. This is the choice that the depressed person actually faces.
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Light attracts light. But sometimes your light attracts moths and your warmth attracts parasites. Protect your space and energy
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While obsession with one’s personal appearance is a sign of being a vacant prat, total oblivion to it is a sign of mental illness.
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The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are...There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.
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I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint.
