Personal Quotes - page 18

Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting - an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified. (James Redfield)
Political risk is hard to manage because so much comes down to the personal choices of policymakers, whether prime ministers or heads of central banks. View quote
James Surowiecki
Who are you, anyway? -Just someone who knows, from personal experience, how attractive it can be to think you can save somebody else by loving them. View quote
Jeffrey Eugenides
Hate is too mild of a word. But it's nothing personal, I don't think. View quote
Gena Showalter
Nothing uniquely bad has happened to me in my personal life, but all the regular little bad things have accumulated to make me a neurotic person. And these adventures are my way of trying to make sense of that. View quote
Jon Ronson
Levi is one of the best authors I've ever read. It's hard not to have an immediate personal response to his work. He has such a quiet tone. View quote
John Turturro
The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also have the closest personal relationships with my translators - I don't know whether that's a coincidence, or if there's something to be learned from it. View quote
Jonathan Coe
I don't like to act in my personal life. I like to be straightforward. View quote
Josh Hartnett
One thing that I discovered about myself is I really don't like traveling. I feel like it's a terrible personal failing, but I was so satisfied to arrive at the conclusion. View quote
Joshua Ferris
Adventure books are my personal favorites. 'The Endurance,' a story about Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctica expedition, or 'Into Thin Air,' Jon Krakauer's personal account of the 1996 disaster on Mt Everest, are two notables. View quote
Dean Karnazes
In the digital universe, our personal history and its sense of narrative is succeeded by our social networking profile - a snapshot of the current moment. The information itself - our social graph of friends and likes - is a product being sold to market researchers in order to better predict and guide our futures. (Douglas Rushkoff)
Happiness is not always through success. Equally, the constant pursuit of success is sure unhappiness. But we have to find the balance. My own thoughts are that parenting is very personal. And we all feel enormous insecurity about parenting. What are they going to think of us 20 years down the line? View quote
Amy Chua
You know, parenting is so personal. And we're all afraid that we didn't quite get it right. And it feels like the stakes are so high. By we - what if we made a mistake? View quote
Amy Chua
In both business and personal life, I've always found that travel inspires me more than anything else I do. Evidence of the languages, cultures, scenery, food, and design sensibilities that I discover all over the world can be found in every piece of my jewelry. View quote
Ivanka Trump
Once you have made the decision to do the film, once you have identified the desire and all the deep and personal, intimate, artistic reasons why you want to do the film, then it's more a matter of how to do things. View quote
Isabelle Huppert
Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively. View quote
Yehuda Berg
I'm not the kind of person who likes to shout out my personal issues from the rooftops, but with my bipolar becoming public, I hope fellow sufferers will know it's completely controllable. I hope I can help remove any stigma attached to it, and that those who don't have it under control will seek help with all that is available to treat it. View quote
Catherine Zeta-Jones
Yes, I can talk and think at the same time. Most people can, though I suppose you wouldn't know that from personal experience. Elena (Bitten) View quote
Kelley Armstrong
I am, first of all, a Christian and, secondly, a person with very very serious personal opinion, so I'm motivated by many many things and, certainly, not by the need or desire to satisfy other people's ideas of who I am. View quote
Ken Hensley
I think that's the best career that someone can have is one that's reflective of their personal tastes. View quote
Christina Ricci
Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger. (Christopher Lasch)
Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters. When readers start asking about character motivations instead of concentrating on the special effects, it means you're connecting with them on a personal level. View quote
Alan Dean Foster
Getting your house in order and reducing the confusion gives you more control over your life. Personal organization some how releases or frees you to operate more effectively. View quote
Larry King
Acting is the most personal of our crafts. The make-up of a human being - his physical, mental and emotional habits - influence his acting to a much greater extent than commonly recognized. View quote
Lee Strasberg
Playing with different genres and perspectives and ways of telling stories is one of the perks of being a novelist, but at the same time, I want precision. And in order to be precise about stuff, you have to get personal. Symbolism is very boring. View quote
Linn Ullmann