Quotes About Personal

You can never really understand an individual unless you also understand the society,historical time period in which they live,personal troubles, and social issues

Never oversimplify yourself by using a single word or category to describe who you are. Take the time to tell your story.

It's time to stop the raid on the Social Security trust fund and start allowing Americans to invest their Social Security taxes in personal savings accounts.

Progress is the sum of small victories won by individual human beings.

People ask all the time, "What are you thinking?" It's my least favorite question in the world. The last bastion of solace is my mind. It's an invasion.

It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I have not had time to remake the world.

I never go to funerals. To me a person is dead when he breathes for the last time. After that, your memories should be personal.

Cause that was more personal and more rewarding than to shoot her.

For those of us who suspect all the mysteries of life are contained in the microcosm of the family, that personal relationships prefigure all else, the work of Jane Austen is the Rosetta stone of literature.

Every illness is not a set of pathologies but a personal story

It's an odd idea for someone like me to keep a diary; not only because I have never done so before, but because it seems to me that neither I — nor for that matter anyone else — will be interested in the unbosomings of a 13-year-old schoolgirl. Still, what does that matter? I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in my heart.

Toddlers can make you feel as if you have violated some archaic law in their personal Koran and you should die, infidel.

Some people may have thought that this book was too personal, too confessional. But what these people think about me is none of my business.

every single one of us at birth is given an emotional acre all our own.

Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone, his own burden, his own way.

There is, of course, always the personal satisfaction of writing down one's own experiences so they may be saved, caught and pinned under glass, hoarded against the winter of forgetfulness. Time has been cheated a little, at least, in one's own life, and a personal, trivial immortality of an old self assured.

el arte en mayúscula se distingue por una universalidad, una pasión que habla a toda clase de personas, combinadas con algo exclusivo del artista que lo torna totalmente personal, la sensibilidad de un hombre, una mirada individual. Se

I have it in my heart. It's mine alone, this pain.

What had really given birth to the Romantic Movement in the history of human ideas was affluence—an increase in the number of people who had plenty enough to eat, enough education to read and write, and time to ruminate on their own personal emotions.

I can see all the stories of my life. I can pick and choose from among them.

Why do you never find anything written about that idiosyncratic thought you advert to, about your fascination with something no one else understands? Because it is up to you. There is something you find interesting, for a reason hard to explain because you have never read it on any page; there you begin. You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment.

Edward Crosby Johnson II, who in the 1950s established Fidelity as a dominant investment firm and made the same point in his own way: "The market is like a beautiful woman—endlessly fascinating, endlessly complex, always changing, always mystifying. I have been absorbed and immersed since 1924 and I know this is no science. It is an art…. It is personal intuition.

Passion isn't project-specific. It's people-specific.

Art is a personal gift that changes the recipient. The medium doesn't matter. The intent does. Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.