Quotes About Personal

The point is, your definition of rising is always going to be personal, individual to you. But one of the biggest impediments to rising is also personal and individual: being blind to the behaviors and habits that keep you stuck.

Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work.

The simple fact of the matter is that the Home Secretary has asked us to investigate what our Quaker friend chooses to call—for some strange reason of his own—"child prostitution". And whatever our personal feelings, it certainly won't damage our prospects of promotion if we come up with the result he desires.

What works in a relationship of very public people is not making the relationship public - keeping it as personal as it can be. It's the only way it is real.

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.

Freedom is an inside job.

I'm the story of Sheresa. I write a little bit of the fiction of me every day.

Eleanor Roosevelt wrote movingly about having her own equivalent of a Bat Cave, but in the end, she found consolation by telling herself, "Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." I agreed with this, but I still couldn't get the small things or people out of my head. EVENTS IN MY PERSONAL LIFE required me to understand better where my "bats" were coming from.

the commercial reader (not you, of course; not me), who presumably consumes texts only for story, is assumed to stand deaf to style, and is thought to applaud only the endlessly repeated pornographies of action and passion that, for all their violences, still manage to pander to an astonishingly untroubled acceptance of the personal and political status quo.

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Baking cookies is comforting, and cookies are the sweetest little bit of comfort food. They are very bite-sized and personal.

Now I'm a failure twice over. Three times, actually, if we're counting personal and professional things, since my marriage failed, too. So, you see, staying with me might not be your smartest move.

I've always viewed history as my personal treasure chest.

If I offend anybody tonight, I apologize. That's not my intention. I'm not going to guess what your personal line of decency is; I cross my own from time to time - it's how I know I still have one.

I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.

I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I'm not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings.

One of the most important rules of personal effectiveness is the 10/90 rule.

I am struck by the fact that personal faith and political agendas are intertwined more closely now than at any other time in recent history.

The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time.

We had built up a team in Edmonton that really knew who each other was from a personal standpoint and from a professional standpoint. Our nucleus had stayed together for a long time.

the wasting of time is the most personal, most private, most intimate form of conversation with oneself, as well as with another.

When I first started writing the album, "Cry Baby" was a song that I really wanted to write because it represented all of these personal insecurities that I had for a long time.

A leader's responsibility to his team is paramount. It overshadows even his own personal feelings at any given time.

For a long time, my uniform consisted of a trench coat, wide flared jeans, and little bottines - I copied a pair that my mother had in this theater place. I had, like, 10 pairs of the same shoes.