Quotes About Personal

My greatest desire was to step over the boundaries of notoriety, into the world of legitimate theater, and I hoped to make the transition on the strength of a satisfying and acceptable performance; not by a constant reference to my past personal life.

The history of the world may be writ in your cells, all of it personal to your lineage and some of it part of the broader context, but though you have been shaped by history, you have only been shaped by some of it. Fundamentally,

There is only one success: to be able to spend life in your own way and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.

For me, my business is my business and my house is my house. I don't want the public in my house.

If someone asks you a question that's too personal, say, "Once, in college." Try to live a life worth impersonating by a drag queen. Name your Starbucks self Rihanna. Flash yourself in your mirror. Take as many bikini pool shots as you possibly can because Sarong City is closer than you think.

Politics in the 1930s was not a "personal option", not something they could take or leave, be or not be. It was a molten flow engulfing the world to remake it, taking possession of personal lives, whether their owners willed it or not,

many saw their antifascism as a more important mark of personal identity than their Jewishness

I wanted to have a personal life that I fully inhabited, not because I am such a great mom, but for me.

Nineteenth century feminists made a distinction between institutional authority and their own intensely personal religious experiences. The fact that the church wasn't supporting their efforts didn't mean that God wasn't supporting them, nor did it invalidate their religious faith.

Shocking loss isn't to be shared, no matter how hard you try.

But Ulyanov had learned an important lesson from his misguided hero worship of Plekhanov. From here on he would exorcise all personal feeling in his political dealings and trust nobody. One had, as he put it, to 'keep a stone in one's sling'.

That's for me. I am a great lover of 'I was there' books.

Here truth is employed as a means to personal triumph and at the same time as a means to kill. It produces a few years later that sort of minister who operates not to instruct but to destroy his church. And if the elders, the church, and the young people begin to groan, if they protest to the church authorities, and finally stay away from worship, this young man is still Pharisaical enough not to listen one bit.

abból a bölcs felismerésb?l indulva ki, hogy minden hitbeli dolog az egyén személyes ügye, és mindenki maga viseli a felel?sséget metafizikai meggy?z?déséért.

No aprehendemos de nuestros sentimientos más que su aspecto impersonal, aquel que el lenguaje ha podido clasificar de una vez por todas porque. más o menos, en las mismas condiciones es el mismo para todos los hombres. Así, hasta en nuestro propio individuo la individualidad se nos escapa.

Base yourself on what you feel, even when you alone feel it.

Put personal ambition away from you, and then you will find consolation in living or in dying, whatever may happen to you.

I have another duty equally sacred… My duty to myself.

Basta por ahora de polémicas, la ciencia no es una mera cuestión de erudición; está integrada al destino absolutamente personal del investigador.

Through his devotion to the holy Im?ms, the Shiite is predisposed to receive this initiation from them, and such initiation provides him with a direct and personal link with the spiritual world in its 'vertical dimension' without his having to enter formally into an organized ?ar?qah, as is the case in Sunnism.

Heredity and Environment are the master-influences of the organic world. These have made all of us what we are. These forces are still ceaselessly playing upon all our lives. And he who truly understands these influences; he who has decided how much to allow to each; he who can regulate new forces as they arise, or adjust them to the old, so directing them as at one moment to make them cooperate, at another to counteract one another, understands the rationale of personal development.

Whatever question there may be of his [Thoreau's] talent, there can be none, I think, of his genius. It was a slim and crooked one, but it was eminently personal. He was unperfect, unfinished, inartistic; he was worse than provincial—he was parochial.

Every man is his own hell.

Among all the tragic consequences of depression and war, this suppression of personal self-expression through one's life work is among the most poignant.