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Quotes About Personal

Your morals are your own affair, mum. As are my own.
~ Peter Carey
Religia îmi era de mult nesuferit?, cu toate acestea, am simÈ›it dintr-odat? dorinÈ›a de a m? raporta la ceva. Era insuportabil s? fii singur È™i izolat. Trebuia s? existe o relaÈ›ie cu altcineva, care s? nu fie doar personal?, întâmpl?toare È™i unic?, în care s? nu fii constrâns s? aparÈ›ii celuilalt printr-o dragoste forÈ›at? È™i mincinoas?, ci printr-o leg?tur? necesar?, impersonal?.
~ Peter Handke
Organizations intent on building shared visions continually encourage members to develop their personal visions.
~ Peter M. Senge
Shared visions emerge from personal visions. This is how they derive their energy and how they foster commitment. As
~ Peter M. Senge
But this is exactly why I read--and don't belong to a book group--because reading is the most individual thing there is. Why collectivize it? Didn't we have enough bad English teachers in school? Crowd sourcing and literature shouldn't mix.
~ Peter Orner
At other times the school has been less successful. As an institution, the school has not always been able to meet the unique needs of all of it students. For some of these students, RVA has exacerbated personal problems that might have been dealt with in a healthier way elsewhere. p219
~ Unknown
Originality is being different from oneself, not others.
~ Philip Larkin
But you cannot change what you are, only what you do.
~ Philip Pullman
Maybe, despite ideology, politics, and history, a genuine catastrophe is always personal bathos at the core. Life can't be impugned for any failure to trivialize people. You have to take your hat off to life for the techniques at its disposal to strip a man of his significance and empty him totally of his pride.
~ Philip Roth
Writing is) the transformation, through an elaborate impersonation, of a personal emergency into a public act (in both senses of that word).
~ Philip Roth
You were listening to the music as deeply as anyone I've ever seen. I was so happy for you that day-because you'd discovered something all your own. And I was so glad it was something I could give to you.
~ David Gerrold
It's a private thing, that even if it wasn't, I wouldn't talk about it because it makes people uncomfortable to know I have a super-power. That's what Jamie calls it. A super-power. I still call it the noise.
~ David Gerrold
political style characterized by intensely personal leadership, charismatic appeals to his followers, demands for extreme personal loyalty, and a violent antipathy against all who disagreed with him.
~ David Hackett Fischer
If a policy is wrongheaded feckless and corrupt I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.
~ David Hackworth
The personal dream of every radical is to be at the center of creation and the renewal of the world.
~ David Horowitz
I don't like it when you use my shampoo, because then your hair smells like me, not you.
~ David Levithan
simon: that's disgusting! me: what's disgusting? simon: you know. you put your thing in the place where he, um, defecates.
~ David Levithan
I know immediately that this is going to be one of the true historic moments of my life - that the personal and the historic are converging. I know people will ask, 'Where were you when you first heard?
~ David Levithan
They should be going to sleep, but good company is the enemy of sleep. We remember this feeling so acutely - the desire to linger away the hours with someone else, talking or holding or even just watching a movie. In those moment, the clock seems arbitrary, since you are setting your understanding of time to another, more personal measure.
~ David Levithan
suffuse , v. I don't like it when you use my shampoo, because then your hair smells like me, not you.
~ David Levithan
Will, you can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friends nose.
~ Unknown
Just as modern science has created novel vaccines and drugs to eliminate many natural diseases, with enough knowledge we can create personal, social, and legal environments that curtail or suppress the components of male psychology that contribute to sexual coercion.
~ David M. Buss
Our self-made crises are custom-tailored, painstakingly crafted, and always fit perfectly.
~ Unknown
The six to eight black men were characterized as personal slaves until the mid-1950s, when the political climate changed and it was decided that instead of being slaves they were just good friends.
~ David Sedaris