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Quotes About Personal

How many decisions- including ones of great historical significance that impact millions of people- are made by men and women who are driven by personal motives rather than by a desire to do the right thing?
~ John Perkins
I will say that it appears likely that Tubbs was working alone, out of a personal animus toward Smalls.
~ John Sandford
Rich people show their appreciation through favors. When everyone you know has more money than they know what to do with, money stops being a useful transactional tool. So instead you offer favors. Deals. Quid pro quos. Things that involve personal involvement rather than money. Because when you're that rich, your personal time is your limiting factor.
~ John Scalzi
Really rich folks do a lot of reputational transactions. ... Rich people show their appreciation through favors, I said. When everyone you know has more money than they know what to do with, money stops being a useful transactional tool. So instead you offer favors. Deals. Quids pro quos. Things that involve personal involvement rather than money. Because when you're that rich, your personal time is your limiting factor.
~ John Scalzi
When you study history, you're really studying yourself. Every bit of history I've uncovered about my own family has some remnant in myself.
~ John Sedgwick
And, of course, people are only interested in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen. And I here make a rule- a great and lasting story is about everyone or it will not last. The strange and foreign is not interesting- only the deeply personal and familiar.
~ John Steinbeck
People are only interested in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen…a great and lasting story is about everyone or it will not last. The strange and foreign is not interesting—only the deeply personal and familiar.
~ John Steinbeck
Her self was an island.
~ John Steinbeck
A man's bathroom is his castle
~ John Steinbeck
And I here make a rule-a great and lasting story is about everyone or it will not last. The strange and foreign is not interesting-only the deeply personal and familiar.
~ John Steinbeck
Mice and Men is a compact and, in its origin, a highly personal response to the powerlessness of the California laboring class
~ John Steinbeck
She wins all arguments by the use of vehemence and the conviction that a difference of opinion is a personal affront.
~ John Steinbeck
No thanks," I answered, "I never take rides from strangers, thugs who've tried to kill me or people with poor personal hygiene. Congratulations, by the way, for being the first person to qualify in all three categories.
~ John Zakour
This show has been a major revitalization of my family life and personal life. It gave my family an avenue to speak to me honestly.
~ Willie Aames
I'm a family oriented guy; I've personally started four or five this year.
~ David Lee Roth
I strongly believe in my own rights and wrongs and impose them on myself and my family.
~ Nita Ambani
My family gave me values that have sustained me through situations that would challenge any person. My personal relationship with the Lord inspires me in all I do.
~ Kathy Ireland
On the football field I keep my emotions tied up inside. But when I'm with family, I let them out.
~ Kurt Warner
I was always an Olsen. I never thought of myself as a Brady. I never actually wanted to be a Brady. I always preferred my own family to the Bradys.
~ Susan Olsen
To one American family out of four, the idea of capitalism as a benign system of comfort , dignity , and personal advance is only a myth , or worse, a bitter mockery.
~ Robert Heilbroner
I have always kept my personal relationships pretty private, whether it's intimate or my family or friends - at least in videos. It's always been something that I've sworn off from sharing online.
~ Tyler Oakley
I have a group of close personal friends that are all my world. My family is my world. And as long as those people are happy with me, then I'm happy with myself.
~ Unknown
I think that public service is tough on a family - no ifs, ands, buts about it. I have my own personal wishes, but they're not always front and center.
~ Maria Shriver
I'm an actor I'm not a politician. I always kick myself when I talk too much about family, or personal things.
~ Christian Bale