Quotes About Personal

Personal memory shapes and sustains the "collective memory" that underpins culture.

most Americans can be identified by name and address using only their ZIP code, birthday, and gender—

Evidence suggests, moreover, that as we build up our personal store of memories, our minds become sharper.

fetishes. We all have secrets about ourselves we don't want to share.

It was sort of my own personal apocalypse.

now I'm synthesizing personal experience with observation. As opposed to just projecting feelings on to someone you barely know or chasing some illusion. Now, I'm more into observing illusions taking their toll on other people. I feel pretty good about life these days.

Physiology on one side, sociology on another, signed the partition of psychology. Personal life has been abolished, like the Polish Sejm.

An aristocratic society is one where the desire for personal perfection is the animating spirit of the social institutions.

Although religion was around me my whole life I never felt it was forced upon me. It is my centring, my grounding, the soul of me. I feel I'm nothing without it.

Der Punkt ist, dass Feldexkursionen häufig eher ein Versuch des Forschers sind, eigene, sehr persönliche Probleme zu lösen, als dass sie dem Bemühen entspringen andere Kulturen zu verstehen.

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else. Margaret Mead, anthropologist (1901–78) F

We are all basically selfish, driven by fear of death and the hope of personal gain

Don't Take Anything Personally Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering.

Life can be cruel. It´s been my struggle, my personal battle, my obsession to make people see that different isn´t always bad.

But my very latest discovery made me feel better. I had found that every rooster has his own Spain and he has it under his feathers.

Our ranks and estates are so irritated these days that they take personally whatever appears in printed books: such, evidently, is the mood in the air. It is enough simply to say that there is a stupid man in a certain town, and it already becomes personal; suddenly a gentleman of respectable appearance pops up and shouts: "But I, too, am a man, which means that I, too, am stupid"—in short, he instantly grasps the situation.

Every modern woman who rejects the double standard, who combines a career with life as a mother, who demands personal

He is social, but not in large groups. "I don't go readily to cocktail parties, where people just come together and talk. I don't tend to like that kind of thing. I'd rather sit down with somebody and find a mutual topic of interest, and explore it in depth with that person, or maybe two or three people. Not a conversation that says how do you feel".

If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.

The obsession with originality is a *coarse* scholarly egotism. Whoever is incapable of treating every foreign thought as though it were his own, and a personal thought as though it were foreign—is no true scholar.

I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.

I am what I am because I have made myself so.

Clover missed his "me-time.

In a society where people are obsessed with personal space, dogs have come to serve as welcome, neo-human mediators of loneliness and solitude.