Quotes About Personalization

It's the in thing to paste the print club stickers all over your cell phone. I arranged them chaotically to symbolize our love!

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

When we read a book, though, we call it ours, don't we, and I have always said that's because readers make a book their own through reading it. They do half the work, with their own imaginations, fleshing things out, painting each character and place and event in more detail than we have actually set out on paper, and we writers merely set the readers on their way.

And you know, the baby boomers are getting older, and those off the rack clothes are just not fitting right any longer, and so, tailor-made suits are coming back into fashion.

Don't try to be the next Rachael Ray or Bobby Flay, we already have those people. We want someone who is going to make their own mark on 'Food Network.'

I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three meals per day, but that is not a good way to live.

not that the person needs to accommodate him- or herself to yoga, but rather the yoga practice must be tailored to fit each person

We named all our children Kid. Well, they have different first names, like Hey Kid, You Kid, Dumb Kid . . .

To me, the future is personalization .

Our goal should be minimum standardization of human behavior.

Some say there's no magic formula. I say there is. It's just that the magic is different for everyone.

But you also have to know what you like. What to type into the metaphorical search box.

To the extent that consciousness is only consciousness of something by allowing its wake to trail behind itself, and to the extent that, to think an object, consciousness must rely upon a previously constructed 'world of thought,' there is always a de personalization at the heart of consciousness.

People resist a census, but give them a profile page and they'll spend all day telling you who they are.

Everyone tended to believe everything was their fault; maybe it was just hard to imagine, when you were still fairly young, that there were some things in the world that were just not about you .

No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical.

Trump problem. He hopelessly personalized everything. He saw the world in commercial and show business terms: someone else was always trying to one-up you, someone else was always trying to take the limelight.

But personalizing patterns of action helps to free the mind from the expectations that make demands on attention and allows intense concentration on matters that count.

If you want to appeal to the masses, make sure you appeal to the one. If you try to write with everybody in mind, you'll appeal to no one because everyone will think your book is for someone else.

If you write for everyone, no one will buy. If you write for one, everyone who feels like that one will buy.

The same formula, applied by two people, can produce different results. The experience is individualized.

To each his own milieu. Enhance what was already in one's possession.

Jesus never spoke to two people the same way, and neither should we. Every single person is unique and individual and deserves an approach that respects that uniqueness.

Being general, the categories never address us as individuals. At best our individuality is lost in the generality. At worst, it is contradicted and denied. Such categories force us to lie on their Procrustean bed, and anything about us that doesn't fit they lop off. They trim the picture of our personalities to fit their mass-produced frames.