Personal Quotes

Any political agenda and organization which doesn't begin with personal responsibility is just half the argument. It's just not going to succeed.

A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.

There's always a little bit of personal satisfaction when you prove somebody wrong.

The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion.

Talking Heads, for me and Chris, was a very personal thing that we shared with a lot of people. In a way, I'm glad it's over, because it allows us to move beyond the restrictions that followed.

The only realistic view is that a human life arises gradually, which is not much help in making personal decisions or devising public policy.

As a politician who cherishes religious conviction in his personal sphere, but regards politics as a domain belonging outside religion, I believe that this view is seriously flawed.

So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear.

I speak for a lot of church groups, youth groups, schools, colleges and do personal appearances. I've done conventions and trade shows. A lot of different little hats.

If my acceptance of the office of Governor would serve my country, though my administration would be attended with the loss of personal credit and reputation, I would cheerfully undertake it.

I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all prepared before that.

I learned that focus is key. Not just in your running a company, but in your personal life as well.

I don't think I ever will do a sex scene because of my religion and my personal standards.

I'm trying to keep my personal life personal. It's very hard for me because I'm a very honest person.

When the year starts the objective is to win it all with the team, personal records are secondary.

Whatever flaws or personal failings afflict them, it remains the case that the overwhelming majority of priests and politicians are honourable and honest - seeking to live out their beliefs and serve society.

So if one, or two, or a handful of guys sells drugs for their own personal gain and profit who just so happens to be a member of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, we want that same consideration.

Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals.

A collection of strong-minded individuals who have learned how to dismiss mistakes, disappointments and problems in their personal life make up a strong team. If the majority of the team have that then, as a unit, you are almost impossible to beat.

And for me anyway, consciousness is three components: a personal component which for lack of a better word we can call the soul. A collective component which is more archetypal and a deeper level, and then a universal domain of consciousness.

I think you have to judge everything based on your personal taste. And if that means being critical, so be it. I hate political correctness. I absolutely loathe it.

The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness.

I don't want to make more friends. I have four kids, I have plenty of friends, and all the personal relationships I need.

I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made.

So after the Lewinsky scandal, everything changed, and we moved from using the Bible to address the moral issues of our time, which were social, to moral issues of our time that were very personal. I have continued that relationship up until the present.

When sadness happens in the middle of work, I separate my personal grief from my train of thought.

Music, I think, is best when it honestly explores personal demons, and it stirs around in the silt of the psyche to find out what's really there.

For a filmmaker, it's a rare chance to do a personal film on a big canvas.

The voice collects and translates your bad physical health, your emotional worries, your personal troubles.

I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.