Personal Quotes

I work from a personal place, and the work has personal meaning for me.

When I perform, it's very personal. I'm sharing things I like, inviting the audience into my room.

It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics.

We were developing an innovative Personal Information Manager called Chandler but a couple years ago I took off from that to do a project writing down my memoirs essentially, reminiscing about the development of the Macintosh.

Well, mines was a sub machine gun. That was my personal weapon with being the first person in the patrol. I used to lead the patrol. Used to have a leading scout, a second scout and then the officer. The officer would be third. As I say, it was educational.

Acting is the most personal of our crafts. The make-up of a human being - his physical, mental and emotional habits - influence his acting to a much greater extent than commonly recognized.

Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

Each of us should take personal responsibility for our diet, and our children's diet, and the government's role should be to make certain it provides the best information possible to help people stay healthy.

We believe that within five years, 96 percent of British consumers will have access to the Internet, whether it be through a personal computer, a set-top box or a mobile phone.

If we cannot by reason, by influence, by example, by strenuous effort, and by personal sacrifice, mend the bad places of civilization, we certainly cannot do it by force.

I tend to pick on the people I'm closest with because I know they know it's not personal.

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.

I sometimes lie, especially about personal things, because what does it matter? I am a kind of minute commodity, my name is no longer my own.

I think that there is a generational change, where new generations that have grown up always having access to the internet have a somewhat different view in terms of personal information and what needs to be kept private.

I never go to funerals. To me a person is dead when he breathes for the last time. After that, your memories should be personal.

I don't want to be too proud, but I have a good personal style.

We have built our State on the freedom of personal adventure.

The secret of having a personal life is not answering too many questions about it.

I always separated sports and my personal life.

Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.

With my personal preparation at the piano, I can afford to hum at half voice.

This week I was proud to join with my colleagues to help pass two important, common-sense pieces of legislation that will limit the frivolous lawsuits by trial attorneys and personal injury lawyers that clog our courts and hurt our small businesses.

I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.

Oh, my God! My wife and I, boy, we got down that night. On a personal note!

I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write.

My whole life I've played music for my own personal enjoyment and the idea of it becoming a machine or a business is just horrible.

I would not be opposed to devising a new system of pensions, in which one part was based on collective provision, but which also gave incentives for people to take out an additional, personal plan.

The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family.

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

Duty is not collective; it is personal.