For what then matters is to bear witness to the uniquely human potential at its best, which is to transform a personal tragedy into a triumph, to turn one’s predicament into a human achievement.

I think what I do in my acting world and what I do in my standup world is bring up a brand that I want to bring across. Once you figure out your brand and what you do, it’s kind of easy at that. You end up getting your audience.

My personal attitude toward atheists is the same attitude that I have toward Christians, and would be governed by a very orthodox text: “By their fruits shall ye know them.” I wouldn’t judge a man by the presuppositions of his life, but only by the fruits of his life. And the fruits – the relevant fruits – are, I’d say, a sense of charity, a sense of proportion, a sense of justice. And whether the man is an atheist or a Christian, I would judge him by his fruits.

This is the highest miracle of genius, that things which are not should be as though they were, that the imaginations of one mind should become the personal recollections of another

If in any divination the Tenth Card should be a Court Card, it shews that the subject of the divination falls ultimately into the hands of a person represented by that card, and its end depends mainly on him.

The thing I like most of all is personal achievement – not achievement for the world’s applause, but achievement for my own delight.

Squashed behind The Cloud of Unknowing we discovered a pocket-size spiral notebook with a day-by-day account of the time Justin had stayed with her and her husband after Tommy’s death. The writing was legible though it required effort (this was before she took her calligraphy course), but Justin was ecstatic and asked if he could have the little notebook. “This is my history,” he said. Later, after he had deciphered every last word: “Boy, was I loved.

Nonie often remarked that every one of us needed to get away from other people and replenish our personal reserves.

I make up my own mind in light of available facts, with my own experience and a sense of personal ethics.

I think I’ve owned all the models of iPods so far. And these days between my iPod, iPhone and my personal laptop computer, I’m someone who is very, very grateful for all the ways to listen to music and completely switch off from people around me and listen to the music in detail, which is very hard to do if you’re in a room with other people.

I like writing about big turning points, where professional and personal lives coalesce, where the boundaries are coming down, and you’re faced with a set of choices which will change life forever.

My personal view is always I’m in favour of anything that gives parliament a greater say. That’s after all what we were elected for.

In some way, the relationship between a director and an actor is personal.

I’m glad to produce my personal best in this high-level competition.

It was great out there and it was a personal best for me. The sport has picked up a lot in last few years and Indians are doing so well in it.

This competition was not easy but I have been in form. I thought that I would be able to achieve the score. I am happy with it and this is my personal best.

Do it for fun. Don’t take it personal. Personally, I’m surprised you called me after the things I said

I think that you can sort of have your own personal journey and you know, you can just kind of apply that to whatever characters you’re playing.

I’m very happy with where I arrived, both personally and professionally. I can say more so personally, because my career will have to end eventually. I do not know how long it will be, but eventually it will end, and the personal will continue.

I’ve never been interested in selling my personal life, and that’s never been more important to me than now.

Mixtapes are very personal, and they describe who you are better than an album sometimes

A lot of young kids like myself use Instagram because it has swag – its more personal, and your friends generate it

I worked at Disney many years ago. They just let me sit in a room for a couple of years and draw whatever I wanted to draw, so it’s a very personal thing to me. Drawing and everything you do there is something meaningful and personal.

I have a problem when people say something’s real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those words for me is very personal and subjective. I’ve always been confused and never had a clearcut understanding of the meaning of those kinds of words

To believe in personal responsibility would be to destroy the whole special role of the anointed, whose vision casts them in the role of rescuers of people treated unfairly by “society”.

The power of literature is that it brings us inside a person, a situation, a place, and allows us to see the world through their eyes.

The topic of limits is a significant inquiry of the Jewish individuals on the grounds that the Jews are the incredible specialists of intersection limits. They have a feeling of personality inside themselves that doesn’t allow them to cross limits with others.

Personal connections are a gold dig for writing to investigate, comprehend, to portray

I think the personal stories that I tell in my life, I think, sort of do add up to say that you can fail and fail and fail again and continue to move forward.

There is a duty to improve the lot of others. Charity isn’t personal, it’s public. It’s owed not just to God and salvation but to the nation: the idea that America itself deserves its citizens’ charity, not because it is poor but because it could always be richer.

When you acknowledge that your vulnerability does not absolve anyone of personal accountability, you will heal from those traumas faster and more fully.

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

In our personal ambitions, we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up, or else all go down as one people.

Censoring what you say is one of the ways in which people who are not nice can take away your personal freedom

Growing up in the Sacramento Valley in the ’70s, we were all pretty big into cars. Of course, I had to nerd out and be a fan of Bob Tullius’ Group 44 Jaguars instead of Corvettes/Camaros.

Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster’s own personal example.

I am just going to try to run my personal best. If it comes as a world record, I would appreciate it. But I would treat it as a personal best.

A democratic form of government, a democratic way of life, presupposes free public education over a long period; it presupposes also an education for personal responsibility that too often is neglected.

We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.

I’ll tell you what our goal is: our goal is to make the best personal computers in the world and to make products we are proud to sell and recommend to our family and friends, and, we want to do that at the lowest price we can.

A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.

I believe staying young at heart is all in one’s personal attitude… you can’t instill that in anyone.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

I don’t want to be fake

A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.

If you’re embarrassed because you have some notion about how men are supposed to behave, and it doesn’t include weeping, then you have some personal work to do.

We all have a social mask, right? We put it on; we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we’re capable of.

Stop taking things personally.

On personal integrity hangs humanity’s fate.

It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity’s fate.

The glory of the world is transitory, and we should not measure our lives by it, but by the choice we make to follow our personal legend, to believe in our utopias and to fight for our dreams.

Because there is a force that wants you to realize your Personal Legend; it whets your appetite with a taste of success.

The only job you have in life is to recognize and honor your personal legend.

There was a reason my first substantial role after rehab was to play a maniac whose personal story ended badly. I knew what it was like to go those dark places. I played a guy who died as a result of his abuse.

I don’t have a tuxedo that fits anymore because my chest and my biceps are too big.

What I do is I write mainly about very personal and rather lonely feelings, and I explore them in a different way each time. You know, what I do is not terribly intellectual. I’m a pop singer for Christ’s sake. As a person, I’m fairly uncomplicated.

No man has a right to expect to succeed in life unless he understands his business, and nobody can understand his business thoroughly unless he learns it by personal application and experience

There are players that try to imitate others, but at free-kick time it is a personal thing. Every person has their own technique and routine when they stand over the ball and I have mine, I am not trying to copy anyone.

As a human being, he may have moods and a will and personal aims; but as an artist, he is a man in a higher sense. He is a ‘collective man’—one who carries and shapes the unconscious, psychic forms of mankind.

I will tell you that you can use your personality and be bubbly and be yourself in any field that you’re in. That alone will take you far

Duty is not collective; it is personal

Ultimately, property rights and personal rights are the same thing

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

Once you start to speak, people will yell at you. They will interrupt you, put you down and suggest it’s personal. And the world won’t end.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

Appreciating what shows up in your life changes your personal vibration. Gratitude elevates your life to a higher frequency.

I’ve come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that’s as unique as a fingerprint – and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you.

I’m always going to judge somebody on their work ethic, and whether or not they made me feel something, or whether or not I felt they did a good job. To me, it’s important to try to block anything personal out and look at the performance, in any field.

When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.

Without impending on your own personal choice, there are going to be those that wear the hat of religion and those that wear the hat of science. I still don’t really understand why they can’t wear both hats, because personally, I think that they go beautifully together.

Everybody’s got something to say, but I’d rather be the person who’s honest than the person who’s like, ‘Oh that’s personal, I’m not going to tell you.’ I’ve always had an open, honest relationship with my fans.

A writer should be as objective as a chemist; he should lay aside his personal desires and prejudices and study his subject from every angle.

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations.

Success is both very personal and relative, depending on where you would like to be in your own life.

I notice that my characters go out to dinner and have fun and take these great trips, but I spend so much time on their lives, I don’t have much of a personal life of my own. I have to sort of remember to fill out that little notebook on me.

To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition.

You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.

Even the mundane task of washing dishes by hand is an example of the small tasks and personal activities that once filled people’s daily lives with a sense of achievement.

Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning

I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.

A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest… a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal
desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will – his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Random things are luxurious to people. It’s personal.