Top 1200 Personal Empowerment Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Art is a personal act of courage.

I think most generations tend to learn the lesson of war the hard way. There is a deep attraction to the empowerment. Freud is right: societies either become locked in a collective embrace of Eros, as individuals do, or a collective embrace of Thanatos, the death instinct. They swing between the two. The notion that societies are naturally prone toward self-preservation is wrong. Self-annihilation can be deeply addictive, intoxicating, enticing. So I take a darker view of human nature, that war is probably always going to be with us. I think history bears me out.

'Superbad' was such a personal movie.

It's a personal goal for me to be an All-Star.

I believe the message in the hymn "Rise Up, O Men of God" (Hymns, no. 324) is a plea, a call, a divine invitation for us to rise above the telestial tinsel of our time; to deny ourselves of ungodliness and clothe ourselves in the mantle of holiness; to reach and stretch and grasp for that spiritual direction and sacred empowerment promised to the Lord's agents, to those charged to act in the name of our Principal, Jesus Christ; and to point the way to salvation and deliverance and peace in a world that finds itself enshrouded in darkness, a world that yearns for spiritual leadership.

It's not a face, but a personal insult.

My personal life is also cinema.

I'm not a very logical personal.

I have always written from a personal place.

I write about personal experiences.

Travel is a combination of the personal and the emotional.

I don't take anything personal.

At its heart, 'Meru' is a personal story.

Personal philosophy: Clothing optional

My personal philosophy of life is one of ethics

A lot of my music be personal.

A lot of what I write is very personal.

It's important to have privacy and have a personal life.

If you don't have personal goals, you're controlled by those who do.

Organic farming is personal.

Ultimately, taste is so niche and so personal.

Cooking for somebody is very personal.

My work is intensely personal.

I don't have much of a personal life.

All my movies are achingly personal.

I felt that what is personal is political.

The purpose of meditation is personal transformation.

Of course I have a personal life.

Faith is personal if it's to be real.

Nothing is personal. Everything is play.

I'm shy in my personal life.

One method of staying ahead of rising asset prices and the declining dollar is to think bigger and come up with better plans. As important as financial and business planning is a plan for personal development and self-improvement. I'm often asked to invest in people's business plans, and one of the reasons I turn many of them down is because a big plan requires a big person who's spent time on personal development. In a lot of cases, a business plan is far bigger than the person with the plan - that is, the dream is bigger than the dreamer.

It's just business nothing personal.

Persistence is the mother of personal change

My personal style is ever changing.

Love . . . [is] a lack of personal selfishness.

Everyone's in their own personal coma.

You are the architect of your personal experience.

Putting is a very personal affair.

It's really not important what my personal life is.

Most of the songs I wrote are personal.

My personal life is fairly barren.

My personal philosophy of life is one of ethics.

It's not personal, it's strictly business

Music is really personal.

My personal goal is to be a billionaire.

The one reality you can't evade is personal experience.

My greatest passion is my personal life.

Know your personal style.

Morality is a personal matter.

I'm interested in photographs that have no personal signature.

Say something personal, not from a publicist.

Voting is an individual, personal thing.

Nothing endures but personal qualities.

Love is a scandal of the personal sort.

Everything I do - if I do it, is going to be personal.

I don't bowl for personal numbers.

Rejection is never personal, so don't let it consume you.

There she is." Alec spotted his sister and waved her over, looking relieved. "Over here. And watch out for the phouka." "Watch out for the phouka?" Jace repeated, glancing toward a thin brown-skinned man in a green paisley vest who eyed Isabelle thoughtfully as she walked by. "He pinched me when I passed him earlier," Alec said stiffly. "In a highly personal area." "I hate to break it to you, but if he's interested in your highly personal areas, he probably isn't interested in your sister's.

I do always write from a personal place.