Top 1200 Personal Essays Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

[George] Orwell's essays. It's got it all. Great writing, a worldview that I find interesting and useful, and most of it timelessly true.

It's all so personal, isn't it? It's hard to talk about work without talking about things that are personal. Work is personal. I don't want to talk about my personal life, but it's on my mind, and it's in my work.

It's good that I put my personal ego aside. My basketball ego was, 'Why we negotiating?' But my personal ego didn't take it personal. I put my personal ego aside a little bit.

How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising glory.

Essays just aren't my thing: no matter how hard I tried, it seemed I was always a bit average.

I love to run smart essays and commentary. But it doesn't replace the other kind of reporting

(Francis) Bacon's best known writings are his essays. They are loved for many reasons, such as their being so short.

Programming is the art of writing essays in crystal clear prose and making them executable

the wrongs of society can be more deeply impressed on a large class of readers in the form of fiction than by essays, sermons, or the facts of science.

My high-school papers, my college-application essays, read like Norman Mailer packed in a crunchy-peanut-butter sandwich.

Drama school is fundamentally practical. I didn't write any essays, so I came out with a BA honors degree in acting.

Angkor is perhaps the greatest of Man's essays in rectangular architecture that has yet been brought to life.

I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott's collected essays for their classes.

If you were an actor, anybody could go on Broadway and take a George Carlin hour and do it on stage as a one man show. They're all stand alone essays.

I have more than 100 legal pads filled with handwriting. Eight novels, two books for children, countless stories and essays.

I didn't really have a major role in how it was described. I wanted it to be a collection of essays where each storyline could be contained.

At university level, I had an economics lecturer who used to joke that I was the only student who handed in essays on British Airways notepaper.

The NBA (National Basketball Association) is never just a business. It's always business. It's always personal. All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal.

I usually dread writing non-fiction. I don't feel comfortable or confident writing essays and the like.

I think we are obsessed in the U.S. with the personal, in ways that blind us to more important issues of life. I just think if we could take all the obsession with the personal (inaudible), and personal judgment and have people be concerned about the environment, what a different world we would live in.

Those who say "it's not personal, it's just business" are lying. All business is personal, and the best business is very personal.

I write essays to clear my mind. I write fiction to open my heart.

For books, I don't read much fiction, but like travel essays and good pop-science.

For me, writing essays, prose and fiction is a great way to be self-indulgent.

I think it's hard to have a full-time job and write fiction, but for essays, you need to be in the world.

Many good poets are really essayists who write very short essays.

I wouldn't be making films if I just wanted to express some specific ideas; then I would be writing essays or something.

I think the pattern of my essays is, A funny thing happened to me on my way through Finnegans Wake.

The best essays come from the moment in which people really need to work something out.

Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers... that is a small population.

There are some short essays that are very grave, and most contemporary novels are lighter than air.

The piety of "having a personal relationship with Christ" ... is alien to the New Testament... but evangelicals elevate it to the shibboleth of salvation! Unless you have a personal relationship with Jesus, buster, one day you will be boiling in Hell. Sheesh! Talk about the fury of a personal savior scorned!

I've learned, finally, how to balance work with having a personal life. I had to separate my personal and my professional life but now that I only have loving people in my life my personal and professional life blend together.

People have pointed out evidences of personal feeling in my notices as if they were accusing me of a misdemeanor, not knowing that criticism written without personal feeling is not worth reading. It is the capacity for making good or bad art a personal matter that makes a man a critic.

There's definitely some pieces in there that reflect on my personal life, but really, they aren't as personal as everybody thinks they are. I would like them to be more personal. The emotions, the songs themselves are personal. I can't do it - I've tried to write personally and it just doesn't seem to work. It would be too obvious. Some things that you could read in could fit into anyone's life that had any amount of pain at all. It's pretty cliche'.

I have written stories, essays, even whole books on trains, scribble-scribble.

Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.

Seneca devoted much of his time to writing essays in praise of poverty, and in lending money at usurious rates.

The essays are different because ultimately it's things I'm interested in, and I'm really just writing about myself and using those subjects as a prism.

I started writing when I was in school. I wrote essays and in my teen years I used to write sorrowful sad stories and poems as you do at the age.

E.B. White's essays are the best things I've read about Maine - especially the one in which he's not sure if he can go out sailing any more in his sloop.

I write many essays on whales. I love whales, especially orcas. And dolphins.

Donald Trump's connection is personal. It's rooted in personal desire, personal loyalty for him to succeed. Barack Obama doesn't have that. Never did. But don't try to tell Obama that. Obama believes that he has the exact kind of connection with voters that Trump has.

Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays

Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.

Anger simply means that your personal power - your personal space, your personal sense of being - has been violated

In college I studied essays with a poet, and so I think my interpretation of the genre was always going to be a little off-kilter.

All the souls to explore! - It's not so necessary to love, really, as it is to settle something deep with all of those who really matter. Love and hate are the same things, differently sifted through personal... pride, or what have you... personal pride or even just personal-ness.

Being an entrepreneur does require a lot of sacrifice of your personal time and personal hobbies and things that you enjoy. At least for the period of high growth that you experience at the beginning of a company's life cycle, you have to be ready to make a lot of time sacrifices and personal sacrifice.

Prayer is addressed to the personal God, not because he is personal indeed, I know for certain that he is not personal, because personality is limitation, while God is unlimited.

Mythology is about Good VS Evil, is it not? We can pretend runes and astrology and reading tea leaves...But to whom do we pray when we are terrified? Carl Sagan's essays?

For me, writing essays is very much about processing ideas and offering them up to the reader so that they are fully cooked.

If my father were still writing essays, every full-grown 'girl' would probably be transformed into a'woman'.

People probably long for something genuinely personal in a society where the personal is often indistinguishable from the "personalized." Maybe the poetry audience member is searching for his or her own "personal space" and they expect the poet to be a sort of avatar of the private life. But that sort of representation is distasteful to me. Asking a poet to represent the personal life is, paradoxically, to turn the poet into something other than a person.

Theological writing is usually done in essays or books, but I hope to show that if we concentrate on sentences, we may well learn something we might otherwise miss.

I love to run smart essays and commentary. But it doesn't replace the other kind of reporting.

I have invariably been in love when I haven't had the same reciprocated emotion at all. I don't choose to talk about my personal life because I believe that I don't want to, and I believe my personal life is personal.

Metaphorically these essays move as a quiet but observant coast-guard cutter among the rocks and islands up and down the littoral of our life.

I'm a disciple of Raymond Chandler, who said in his essays that there's a quality of redemption in anything that can be called art.

I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like: What I'm going to be if I grow up.