Top 1200 Personal Essays Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

At high school, instead of the weekly essay, I would write a poem, and the teacher accepted that. The impulse was one of laziness, I'm certain. Poems were shorter than essays.

Work is personal in the same way that finding a friend or partner is personal.

I thought that I wasn't an essayist because I just didn't see myself in a lot of the essays that were popular at the time. That's why I joined the poetry program in grad school.

Before the fight I don't like to talk a lot of crap about my opponents, it's nothing personal, when it comes to interviews or anything like that. But once I get in there, I make it personal. This is my livelihood, my life is either going to go up or go down depending on what happens right here, so it's really personal. I make that guy my enemy.

I'm a fiercely private person in general, and like to keep my personal life personal.

Most good essays are conversations with yourself - not just your decided thoughts but your dilemmas.

[Personal] industry must be faint and languid, which is not excited by the sense of personal interest.

For one moment we are not failed tests and broken condoms and cheating on essays; we are crayons and lunch boxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds.

I think you have to have a personal connection, and that's what I am always looking to try to create: a personal way in to a story.

Personal finances are like people’s personal health, crucial and tragic to the sufferer but tedious to the listener.

The essays are very solipsistic and self-absorbed, I'm totally conscious of that. To me, book writing is fun, and I basically just write about things that are entertaining to myself.

I'm not much a TV reporter, as in someone who covers the daily machinations of the television industry, though I certainly follow it and weave it into my reviews and essays about the medium.

My own personal tweets are very limited. I think I have, like, 68 followers on my personal Twitter.

Peace-not passion, not personal possessions, not personal accomplishments nor happiness-is one of the greatest blessings a man can receive.

With things in my personal life, if I talk about it, it doesn't stay personal.

I have lots of fiction in the drawer, but the essays I mostly kick out into the world, ready or not. Fiction incubates differently, I suppose.

As regards personal relationships I cannot say that I had any particularly personal intercourse with anyone.

Our society is obsessed with personal rights, but it will survive only if we adopt personal obligations.

Off screen, I am a very shy person, and I want to keep my personal life completely personal.

To spend this particular year reading essays to Dennis Robertson as one's supervisor, and, simultaneously, enjoying membership of the group round Keynes was indeed an intellectual treat.

We are not saved by nations or by churches or by families, but as individuals, through a personal interest in a personal Saviour.

I know from personal conversation and from personal interaction, that Hillary Clinton cares deeply about issues of inclusion.

Some people seek meaning in life through personal gain, through personal relationship, or through personal experiences. However, it seems to me that being blessed with the intellect to divine the ultimate secrets of nature gives meaning enough to life.

Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays.

I like English, and I like writing essays, and that kind of stuff.

I think style is both something that you have naturally and something you need to study. The most important thing is to find your personal style, your personal difference and choose things that suit you best and bring out your personal attributes.

I am a toggler. I always have three or four projects going, short stories alongside novels and essays. When one project is terrible, there's somewhere else hopeful to look.

The NBA 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 think that talking about the personal specificity, personal details, is how you get the big, big audiences - by talking about your relationships or your personal tragedies. If you reach out with that energy, you'll touch people.

Design is a very personal thing. It's like art. Your personal choice plays a big role.

For many years I have devoted articles and essays to newspapers, from the inside. So criticism of the newspapers was a topic that I practiced for a long time.

To me, writing is a personal thing; I write super-personal, autobiographically.

......so called “composition” becomes a personal thing, to be developed along with technique, as a personal way of seeing.

I don't make personal abuse against anybody, I don't mind personal remarks.

I don't separate things out between what's personal and what's my work. My passion is personal.

Doing less is not being lazy. Don't give in to a culture that values personal sacrifice over personal productivity.

The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college.

I don't think there's any need to have essays advocating selfishness among human beings; I don't know what your impression has been, but some things require no further reinforcement.

I don't differentiate between personal and professional work. Everything I do is personal.

Every time we push personal development aside, we invite personal struggle into our lives.

I'm not very comfortable about the audience getting a peek into my personal life. I like to keep my personal space.

What I write is very personal, but not autobiographical. It's more 'thematically personal' - what's up in my life in terms of themes at the moment.

I have never understood why people who can swallow the enormous improbability of a personal God boggle at a personal Devil.

I am not comfortable with abstract writing, stories that look like essays: you have to see, I need to see.

I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven.

People aren't coming to me looking for political essays or polemic - they're looking for a rattling good story.

All of our lyrics are really personal, and we get a lot of personal letters.

It's hard for me to write about anything personal because I get way too personal.

It's probably a combination of personal and non-personal matters that have led us to where we are musically.

Decide for yourself what kind of works you want to create... facts, essays, poems - do you want to speak or to sing?

In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays.

My mum was a peacemaker, and in personal things I tend to do that, because I can't deal with personal conflict. I find that horrible.

My collections are a reflection of my personal style and interests. All the textiles, fabrics and patterns are of my personal choice.

There is a deeper life. It is as deep as a personal Gethsemane and as costly as a personal Calvary.

With humor you have so many options with topics and length, I mean I can write humor essays in books now and they can be as long as I want them to be.

I'm not an impersonator. I've only got one voice and only do one guy and his first-person essays.

In terms of essays, I would say Oliver Sacks. His breadth of hard knowledge and imagination and empathy seems to constitute the perfect mind to me.

What we need is not so much personal development, as personal replacement: What we need is not so much personal development, but personal substitution.

Everything I do is personal. I have never made a movie that didn't have very strong personal resonance.

I believe that all fiction is personal and all writing is at some level personal.