Top 1200 Personal Stuff Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

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.

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

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

A lot of the work I've been doing on camera has been me speaking on trans issues and illuminating things in a comedic way. That isn't the focus of my personal art, I guess, but it's a privilege for any artist to get to make stuff that isn't just about their oppression or strife or struggle.

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.

New landscape of personal media has given us a vaster wasteland of cyberspace. But, luckily for us, there's some really wonderful stuff in it. And if history is any guide, as the media matures, the quality will continue to go up.

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.

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

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

I got my training here in Chicago at the Goodman School Of Drama, and a lot of my personal work is usually internal work and stuff. Everything else that goes on is icing on the cake - your wardrobe, your makeup, whatever else you have to do.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I like Babyface, but he keeps the good stuff for himself. If he's willing to give his good stuff to me, we'll talk. But it can't be any of his B-grade stuff.

Definitely, there is a sense in my writing that people now know me in a personal way. And to an extent, that's true because I write about very personal things, and I use the personal often to contextualize some of these sociopolitical issues that we're dealing with. And to an extent, they're right. They know something about me.

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

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

I started working with synthesizer players, and I had to find new instruments. I needed a more complex sound, so I went to a surplus place and got a bunch of hard plastic stuff and stainless steel stuff, and that stuff worked. So from that point on, from the 70s on, I've made instruments.

There are some great actors I don't want to meet because I don't want to know how they did it. I don't want to know anything about their personal life, and the illusion, or whatever it is, the shape-shiftery magic stuff that they do, which is my joy.

My experiences in life are getting bigger and better. The more stuff I do, the more stuff I talk about - having kids, traveling, going through relationship problems, dealing with things in my own family. All that stuff builds character.

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.

I think plays have nothing to do with one's own personal life. Not in my experience, anyway. The stuff of drama has to do, not with your subject matter, anyway, but with how you treat it. Drama includes pain, loss, regret - that's what drama is about!

......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.

I'm fairly comfortable in fight sequences and stuff like that. I've done a few of them. I'm comfortable with that sort of stuff as long as I'm reasonably fit, and it's fun to do actually. I'm like a kid in a toy shop doing that stuff.

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

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

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

The only thing I collect is art. I collect it because I like looking at it. A lot of it is really personal stuff that my friends have made, paintings that my husband's mother made, and things that I bought. I buy abstract art on eBay, and I buy some outsider art on eBay, or what is called folk art, I buy a lot of. I have a lot of professional art work as well as more stuff my friends' kids make. To have a wall of art to look at, I feel really surrounded by love, because so much of the work is related to my friendships.

Basically there's just so much stuff flowing past on the internet now, you have to let most of it go. And I've grown accustomed to the process of not worrying too much about the stuff I'm not getting to, because the important stuff will come back around.

Ever since I was a kid, I've been into clothes, but not really labels- that's kind of only been in the last year or so. It's something I've always cared about. I used to just constantly thrift and make stuff and cut stuff up and borrow my dad's stuff and borrow my little brother's stuff and all that jazz. ... It's just, if something is cool, then it's cool.

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

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

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

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

We've been here so long. The history and richness runs so deep within the community. We own this. It's personal. It's very personal.

The Green Arrow stuff that I've responded to from the past is the Mike Grell stuff. I've liked a lot of other stuff, but I think for me, the direction and the mood and the tone that I really want is something much darker and more aggressive and really fast-paced action.

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

For me, I'm constantly writing stuff that is what I'm dealing with on a personal, psychological level. And I think that I bring that to whatever I'm doing, whether it's being an actor or a writer or whatever it is I'm doing. I think you can't help but do that.

Sometimes I think we're on this world for three reasons: to be useful, to tell each other stories and to collect stuff. It's the only explanation for eBay. We love to collect stuff, and at least if we're collecting stuff in cyberspace we're not deforesting the Sierra Nevada.

I'm an organizational fanatic. I created a locker room that the children pass through when they come in the house. Each child has a personal locker, and every day when they arrive home from school, they dump their stuff there-backpacks, shoes, soccer uniforms. I organize them by season.

We needed time off from each other after our last tour because there was a lot of personal stuff we had to take care of. Eddie needed hip replacement surgery. Al needed his back worked on. And I was going to have a baby.

People are sometimes like: "Oh man, you're so talented and you do a bunch of stuff." I'm not! I swear to god, I'm not. I just like learning stuff, I like doing stuff. And I feel like everybody can definitely do it.

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

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

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.

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

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

I would love to be on a really good show and share all the stuff that goes into creating a big TV show and get my audience into it. I think that makes it personal and makes the audience feel like they're a part of it.

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.

I've never been able to write narrative as a character, really. Jenny Lewis, I love her stuff, I love that she can weave these American Gothic fairytales. I feel like I sound inauthentic when I do that, so I tend to write from a personal standpoint.

As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what's personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn't ring true.

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

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