Personal Quotes

A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it. You have to be emotionally and spiritually connected to your instrument. I'm very brutal on my instruments, but not all the time.

~ Eddie Van Halen

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness, looking instead for authority, validation, and approval from others, we give our personal power away.

~ Shakti Gawain

A rule I have had for years is: to treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. His is not a creed, a mere doctrine, but it is He Himself we have.

~ Dwight L. Moody

For a filmmaker, it's a rare chance to do a personal film on a big canvas.

~ Ang Lee

Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these are raised to the optimum point in the strictly bureaucratic administration.

~ Max Weber

Wild Bill was anything but a quarrelsome man yet I have personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he had at various times killed.

~ Buffalo Bill

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

~ John Stuart Mill

I am the the type to have a personal experience with a celebrity, but I'm too classy to bring that up.

~ Todd Barry

Personal experience is the basis of all real Literature.

~ George Henry Lewes

I do write a lot from personal experience, but I also embellish a bit.

~ Miranda Lambert

In our system leadership is by consent, not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal contacts and experiences help shape his thinking. They can be critical to his persuasiveness and thus to his leadership.

~ Donald Rumsfeld

I don't really consider myself to be a personal finance expert compared with some others. There are quite a few that know a lot more than I do.

~ Ben Stein

The people who don't know personal finance have TV shows about it.

~ James Altucher

The first rule of personal finance is that it's not personal and it's not financial. It's about your ability to make ten changes and not get too depressed over it.

~ James Altucher

I don't feel one's personal medical condition is everybody's business. It just isn't something you advertise, and it's not open to discussion.

~ Aretha Franklin

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

~ Vernon Howard

Innovation comes out of great human ingenuity and very personal passions.

~ Megan Smith

A great tailor is like a great personal trainer - they tailor that suit to your natural physique.

~ Jidenna

There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.

~ Henry Van Dyke

True health care reform cannot happen in Washington. It has to happen in our kitchens, in our homes, in our communities. All health care is personal.

~ Mehmet Oz

Having to travel so much plays havoc with your personal life.

~ Renée Fleming

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

~ Martin Luther King

A few years after 'Melrose Place,' when the luster of 'Melrose Place' wore off and what was left was just the stink, and I was just doing bad TV movies, that was a personal low point. I felt I needed to stop doing those, and I did.

~ Grant Show

The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

~ Bruce Barton

Faith is personal if it's to be real.

~ Bear Grylls

For Christians, faith is a precious good, the most valuable personal and social resource. When it is left untapped, the common good suffers - not just the particular interests of Christians.

~ Miroslav Volf

My marriage to my husband, Bart Conner in 1996 is my proudest personal moment.

~ Nadia Comaneci

Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit.

~ Seamus Heaney

I invite everyone to chose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition.

~ Jean-Francois Cope

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

~ Aristotle

How can you analyse what is funny? What's funny to one isn't funny to another... What's funny to you is a personal thing.

~ Les Dawson

I get ideas from my own personal experiences, from my imagination, and from my research and from old stories.

~ Mary Pope Osborne

Art is for healing ourselves, and everybody needs their own personal art to heal up their problems.

~ Linda Ronstadt

It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.

~ Dave Barry

Enjoying art is a personal matter. It's made up by contemplation, silence, abstraction.

~ Renzo Piano

I have some very personal feelings about politics, but I don't get into it because I do comedy already.

~ Jerry Lewis

Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.

~ Dan Aykroyd

I can't afford to be indifferent to politics, but I don't have personal ambitions.

~ Vagit Alekperov

The Mac defined 'personal technology', and the iPhone defines 'intimate technology' as a convergence of communications, content and location.

~ John Sculley