Personal Quotes

5263 Personal quotes by 3479 unique authors

[T]he great security against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department consists in giving to those who administer each department the… — James Madison
Songwriters I've always been drawn to are people who deal with something of depth in the lyric writing. ...I've always been influenced by the folk… — Bruce Hornsby
I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at… — John C. Maxwell
Self-centered leaders manipulate when they move people for personal benefit. Mature leaders motivate by moving people for mutual benefit. — John C. Maxwell
Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the… — John C. Maxwell
For me songwriting is very...it's almost like an accident. 'Oh I accidentally wrote about that.' I sit down with the urge to write a song… — Unknown Author
There's something about comedy, funny things, that people want to pass them along. Serious things and personal things are much more privately enjoyed. That's why… — Jonathan Coulton
My number one goal ... is to preserve the music industry. The only answer is the Internet. ...none of the systems are more effective than… — Don Omar
He liked to think that Heaven was what each person wanted it to be. He could see no future in lying around on a fluffy… — Elmer Kelton
How to avoid cliche at the root of conception? Practice sincerity. If we've come by ... material honestly, through our own personal experience or imagination,… — Peter Selgin
Enthusiasm is big. When I write a book, it's a three-year commitment. Toward the end, I'm writing seven days a week, and it's exhausting but… — Nathaniel Philbrick
Personal branding is about managing your name - even if you don't own a business - in a world of misinformation, disinformation, and semi-permanent Google… — Tim Ferriss
It's important to build a personal brand because it's the only thing you're going to have. Your reputation online, and in the new business world… — Gary Vaynerchuk
Over the past eighteen years I have acted as a scientific consultant to the U.S. Air Force on the subject of unidentified flying objects -… — J. Allen Hynek
Effective people stay out of Quadrants III and IV because, urgent or not, they aren't important. They also shrink Quadrant I down to size by… — Stephen Covey
Throughout the first half of the nineteenth century, the (Rothschild) brothers conducted important transactions on behalf of the governments of England, France, Prussia, Austria, Belgium,… — G. Edward Griffin
The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of… — Lewis Mumford
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be… — Stephen Covey
Picture the prince, such as most of them are today: a man ignorant of the law, well-nigh an enemy to his people's advantage, while intent… — Desiderius Erasmus
Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative. — Edward Gibbon
The content of scientific theory itself offers no moral foundation for the personal conduct of life. — Albert Einstein
I cannot accept any concept of God based on the fear of life or the fear of death, or blind faith. I cannot prove to… — Albert Einstein
Mere unbelief in a personal God is no philosophy at all. — Albert Einstein
A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought. — Albert Einstein
What Artistic and Scientific Experience Have in Common - Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we… — Albert Einstein

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