Quotes of: Personal-growth Keyword

Everybody goes through challenges. There's stuff that happens personally that's challenging, stuff in work that's difficult, disappointments that happen.

Melanie Lynskey

The knack is to find your own inspiration and take it on a journey to create work that is personal and revealing.

Martin Parr

I'm not an isolated person. The more I connect to people, the more I have the feeling that things work.

Raf Simons

Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work.

Sally Schneider

Personally, I'd like us to have a few more women on the 'Today' programme.

Evan Davis

I think I 'turn off' women. I've a kind of a weird personality. Women may think that I'm a mess.

Ed O'Neill

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

I'm getting a lot of roles as women who are very powerful. I think that's a reflection of me as a person.

Melinda Clarke

Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.

May Sarton

Personally I have always liked boys, but if it's a girl, marvelous, because I was raised among women.

Paz Vega

My personal opinion is that if someone writes honestly about war, it will inherently be anti-war.

Kevin Powers

I always want to be a messenger, a person that, you know, that's not afraid to pass on wisdom.

Mary J. Blige

Acceptance. We want someone to look at us, and really see us—our physical flaws, our personality quirks, our insecurities. And we want them to be okay with every square inch of who we are. We’re always afraid we might be too needy or too much wor...

Cross Your Heart

What is it?" said Jeanne, when Diana was gone; "you look rather gloomy." "Why, yes." "What has happened?" "Oh, mon Dieu! an accident." "To you?" "Not precisely to me, but to a person who was near me." "Who was it?" "The person I was walking with." "M...

Chicot the Jester

Human beings remember "firsts"- the first time something happens, or the begining of an experience- and we tend to remember "lasts" as well. So when you are about to make a critical/negative delivery , start your criticism with a positive begining, i...

The Charisma Myth: Master the Art of Personal Magnetism

People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other’s personalities. Who wouldn’t? Anybody can love the most wonderful parts of another person. But that’s not the clever trick. The really clever trick is this: Can you accept ...

Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

My belief assumed a form that it commonly assumes among the educated people of our time. This belief was expressed by the word "progress." At the time it seemed to me that this word had meaning. Like any living individual, I was tormented by question...

A Confession

As Sidda joined Vivi in staring out into the darkness of the fields, where hundreds of sunflowers grew, she thought: I will never fully know my mother, any more than I will ever know my father or Connor, or myself. I have been missing the point. The ...

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

All the various types of teachings and spiritual paths are related to the different capacities of understanding that different individuals have. There does not exist, from an absolute point of view, any teaching which is more perfect or effective tha...

Dzogchen: The Self-Perfected State

I feel too much. That's what's going on.' 'Do you think one can feel too much? Or just feel in the wrong ways?' 'My insides don't match up with my outsides.' 'Do anyone's insides and outsides match up?' 'I don't know. I'm only me.' 'Maybe that's what...

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

The love object occupies the thoughts of the person diagnosed as 'in love' all the time despite the probability that very little is actually known about it. To it are ascribed all qualities considered by the obsessed as good, regardless of whether th...

The Female Eunuch