Top 45 Personal Thing Quotes

When you set a goal, it’s a personal thing, and that goal should be very big, hairy and audacious.

People ask me to describe myself, but it’s a very personal thing. You don’t feel comfortable.

Whenever I play against Arsenal – and this is just a personal thing – I go up and think ‘let me whack the first one, then we will see who wants it.’

Music used to be a more personal thing, and it defined who you were. Now it’s like wallpaper.

I’m attracted to things that are in direct opposition to something that I’ve just done. It’s not like I’m trying to make the right chess move. It’s more just that personal thing where you get connected to something for so long and then you want to do something that’s in opposition to that.

The personal contact is a personal thing. The fact that some people don’t know their neighbors, I don’t think that technology is at fault. You don’t lose anything with technology. You gain other avenues of understanding.

The Smiths was an incredibly personal thing to me. It was like launching your own diary to music.

It’s a really personal thing for me to write a song.

Songwriting is such a personal thing and it’s hard to be in a room with somebody you don’t know and trust.

Watching something is a personal experience, and I think watching something that is dealing with a heavy subject matter, it’s a personal thing.

It’s a personal thing whether one wants to be on social media or not.

Virginity is such a personal thing. You can’t judge anyone on it. A lot of young women feel they want to save themselves for the man who they think they’ll love forever.

I think that the best part of music is when it comes from a real place and has an ability to kind of connect on a much larger scale. It no longer is a personal thing, it becomes everyone else’s thing as well.

I like having my lips done. It’s my personal thing; it makes me happy. I’m honest about it; I could lie. At least I’m telling the truth!

I think humor is such a personal thing, and you put a microphone in somebody’s face, they’re going to say something that offends somebody.

Color is a very personal thing. You need to make sure to choose a color that makes you happy. But I don’t recommend accent walls – choose a color you can live with on all four walls.

It makes me uncomfortable to talk about meanings and things. It’s better not to know so much about what things mean. Because the meaning, it’s a very personal thing, and the meaning for me is different than the meaning for somebody else.

Maybe it’s just a personal thing, but I get so much grounding from Iceland because I know it’s always going to be there. I have a very happy, healthy relationship with the country, so it’s really easy to go everywhere because I always have Iceland to go back to.

I’m definitely of the ‘less is more’ mentality, and what I really appreciate is that fragrance is chemical, and it changes with your body throughout the day. It’s a very deeply personal thing. One smell on one person isn’t the same on another, and I appreciate the uniqueness of that experience.

Voting is an individual, personal thing.

Music is such an intensely personal thing for me, and I knew if I was going to do it, it would be in my own way.

I think politics are a personal thing, and everybody has a right to their own opinion.

Allah is with people who show patience. If you are down in the dumps, Allah will help you if you have belief. But this is a personal thing between you and him. You can’t fool Allah.

My way is to talk to my opponent so he makes it a personal thing. He starts playing me one-on-one, and forgets about his team. Meanwhile, I’m still playing team ball and eating him up. Some guys tried talking back, but you can’t get a talker when a talker’s talking to you.

Peaky’ is a very personal thing for me because it’s based on stories that I was told as a kid by my parents. At the very beginning, I tried to have other writers involved but it just didn’t work.

Leaving Interscope was not a personal thing. These record companies are a certain kind of machine, and we weren’t able to function in it.

Failure is an extremely personal thing, and so is success. The problem with people is they don’t own their failure, and if you don’t own your failures, you’re never going to own your successes.

Failure is a personal thing but it’s better to experience it in the beginning itself because you learn to handle it.

I really don’t do concept stuff very well. If I’m sitting thinking about what kind of song I want to write, within a few minutes, I’m kind of bored. It’s just a personal thing for me.

I’ve been asked to do surfing movies over the years and offered several opportunities. I just felt that if I were to do one, I’d have to do the perfect surfing movie. And I don’t know if that exists because surfing is such a personal thing.

The most personal thing about me is my music. The most honest, pure thing in my whole life.

I don’t believe what I do outside my profession is anybody’s’ business. And that includes a personal thing like pregnancy or even marriage.

I did think there were one or two referees who had a personal thing against me. It wasn’t them versus Celtic – it was them against me! I just think they wanted to take me on.

The way I need to look, it’s a very personal thing. When I started experimenting, it was to make myself feel happy, to look in the mirror and be satisfied. I never did drag or anything like that. It was always that I wanted to be pretty, to look beautiful, as a girl would want to.

As long as I am winning, people shouldn’t care whether my skirt is six inches long or six feet long. How I dress is a very personal thing. It is scary that every time I wear a T-shirt, it becomes a talking point for the next three days.

I think all writers are armchair psychologists to some degree or another, and I think a character’s sexuality is fascinating. It’s a great way to really get at the root of their identity, because it’s such a personal thing.

I used to sneak gospel tunes into my old records, just as kind of a personal thing.

I’d never judge anyone who did Botox, it’s a personal thing. But I wouldn’t do it.

Individuality is a personal thing. It’s based on your own personal feelings and expression of self. So, really, it’s nobody’s business to judge you but yourself. And if you feel that you’re expressing yourself as an individual, and you feel confident in it, then that really should be all that matters.

I happen to be a pessimist, and maybe that’s a good thing because I don’t stop to smell the roses – which is not a good personal thing. I don’t stop and enjoy those moments… Always on to the next and never in the moment.

My music is a personal thing, and I feel like if I talk too much about the songs, or if there’s too much of my personal life out there, it ruins it.

A professional’s racket is such a personal thing, and it’s the tool of your trade.

I’m not a big fan of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It’s just a personal thing, not an ego thing.

Reading is such a personal thing to me. I’d much rather give someone a gift certificate to a bookstore, and let that person choose his or her own books.

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