Browsing Topic Best Personal Problems Quotes

Count your blessings today, not your problems.

My worst personal problem is that my computer doesn’t understand me.

What has gone on in my childhood, and the personal problems that we’ve had in the band, have given a lot of people hope. (It shows) if you keep your nose pointed straight you can actually get somewhere — to a happy place.

When all you can think of is your own personal problems, you have nothing to give to your society. If you’re trying to figure out where your next meal is coming from, you can’t go march on Washington.

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

The cause of all our personal problems and nearly all the problems of the world can be summed up in a single sentence: Human life is very deep, and our modern dominant lifestyle is not.

Anything outside yourself, this you can see and apply your logic to it. But it’s a human trait that when we encounter personal problems, these things most deeply personal are the most difficult to bring out for our logic to scan. We tend to flounder around, blaming everything but the actual, deep-seated thing that’s really chewing on us.

Unless we are prepared to search our souls to discover what to say, and then how to say it effectively, we cannot expect to deal successfully with today’s domestic and personal problems, not to mention those international issues on which our very lives depend.

A woman whose life is involved in the righteous rearing of her children has a better chance of keeping up her spirits than the woman whose total concern is centered in her own personal problems.

Songwriting helps me sort out my personal problems. With acting, you’re just a tool for someone’s ideas.

Problems become privatized and removed from larger social issues. This is one task, connecting the personal problems to larger social issues that progressive leftist intellectuals have failed to take on as a major political and educational project.

The source of their motivation ranges from what you might expect – from the seeking of money and publicity, to those who genuinely suffer from chronic personal problems and have fixated on me as the cause of their frustrations and failures.

Above all, know that ego isn’t personal. It isn’t who you are. If you consider the ego to be your personal problem, that’s just more ego.

The ego isn’t wrong; it’s just unconscious. When you observe the ego in yourself, you are beginning to go beyond it. Don’t take the ego too seriously. When you detect egoic behavior in yourself, smile. At times you may even laugh. How could humanity have been taken in by this for so long? Above all, know that the ego isn’t personal. It isn’t who you are. If you consider the ego to be your personal problem, that’s just more ego.

At last I understood that the way over, or through this dilemma, the unease at writing about ‘petty personal problems’ was to recognize that nothing is personal, in the sense that it is uniquely one’s own. Writing about oneself, one is writing about others, since your problems, pains, pleasures, emotions—and your extraordinary and remarkable ideas—can’t be yours alone. […] Growing up is after all only the understanding that one’s unique and incredible experience is what everyone shares.

The court case against me was a dictate out of the White House. Richard Nixon instructed the Justice Department to prosecute pornography to the fullest extent. Now, at the same time, Watergate was going on, so I think he was trying to defer the press or take attention away from his own personal problems.

The most successful executives are often men who have built their own companies. Ironically their very success frequently brings to them and members of their families personal problems of an intensity rarely encountered by professional managers. And these problems make family businesses probably the most difficult to operate.

I usually don’t get too bogged down with my personal problems because that’s a one-way street if you get yourself into a negative frame of mind and only see the dark side of life.

To lose yourself in righteous service to others can lift your sights and get your mind off personal problems, or at least put them in proper focus.

I mean, many times your creative problem is accidentally your personal problem, but it’s not quite the same.

It’s part of your job as an actor to put your personal problems behind you and work. Good actors can do that.

When you make a movie, everyone should leave their own personal problems at home. When they start bringing those to set, filming can be very difficult… You don’t need any extra drama. Put the drama into the story, in the characters.

I’m not trying to say that it never hurt or that I never felt its sting, but I can honestly say that I never blamed anybody for racism. I have considered it more of a manifestation of humanity’s problem rather than my personal problem.

My personal problem is that I take the business of film-making so seriously that I find it very difficult to relax.

There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable application of high explosives.

Empathy is like a universal solvent. Any problem immersed in empathy becomes soluble. It is effective as a way of anticipating and resolving interpersonal problems, whether this is a marital conflict, an international conflict, a problem at work, difficulties in a friendship, political deadlocks, a family dispute, or a problem with a neighbor.

I don’t think that you should be per­fectly candid and frank about the intimate details of your personal life with the public at large. Subsequently, it creates consider­able personal problems.

There is nothing worse than having your personal problems become somebody else’s entertainment.

Imperfection is not our personal problem – it is a natural part of existing.

Modern reality has got such a hold on us that… when we attempt to reconstruct the ancient days in our thoughts…the minor events of our lives tear us away from our meditations, and… thrust us back into our personal [problems]

Love, is an unnatural attachment to another living thing. It’s the root cause of most personal problems people have.

I’m an actor, paid to act. I don’t bring personal problems to the sets. Dad taught me that.

It’s always sad if anybody you know has a personal problem.

People often pulled into Scientology want to address personal problems in their life, and Scientology says we have technology that addresses these kinds of problems. Just focusing on the problems and trying to remedy them can be helpful.