What I've realized is that we're our own harshest critics. We give ourselves limitations. But I want to push through that wall, on a creative and personal level.
And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge.
The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he or she doesn't have a personal point of view, it's impossible to be a creator.
One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction.
What I'm trying to achieve with my surgery is my own personal satisfaction. It's narcissism.
The fact that I get to write and direct my own personal story is an amazing thing.
It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
Physiology has spawned many biological sciences, amongst them my own field of pharmacology.
The culture of caring and giving permeates many Indian families. In their own way, they are engaged in philanthropic pursuits.
Not with the Rochester Philharmonic, but I formed my own orchestra, made up of musicians from the Eastman School, where I'm on the faculty now, direct the Jazz Ensemble and teach improvisation classes.
If there's one thing I've shown, I'm not scared of physicality. I'm not scared to take some of my own blood. I play hurt; I play injured.
Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.
I sculpted for four or five years. Mostly for my own amusement, I decided to do a picture book, and that was kind of a turning point.
The hypocrisy and false piety of the deniers aside, the relationships of gays have no effect on heteros. Especially all the heteros who've done such a marvelous job of debasing marriage on their own all these many years.
Men are pigs. Too bad we own everything.
I'm really self-conscious if I go to trainers, so I just do stuff on my own. I go on the treadmill or do yoga and Pilates if I can.
Momo listened to everyone and everything - even to the rain and the wind and the pine trees - and all of them spoke to her after their own fashion.
Donald Trump is many things - a tantrum-throwing man-child and a wannabe strongman pining for his very own banana republic among them - but perhaps most of all he is a giant, melon-colored distraction from what is happening to our country under his watch.
Rock is all about writing your own script; it's all about pioneering.
Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits.
