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• 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.

  Doris Lessing

  Growing Up, Pain, Writing

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• Yes, but I’ve already made my fortune in other things. (Solin) Such as? (Geary) Viagra. My brother learned to take a personal problem and profit by it. (Arik) It’s true. It pained me to see a man as young as Arik stricken with impotency. Therefore I had to do something to help the poor soul. But alas, there’s nothing to be done for it. He’s as flaccid as a wet noodle. (Solin) How creative of you to project your problem onto me. But then, they say celibacy is enough to make a man lose all reason. Guess you’re living proof, huh? (Arik)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Brother, Men, Creative

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• love, is an unnatural attachment to another living thing. it's the root cause of most personal problems people have.

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Love Is, Attachment, Roots

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

  Tara Brach

  Imperfection, Problem, Natural

  "Get the Love You Want — #emergingnow" by Chantal Pierrat, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 13, 2015.

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• Ornette Coleman wasn't sure whether he was going to continue with Charlie Haden-Charlie had some personal problems. I said "You've got to be kidding! There's no one on the globe who will be able to accompany you" and no one ever did. [Scott LaFaro] was playing atonally and certainly Ornette was not an atonal player. Jimmy Garrison was a tonal player. He wasn't even polytonal or atonal.

  Paul Bley

  Music, Player, Accompany You

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• 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.

  Everett Case

  Life, Issues, Soul

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• 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.

  Robert De Niro

  Drama, Character, Home

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• No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.

  Naomi Wolf

  Taken, Independent Women, May

  Naomi Wolf (2013). “The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women”, p.274, Random House

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• 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.

  Simon Baron-Cohen

  Empathy, Political, Way

  Simon Baron-Cohen (2013). “The Science of Evil: On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty”, p.186, Basic Books

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• 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.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Life, Taken, Long

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.45, Penguin

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• 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]

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Reality, Meditation, Tears

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• Is psychiatry a medical enterprise concerned with treating diseases, or a humanistic enterprise concerned with helping persons with their personal problems? Psychiatry could be one or the other, but it cannot--despite the pretensions and protestations of psichiatrists--be both.

  Thomas Szasz

  Disease, Helping, Medical

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1997). “Insanity: The Idea and Its Consequences”, p.324, Syracuse University Press

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• 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.

  Frank Herbert

  Encounters, Logic, Blame

  "Dune". Book by Frank Herbert, 1965.

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• 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.

  Harry Reems

  Thinking, Justice, House

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• There is one recurring, persistent, perennial, and dogging personal problem which, more than any other, steals the force and peace of people and ruins projects and enterprises and careers.  It is the habit of feeling hurt, because of what others do, or do not do and what they say or do not say

  Ervin Seale

  Hurt, Careers, People

  ERVIN SEALE (1971). “TAKE OFF FROM WITHIN”

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• 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.

  Harry Levinson

  Successful, Men, Problem

  Harry Levinson (2006). “Harry Levinson on the Psychology of Leadership”, Harvard Business School Press

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• The ultimate test's always your own serenity. If you don't have this when you start and maintain it while you're working you're likely to build your personal problems right into the machine itself.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Serenity, Machines, Tests

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• 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.

  Ani DiFranco

  Thinking, March On Washington, Giving

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

  Abhishek Bachchan

  Dad, Actors, Taught

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

  Rowan Atkinson

  Relax, Problem, Film

  "Johnny English Reborn - Rowan Atkinson interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• 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.

  Jack Nicholson

  Dark, Mind, Negative

  Source: cinema.com

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• Don't judge or analyze what you observe. Watch the thought, feel the emotion, observe the reaction. Don't make a personal problem out of them. You will then feel something more powerful than any of those things that you observe: the still, observing presence itself behind the content of your mind, the silent watcher.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Powerful, Judging, Mind

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.55, New World Library

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• 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.

  Tom Waits

  Thinking, Problem, Intimate

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