Quotes About Taking Things Personally

#1. Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.

Marya Mannes

#2. The only thing worse than taking things personally is being told you take things personally. And how am I supposed to take things, if you please? Why bother talking to anyone at all if you are not supposed to consider anything that is said to be at all personal?

Meg Howrey

#3. It's about not taking things personally. Even when you feel the world is crumbling around you. It's about choosing happiness over suffering. It's about retraining the way we think.

Laura Munson

#4. Don't take anything personally because by taking things personally you set yourself up to suffer for nothing.

Miguel Ruiz

#5. What causes you to be trapped is what we call personal importance. Personal importance, or taking things personally, is the maximum expression of selfishness because we make the assumption that everything is about me.

Miguel Ruiz

#6. All of the sadness and drama you have lived in your life was rooted in the making of assumptions and taking things personally. The whole world of control between humans is based on that.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#7. Saul took their fear of the Philistines personally. Rejection always takes things personally, becoming defensive, and thus never allows us to see or hear things properly. Remember, the most commons signs of rejection are being defensive and taking things personally.

Anthony Hulsebus

#8. Another common peculiarity of hysterics, namely, that of taking everything personally, of never being able to remain objective, and of allowing themselves to be carried away by momentary impressions; this again shows the characteristics of the enhanced object-libido.

C. G. Jung

#9. If I stay, they'll kill me ... If I go, at least everything that wants me dead won't be taking it personally.

Jim Butcher

#10. Personally, I don't take holidays; I go on trips. My idea of relaxing is taking a trip that isn't commissioned. I'll work just as hard, but without that nagging pressure of fulfilling a commission. Now that's what I call a holiday.

Martin Parr

#11. Not taking criticism of your writing personally is an enormous step towards surviving the studio system.

Robert Ben Garant

#12. Real quality means making sure that people are proud of the code they write, that they're involved and taking it personally.

Linus Torvalds

#13. But it wasn't us, personally, who trashed the world," says Mo. "It was the system. We couldn't change it."
"Then it's not us, personally, taking your panels," says Hood. "It's the system. We can't change it.

David Mitchell

#14. The girls would always tell me not to take things personally, but I never believed there was any other way of taking it.

Melina Marchetta

#15. For me, at least, studying my subjects first and knowing them personally was essential to taking a good picture.

Gisele Freund

#16. Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.

J.D. Salinger

#17. If and when I do get "down," the last thing on my mind is writing a song. Usually, being bummed just involves lying around on the couch and taking the bad weather personally. I only write songs when I feel good - or at least something approaching "good."

Wooden Wand

#18. I have found great power in taking my 'difference' out for a spin in a very public way. And usually, the worst, most personally embarrassing thing you imagine in your mind is often not anywhere near as bad in real life.

Aimee Mullins

#19. Do you suppose we can take that as evidence? We could cut out the sections."
Jonas snorted, "You can try taking a saw to that house, but personally, I'm not about to get anywhere near it with anything resembling a weapon.

Christine Feehan

#20. Empathizing with someone's 'no' protects us from taking it personally.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#21. imagine there's no heaven..." he said. "Apparently someone is taking that personally.

E.J. Copperman

#22. Doing projects really gives people self-confidence. Nothing is better than taking the pie out of the oven. What it does for you personally, and for your family's idea of you, is something you can't buy.

Martha Stewart

#23. What I personally knew about courting women could comfortably fit into a thimble without taking it off your finger first.

Patrick Rothfuss

#24. I, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture.

Anthony Bourdain

#25. as long as you can give people the freedom to disagree, reject, dislike, and oppose you without taking it personally or allowing it to weaken your resolve, you will tap into a new source of power that few men ever realize in their lifetime. I

Bruce Bryans

#26. I specialise in taking teams of designers, psychologists, usability experts, sociologists and ethnographers into the field. It's called 'corporate anthropology,' but personally I'm more comfortable with 'design research,' because I'm not an anthropologist by training.

Jan Chipchase

#27. Rather than reacting with our usual attachment or aversion, taking everything personally and feeling the need to do something about it, we relax into the experience, seeing it clearly and letting it be as it is.

Noah Levine

#28. We often add to our pain and suffering by being overly sensitive, over-reacting to minor things, and sometimes taking things too personally.

Dalai Lama

#29. You can never take anything personally. Just a story. It's not their fault they want to kick you and it's certainly not yours. It's just the way things are. Sometimes you need to hear the worst, so you have no fear in what you do and learn to work around the what-have-you.

Initially NO

#30. I look at modern life and I see people not taking responsibility for their lives. The temptation to blame, to find external causes to one's own issues is something that is particularly modern. I know that personally I find that sense of responsibility interesting.

Edward Zwick

#31. People love to judge, get used to it and stop taking it personally.

Kathryn Budig

#32. When we really see other people as they are without taking it personally, we can never be hurt by what they say or do. Even if others lie to you, it is okay. They are lying to you because they are afraid. They are afraid you will discover that they are not perfect.

Miguel Ruiz

#33. It's basically taking a 911 call, bringing them on stage and dealing with it just like when I was a Chicago policeman for 12 years. I personally become involved. Where Jerry lets people tell their story and lets everything happen on stage, I kind of go after the bad guy and protect the little guy.

Steve Wilkos