Take Nothing Personally Quotes

#1. There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally.

Miguel Ruiz

#2. Take nothing personally.
Nothing is ever personal. No matter what anyone ever does to you, EVER, it's not cause of you. It's cause them, always. All you gotta know is THAT, just freaking take that with you everywhere, and you can just be happy all the time.

Toby Turner

#3. If you really believe in what you're doing, work hard, take nothing personally and if something blocks one route, find another. Never give up.

Laurie Notaro

#4. I hate you' she said to me one afternoon. 'I really, really hate you.' Call me sensitive, but I couldn't help but take it personally.

David Sedaris

#5. The lyrics are usually the last take. So after like five times, saying it over and over again, your voice starts to relax and you get into the groove of the record. Personally I don't raise my voice; my voice is usually lower, more casual.

Galcher Lustwerk

#6. The great problem with the future is that we die there. This is why it is so hard to take the future personally, especially the longer future, because that world is suffused with our absence.

Stewart Brand

#7. ...the atmosphere after a March storm is always dour and pessimistic; we get them every year (and two or three in April for good measure, if we're not lucky), but we never seem to expect them. Every time we get clouted we take it personally.

Stephen King

#8. On cheap tippers:"Don't take it personally; they were deprived somehow as children.
On low-fat entrees: "They sell well enough, but nobody's too happy after the meal.

Joan Bauer

#9. During a negotiation, it would be wise not to take anything personally. If you leave personalities out of it, you will be able to see opportunities more objectively.

Brian Koslow

#10. Do I take criticism of Starbucks personally? Of course I do.

Howard Schultz

#11. Dont take Portlandia too personally - Its just a stupid TV show

Greg Graffin

#12. I personally think Prague is more romantic than Paris. If you have a girlfriend, take her there.

Stephanie Sigman

#13. The key to marriage, she concluded, was just not to take the thing too personally.

Lorrie Moore

#14. No one understands my accent. I'm constantly going to auditions and being told they don't like how I talk. You have to live with criticism, and I don't take it personally.

Lauren Socha

#15. People shouldn't take my lack of interest in what they're saying personally. I don't really care about what I'm saying most of the time.

Dov Davidoff

#16. My feeling was, you plant some seeds. If they grow, great; if they don't, you don't take it personally. Not my problem; I just kept planting. Just like a farmer.

Hank Haney

#17. Creating fantasy is a very personal thing, but you can't take the process too personally.

Joseph Barbera

#18. Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.

Thomas A. Edison

#19. Chimpanzees have very strong preferences and aversions that are completely personality-linked. The people who are unsuccessful in working with chimpanzees are those who take this personally.

Frans De Waal

#20. You get used to the rejection and you don't take it personally.

Daniel Craig

#21. It's important to take God's love personally, though it may not be an easy thing to do. Sure, God loves the world, but he also loves each one of us individually.

Tim Tebow

#22. My daughter had carried within her a story that kept hurting her: Her dad abandoned her. She started telling herself a new story. Her dad had done the best he could. He wasn't capable of giving more. It had nothing to do with her. She could no longer take it personally.

Regina Brett

#23. That is why whenever we make assumptions, we're asking for problems. We make an assumption, we misunderstand, we take it personally, and we end up creating a whole big drama for nothing.

Miguel Ruiz

#24. When someone is nasty or treats you poorly, don't take it personally. It says nothing about you, but a lot about them.

Michael Josephson

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

Miguel Ruiz

#26. Don't Take Anything Personally Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering.

Nikki Sixx

#27. I don't take anything personally. I am a secondary character in other people's stories. I know that whatever people say about me is just a projection of their image of me. It has nothing to do with me.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#28. Nothing that your partner does is personal. Your partner is dealing with her own garbage. If you don't take it personally, it will be so easy for you to have a wonderful relationship with your partner

Miguel Ruiz

#29. Never take no personally. Sometimes people tell you no for a reason that has nothing to do with you. You must keep going.

Sofia Vergara

#30. Whatever happens around you, don't take it personally ... Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves.

Miguel Ruiz

#31. Be careful when you take on debt. If you take on debt personally, make sure it is small. If you take on large debt, make sure someone else is paying for it.

Robert Kiyosaki

#32. The whole world can gossip about you, and if you don't take it personally you are immune.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#33. I'm a very feminine person, but I have this hard shell, man, and I stay focused and don't take things personally.

Zoe Saldana

#34. Don't take it personally, she's rude to everyone, said Ron.

J.K. Rowling

#35. I personally didn't see personal atrocities in the sense I saw somebody cut a head off or something like that. However, I did take part in free-fire zones, I did take part in harassment and interdiction fire, I did take part in search-and-destroy missions.

John F. Kerry

#36. One personal tip that my trainer gave me was, "Don't take things personally. People are calling on the worst days of their lives and you're their first point of contact. Be like a duck and let the water roll off your back." I live by those words when I'm at work.

Cameron West

#37. I personally don't think a woman should ever live with a man unless they're married. I guess there are some really great guys out there who wouldn't take advantage of having a live-in cook and maid, but guess how those arrangements usually turn out?

Linda Howard

#38. I tend to take things personally. But I can only take so much, and then I jump back. I have strong survival skills.

Christina Hendricks

#39. Whenever an actor was going to die, I tried to help them understand not to take it personally. It wasn't about them. It's the story.

Wendell Pierce

#40. Oh, she just happened to be a friend of the producer's. Or, oh, they've been trying to get her from the beginning and she just had a spot open up. There are always little loopholes, so I don't take anything personally anymore.

Ellen Muth

#41. The author defines professionalism as exemplified by his subjects in their mutual unwillingness to take expected opposition personally. They would not allow grudges to get in the way of more important business.

Chris Matthews

#42. I used to take it personally when a casting director didn't like me or I didn't get picked for something. Now I realize you can't do that. It'll mess with your self-esteem. Don't take rejection overly personally. If that doesn't work out, there's something else waiting for you.

Sierra McCormick

#43. In the restaurant business, as opposed to the theater, center orchestra is an 8 P. M. reservation. Orchestra on the side is 7 or 8:30. Mezzanine is 6 and 9. But people don't take it personally when they call the theater and can't get what they want.

Danny Meyer

#44. We have to learn to love people even if they are not giving you what you want ... and then not take it personally. If you feel hurt, you have to recognize that they are not hurting you because you are you, but because they are them. You have to try not to be so hard on yourself.

Krishna Das

#45. I think paranormal experiences are very personal, again, if they are that. Yes, sometimes I've felt that some things I would personally believe enough for me to take action on it ... like, you know, I felt something happen in a hotel once that made me never stay there again.

Andrea Corr

#46. I try not to take things too personally, because most of the time, people aren't even thinking about anyone else but themselves.

Xosha Roquemore

#47. People take things too personally - I don't. If someone says something about me, I let it go. But unfortunately, everyone isn't like that. So I'm trying to be more diplomatic - but people always want a headline from me!

Sonam Kapoor

#48. A lot of people say television holds up a mirror to life, and that's why you see all the drug busts and the killings and the seamier side of life. I personally take the view that it's not sufficient to portray only negative role models. It's not enough to say 'no' to drugs. What do you say 'yes' to?

Sherwood Schwartz

#49. Often we take personally the slings and arrows of our 'abusers'. But frequently we are merely the interchangeable pawns of their own neurotic dramas. Anyone else in your position would have received the same treatment. There is nothing especially noxious or negatively noteworthy about you.

Brian L. Weiss

#50. I have a problem with players who don't take the loss personally. At a professional level you should - it's our job, it's our livelihood, it's who we are at this level. Every loss should be taken that personal.

Hope Solo

#51. Personally, I think every guy who calls himself straight should take a hike on the gay Appalachian Trail at least once in his life.

Brad Boney

#52. If you're a car salesman, and someone says "This is a terrible car, I'm not buying it," it doesn't mean they hate you. They just don't like your product. I think that's a mistake a lot of people in show business make.. they're so tied to their act they take everything personally.

Jay Leno

#53. 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

#54. But it is not what I am saying that is hurting you; it is that you have wounds that I touch by what I have said. You are hurting yourself. There is no way I can take this personally.

Miguel Ruiz

#55. My faith teaches that life is sacred. That's why I personally oppose the death penalty. But I take my oath of office seriously, and I'll enforce the death penalty ... because it's the law.

Tim Kaine

#56. I would hope with all my heart, that Jay Z not take personally what was said ... I would like to take this opportunity to say to Jay Z and Beyonce: I'm wide open, my heart is filled with nothing but hope and the promise that we can sit and have a one-on-one to understand each other.

Harry Belafonte

#57. When people say they take hits and flops in their stride, I personally feel that they are just lying. Of course, I'm upset when my movies flop. I take it very personally.

Mahesh Babu

#58. If you are impeccable with your word, if you don't take anything personally, if you don't make assumptions, if you always do your best, then you are going to have a beautiful life. You are going to control your life one hundred percent.

Miguel Ruiz