I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all prepared before that.
Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.
It is best to erase all personal history because that would make us free from the encumbering thoughts of other people
Beneath the surface of our daily life, in the personal history of many of us, there runs a continuous controversy between an Ego that affirms and an Ego that denies.
A person's genetic endowment, a product of the evolution of the species, is said to explain part of the workings of his mind and his personal history the rest.
When I was younger, not being accepted made me enraged, but now, I am not inclined to dismantle my history. If you banish the dragons, you banish the heroes-and we become attached to the heroic strain in our personal history.
We feel more emotion... before an amateur photograph linked to our own life history than before the work of a Great Photographer, because his domain partakes of art, and the intent of the souvenir-object remains at the lower level of personal history.
There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in.
And then there is our personal history. Memories only we share. Things not another living soul would understand.
No man can be explained by his personal history, least of all a poet.
I'm also fascinated by the interplay between personal history and the larger forces that form the context for our lives.
Because of my personal history, my professional skills and my business achievements, I am a man nobody can expect to compare himself with.
I urge you to pursue preserving your personal history to allow your children and grandchildren to know who you were as a child and what your hopes and dreams were.
I needed to talk about my real personal history, in order to become free of it.