Quotes About Personality

Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves.

You never know what you're going to get, and children have their own personalities immediately. I was watching little kids on a carousel. Some kids were jumping on the horses; some kids were afraid of the horses; some kids were betting on the horses.

There are different kinds of humor, some is sarcastic, some introspective. Introspective fit my personality better.

For the most part, people live their normal lives. Except when at parties, in a group or away from home, then a different person emerges.

It's a myth that money changes you; money simply exaggerates your traits. Money will always and only make you more of what you already are.

That was harsh. I didn't think my personality was species dooming. Not necessarily.

Hospitality has always been a potent political weapon. Moses used it like a master. Coupled with his overpowering personality, a buffet often did as much for a proposal as a bribe.

Of all the people I've ever met; you're one of them!

Observers trying to decide what a man is like look closely at his actions.

We are each a dozen people who were all the same child.

It's not that I'm a Type?B personality. It's that I'm driven by a passionate, all-consuming desire to take it easy.

There is a limit to how much you can change to be liked for who you really are.

The shy and the extroverted have this in common — that they both fancy they are the center of attention.

All your life you pretend to be someone else, and it turns out that you were someone else pretending to be you.

I am told to just be myself, but as much as I have practiced the impression, I am still no good at it.

People are charming because they aren't aware of their charm.

A myth is a hypothesis about the personality of reality itself and not the personalities of individual persons, character types, or nations.

A large part of what we identify as our personality is in fact a distorted view of who we really are due to the type of behavioral defenses we adopted to fit the role or roles we were forced to assume according to the dynamics of our family system.

You see, programmers tend to be arrogant, self-absorbed introverts. We didn't get into this business because we like people.

Lenin was taking account of this ingrained assumption when he wrote in the postscript to the testament that the question of Stalin's personal qualities "may seem an insignificant trifle." And he was taking issue with it when he went on to contend that in this instance the personality trifle might prove of decisive historical significance.

Lenin, albeit tardily, realized that Stalin's personality very much mattered.

Indeed, we may hypothesize that the followers' spontaneous emotional tendency to surround the leader with a personality cult is one of the characteristic signs of charisma.

But to be a Bolshevik in the early years was not so much to accept a particular set of beliefs as it was to gravitate into the orbit of Lenin as a political mentor, revolutionary strategist, and personality.

Stalin was not temperamentally well constituted for success as an organizer and administrator.