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Quotes About Personality

He also became known as one who was quick to take offense, even if spoken to in jest.
~ Robert C. Tucker
But the situation is very different—and the succession problem far more difficult—in a new state in which supreme authority is centered in the personality of the leader-founder, and in which no formal office of supreme leader has been created.
~ Robert C. Tucker
Why Djugashvili became a revolutionary is a question posed above but not adequately answered. We noted, first, that he himself explained it in later life as a reaction against the Jesuitical regime in the seminary; and secondly, that revolt was a living tradition in the institution when he entered it. A further contributing factor was personality.
~ Robert C. Tucker
Apart from their attitude toward Lenin, Bolsheviks were not generally inclined to attach much importance to the personal factor in politics. To their Marxist-trained minds, what mainly mattered about a comrade was not his personality but his political beliefs, his ideological commitment, the rightness or wrongness of his positions in party councils.
~ Robert C. Tucker
The character you seem to have been born with is not necessarily who you are; beyond the characteristics you have inherited, your parents, your friends, and your peers have helped to shape your personality
~ Robert Greene
Never try to seduce someone who is of your own type. You will be like two puzzles missing the same parts.
~ Robert Greene
Return to the harder or softer sides of your character that you have lost or repressed.
~ Robert Greene
The word personality comes from the Latin persona, which means "mask." In the public we all wear masks, and this has a positive function.
~ Robert Greene
the personality we project to the world plays a substantial role in our success and in our ascension to mastery.
~ Robert Greene
You will see the signs of this shadow leaking out in everyday life. If people take an action that seems out of character, you will take note: what often appears out of character is actually more of their true character.
~ Robert Greene
He increasingly spoke of himself in the third person, as if he had become an impersonal revolutionary force, and as such he was infallible. If he happened to mispronounce a word in a speech, every subsequent speaker from then on would have to pronounce it that way. "If I'd said it right," confessed one of his top lieutenants, "Stalin would have felt I was correcting him." And that could prove suicidal.
~ Robert Greene
Third and most important, we must begin to make the transformation into the healthy narcissist. Healthy narcissists have a stronger, even more resilient sense of self.
~ Robert Greene
Si tienes una cara dulce y un aire inocente, emite indicios de algo oscuro, e incluso vagamente cruel, en tu carácter.
~ Robert Greene
Muestra heroísmo para conseguir carisma de por vida. A la inversa, el menor signo de cobardía o timidez arruinará el carisma que tengas.
~ Robert Greene
Debes aprender a despertar la curiosidad de la gente dejándola vislumbrar algo de tu vida privada —las causas por las que luchas, la persona de la que estás enamorado (por el momento)—, algo que parezca revelar un elemento de tu personalidad. Déjala fantasear e imaginar.
~ Robert Greene
Inflaming Individuals There are people in the world who by their nature tend to trigger powerful emotions in almost everyone they encounter.
~ Robert Greene
Otros son capaces de actuar con seguridad y fanfarronería, y a menudo se convierten en líderes. Las personas con habilidades actorales consumadas pueden sortear mejor los complejos entornos sociales y salir adelante.
~ Robert Greene
Keep in mind that there are generally more extroverts than introverts in the world.
~ Robert Greene
If you cannot help being charming and superior, you must learn to avoid such monsters of vanity. Either that, or find a way to mute your good qualities when in the company of a Cesare Borgia.
~ Robert Greene
The only people I ever met who were sensible all the time were so boring that watching them could put you to sleep.
~ Robert Jordan
Sometimes, it was difficult to tell Nynaeve leading from Nynaeve bullying.
~ Robert Jordan
She had a temper like a boar caught in briars at the best," Birgitte said softly to no one in particular. "Not at all like anyone close by.
~ Robert Jordan
Just a smile, then. A companionable gesture. He was often congenial. He might have been likable if he were anything but what he was.
~ Robert Jordan
The bones and flesh and legal statistics are the garments worn by the personality, not the other way around.
~ Robert M. Pirsig