Quotes About Personality

Don't let yourself slip and get any perfect characters... keep them people, people, people, and don't let them get to be symbols.

He was a nice boy, a friendly boy, and very shy, and it made him bitter.

He grinned with his hat on the back of his head. He looked more like a Broadway character of the Nineties than the lovely painter that he was, and afterwards, when he had hanged himself, I liked to remember him as he was that night at the Dôme. They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.

They're funny people," Thomas Hudson said. "They're all brave and some of them are so damned admirable. Then they have mean ones like this.

They say the seeds of what we will do are all in us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature

the actual joy of acting lies in the absence of personality.

Gable suited MGM because Gable was larger than life. Cagney suited Warner Brothers because Cagney was life.

Shorter believes that psychosomatic illnesses (such as leg paralysis at the turn of the twentieth century or multiple personality disorder at the turn of the twenty-first) are examples of the unconscious mind attempting to speak in a language of emotional distress that will be understood in its time.

Writing is an expression of the writer's own peculiar personality, could not help being so. Yet in reading great works one feels that the finished piece transcends the personal. All writers great and small must sometimes have felt that they have become part of what they wrote even more than it still remains a part of them.

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I think if there's any difference between me and a traditional CEO, it's that I've been unwilling to change myself or shape my personality around what's expected.

Two percent of the population is sociopathic. They just don't feel the way you or I do about others. If you come in contact with fifty people in a day, one of them is a sociopath.

There are even genes that correlate with charisma. Some of them overcompensate for a lack of internal empathy. They make you feel like they care more than anyone else while you're nothing to them.

The man himself.

Grief has a colour. It has other characteristics, I know now, collectively forming a personality of sorts. An antagonizing figure that arrives in your life and refuses to leave or sit anywhere but next to you or stop whispering the name of the departed in your ear.

persons of choleric dispositions and limited intelligences are apt to become rude.

Great men are seldom nice men.

You know what, Reynart,' Geralt suddenly said. 'I also prefer you as you are now. Talking normally. Back in October you were using infuriating, moronic mannerisms.' ''Pon my word, Witcher, I'm a knight errant,' chortled Reynart de Bois-Fresnes. 'Have you forgotten? Knights always talk like morons.

Character, not circumstance, make a man.

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

Marianne had sharp, cold eyes and she was spiteful but her father loved her.

For all cats have this particularity, each and every one, from the meanest alley sneaker to the proudest, whitest she that ever graced a pontiff's pillow — we have our smiles, as it were, painted on. Those small, cool, quite Mona Lisa smiles that smile we must, no matter whether it's been fun or it's been not. So all cats have a politician's air; we smile and smile and so they think we're villains

The amount of time she had at her disposal made it difficult for her to be late for anything, even for her own breakfast. And she suspected that even if she were to waste time she would still find a way to be entirely punctual, to the intense annoyance of those who had never mastered the art. For it was an art, less to do with courtesy than with modesty. Only grander personalities could afford to assume that others would wait.