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Quotes About Personality

The Mask of Sanity—An Attempt to Clarify Some Issues About the So-Called Psychopathic Personality.7
~ Donald W. Black
And will knowing what she reads make you know who she is?" "Can you think of a better way to tell?
~ Donna Leon
Those who knew Lincoln described him as an extraordinarily funny man. Humor was an essential aspect of his temperament. He laughed, he explained, so he did not weep.
~ Doris Kearns Goodwin
Now, this is an age of alibis. We all know a little too much about the Glands Regulating Personality, and the Havoc raised by Resistances, and so on. Never since the world began were there such good opportunities to be lazy with distinction.
~ Dorothea Brande
P)ersonality...is perhaps the very most important thing in the world. Yet we know only one or two things about it. We know that anybody's personality is made up of the sum total of all the actions and thoughts and desires of his life. And we know that though there aren't any words or any figures in any languages to set down that sum total accurately, still it is one of the first things that everybody knows about anybody else. And that really is all we know!
~ Dorothy Canfield Fisher
In short, our Marianne is just not in the common style. We shall simply have to present her as an original." She sobered abruptly. "How very stupid Perry was, to be sure. This girl might have changed his life." To this uncharacteristically severe judgment on the part of his normally charitable parent, the marquess returned no answer.
~ Dorothy Mack
Marriage or no marriage, children or no children, life - the real life - is lived in the spirit, and I hold that the right education helps the spirit to maintain its own life, makes it independent of material prosperity or adversity. That is the ideal we strive for. To enrich the spirit, to enrich the personality.
~ Dorothy Whipple
When someone tells you they've just bought a house, they might as well tell you they no longer have a personality. You can immediately assume so many things: that they're locked into jobs they hate; that they're broke; that they spend every night watching videos; that they're fifteen pounds overweight; that they no longer listen to new ideas. It's profoundly depressing.
~ Douglas Coupland
It's impossible to say. Normal motives don't necessarily apply to psychopathic personalities. Jeffrey Dahmer murdered and cannibalized seventeen people, three of whose skulls were found in his refrigerator." "That's perfectly rational behavior," said Desh sarcastically. "He just didn't want them to spoil.
~ Douglas E. Richards
schizophrenia and had developed a split personality
~ Douglas E. Richards
In each of us there is another whom we do not know." —Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist and founder of analytical psychology
~ Douglas E. Richards
And while looks deteriorated with time, a great personality and great chemistry only strengthened
~ Douglas E. Richards
Just because you were good at something didn't mean it was a match with your personality or psyche.
~ Douglas E. Richards
And most important to her, he possessed a great sense of humor,
~ Douglas E. Richards
Desh believed that dangerous character traits such as megalomania, sadism, and sociopathy tended to be enriched in populations of people who had risen to positions of power and influence. This enrichment was even more pronounced at the top of organizations such as the CIA and the military, to which people with these pathologies tended to gravitate preferentially.
~ Douglas E. Richards
empathic ability, without ensuring that psychopathic tendencies didn't come along for the ride.
~ Douglas E. Richards
What I find the most insidious about this," said Joe Allen, "is how fervent, how zealous, his followers seem to be. Even if they don't always like his personality, they believe in his cause." "His cause?" said Jenna in disgust. "Ruling the world is a cause?
~ Douglas E. Richards
We today lack a theology of growth. And so we need to learn how we "grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ" (2 Peter 3:18). In particular, we need to learn to cooperate with "the means of grace" that God has ordained for the transformation of the human personality. Our participation in these God-ordained "means" will enable us increasingly to take into ourselves Christ's character and manner of life.
~ Douglas J. Moo
One time G.K. Chesterton, the rolypologist, was patted on the stomach by his adversary, George Bernard Shaw, a beanpole of an infidel, and was asked what they were going to name the baby. Chesterton replied immediately that if it was a boy, John, if a girl, then Mary. But if it turned out to only be gas, they were going to name it George Bernard Shaw.
~ Douglas Wilson
Today you are you, that's truer than true. No one alive is youer than you.
~ Dr Seuss
Our is a battle; not for wealth, nor for power. Ours is battle; for freedom; for reclamation of human personality.
~ Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
En conclusión, la experiencia del yo relativo está ligada a la existencia de una coherencia global del continuo mental que puede ser algoritmizada. Esta coherencia global algorítmica constituye el tema básico de la personalidad. Cuando este tema básico es identificado y observado se provoca un estado de conciencia en el cual desaparece el yo y toda conceptualización.
~ Dr. Jacobo Grinberg Zylberbaum
Just when you think that a person is just a backdrop for the rest of the universe, watch them and see that they laugh, they cry, they tell jokes ... they're just friends waiting to be made.
~ Dr. Jeffrey Borenstein
There is no one alive who is Youer than You!
~ Dr. Seuss