Quotes About Personality

But the central self is open and aware because it need only be the unique voice that it is, an expression that transcends the personality that got it out of childhood alive.

Shy people are angry people

Some people are one way and some people are another and that's that.

He is a guy without collective importance. He is just an individual.

People either have comedy or they don't. You can't teach it to them.

There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but them it wouldn't be half so interesting.

Next time you write about a hero, put a little spice of human nature in him.

There's such a lot of different Annes in me. … If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be half so interesting.

Quando aprendemos que a linguagem nos foi dada para que possamos esconder nossos pensamentos, nos tornamos menos interessantes.- Anne

The face is the soul of the body.

A character, sir, may always ask a man who he is. Because a character has really a life of his own, marked with his special characteristics; for which reason he is always somebody. But a man—I'm not speaking of you now—may very well be 'nobody'.

A character, sir, may always ask a man who he is. Because a character has really a life of his own, marked with his special characteristics; for which reason he is always somebody. But a man—I'm not speaking of you now—may very well be nobody.

because he who has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death

Because a character has really a life of his own, marked with his especial characteristics; for which reason he is always "somebody." But a man—I'm not speaking of you now—may very well be "nobody.

The neurotic assumes too much responsibility; the person with a character disorder not enough.

Specifically, one whose life is ruled and dictated by dependency needs suffers from a psychiatric disorder to which we ascribe the diagnostic name "passive dependent personality disorder." It is perhaps the most common of all psychiatric disorders. People with this disorder, passive dependent people, are so busy seeking to be loved that they have no energy left to love.

Ce ciudate mai sunt È™i relaÈ›iile dintre oameni. Ne purt?m frumos, ba chiar exagerat de frumos, cu acei oameni de care ne e team?, în schimb cu cei timizi È™i retraÈ™i ne purt?m ca niÈ™te despoÈ›i. (...) Cu toÈ›ii avem o natur? dubl?.

Capitu era Capitu, isto é, uma criatura mui particular, mais mulher do que eu era homem. Se ainda o não disse, aí fica. Se disse, fica também. Há conceitos que se devem incutir na alma do leitor, à força de repetição.

I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are.

That's a sure way to tell about somebody--the way they play, or don't play, make-believe.

It seemed strange that with so much softness in her actual construction Mamma gave such a feeling of hardness. When

Houses, like people, have their own peculiarities.

Well, aren't you just saying it's better to be neurotic, sensitive, and miserable than unimaginative, adjusted and content? Is it really better?

innovators need to be disagreeable. By disagreeable, I don't mean obnoxious or unpleasant. I mean that on that fifth dimension of the Big Five personality inventory, "agreeableness," they tend to be on the far end of the continuum. They are people willing to take social risks—to do things that others might disapprove of.