Quotes About Personality

Great acting is being able to create a character. Great character is being able to be yourself.

Well, I don't know why people insist on knowing themselves. It's hard enough to know what to wear.

What you choose to do in your life, how you choose it, and how you deal with Work-domain difficulties (including being out of work or having to work two jobs to make ends meet) are also revealing of your personality style.

Your personality style is your own, utterly individual amalgam of fourteen separate, identifiable styles.

I really believe that our stories make us who we are. I don't think people are born as empty shells. They already have the makings of a personality and they have intelligence. But from the moment they're born and maybe before that they start accumulating stories and it's those stories that have the biggest effect on them.

At that age you think boys have as much personality as coat hangers and, you don't notice their looks. Then you grow up.

We travel, work, and have friends, and though Jack is dependent on us, he has his own personality. Animals know their owner.

The Open era had brought personalities into the game, and personality was generating media exposure, which was generating more money, which in turn guaranteed more media exposure - which in turn drove in even more money. Where money and publicity meet, there's always excitement, but good behavior is rarely a part of the mix. Manners are the operating rules of more stable systems.

There's a very interesting thing that Scott Fitzgerald said [about creating characters], 'If you start with a person, you end up with a type, but if you start with a type you wind up with nothing.' You set out to discover something in your writing and it is through the attempt to discover that you reflect. If you have your mind made up about something you'll reflect nothing.

People view their own behaviors as originating from amendable, situational constraints,but they view other people's behavior as originating from inherent, immutable personality traits.

What a person does isn't the same as who a person is.

While the Goddess indeed had many names, many manifestations throughout human history, she is ultimately one supreme reality. Only after the patriarchal Indo-Europeans overthrew the cultures where the Goddess had flourished from earliest times and imposed the worship of their sky gods was her identity fractured into myriad goddesses, each with an all-too-human personality. We know these goddesses best from Greek and Roman mythology.

My curls defined me; even my personality was curly, bouncy, springy, and playfully twisted.

But of course Anton turned out to be brave and strong, and so he died while he was still unlikable.

Sandy is kind. But she has a smart mind

I liked her scowl and I liked her freedom to wear it.

She rolled her shoulders over a corset that gave her the general appearance of the prow of a battleship, and curled one loose strand around her finger in a gesture that would have been coquettish, were she young.

It would insinuate itself into the artificial personality files and trigger duplication of the data, and carefully controlled growth. Whether anything would come out of it, even the worm's programmer-with his near infinite resources-could not say. It was a gamble as well, but communication, wooing, conception, and procreation always are.

Claude was tall and bony, a beautiful woman with blunt-cut hair that had been white as feathers since she was in her twenties, and some of the lightest eyes Lesa had ever seen-which perhaps explained the depth of the crow's feet decorating her face. They couldn't all be from smiling, though Lesa wasn't sure she'd ever seen Claude not smiling. She had an arsenal of smiles, including a melancholy one for funerals.

Benedick considered his earlier thoughts about Nova's serenity and undeveloped personality. He wasn't sure he'd ever heard an angel sound miserably worried before. They were voices of authority, arrogance, comfort, calm-or at least, they always had been.

I don't think you'll get much argument that my personality could use amending.

I think the real reason you're such a goody-two shoes is because this is your Judicially constructed personality. The you you know is Judicial Recon, because you were a juvenille when what happened, happened. So they gave you a clear slate and a clean bill of health.

He chuckled, his eyes twinkling like agates, the first flash of a real personality she'd seen.

One of the problems with AIs grown from personality seeds is that sometimes they're just as reactive and weird as any human.