Quotes About Personality

Whatever I put on - if I'm feeling trendy or if I'm feeling sexy - my clothes definitely represent who I am at the time.

Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.

If you take the time away, you take the character away.

As time passes, I feel more and more a sense of acting being a fundamental part of who I am.

It's masturbation for writers to be able to write this absolutely outrageous personality, in a character that you somehow agree with, part of the time, at least.

I think [nancy Reagan] was a very controlled and controlling person, because she was so scared all the time and because she had such an inner sense of panic.

I used to be terribly shy, so I was either shy or over the top, and I always had a difficult time.

I have a habit of taking instant dislikes to people. Simply because it saves time.

Not that anyone ever fancied someone because they were a kind person. If that was the case Mother Teresa would have to fend them off with sticks.

Whether we choose to focus on the guilt in their personality, or the innocence in their soul, is up to us.

The balance between good and evil, and the choices we make between them, are probably the single most important aspects shaping our personalities and humanity.

When defects of character are your character, you become a what.

Each one of us is, successively, not one but many. And these successive personalities that emerge one from the other tend to present the strangest, most astonishing contrasts among themselves. —José Enrique Rodó, Motives of Proteus

Con gli anni, mi hai fatto diventare come te. Tutto serve per ottenere quello che uno vuole. Sono parole tue, nina mala. E io, lo sai fin troppo bene, l'unica cosa che voglio a questo mondo sei tu. (...) No, tu non sei capace di cose così. disse, a mezza voce, come lamentando quella carenza della mia personalità.

Bueno, en el fondo yo sabía que ella no sería nunca una mujer normal. Y tampoco quería que lo fuese, porque lo que yo amaba en ella era también lo indómito e imprevisible de su personalidad.

ciertas cosas, como la casquette de Charles, son más locuaces y trascendentes que sus dueños, y nos revelan, mejor que las palabras y los actos de aquéllos, la personalidad del amo: su estatuto social, su economía, sus costumbres, sus aspiraciones, su imaginación, su sentido artístico, sus creencias.

Somewhere in a woman's room there is always something, an object, a detail, that is her, wholly and unapologetic.

When it comes to married life, character takes precedence over looks...

As Wilhelm Reich demonstrated in his groundbreaking work on the formation of character, the personality is built on these points of self-estrangement; the paradox is that what we take to be so real, our selves, is constructed out of a reaction against just what we do not wish to acknowledge.

the sense that there is an accessible vitality, present from birth, underlying our accrued personalities.

Io non racconto mai bugie. Mia madre diceva sempre che dipendeva dal fatto che sono una brava persona. Invece non dipende dal fatto che sono una brava persona. È così perché non sono capace di raccontare bugie.

The famous British child psychologist D. W. Winnicott called these aspects of personality our True Self and False Self. It is the True Self that lets us know what is authentic and what has become artificial, while the False Self is a diplomat of distrust, enforcing a lifestyle of guardedness, secrecy, and complaint.

With Trump, I always knew that it wasn't my intelligence per se that was being insulted by the transparent distortions that burbled from his lips; that was just the way the man talked.

If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.