Quotes About Personality

The statement that the process does not involve the poet as subject, to the extent to which that is true, precludes direct egotism. On the other hand, without indirect egotism there can be no poetry. There can be no poetry without the personality of the poet, and that, quite simply, is why the definition of poetry has not been found and why, in short, there is none.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Nothing is more unpleasant that a virtuous person with a mean mind.

Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.

Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with mean mind

Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous with a mean mind.

You could tell a lot about a man by the books he keeps - his tastes, his interest, his habits.

the technology of personality transfer is imperfect--sometimes bits get left behind: memories, abilities, traits, that might be useful. A full succession of bodies can mean successive senility.

Great. An asthmatic goon.

A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him.

Most of us are searching-consciously or unconsciously- for a degree of internal balance and harmony between ourselves and the outside world, and if we happen to become aware-like Stravinsky- of a volcano within us, we will compensate by urging restraint. By that same token, someone who bore a glacier within them might urge passionate abandon. The danger is, as Bergman points out, that a glacial personality in need of passionate abandon may read Stravinsky and apply restraint instead.

Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.

las personas tímidas, emocionalmente dependientes, represoras e introvertidas parecen estar caracterizadas por lo que podríamos llamar una personalidad inasertiva.

I think I'm much too earnest to be as cool as 'Boyd Crowder'.

Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.

Chris Claremont once said of Alan Moore, "if he could plot, we'd all have to get together and kill him." Which utterly misses the most compelling part of Alan's writing, the way he develops and expresses ideas and character. Plot does not define story. Plot is the framework within which ideas are explored and personalities and relationships are unfolded.

The true work of art is born from the 'artist': a mysterious, enigmatic, and mystical creation. It detaches itself from him, it acquires an autonomous life, becomes a personality, an independent subject, animated with a spiritual breath, the living subject of a real existence of being.

We are given talent but we choose to have character.

Many serial killers are pathological liars." ~Dr. Jack. Levin, Criminologist, Northeastern University, 2012

I don't think I was funny until college. I lived with some Harvard MD/PhD students - they were so smart, and what I contributed to the house was, I was the funny one.

Me – accused of being too nice. It boggles the mind.

If we want to give our children what they need to thrive, we must honor their basic nature- boyish or girlish, introverted or extroverted, wild or mellow.

Anyone who is considered funny will tell you, sometimes without even your asking, that deep inside they are very serious, neurotic, introspective people.

Clothes don't hide the soul.