Quotes About Personality

El amor es la expresión de los propios valores, la mayor recompensa a obtener por las cualidades morales conseguidas gracias a vuestro carácter y personalidad, el precio emocional pagado por un hombre a cambio de la alegría recibida por las virtudes de otro.

those who judge must take all aspects of an individual's personality into account.

Those who judge must take all aspects of an individual's personality into account. It is only through literature that one can put oneself in someone else's shoes and understand the other's different and contradictory sides and refrain from becoming too ruthless. Outside the sphere of literature only one aspect of individuals is revealed. But if you understand their different dimensions you cannot easily murder them…

Those who judge must take all aspects of an individual's personality into account. It is only through literature that one can put oneself in someone else's shoes and understand the other's different and contradictory sides and refrain from becoming too ruthless.

Don't you know who I am? I'm an individual!           I

that archetype is a closed man.

the very notion of personality, which is what we are trying to get at here, seems to have very limited application to me and quite possibly to everyone else. Self is another dodgy concept, since I am, when I subject this 'I' to careful inspection, not much more than a flickering of affinities, habits, memories, and predilections that could go either way- towards neediness or independence for example courage or cowardice.

Sometimes she felt like she had two personalities. One was shy and wanted to keep things private, and the other was talky and wanted to blabber. (pg. 127)

I had decided early on that if I couldn't dress elegant, I'd dress memorable.

If you can't dress expensive, dress memorable.

Holding and synthesizing information in your brain creates your personality. You're surrendering your personality to an electronic device in your pocket.

We're chalk and cheese. Somebody ought to do a study on us, if they want to know how kids in the same family can turn out totally different.

Your personality. You know, most people are like sheep. Nice, harmless creatures who want nothing more than to be left alone so they can graze. But then of course there are wolves. Who want nothing more than to eat the sheep." He looked at his soup, then back to her. "But there's a third kind of person. The sheepdog. Sheepdogs have fangs like wolves. But their instinct isn't predation. It's protection. All they want, what they live for, is to protect the flock.

It was as though the real person had suddenly decided to reinhabit the hostess's body. Her eyes, her expression, her posture had all come alive, and again I felt that vital energy that had animated her dancing.

Your personality. You know, most people are like sheep. Nice, harmless creatures who want nothing more than to be left alone so they can graze. But then of course there are wolves. Who want nothing more than to eat the sheep.

My American and Japanese personalities are distinct, and I carry myself differently depending on which language I'm using and which mode I'm in.

Freedom to choose has what might be called expressive value. Choice is what enables us to tell the world who we are and what we care about.

decisions as trivial as renting a video become important if we believe that these decisions are revealing something significant about ourselves.

95% of the people who walk the earth are inert, Johnny. 1% are saints, and 1% are assholes. The other 3% do what they say they can do.

Why would she do that? Because she's a Yankee - a Maine Yankee, the worst kind. On a given day, they can make the Irish look logical.

if you continue to write fiction, every character you create is partly you.

A veces, las víctimas de una larga enfermedad se convierten en seres ariscos y tiránicos. La imagen del enfermo sufrido y santo es falsa.

She saw clearly a boy and a man fighting for control of the same face.

It just shows the difference between people. There was Myra who treated lovers like dogs and would slap them across the face with a banana skin to show her utter independence. And there was Miss Cleghorn, who was sallow, and who bought a forty cent Ancient History to improve herself: and yet if she'd hit any man in Mariposa with a banana skin, he'd have had her arrested for assault.