Quotes About Personality

Sometimes I think there are two kinds of people -- the autobiographists and the biographists.

As Leslie began to fill in the picture, adding images and details to the flat sentences in the police reports, she was also bringing something more: her personality and the limits of her understanding. She has always wanted to be liked, especially by the popular athletes, and what happened in the basement hadn't changed that.

I am always studying character. Everyone I meet is a new study.

Wie selten kann man sich einem Menschen ganz geben! Das habe ich recht oft im Leben erfahren, daß ich dem einen nur diese, dem anderen nur jene Seite meiner geistigen Persönlichkeit erschließen konnte; daß, so oft ich mit diesem oder jenem verkehrte, sozusagen nur ein gewisses Register sich aufzog, die ganze übrige Klaviatur aber stumm blieb.

Elected officials are manufactured personalities and celebrities.

Thanks to capitalism, the importance placed on beauty has never been so manipulated. We are the guinea pigs force-fed ads that tell us how pathetic we are: that we will never be loved, happy or valuable unless we have the body, the face, the hair, even the personality that will apparently be ours, if only we buy their products.

Myths are useful in forming not the total personality, but only the superego. The child knows that he cannot possibly live up to the hero's virtue, or parallel his deeds; all he can be expected to do is emulate the hero to some small degree; so the child is not defeated by the discrepancy between his ideal and his own smallness.

Myths project an ideal personality acting on the basis of superego demands, while fairy tales depict an ego integration which allows for appropriate satisfaction of id desires. This difference accounts for the contrast between the pervasive pessimism of myths and the essential optimism of fairy tales.

For one thing, I teach my students what my teacher for twenty years, Paul Gavert, told me, 'The voice follows... the voice follows everything about you... who you are.'

I kid around a lot, but pranks are not my best strength!

Change the Personality of the Education System not the Personality of the Child.

Most of us rather like our cats to have a streak of wickedness. I should not feel quite easy in the company of any cat that walked about the house with a saintly expression.

Meditation is just a strategy to take away your personality, your thoughts, your mind, your identity with the body, and leave you absolutely alone inside, just a living fire. And once you have found your living fire, you will know all the joys and all the ecstasies that human consciousness is capable of.

I don't just try to be funny.

Protons give an atom its identity, electrons its personality.

Our true nature and personality will never come to fullness apart from His manifest Presence. Learning to host Him is at the center of our assignment, and it must become our focus so that we can have the success He desires before Jesus returns.

One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself.

Trump has correctly assessed that his appeal lies in being brash, unrepentant, and successful. Everything else is background noise.

At one point Morgan's eyes reddened, and it wasn't from the champagne shower. "Basically, it's just everything I've had to overcome," he said, "just the stuff that people go out there and perceive about me. All my haters, I just want to show them that I can play this game. Even though I've got a fun, bubbly personality and everything like that, I still come to win and I'm a winner.

In my opinion, we don't devote nearly enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.

In my opinion, we don't devote nearly enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.

When you see a person, do you just concentrate on their looks? It's just a first impression. Then there's someone who doesn't catch your eye immediately, but you talk to them and they become the most beautiful thing in the world. The greatest actors aren't what you would call beautiful sex symbols.

Phil Hartman was brilliant, and Dave Foley is a really funny guy. Phil Hartman was actually even funnier offstage than he was onstage because he would say nasty things. Dave Foley's very funny, very witty guy, very quick.

There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.