Quotes About Personality

To craft a sign that works for all Four Tendencies we should provide information, consequences, and choice.

Then I wonder if some people need a coach more than a therapist," I said, thinking of Obligers.

when we consider the Four Tendencies, we're better able to understand other people.

We can live and work more effectively with others when we identify their Tendencies - as coworkers and bosses, teachers and coaches, husbands and wives, parents and children, health-care providers and patients.

My idea of "this is the kind of person I am" is so bound up in my habits and actions that it's hard for me to see. But eventually, I realized that my sense of identity makes it easier or harder to change a habit.

Jamie is a funny mix. He has a sardonic side that can make him seem distant and almost harsh to people who don't know him well, but he's also very tender-hearted. (A

One regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality. —OSCAR WILDE

We can build our habits only on the foundation of our own nature.

Also, as I discovered when I took the Newcastle Personality Assessor, which measures personality according to the Big Five model (openness to experience, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism, or OCEAN)

Now that I know I'm an Upholder, an Abstainer, a Marathoner, a Finisher, and a Lark, and have spent a lot of time thinking about what is, and isn't, important to me, I'm much better able to shape my habits.

Research shows that the more elements make up your identity, the less threatening it is when any one element is threatened.

And the more he was irritated by her basic personality, the more he was drawn to her by a harsh, bestial sensuality, illusions of a moment, which ended in hate.

Lively once, expansive and affectionate, in growing older she had become (after the fashion of wine that, exposed to air, turns to vinegar) ill-tempered, grumbling, irritable. She

I hope you realize that you really hit it off with the ladies? You must cultivate that. It could take you far.

He had a fund of small talk, a pleasant voice, a caressing glance and his moustache was irresistible. Crisp and curly, it curved charmingly over his lip, fair with auburn tints, slightly paler where it bristled at the ends.

Monsieur Lerebour was short, round and jovial, with the joviality of a shopkeeper who liked to do himself well. His wife, who was thin, self-willed and perpetually discontented, had still not succeeded in overcoming her husband's good humour.

Chacun de nous d'ailleurs garde dans les traits, sous la ligne humaine, un type d'animal, comme la marque de sa race primitive. Combien de gens ont des gueules de bulldog, des têtes de bouc, de lapin, de renard, de cheval, de bÅ"uf ! Paul est un écureuil devenu homme.

the less one knows about oneself, the more one enjoys talking about oneself

Words are the facial expressions of your mind: They communicate your attitude, personality, and perspective.

He talked about terrible meetings in lonely places, of cyclopean ruins in the heart of the Maine woods beneath which vast staircases led down to abysses of nighted secrets, of complex angles that led through invisible walls to other regions of space and time, and of hideous exchanges of personality that permitted explorations in remote and forbidden places, on other worlds, and in different space-time continua.

The dog is a peasant and the cat is a gentleman.

His was a quiet but persistent charisma.

His charm was not electric, but it was enveloping.

To be well married you have to a penchant for the intricacies of intimacy and larval change..If the personality is a spider's web, you will want to know every thread...Pleasures no longer come to you, but there are pickings to be had if you can learn to scavenge for them (The Body)