Quotes About Personality

Well, at least I can spare myself the ordeal of a whole battery of personality tests. My personality is poor; that much is clear.

Feeling of discontinuity as a person. My various selves—how do they all come together? And anxiety at moments of transition from one "role" to another. Will I make it fifteen minutes from now? Be able to step into, inhabit the person I'm supposed to be? This is felt as an infinitely hazardous leap, no matter how often it's successfully executed.

Like most American women, you do not understand style. It does not mean parading yourself around in the latest fashion, but simply presenting your very best self to the world. Contrary to your belief, this has absolutely nothing to do with physical attributes.

When we adopt a professional identity, we are encouraged to think of it as our entire identity and we have little time or energy to explore and develop other aspects of our personalities. The career culture places little premium on the quality of roundedness, but we cannot be whole people without being rounded.

And the name of the one shall be Fearfulness. And the name of the other shall be Arrogance... Well, clearly you are not Fearfulness, so I suppose you must be Arrogance.' This was not very polite.

Houses, like people, are apt to become rather eccentric if left too much on their own

Even his dearest friends would have admitted that he possessed not a single good quality.

He is much too personable to be wholesome.

Ruth puts in all the tiddley bits and the expression and doesn't mind how many wrong notes she strikes, but with Jane it is accuracy or nothing. I don't know which Chopin would have hated more," Eleanor said, folding bread and butter into a thickness that would match her appetite.

Every man has his follies -- and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.

What you are as a single person, you will be as a married person, only to a greater degree. Any negative character trait will be intensified in a marriage relationship, because you will feel free to let your guard down -- that person has committed himself to you and you no longer have to worry about scaring him off.

It never made sense to me that someone would achieve any kind of success in show business, only to become a jerk.

He changed his behavior, but I don't believe people can change their essential natures.

One's 'thing'--(1) A point of personal interest; a hobby, sport, or avocation that succinctly defines a person. (2) A brief coupling of words used to evoke someone's personality in a small-talk setting: Billy's thing used to be soccer; now it's masterbation. (3) A laconic summation of one's character and interests used for the purpose of categorization and judgement. See also 'What do you do?

There comes a time in the development of every ego when it must love its neighbors or become a twisted and stunted personality.

Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.

An individual's self-concept is the core of his personality. It affects every aspect of human behavior: the ability to learn, the capacity to grow and change. A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success in life.

No pudo dejar de sonreír. Hasta el cinismo podía llegar a ser simpático en ciertas circunstancias.

She is not only beautiful on the outside, but inwards as well. When she is old and not so lovely, she will be well loved. But you! Your beauty is on the outside alone. If it were taken away from you, only a querulous, evil-minded, vicious woman would remain.

By developing a contaminated, stigmatized identity, the child victim takes the evil of the abuser into herself and thereby preserves her primary attachments to her parents. Because the inner sense of badness preserves a relationship, it is not readily given up even after the abuse has stopped; rather, it becomes a stable part of the child's personality structure.

It reminds her of those dreadful sorts who used to go around announcing "I'm a people person," as though one had another choice. She

It wasn't obvious to my generation how or if one could become oneself, an individual, without performing what the psychoanalyst Louise Kaplan memorably called a "female-female impersonation.

Eine Eigenschaft war etwas, auf das man mit dem Finger zeigen konnte, wenn man sich selber meinte. [...] Durch den Erwerb von Eigenschaften gelang noch dem Dümmsten der schwierige Akt der Selbsterschaffung.

Schon ein paar Tage konzentrierter Beobachtung genügen, um die Vorlieben und Abneigungen, Gewohnheiten und Empfindlichkeiten, Stimmtonarten und Farbschemata der Haut zu kennen, die sich um die Standarte eines Personennamens versammeln und miteinander ein Wesen formen, das 'Mensch' genannt wird, so wie große Mengen von Fischen 'Schwarm' heißen.