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Quotes About Personality

My name is Bastian," said the boy. "Bastian Balthazar Bux." "That's a rather odd name," the man grumbled. "All those Bs. Oh well, you can't help it. You didn't choose it. My name is Carl Conrad Coreander.
~ Michael Ende
There are life events that can destroy the personality, which is a lot more fragile than most people imagine, constructed as it is from bits provided by others in the most haphazard way. People can be torn down to the core, shattered, as the expression goes, and then they seek sleep. And dreams, which provide the ground for the construction of a new and more integrated self. Providing there's a core, and providing they're willing to do the work.
~ Michael Gruber
The options suited the two men's personalities: They never had to be sure of anything. Both were predisposed to feel that people, and by extension markets, were too certain about inherently uncertain things. Both sensed that people, and by extension markets, had difficulty attaching the appropriate probabilities to highly improbable events. Both had trouble generating conviction of their own but no trouble at all reacting to what they viewed as the false conviction of others.
~ Michael Lewis
He'd always been just the way he was, a person who was happier counting than feeling his way through life.
~ Michael Lewis
Myers-Briggs–type personality test.
~ Michael Lewis
He was pressured to be a bit more upbeat, but upbeat did not come naturally to Steve Eisman. He could fake upbeat, and sometimes did, but he was happier not bothering.
~ Michael Lewis
He's sort of a prick in a way, but he's smart and honest and fearless." "Even
~ Michael Lewis
He's not tactically rude," his wife explains. "He's sincerely rude. He knows everyone thinks of him as a character but he doesn't think of himself that way. Steven lives inside his head." When
~ Michael Lewis
İnsan?n aÄŸz? kendisine olan güvenini ya da güvensizliÄŸini, k?sacas? kiÅŸiliÄŸiyle ilgili pek çok ayr?nt?y? ele verir.
~ Michael Ondaatje
I take no pride in having been the first public personality to come out publicly against Simpson. It just happened that way.
~ Vincent Bugliosi
We live in a media world simultaneously obsessed with technology and personality.
~ Eric Alterman
My wife is one of the most extroverted people I know. She could out-talk Oprah and Joyce Meyer simultaneously.
~ John Ortberg
A lot of guys out here are very serious, and God bless them, that's their personality. It's not a sin to be business-like.
~ Chi Chi Rodriguez
The thing is when you play a character it's the persona you bring across from a book to film, or book to script to film. If I play Frank Sinatra, there's gonna be things I do in a movie that Frank might not have done, but it's the personality that comes across.
~ Alex Pettyfer
People always think the xx are, like, moody and all dressed in black. We do all dress in black, but we're actually quite fun people - and we've come out of our shells a lot since the first album.
~ Jamie xx
People say, 'Since you got rich and famous, you've become insufferable.' I say, 'That's not true. I've always been insufferable.'
~ Shannon Sharpe
Russians are sincere, understanding and cook well.
~ Alexander Ovechkin
The more ridiculous the character is, the more sincerity you have to bring to it.
~ James Marsden
I was always the shy one around, I wouldn't sing even in family gatherings.
~ Akhil Akkineni
I don't really sing.
~ John Pinette
With Scarlett Johansson, I always thought she was pretty, but then when I heard her sing, there was just something about her voice that made her really, really attractive to me. And I think she would be fun to hang out with.
~ Cameron Monaghan
I'm a pretty goofy person. I'm an awkward dancer, for instance, and a terrible singer.
~ Gillian Jacobs
We're entertainers, not just singers!
~ David Ruffin
Lead singers, they're their own breed.
~ Michael Anthony