Quotes About Personality

Work is not just about getting things done; it's a collection of messy human personalities trying to figure out how to successfully collaborate.

Is there some rule that says a young man can't be a handsome prince and a terrible bore all at the same time?

Even if people change on the path from childhood to adulthood, there is still a core of personality that remains intact.

Charisma is the numinous aura around a narcissistic personality. It flows outward from a simplicity or unity of being and a composure and controlled vitality. There is gracious accommodation, yet commanding impersonality. Charisma is the radiance produced by the interaction of male and female elements in a gifted personality. The charismatic woman has a masculine force and severity. The charismatic man has an entrancing female beauty. Both are hot and cold, glowing with presexual self love.

That in the end, beauty does not matter. Character is more important.

Pygmalion made her; then she kicked him in the nuts, ran away, and developed a personality.

The sight of a child…will arouse certain longings in adult, civilized persons — longings which relate to the unfulfilled desires and needs of those parts of the personality which have been blotted out of the total picture in favor of the adapted persona.

ViaÅ£a afectiv? a introvertitului este în genere latura lui slaba., aceea pe care nu se poate neaparat conta. El se iluzioneaz? singur in aceasta privinta. iar alÅ£ii se iluzioneaz? si se deziluzioneaz? în leg?tur? cu el, dac? îi iau în calcul doar afectivitatea. Spiritul îi este mai sigur, caci este mai adaptat. Natura afectivit??ii sale este prea nedomolit?.

The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality

Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place

It is not for nothing that our age cries out for the redeemer personality, for the one who can emancipate himself from the grip of the collective and save at least his own soul, who lights a beacon of hope for others, proclaiming that here is at least one man who has succeeded in extricating himself from the fatal identity with the group psyche.

The shadow is a living part of the personality and therefore wants to live with it in some form. It cannot be argued out of existence or rationalized into harmlessness. This problem is exceedingly difficult, because it not only challenges the whole man, but reminds him at the same time of his helplessness and ineffectuality.

Everyone has in him something of the criminal, the genius, and the saint.

neurosis is…a defence…or an attempt, somewhat dearly paid for, to escape from the inner voice and hence from the vocation…Behind the neurotic perversion is concealed his vocation, his destiny: the growth of personality, the full realization of the life-will that is born with the individual. It is the man without amor fati [love of fate] who is the neurotic; he, truly, has missed his vocation.

By not being aware of having a shadow, you declare a part of your personality to be non-existent. Then it enters the kingdom of the non-existent, which swells up and takes on enormous proportions…If you get rid of qualities you don't like by denying them, you become more and more unaware of what you are, you declare yourself more and more non-existent, and your devils will grow fatter and fatter.

The difference between the "natural" individuation process, which runs its course unconsciously, and the one which is consciously realized, is tremendous. In the first case consciousness nowhere intervenes; the end remains as dark as the beginning. In the second case so much darkness comes to light that the personality is permeated with light, and consciousness necessarily gains in scope and insight.

In my mind, I am bold and forthright, but what comes out always seems to be so meek and polite.

A wicked sense of humor, this one.

No one is who they pretend to be.

The law in the hands of Jesus becomes alive with God's own personality. Majestic and authoritative, he is present in every commandment, so absolute in his demands, so observant of our conduct, so intent upon the outcome, that the thought of giving him less than heart and soul and mind and strength in the product of our moral life ceases to be tolerable to ourselves.

How can we, supercivilized out of almost all real emotion, develop the potential charm of this first glimpse of a new personality ?

I'm William, but you can call me Sexy. Everyone does.

William: What's your nickname? Maddox: I do not have one. William" I'm happy to give you one. Captain Ass. What do you think? Maddox: I can leave. William: New nickname: Big Baby. Anyway, let's continue...

Of course." She fluffed her hair. "I don't want to brag, but I'm very high maintenance." "Uh, I think low maintenance is what's desirable." "Low maintenance is what's forgettable. You might want to write that down, underline it, circle it and put a star by it. It's golden." With barely a breath, she added, "Now let's find out if we're compatible, shall we?