logo

Quotes About Personality

Being an executive doesn't require very developed frontal lobes, but rather a combination of charisma, a capacity to sustain boredom, and the ability to shallowly perform on harrowing schedules.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Being an executive does not require very developed frontal lobes, but rather a combination of charisma, a capacity to sustain boredom, and the ability to shallowly perform on harrying schedules.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Being an executive does not require very developed frontal lobes, but rather a combination of charisma, a capacity to sustain boredom, and the ability to shallowly perform on harrying schedules. Add to these tasks the "duty" of attending opera performances. The
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
When you see a small change in your life it means its a huge change in personality and your trait
~ Natasha Friend
We cannot understand a person's behavior without understanding the self-concept behind it.
~ Nathaniel Branden
La verdad es que, donde existen un corazón y una inteligencia, las enfermedades del cuerpo quedan coloreadas por las peculiaridades del uno y la otra.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Custer did not drink; he didn't have to. His emotional effusions unhinged his judgment in ways that went far beyond alcohol's ability to interfere with clear thinking.
~ Nathaniel Philbrick
Ella era la clase de chica que participaba, mientras que Rowan era la clase de chico que evitaba a los demás.
~ Neal Shusterman
A cat is only itself.
~ Charles Bukowski
Style is the difference, a way of doing, a way of being done.
~ Charles Bukowski
What entity aboard this ship exhibits all the personality traits of a cold-blooded killing machine, combined with the monstrous, overweening vanity and laziness of a convalescent war god lounging in their personal Valhalla while their minions prepare their armor? There's only one answer. The Persian tomcat sits underneath the alien horror, washing itself without concern.
~ Charles Stross
Someday I'll write a textbook about personality profiling through possessions; but for now let's just say this example is screaming "megalomaniac!" at me.
~ Charles Stross
This is a woman who models herself on Margaret Thatcher, only without the warmth and compassion.
~ Charles Stross
He shrugs, an aw-shucks gesture quite at odds with the rest of his mannerisms, and produces a grin from wherever he keeps his spare faces when he isn't wearing them.
~ Charles Stross
You take after your dad, a high-functioning sociopath with an incurable organic personality disorder. It's one of the special-sauce variety, the kind with a known genetic cause. Your uncle Albert was something different, and worse: He was a man of faith.
~ Charles Stross
An economist is someone who is good with numbers but does not have the personality to be an accountant." The tarnished image of
~ Charles Wheelan
I size him up. A pasty jumble of limbs in latex-tight sharkskin slacks with three inches of white socks showing at the ankles above two-tone patent leather, a jacket matching the slacks stretched over narrow shoulders and an embroidered cowboy shirt with silver caps on the points of the collar, a bolo tie featuring a cockroach frozen in amber snug around his throat.
~ Charlie Huston
We got to his place and it looked a lot like his personality. Just a bunch of space filler, nothing to really wow you. It looked like he had bought a lot of stuff from IKEA and then decided to refinish it at home. Everything was neat and tidy, but you wouldn't want any of it for yourself.
~ Chelsea Handler
The face of an angel, the mind of a devil, and a heart of gold.
~ Chelsea Handler
It was quite obvious that without severe behavior modification, this boy would grow up to be a serial killer.
~ Chelsea Handler
I'm loud and brash. Certain people find that off-putting. Most straight men find that off-putting. This isn't hard for me to understand. Why is it hard for you to understand?
~ Chelsea Handler
All cults are personality cults. All cults are really extensions of whoever the cult leader is. So, whatever the prejudices, the worldview and the ideas of the cult leader are they will be chanted back at him by the crowd. Until massive social and economic inequality as well as the betrayal of the country by the elite are confronted and remedied, this yearning for a cult leader will not go away. Desperate people are looking for somebody to save them.
~ Chris Hedges
A World War II study determined that after sixty days of continuous combat, 98 percent of all surviving soldiers will have become psychiatric casualties. They found that a common trait among the 2 percent who were able to endure sustained combat was a predisposition toward "aggressive psychopathic personalities."3
~ Chris Hedges
I don't look in the mirror and think that I have flaws. I actually look in the mirror and see me. I see a lot of different characters and a lot of different things.
~ Elisha Cuthbert