Quotes About Personality

Naturally torturers giggle while they work: The body's dumb obedience to physics (pull hard enough and this comes off, squeeze tight enough and that pops out) against which the nuances of the victim's personality count for nothing has in it one of the roots of comedy—the spirit's subservience to the flesh. You can cut a head off and shove it in a bag, stick it on a pole, play volleyball or footie with it. Hilarious, among other things.

The principle which protects personal writings and all other personal productions, not against theft and physical appropriation, but against publication in any form, is in reality not the principle of private property, but that of an inviolate personality.

In fact, both observing and breaking the rules involve moral choices, and both courses of action reveal something important about the individuals involved. Contrary to the accepted premise-that radical dissent demonstrates a personality disorder-the opposite could be true in the face of sever injustice, a refusal to dissent is the sign of a character flaw or moral failure.

You're always the person you were when you were born," she says impatiently. "You just keep finding new ways to express it.

Humbled by this response and looking for advice on my own future now that I'm past seventy, I ask her how she has remained herself all these years. She looks at me as if at a slow pupil. "You're always the person you were when you were born," she says impatiently. "You just keep finding new ways to express it.

Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.

You at -all things considered- what you are. Put on your head perukes with myriad curls, stalk about on foot-high stilts, still what you are, you must always remain.

Volk und Knecht und Ãœberwinder Sie gestehen, zu jeder Zeit, Hoechtes Glueck der Erdenkinder Sei nur die Personlichkeit.

There is nothing that dulls a personality so much as a negative outlook.

It's Myers-Briggs . . . the MBTI, Myers-Briggs Temperament Indicator.

His eyes were curiously deep, and a warm, gray color. His mouth was thin-lipped, but a little wide and altogether friendly. His light, straight brown hair was already receding at the temples. He wore it clipped short, and he would be nearly bald before his thirties were out, but since he was not the sort of man to whom good looks are necessary, this would make little difference.

The pressure on young chefs today is far greater than ever before in terms of social skills, marketing skills, cooking skills, personality and, more importantly, delivering on the plate. So you need to be strong. Physically fit. So my chefs get weighed every time they come into the kitchen.

The first thing in the human personality that dissolves in alcohol is dignity.

It is curious how a man can stamp his personality upon earthly things.

Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world will let them.

It's not what you wear — it's how you take it off.

Way too much coffee. But if it weren't for the coffee, I'd have no identifiable personality whatsoever.

Be a coffee-drinking individual — espresso yourself!

If not interrupted, an INFJ can stay in a fantasy-trance for hours.

There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much. In modern sculpture, picture, and poetry, the beauty is miscellaneous; the artist works here and there, and at all points, adding and adding, instead of unfolding the unit of his thought.

A clean house is the sign of a boring person.

Dull people have immaculate homes.

First coming aboard, a new arrival makes a cautious survey of the crew, trying to winnow the affable and good-natured from the surly and truculent. Some of the crewmen will seem easygoing, happy-go-lucky, good-fellows-all; others may appear to be reserved or even aloof. Yet I found that at the end of a voyage these aloof ones were often the persons whom I grew to like and respect the most, while those who seemed so agreeable turned out to be rascals.

The dual capacity for friendship and enmity forged in Genghis Khan's youth endured throughout his life and became the defining trait of his character.