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Quotes About Personality

investigations revealed that even in such technical lines as engineering, about 15 percent of one's financial success is due to one's technical knowledge and about 85 percent is due to skill in human engineering – to personality and the ability to lead people.
~ Dale Carnegie
William Winter señaló una vez que la expresión del yo es la necesidad dominante en el carácter humano.
~ Dale Carnegie
The hair on your head affects people and is a testament to the world about who you are. - Bonnie Foreshaw (Tabatha Rowley's story)
~ Wally Lamb
The greater the reform needed, the greater the personality you need to accomplish it.
~ Walt Whitman
Chanter of Personality, outlining what is yet to be, I project the history of the future.
~ Walt Whitman
I don't think how old a person is has anything to do with what he really is himself.
~ Walter D. Edmonds
As long as I shall live I shall always be My Self-and no other, Just Me.
~ Walter de La Mare
There are parts of his life and personality that are extremely messy, and that's the truth
~ Walter Isaacson
Even when he was barely conscious, his strong personality came through. At one point the pulmonologist tried to put a mask over his face when he was sedated. Jobs ripped it off and mumbled that he hated the design and refused to wear it. He ordered them to bring five different options and he would pick the one he liked.
~ Walter Isaacson
I believe that the most important mission of the state is to protect the individual and to make it possible for him to develop into a creative personality
~ Walter Isaacson
So he grew up not only with a sense of having once been abandoned, but also with a sense that he was special. In his own mind, that was more important in the formation of his personality.
~ Walter Isaacson
Steve Jobs chafed at not being in control, and he sometimes hallucinated or became angry. Even when he was barely conscious, his strong personality came through. At one point the pulmonologist tried to put a mask over his face when he was deeply sedated. Jobs ripped it off and mumbled that he hated the design and refused to wear it. Though barely able to speak, he ordered them to bring five different options for the mask and he would pick a design he liked.
~ Walter Isaacson
As Friedland had done and as Jobs would learn to do, he was able to turn charm into a cunning force, to cajole and intimidate and distort reality with the power of his personality
~ Walter Isaacson
He lies not because it's in his interest, he lies because it's in his nature." It was in Jobs's nature to mislead or be secretive when he felt it was warranted.
~ Walter Isaacson
Sculley began to believe that Jobs's mercurial personality and erratic treatment of people were rooted deep in his psychological makeup, perhaps the reflection of a mild bipolarity.
~ Walter Isaacson
Gates was the prime example of the innovator's personality. "An innovator is probably a fanatic, somebody who loves what they do, works day and night, may ignore normal things to some degree and therefore be viewed as a bit imbalanced," he said. "Certainly in my teens and 20s, I fit that model.
~ Walter Isaacson
But for the time being the personality clashes were manageable, mainly because the company was doing so well.
~ Walter Isaacson
he was able to turn charm into a cunning force, to cajole and distort reality with the power of his personality.
~ Walter Isaacson
strong personality was the topic that most interested me in my biographies of Franklin
~ Walter Isaacson
The creativity that can occur when a feel for both the humanities and the sciences combine in one strong personality was the topic that most interested me in my biographies of Franklin and Einstein, and I believe that it will be a key to creating innovative economies in the twenty-first century.
~ Walter Isaacson
Babbage was charming when he wished, but he could also be cranky, stubborn, and defiant, like most innovators.
~ Walter Isaacson
I was way too shy ever to be a business leader like Steve.
~ Walter Isaacson
He was not a model boss or human being, tidily packaged for emulation. Driven by demons, he could drive those around him to fury and despair. But his personality and passions and products were all interrelated, just as Apple's hardware and software tended to be, as if part of an integrated system. His tale is thus both instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values.
~ Walter Isaacson
Buddhism, was not just some passing fancy or youthful dabbling. He embraced it with his typical intensity, and it became deeply ingrained in his personality. "Steve is very much Zen," said Kottke. "It was a deep influence. You see it in his whole approach of stark, minimalist aesthetics, intense
~ Walter Isaacson