Quotes About Personality

the West of open spaces, or the West of mythology, this region's hold on the American character never seemed stronger. A person puts on a cowboy hat anywhere in the world, even if alone in a room, and starts acting differently—sometimes stupidly, sometimes nobly, but it is a new personality.

Money doesn't change you; it reveals who you are when you no longer have to be nice.

the very beginning, anticipatory obedience means adapting instinctively, without reflecting, to a new situation. Do only Germans do such things? The Yale psychologist Stanley Milgram, contemplating Nazi atrocities, wanted to show that there was a particular authoritarian personality that explained why Germans behaved as they had.

Hitchcock had a charm about him. He was very funny at times. He was incredibly brilliant in his field of suspense.

Will was not surprised that his new friend was late. Oliver seemed to possess that sort of joie de vivre that did not lend itself to punctuality.

Melanie Klein focused on how a "schizoid" personality could develop as the result of an infant's relations with its mother in the first year of life, although she noted that most people grow out of this and establish healthy relations with themselves and the world. Most

Melanie Klein focused on how a "schizoid" personality could develop as the result of an infant's relations with its mother in the first year of life, although she noted that most people grow out of this and establish healthy relations with themselves and the world.

The superego, Freud wrote, is the "mischief maker which prevents the ego's coming to a friendly understanding with the instincts." It

Everyone has a theory of human nature. Everyone has to anticipate the behavior of others, and that means we all need theories about what makes people tick." Steven Pinker

we all need a personal theory of what makes people tick. To

If you know a person's personality type their behavior begins to make sense.

A preference for extraversion (seeing life in terms of the external world) or introversion (greater interest in the inner world of ideas) is independent of your preferences for sensing, thinking, intuition, and feeling. You

As thinking is a process of judgment, the final element in this person's type is "Judgment." They are ENTJs. Other people's final letter is P for "Perception," indicating their strong desire to understand better.

All personalities can be measured according to two or three basic biologically determined dimensions.

Dimensions of Personality was Eysenck's first book, and has a dry, academic style. However, in grounding for the first time in science the concept of introversion/extraversion, it laid the foundation for 50 years' work in the field of personality difference.

was obviously in debt to Carl Jung's distinction between introverts and extraverts, he

The source of extraversion or introversion was in the varying levels of excitability of the brain; the driver

I live on my own, happily, and I've never wanted children, but it did occur to me one day that there's part of me in 'Torak' - he's a loner, I'm a loner - as there's part of me in 'Renn,' who's quite waspish. I think, in some senses, 'Torak' is the son I never had.

Karen is like RuPaul - she's a character. It never occurred to me until now, but she is!

The name of a cat has to come from something that just occurs to you by interacting with the cat.

So often when you meet child actors, they're weird - they're freaks. No, I mean it, they're really odd people.

Even if it comes off natural, everyone has a fashion sense.

But I'm not like sad, depressed miserable person. I guess sometimes I give off that impression.

The show Larry is much more aggressive. The real Larry is very gentle and very sweet and doesn't like to offend people.