Quotes About Personality

This skin, this hair, all this outside stuff. It isn't me. It's just my package. It's like the wrapper around the sweet; it isn't the sweet itself. What we really are is all inside the package. All our feelings. All our good moods and bad moods. All our ideas, our cleverness, our love, that's what a person really is.

even the meanest person has still at his disposition high-sounding words wherewith to mask his real character.

A man's character is his fate.

A man's character is his guardian divinity.

Character is our destiny.

Man's character is his fate.

Ethos anthropoi daimon--a man's character is his fate.

A man's character is his fate.

Johnson himself turned out to be so many different characters he could have populated all of War and Peace and still had a few people left over.

The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit in more developed forms of society he is an independent personality.

Por eso –me decía medio gritando– el dinero no dice nada de la gente que lo tiene. Nada. El dinero no dice nada de sus dueños. A diferencia de tener, no sé, talento, que sí define a una persona. La relación del dinero con el individuo es completamente accidental.

The 16 characteristics of psychopaths: 1. Intelligent 2. Rational 3. Calm 4. Unreliable 5. Insincere 6. Without shame or remorse 7. Having poor judgment 8. Without capacity for love 9. Unemotional 10. Poor insight 11. Indifferent to the trust or kindness of others 12. Overreactive to alcohol 13. Suicidal 14. Impersonal sex life 15. Lacking long-term goals 16. Inadequately motivated antisocial behavior

I was (an am) unsure about how I am related to my old self, or to myself from year to year. The hormonal profile of an individual determines much of the manifest personality. If you skew the endocrine system,you loose the pathways to the self. When endocrine patterns change it alters the way you think and feel. One shift in the pattern tends to trip another.

Henry is a man of great endowments, lacking only consistency, reason and sense.

Well, you know how it is, some people are born with sour temperaments and they use the misfortunes in their lives as an excuse for them.

It is far more important to know what sort of person has the disease, rather than what sort of disease the person has.

We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be

Really it was a pretty good talk. About the best I could expect from my sociopath amnesiac jerk of an older brother.

Cassel, she said, you want to know how to be the most charming guy anyone's ever met? Remind them of their favorite person. Everyone's favorite person is their own damn self.

There are dog people and cat people.

I don't now if you noticed , but the guy is a real jerk

Cardan doesn't add that he laughs when he is nervous.

No need for dramatics.' 'I am nothing,' Cardan said, 'if not dramatic.

To one who had never made more than five thousand a year himself, it was inspiring to explain before dozens of popeyed and admiring morons how they could make ten thousand -- fifty thousand -- a million a year, and all this by the Wonder Power of Suggestion, by Aggressive Personality, by the Divine Rhythm, in fact by merely releasing the Inner Self-shine.