Quotes About Personality

Gamache nodded. It was what made his job so fascinating, and so difficult. How the same person could be both kind and cruel, compassionate and wretched. Unraveling a murder was more about getting to know the people than the evidence. People who were contrary and contradictory, and who often didn't even know themselves.

She felt if she could just get a good look at a person's bookcase and their grocery cart, she'd pretty much know who they were.

Homes, Gamache knew, were a self-portrait. A person's choice of color, furnishing, pictures.

but if you were a nasty piece of work growing up, you'll be an asshole as an adult and you'll die pissed off.

The very force of his personality both created and crippled. How much more could he have accomplished had he been kinder? But then, dynamism and kindness often don't go together…

Ruth's FINE? Fucked up, Insecure, Neurotic and Egotistical?

The reader brings to the work personality traits, memories of past events, present needs and preoccupations, a particular mood of the moment and a particular physical condition. These and many other elements in a never-to-be-duplicated combination determine his response to the text.

Be yourself' is the worst advice you can give to some people.

Senator John Kennedy on Nancy Pelosi, "She can strut sitting down!"

She has a Billy goat brain and a mockingbird mouth!

Art, true art, is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Mature love is not a surrender of the self but a surrender to the self. The ego surrenders its hegemony of the personality to the heart, but in this surrender it is not annihilated. Rather it is strengthened because its roots in the body are nourished by the joy that the body feels.

The city was filled to overflowing with persons who had neither brains nor individuality, who bore no resemblance to men that live by bread, and had only their outward shape to distinguish them from sheep.

The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.

According to Gerber, to run a successful business, business owners need to balance three personalities: the technician the manager the entrepreneur.

'Ludacris' is something that I made up. It just kind of describes me. Sometimes I have like a split personality. Sometimes I'm cool, calm, and collected, and other times I'm beyond crazy.

Man distinguishes himself from Nature. This distinction of his is his God: the distinguishing of God from Nature is nothing else than the distinguishing of man from Nature. … [S]peculations and controversies concerning the personality or impersonality of God are therefore fruitless, idle, uncritical … ; … they in truth speculate only concerning themselves, only in the interest of their own instinct of self-preservation[.]

H]eavenly personality, or the perpetuation of human personality in heaven is nothing else than personality released from all earthly encumbrances and limitations[.] [H]ere we are men, there gods[.]

The personality of God is thus the means by which man converts the qualities of his own nature into the qualities of another being, - a being external to himself. The personality of God is nothing else than the projected personality of man.

You ought to be attracted to someone for what they've got inside them, not for the package it's presented in.

It is also a terrifying prospect: that the relationships we use as cornerstones of our personalities are not given by default but are a choice... p 231

Antony was also obsessive, judgmental, and paranoid.

I love that she's tough as nails one moment and soft as suede the next.

Are we born who we are, or do we make ourselves that way?