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Quotes About Personality

They are imaginary characters. But perhaps not solely the products of my imagination, since there are some aspects of the characters that relate to my own experience of a wide variety of people.
~ Margaret Mahy
I'm unique just like everyone else
~ Margaret Mead
Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always 20 times better.
~ Margaret Oliphant
Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better.
~ Unknown
we found that we could subdivide rapprochement into three periods; (1) beginning rapprochement; (2) the rapprochement crisis; and (3) individual solutions of this crisis, resulting in patternings and personality characteristics with which the child enters into the fourth subphase of separation-individuation, the consolidation of individuation.
~ Unknown
well it used to be about trying to do something, now it is about trying to be someone
~ Margaret Thatcher
Nowadays there really is no primary poverty left in this country. In Western countries we are left with the problems which aren't poverty. All right, there may be poverty because people don't know how to budget, don't know how to spend their earnings, but now you are left with the really hard fundamental character—personality defect.
~ Margaret Thatcher
I catch myself thinking that I'm not physically visible, that whoever I'm talking to is responding to my personality, not my person.
~ Margo Jefferson
You can tell a lot about someone's personality by how he orders coffee. "Decaf please, skim milk, no sugar." That's the kind of a guy who goes through the car wash wearing a seat belt.
~ Unknown
The man was more temperamental than she was. Not an easy feat. (Mina's view of Diego.)
~ Unknown
The situation would be very much the same if we should place a teacher who, according to our conception of the term, is scientifically prepared, in one of the public schools where the children are repressed in the spontaneous expression of their personality till they are almost like dead beings. In such a school the children, like butterflies mounted on pins, are fastened each to his place, the desk, spreading the useless wings of barren and meaningless knowledge which they have acquired.
~ Maria Montessori
The whole Redlands business gave a patina of gravity to his personality
~ Marianne Faithfull
Camels are snobbishand sheep, unintelligent;water buffaloes, neurasthenic—even murderous.Reindeer seem over-serious.
~ Marianne Moore
My God, these Feeling types! ... Sensitive people are just tyrannical people - everybody else has to adapt to them.
~ Marie-Louise von Franz
The healing hero, therefore, is the one who finds some creative way out, a way not already known, and does not follow a pattern. Ordinary sick people follow ordinary patterns, but the shaman cannot be cured by the usual methods of healing. He has to find the unique way, the only way that applies to him. The creative personality who can do that then becomes a healer and is recognized as such by his colleagues.
~ Marie-Louise von Franz
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
~ Benjamin Franklin
What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
~ A.A. Milne
A plate of food has to have balance. For example, a mild fish like skate mustnt be overwhelmed by the side dishes. They should have personality and color, but they also have to be subtle.
~ Geoffrey Zakarian
The personality susceptible to the dream of limitless freedom is a personality also prone, should the dream ever sour, to misanthropy and rage.
~ Unknown
Liberty is the freedom of individual to express, without external hindrances, his personality.
~ Unknown
Obedience is the road to freedom, humility the road to pleasure, unity the road to personality.
~ C. S. Lewis
I like repressed characters. That gives me a lot of freedom to make a lot of different choices through subtleties.
~ Jeremy Renner
I think when you do radio there's a certain amount of freedom that when you walk in and sit down and turn the mic on, it's you. It's all you.
~ Joe Buck
The support of one's personality is friends. A part of one's self and a real foundation and existence.
~ Katharine Butler Hathaway