Quotes About Personality

Any detail can be magnified to reveal even more detail ad infinitum. The technical term is "infinite complexity." Fractals are the theological equivalent of what theologians call the incomprehensibility of God. Just when we think we have God figured out, we discover a new dimension of His kaleidoscopic personality.

but thinkers and feelers relate to God differently. So do introverts and extroverts. And that goes for all sixteen personality types in the Myers-Briggs matrix, all nine Enneagram types, and all four DISC profiles.

I love the way Dorothy Sayers described the wild side of His personality. To do them justice, the people who crucified Jesus did not do so because he was a bore. Quite the contrary; he was too dynamic to be safe. It has been left for later generations to muffle up that shattering personality and surround Him with an atmosphere of tedium. We have declawed the lion of Judah and made Him a housecat for pale priests and pious old ladies.9

He was a big man; fifty or so, with greased-back grey hair and an expression that looked as if it had been kicked into position.

Beware the inveterate punster, Doyle, it's a sure sign of brewing mental disturbance.

If you're not too heavily invested in your relationship with a personality-disordered person, consider getting out.

To me, clothing is a form of self-expression - there are hints about who you are in what you wear.

Ninety percent of our success as leaders will be determined by what's below the waterline. It's our leadership character that ultimately drives what we do, and why. It is a true reflection of who we really are as human beings.

Conflict reveals character--in life and in the novel.

Good or evil, it doesn't really matter, so long as your novel's character is interesting.

I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality.

Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

When I find a well-drawn character in fiction or biography, I generally take a warm personal interest in him, for the reason that I have known him before—met him on the river.

Maybe I'm delusional but I'm usually funny. It's not 100% but I have a pretty good batting average.

I'm not at all funny. I can do dark comedy pretty well, but straight-up comedy, I don't know. I'm much darker. I've been like that since I was 3 years old

Chris Elliott could read the phonebook and he's funny.

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

You have a nice personality, but not for a human being.

I cannot sing, dance or act; what else would I be but a talk show host.

If a guy doesn't like a funny girl, something is wrong with him.

A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name.

Tough and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a human being can be.

I probably am a cranky writer, but I am actually a fairly nice, normal person. Since I'm a grouchy writer, of course I have friends whose books are doing way better than mine.