Quotes About Personality

There is an actor in every character you are playing. We are sons, daughters, students, lovers, friends, employees, students, parents, etc. Be true and real under every skin you wear, don't be characterized, be yourself first, sincere, real and get MickeyMized.

Simons could not identify this ideal self-image with the dark side of his personality – the side which murdered. He attributed the identity of his original aggressor, namely his brother, to the murderous side of himself and said in his statement to the detectives that it was the spirit of his deceased brother who ordered him to murder the children.

Mhlengwa Zikode fixated in the Oedipus phase. His father was paralysed and Mhlengwa won the favour of both his mother and his older and only sister, who was his primary caretaker. He had a symbiotic relationship with both these women and could never really succeed in differentiating his own personality from theirs.

this person must also have a weak ego, virtually no superego and a domineering id, which means that the fantasy will not be inhibited but will be acted out.

It takes a person about twenty years to develop into a serial killer. The process commences during the first five years of his life, whereafter he nurtures the most horrendous sexual and aggressive fantasies in which other human beings are subjugated to mere objects.

Many serial killers try to plead dissociative personality disorder, which is a new name for multiple personality disorder, in court. But they all fail dismally in this desperate attempt to avoid responsibility for their crimes.

As I drew up the profile I realised that it had so much in common with the profile of Selepe, the Cleveland killer, that it could have described the same man. But a profile describes a personality and not a person and two people could have similar personalities.

Owing to a lack of bonding with his mother or primary caretaker, or due to a symbiotic situation in which he fails to differentiate his own personality from his mother's, he has a weak ego.

If you're a gifted flirt, talking about the price of eggs will do as well as any other subject.

It's wonderful to watch a pretty woman with character grow beautiful.

You can't truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character.

We're seldom drawn to a character we admire; only to a personality we like.

Don't be yourself. Be someone a little nicer.

Everyone is as God made him, and often a good deal worse.

Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.

Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.

Tell me thy company, and I will tell thee what thou art.

Memory is the basis of individual personality, just as tradition is the basis of the collective personality of a people. We live in memory and by memory, and our spiritual life is at bottom simply the effort of our memory to persist, to transform itself into hope, the effort of our past to transform itself into our future.

Cada hombre es un mundo, Gertrudis. —Y cada mujer, una luna, ¿no es eso, don Juan?

We all know individuals who can transform hopeless situations into challenges to be overcome, just through the force of their personalities. This ability to persevere despite obstacles and setbacks is the quality people most admire in others, and justly so; it is probably the most important trait not only for succeeding in life, but for enjoying it as well.

it seems clear that if you are an extrovert, have strong self-esteem, and look at the world with optimism, you will have a better chance of becoming successful and leading a satisfying life.

After each episode of flow a person becomes more of a unique individual, less predictable, possessed of rarer skills.

Bertrand Russell, one of the greatest philosophers of our century, described how he achieved personal happiness: "Gradually I learned to be indifferent to myself and my deficiencies; I came to center my attention increasingly upon external objects: the state of the world, various branches of knowledge, individuals for whom I felt affection." There could be no better short description of how to build for oneself an autotelic personality.