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Quotes About Personality

Why is he sweet? Sometimes a guy will be sweet because he needs to make up for the times he's been bad. I once heard it said that when a guy often acts disrespectfully to you, his bad behavior is not a piece of the puzzle. It solves the whole mystery. It tells you who he is. So don't get wrapped up in the bliss of his candy-coated personality when he's trying to make it up to you.
~ Jason Evert
There's surprisingly little difference between a candidate with six months of experience and one with six years. The real difference comes from the individual's dedication, personality, and intelligence.
~ Jason Fried
fingers." You can buy the same guitar, effects pedals, and amplifier that Eddie Van Halen uses. But when you play that rig, it's still going to sound like you.
~ Jason Fried
But after that, the curve flattens out. There's surprisingly little difference between a candidate with six months of experience and one with six years. The real difference comes from the individual's dedication, personality, and intelligence.
~ Jason Fried
Mr. McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature.
~ Jasper Fforde
Death doesn't care about personalities - he's more interested in meeting quotas.
~ Jasper Fforde
In my early work, I tried to hide my personality, my psychological state, my emotions. This was partly due to my feelings about myself and party due to my feelings about painting at the time. I sort of stuck to my guns for a while but eventually it seemed like a losing battle. Finally one must simply drop the reserve.
~ Jasper Johns
risa delata a quien finge y niega su nombre y es casi inconfundible en cada persona
~ Javier Marías
Birisi hakk?nda devaml? bir ÅŸeyler duyunca, o kiÅŸiyi biraz tan?d???n? zannediyorsun. KiÅŸinin itibar?n? gerçek benliÄŸiyle kar??t?rmak çok kolay. Onun hakk?nda hiçbir ÅŸey bildiÄŸini anlamak için onunla ÅŸahsen tan??man gerekiyor.
~ Drew Karpyshyn
As with all the other portals, your radiant true nature remains, but not the personality. In any case, whatever is real or of true value in your personality is your true nature shining through. This is never lost. Nothing that is of value, nothing that is real, is ever lost.
~ Eckhart Tolle
The past lives in you as memories, but memories in themselves are not a problem. In fact, it is through memory that we learn from the past and from past mistakes. It is only when memories, that is to say, thoughts about the past, take you over completely that they turn into a burden, turn problematic, and become part of your sense of self. Your personality, which is conditioned by the past, then becomes your prison.
~ Eckhart Tolle
He could not be a breaker, it was against his bent.
~ Edith Pargeter
Undine was fiercely independent and yet passionately imitative. She wanted to surprise every one by her dash and originality, but she could not help modelling herself on the last person she met.
~ Edith Wharton
The bounds of a personality are not reproducible by a sharp black line, but...each of us flows imperceptibly into adjacent people and things.
~ Edith Wharton
Lizzy Elmsworth was not a good-tempered girl, but she was too intelligent to let her temper interfere with her opportunities.
~ Edith Wharton
Obviously he had aspired too high, or been too impatient; but it was his nature to be aspiring and impatient, and if he was to succeed it must be on the lines of his own character.
~ Edith Wharton
Of course he's good-he's too stupid to be bad
~ Edith Wharton
Undine was fiercely independent and yet passionately imitative. She wanted to surprise every one by her dash and originality, but she could not help modelling herself on the last person she met, and the confusion of ideals thus produced caused her much perturbation when she had to choose between two courses.
~ Edith Wharton
Ali znate, nas dve smo toliko razli?ite: ona voli da bude dobra, a ja volim da budem sre?na.
~ Edith Wharton
Every one knows you're a thousand times handsomer and cleverer than Bertha; but then you're not nasty. And for always getting what she wants in the long run, commend me to a nasty woman.
~ Edith Wharton
Mr. Popple, in fact, held that the personality of the artist should at all times be dissembled behind that of the man. It was his opinion that the essence of good-breeding lay in tossing off a picture as easily as you lit a cigarette.
~ Edith Wharton
BECAUSE ROOSEVELT WAS9, in the image of Professor Brander Matthews of Columbia University, "polygonal," visitors saw only certain facets of his personality at any given time.
~ Edmund Morris
He is a great big boy, Wilson said. There is a sweetness about him that is very compelling. You can't resist the man. I can easily understand why his followers are so fond of him.
~ Edmund Morris
I wonder whether he is the real thing, or only the bundle of eccentricities he appears."106
~ Edmund Morris