Quotes About Personality

There is no such thing as a normal person. There is just you and me." - Willie Nelson

I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at.

Johnny zingt geen liedjes. Johnny is zelf een liedje.

Sometimes people escape from childhood traumas by splitting into a whole spectrum of different, fully functioning identities, a condition known as Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD). So distinct are these personalities that MPD victims will have not only different handwriting styles, artistic talents, and knowledge of foreign languages, but even different allergies, illnesses, and reactions to drugs, depending upon which personality they are "using" at the moment.

Arguably the mos intriguing characteristic assessed by the Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire (MPQ), a widely used test developed by the University of Minnesota's eminent psychologist Auke Tellegen, is "absorption," which describes a particular style of focusing. If you get a high score in this trait, you're naturally inclined toward what he calls a "respondent" or "experiential" way of focusing.

Never does a man portray his character more vividly than his proclaiming the character to another.

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." [On British Labour politician Stafford Cripps.]

Many a beauty in her own room behaves repulsively till one splits one's sides.

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Las manos de los hombres no saben usar máscaras. Los hombres ponen duras las facciones hasta para sentirse guapos, pero las manos siempre los delatan. Cuando unas manos de hombre no te dicen nada, lo más probable es que el fulano sea un pendejito sin carácter.

Why do panda bears bore you?" "Since they're born wearing such impressive makeup, they don't make any effort to be interesting. They neither master any stageworthy tricks nor write autobiographies.

Sometimes, comics will make the observation that it's not jokes that are funny, it's characters that are funny. And isn't that true! That's why I always kill jokes. I'm terrible at them, because I get the joke right, but I can't get the character right, and it just goes down like a lead balloon.

You're being paranoid," Vein said. "It's one of your better traits.

Josh likes to say he put the funk in 'functional'. Personally I think he just put the ass in 'embarrassing', but, hey, what do I know?

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I'm inclined to think that, after a certain age, our tastes, instincts and inclinations harden like concrete.

Develop your eccentricities while you are young. That way, when you get old, people won't think you're going gaga.

As time goes on, she falls further behind in terms of social skills and achievements. As she gets older and her body continues to grow, she is placed in an ever more frightening position with increasing social expectations. Instead of allowing a complex, rich, and confident identity to emerge, she is left with a mostly unconscious wounded self and a childlike, need-driven personality.

This is the great paradox of defense mechanisms: they protect us from crushing anxiety during our childhoods, but then become an integral part of our personality that often damages us in adulthood.

The same phenomenon can be observed when young adults with underformed personalities who join cults and fringe groups. These groups attract hordes of "adults" who never had the type of early care that resulted in a solid identity, and they eagerly give up what little personality structure they have and allow the cult to dominate their life.

The missing link between reading a self-help book and actually achieving positive personality growth is a network of long-term give-and-take relationships with concerned others. Human beings simply cannot develop into mature adults (regardless of their chronological age) without the love and support of people around them. When I say "love," I am speaking in the general sense of the word meaning those who appreciate, enjoy, support, and show interest in others.

You can tell a man's character from his choices

She was a bit horsey-looking, but her face exuded both confidence and warmth.

How can both Nics, the loving and considerate and generous one, and the self-obsessed and self-destructive one, be the same person?