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Quotes About Personalities

The revolutionary despises any kind of doctrinarism and has rejected peaceful science, leaving it to future generations. He knows only one science—the science of destruction. For this and only for this he now studies mechanics, physics, chemistry, perhaps medicine. For this he studies day and night the living science of people, of the personalities and positions, and all the conditions of the present social structure in every possible stratum.
~ Philip Pomper
As a biographer, I try to uncover the adventures and personalities behind each character I research. Once my character and I have reached an understanding, then I begin the detective work reading old books, old letters, old newspapers, and visiting the places where my subject lived. Often I turn up surprises, and of course, I pass them on.
~ Jean Fritz
When I choose child actors, I chose them for their personalities. And then I work with their own vocabulary, so I'm not imposing text or dialogue on them: I'm just receiving.
~ Hirokazu Kore-eda
In the post-Watergate atmosphere of 1975 and 1976, the just-plain-folks personalities of both Ford and Carter seemed the perfect antidote to Nixon's arrogant, isolated presidency. But as alert history-minded readers know, Ford and Carter were both rebuffed by voters in their efforts to hold on to the presidency.
~ Jeff Greenfield
sometimes the personalities at the helm of the madness industry are, with their drives and obsessions, as mad in their own way as those they study. And that relatively ordinary people are, more and more, defined by their maddest edges.
~ Jon Ronson
And in fact our unhappiness and our strangeness, our anxieties and compulsions, those least fashionable aspects of our personalities, are quite often what lead us to do rather interesting things. He
~ Jon Ronson
After Stu, I liked John and George. Then I like Pete Best. Paul I found hard to get close to.
~ Astrid Kirchherr
A stronger focus on quality public policymaking and less distraction of personalities would be a sufficient and important contribution I can make.
~ Jay Weatherill
All history is biography.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is properly no history; only biography.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A new generation of Sirius Cybernetics Corporation robots and computers, with the new GPP feature.'" "GPP feature?" said Arthur. "What's that?" "Oh, it says Genuine People Personalities.
~ Douglas Adams
The horses are all characters, all personalities. Some you get along with, some you don't, some might take a bit longer.
~ Zara Phillips
For the vlogging channel, I wanted to build the infrastructure and build up all the personalities in a way that felt like weren't just forcing the audience to watch everyone we have.
~ Felicia Day
Horses have really distinct personalities, and they're magical in many ways.
~ Michael Mann
I miss the early days; I do. I was so lucky. I basically had it to myself, learning about these chimpanzees. Nobody knew anything about them. Discovering their different personalities, different life histories. I was lucky.
~ Jane Goodall
It's so important to grow our game that players share more of their lives than just on the field and that personalities can shine through.
~ Trevor Bauer
I like writing for individuals with really rich musical personalities.
~ Edgar Meyer
Four personalities are bound to clash.
~ John Deacon
Alpacas are very endearing, and they all have very different personalities.
~ Antony Beevor
I've always wanted something that the message is meaningful to me. I think about all these diversified personalities, people, and countries that I play. I'm simple, and I want to be able to sing my songs to anybody.
~ Andrae Crouch
Not head coach - Assistant would be very attractive, but I don't think I have the discipline to deal with all the egos and personalities a head coach has to deal with.
~ Robert Parish
The idea behind Mediaite was always to focus on the punditry, focus on the personalities behind the political media.
~ Dan Abrams
If you look at the people who make up the Bravo landscape from Jeff Lewis to Rachel Zoe and Padma Lakshmi and Tabatha Coffey and the 'Millionaire Matchmaker,' these are very strong personalities that people love to watch and that you... don't see anywhere else.
~ Andy Cohen
Early experiences convinced me that animals can and do have quite distinct personalities.
~ Chuck Jones