Quotes on Personality

Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.

To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality.

If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

I am a hard person to love but when I love, I love really hard.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

I am a deeply superficial person.

In HEATHEN, R. Flowers Rivera remixes the classical and the Biblical, the usual and the typical until what we thought we knew of ourselves and others is new again. The mythic becomes particular; the particular becomes mythic in these fascinating poems of personalities and personas. Rivera’s work is rich in empathy and invention. Heathen is a book of psalms for the present day.

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.

Personality begins where comparison ends.

There is no fundamental difference in the ways of thinking of primitive and civilized man. A close connection between race and personality has never been established.

Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different.

I've never allowed my political life, or my life as a basketball player, to define the totality of my humanity or my personality.

I work with structure, but I go outside the box and give it my own spin. I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes - where a woman's personality and sense of style are realized.

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Excitement radiates through your eyes, your face, your voice, your soul, and your whole personality.

It is easy enough to arouse in a listener a desire for what is honorable; for in every one of us nature has laid the foundations or sown the seeds of the virtues. We are born to them all, all of us, and when a person comes along with the necessary stimulus, then those qualities of the personality are awakened, so to speak, from their slumber.

We don't want to promote any system that treats the fact that an individual is LGBT as a personality disorder. And anything that perpetuates that perception is harmful - not only to that member of the community but the entire community.

I can measure the motion of bodies but I cannot measure human folly.

I know what my limitations are as an actor, but my strength is putting myself into a well-written part. When I get in trouble is when I have to fix it, or when I have to carry it on personality.

And he could not tell why the struggle was worthwhile, why he had determined to use the utmost himself and his heritage from the personalities he had passed... He stretched out his arms to the crystalline, radiant sky. I know myself," he cried, "But that is all.