Quotes with personality

  • There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are.
  • Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.
  • One of the reasons it has seemed so difficult for a person to change his habits, his personality, or his way of life, has been that heretofore nearly all efforts at change have been directed to the circumference of the self, so to speak, rather than to the center.
  • An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.
  • If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature.
  • When you're the mom in a big family comedy, you have to get your personality when you can.
  • The principal factors which influenced my life are 1) nonviolent tactics; 2) constitutional means; 3) democratic procedures; 4) respect for human personality; 5) a belief that all people are one.
  • By the age of twenty, any young man should know whether or not he is to be a specialist and just where his tastes lie. By postponing the question we have set on immaturity a premium which controls most American personality to its deathbed.
  • Socially I never was an outsider. I have never thought of the conflict element before frankly, but perhaps it was wanting to belong, and at the same time wanting to retain one's own personality.
  • I'm not an outstanding personality, and I'm certainly no beauty. Acting ability is all I've got to trade on.
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  • Betty Field I'm not an outstanding personality, and I'm certainly no beauty. Acting ability is all I've got to trade on.
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  • George H. Mead A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
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  • Carolina Herrera A wedding dress is both an intimate and personal for a woman - it must reflect the personality and style of the bride.
    Carolina Herrera
    Venezuelan fashion designer (1939 - )
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  • Bill Hybels Adoration in prayer reminds us of God's identity and inclination. As we list his attributes, lifting up his character and personality, we reinforce our understanding of who he is.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Vladimir Ilyich Lenin All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person, and long ago we were over and done with the business of a hero, and here it comes up again: the glorification of one personality. This is not good at all. I am just like everybody else.
    Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
    Russian revolutionary leader (1870 - 1924)
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  • Bruce Lee Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
    Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lees Wisdom for Daily Living
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Alec Guinness An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.
    Alec Guinness
    English actor (1914 - 2000)
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  • Joseph Conrad An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Aldous Huxley An ideal is merely the projection, on an enormously enlarged scale, of some aspect of personality.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Amy Lowell Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
    Amy Lowell
    American poet, criticus (1874 - 1925)
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  • Bryan Batt Be fun! I don't like homes or rooms that don't have a sense of humor or have some sense of whimsy or a personality. Your home should reflect who you are, and what you love. I would never have something in my home because it's the thing to have. I have to love it and it needs some connection to me.
    Bryan Batt
    American actor (1963 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • George Eliot But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Robert S. Hillyer By the age of twenty, any young man should know whether or not he is to be a specialist and just where his tastes lie. By postponing the question we have set on immaturity a premium which controls most American personality to its deathbed.
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  • Camille Paglia Capitalism, gaudy and greedy, has been inherent in western aesthetics from ancient Egypt on. It is the mysticism and glamour of things, which take on a personality of their own. As an economic system, it is in the Darwinian line of Sade, not Rousseau.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Caution has its place, no doubt, but we cannot refuse our support to a serious venture which challenges the whole of the personality. If we oppose it, we are trying to suppress what is best in man -his daring and his aspirations. And should we succeed, we should only have stood in the way of that invaluable experience which might have given a meaning to life. What would have happened if Paul had allowed himself to be talked out of his journey to Damascus?
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Camille Paglia Charisma is the radiance produced by the interaction of male and female elements in a gifted personality. The charismatic woman has a masculine force and severity. The charismatic man has an entrancing female beauty. Both are hot and cold, glowing with presexual self-love.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Bela Lugosi Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.
    Bela Lugosi
    Hungarian-American actor (1882 - 1956)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Albert Schweitzer Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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