Persona Quotes

• One could say, with a little exaggeration, that the persona is that which in reality one is not, but which oneself as well as others think one is.

  Carl Jung

  Reality, Thinking, Littles

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.123, Princeton University Press

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• I've been working as an actress since I was very young, and I know a lot of people who are actors who don't have to deal with having a persona... You know, if you look up the word persona, it isn't even real. The whole meaning of the word is that it's made up, and it's like I didn't even get to make up my own. It can be annoying.

  Kristen Stewart

  Real, People, Looks

  Interview with Dennis Hopper, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 27, 2009.

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• Be as you wish to seem.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Integrity, Hypocrisy

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• To be irreplaceable, you have to be different.

  Coco Chanel

  Different, Irreplaceable

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• I think we all have a lot of different personas inside of ourselves. What happens in life is that most people get caught up in presenting one persona that they feel safest in.

  Vince Vaughn

  Thinking, People, Different

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Our persona was not created by accident; it was created in order to camouflage the parts of ourselves we deemed the most undesirable and to overcompensate for what we believe to be our deepest flaws. What persona are you hiding behind?

  Debbie Ford

  Believe, Order, Camouflage

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• I think we all carry within us different versions of ourselves. Our true, greatest, most honest versions of ourselves can either be developed and nourished, or it can remain dead from neglect. Most people opt for the easiest version rather than the best.
  But in the end which version lives, which version thrives and which version dies, depends on the choices we make and the people in our lives.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Thinking, People, Choices

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• I am a collection of dismantled almosts.

  Anne Sexton

  Who I Am, Personality, Imperfection

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• We're creating multiple personas. We're creating a thespian sense of personality where we see ourselves as works of art, and we see everything in our environment as a prop, as a set, as a stage, as a backdrop for filling ourselves in. We don't see ourselves as ever completed. We are in-formation.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Art, Technology, Creating

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• It's not until you develop your own voice, your own persona onstage that you become your own comic, who you really are.

  Wanda Sykes

  Voice, Comic

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• It is time for us to take off our masks, to step out from behind our personas - whatever they might be: educators, activists, biologists, geologists, writers, farmers, ranchers, and bureaucrats - and admit we are lovers, engaged in an erotics of place. Loving the land. Honoring its mysteries. Acknowledging, embracing the spirit of place - there is nothing more legitimate and there is nothing more true. That is why we are here. That is why we do what we do. There is nothing intellectual about it. We love the land. It is a primal affair.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Land, Intellectual, Farmers And Ranchers

  Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “An Unspoken Hunger”, p.77, Vintage

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• Most people, I believe, when they're asked profound questions about their own persona are not really able to enunciate it, because it's a combination of so many things.

  Haskell Wexler

  Believe, People, Profound

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• If you change a woman's look, you change her persona.

  Alber Elbaz

  Looks, Ifs

  "Land of dreams". Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2004.

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• It is so important that you don't get distracted by what you are not. You need to start confessing your persona and living in it, and don't be bewildered by your circumstances. Just stay on course with what God is promising you.

  Graham Cooke

  Important, Needs, Circumstances

  FaceBook post by Graham Cooke from Jun 10, 2013

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• What you see is what you get. My God, I don't have the time nor the energy to live up to some persona.

  Marc Anthony

  Energy

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Having an avatar doesn't give you an identity, and having a persona online doesn't make you a personality either.

  Marilyn Manson

  Giving, Personality, Identity

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• In a late-night monologue, it's not just about being funny; you have to come off as knowledgeable. You have to cultivate a persona of trust and intelligence and likeability.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Night, Knowledgeable, Late

  "Anthony Jeselnik on roasting, ripping off Jack Handey, and giving the devil his own TV show". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 12, 2013.

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• My persona has always been what a man was never supposed to be. Outrageous, gregarious, crazy, silly, funny.

  Richard Simmons

  Crazy, Silly, Men

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• Major theme of the book ["Hotels of North America"], from my point of view: what is persona, what is self, in the digital sphere, and/or what is the effect of it on self in a prolonged interaction.

  Rick Moody

  Book, Self, Views

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Character is much easier kept than recovered.

  Thomas Paine

  Life, Integrity, War

  Thomas Paine (1819). “The American Crisis”, p.190

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• I love the way she projects two facets: a visible persona and a subterranean one. She keeps her thoughts to herself; she seems to suggest that her secret, inner life is at least as significant as the appearance she gives.

  Francois Truffaut

  Two, Giving, Secret

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• I wanted my show to look like the fourth of July.

  Rick James

  July, Looks, Shows

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• My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am.

  Joan Jett

  Guitar, Who I Am, Rockers

  FaceBook post by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts from Sep 17, 2013

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• Still when I go on talk shows, I worry that I have to live up to a comedic persona.

  Charlie Day

  Worry, Goes On, Comedic

  "'Horrible Bosses' Charlie Day: 5 Things You Didn't Know" by Jethro Nededog, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 9, 2011.

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

  Tupac Shakur

  Love, Rapper, Personality

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