Personality Traits Quotes

• We may say that many, if not all, of the personality traits which we have called masculine or feminine are as lightly linked to sex as are the clothing, the manners, and the form of headdress that a society at a given period assigns to either sex.

  Margaret Mead

  Sex, Masculine And Feminine, Personality

  "Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies". Book by Margaret Mead, 1935.

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• Obama's personality traits, coupled with his extreme-leftist agenda, make him particularly dangerous to the American ideal and to the preservation of our founding principles, as well as to the liberty and prosperity they guarantee.

  David Limbaugh

  Personality, Liberty, Guarantees

  "Unpresidential Plummet". Interview with Kathryn Jean Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. September 2, 2010.

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• There are quite a few honest songwriters out there writing about relationships and their own personality traits. But for some reason, once they step out of the bedroom, their honesty doesn't seem to come with them.

  Billy Bragg

  Honesty, Writing, Personality

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• People should be judged on the basis of their performance, not nationality, personality, education, or personal traits and skills.

  Marvin Bower

  Skills, People, Personality

  Marvin Bower (1966). “The will to manage: corporate success through programmed management”

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• I have sporadic OCD cleaning moments around the house. But then I get lazy and I'm cured. It's a very inconsistent personality trait.

  Chris Hemsworth

  House, Personality, Lazy

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• They (animals) are not just living things; they are beings with lives... that makes all the difference in the world...next time you are outside...notice the first bird you see…you are beholding a unique individual with personality traits, an emotional profile, and a library of knowledge built on experience…what you are witnessing is not just biology, but a biography.

  Jonathan Balcombe

  Emotional, Animal, Unique

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• Basic personality traits develop early in life and over time become inviolable, hardwired. Most people learn little from experience, rarely thinking of adjusting their behavior, see problems as emanating from those around them, and keep on doing what they do in spite of everything, for better or worse.

  A.S.A. Harrison

  Thinking, People, Personality

  A. S. A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife: A Novel”, p.18, Penguin

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• I was terrified when my doctor told me that I had a unique and interesting personality trait, but then he told me about new Zoloft or Prozac and now I just take three pills a day and I blend right into this horrible inbred corporate landscape.

  Doug Stanhope

  Depression, Unique, Doctors

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• You make films whether they're dramas or comedies about neurotic people. Flawed people. Interesting personality traits. To make them about calm, stable untroubled people isn't interesting.

  Woody Allen

  Drama, People, Interesting

  CrankyCritic Interview, www.woodyallen.art.pl.

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• Just about ANY personality trait or skill can be learned: simply find it in someone you know and copy it. Then watch what happens.

  Steve Goodier

  Skills, Personality, Watches

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• Introversion - along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness - is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology.

  Susan Cain

  Cousin, Disappointment, Class

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.12, Penguin UK

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• I don't want everybody to try to sound like something; I think that God has given us each unique talents and passions. The things that come out of me will be different than my neighbor, because I have a totally different set of relationships, totally different set influences and personality traits.

  Michael Gungor

  Passion, Unique, Thinking

  Source: mousertime.blogspot.com

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• More than any other personality trait, my mother seemed to be ruled by anger and sadness. She seemed to hate being a mother. Watching her unhappiness as I grew up made me conclude that the answer was to try and be as unemotional as I could, which many therapists have taught me is a bad idea. It also made me want to avoid marriage and having children.

  Merrill Markoe

  Mother, Children, Hate

  Interview with Litsa Dremousis, www.avclub.com. November 1, 2011.

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• It really is a fact that liberals are much higher than conservatives on a major personality trait called 'openness to experience.' People who are high on openness to experience just crave novelty, variety, diversity, new ideas, travel. People low on it like things that are familiar, that are safe and dependable.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Ideas, Diversity, People

  "The moral roots of liberals and conservatives". TED conference, www.ted.com. March 2008.

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• Goal setting is the most important aspect of all improvement and personal development plans. Confidence is important, determination is vital, certain personality traits contribute to success, but they all come into focus in goal setting.

  Paul J. Meyer

  Determination, Goal, Focus

  Paul J. Meyer (2002). “Unlocking Your Legacy: 25 Keys for Success”, Moody Pub

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• There are personality traits, or baggage from their backgrounds, goals that they have and the first thing I need to do is understand and then acknowledge and then accept those properties. That's kind of the baseline requirement to have a productive relationship.

  Ian Bogost

  Goal, Personality, Needs

  Source: app.longform.org

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• It's very important when making a friend to check and see if they have a private plane. People think a good personality trait in a friend is kindness or a sense of humor. No, in a friend a good personality trait is a Gulfstream.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Friends, Kindness, Thinking

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• I think that people in general, whether they are male or female, who are inhibited by the clichés of what women are or what men are, really don't like themselves. Because personality traits are not necessarily sexual.

  Debbie Harry

  Men, Thinking, People

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• The reader brings to the work personality traits, memories of past events, present needs and preoccupations, a particular mood of the moment and a particular physical condition. These and many other elements in a never-to-be-duplicated combination determine his response to the text.

  Louise Rosenblatt

  Memories, Past, Personality

  Louise Michelle Rosenblatt, Edmund J. Farrell, James R. Squire, National Council of Teachers of English, National Council of Teachers of English. Convention (1990). “Transactions with literature: a fifty-year perspective : for Louise M. Rosenblatt”, Natl Council of Teachers

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• I remember being in the same position as Ruby, when I no longer believed in God as I was raised to believe. But I still am a believer - it's a personality trait, to be someone who can believe. But then what do you believe in?

  K. M. Soehnlein

  Believe, Personality, Rubies

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I am, like anybody else, full of contradictions and personality traits, and I don't know which ones to speak from as a stand-up or what aspects of myself to ask an audience to identify with.

  Andy Daly

  Personality, Speak, Contradiction

  "'A Real Person Who Has Real Thoughts and Feelings'". Interview with Stephanie Palumbo, logger.believermag.com. February 29, 2016.

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• Through this experience [of makimg movies], I recognized what an extraordinary set of personality traits it takes to be able to succeed in that world, and I was really drawn to the character work we could build with actors as a result.

  Meera Menon

  Character, Personality, Actors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I would hesitate to say the characters [ in Bink & Gollie] are too related to either to us [me and Alison McGhee], but they certainly draw on our physical traits and personality traits and then exaggerate them to the nth degree.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Character, Personality, Degrees

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I think the interview form works best on the radio. There are a lot of personality traits conveyed in a person's voice, the rhythm of their speech or how confident they sound.

  Terry Gross

  Thinking, Voice, Personality

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• All personality traits have their good side and their bad side. But for a long time, we've seen introversion only through its negative side and extroversion mostly through its positive side.

  Susan Cain

  Opposites, Long, Personality

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