Personality Quotes - Page 12

• To become acquainted with oneself is a terrible shock.

  Carl Jung

  Learning, Shock, Terrible

  Carl Gustav Jung, Mary Foote (1976). “The visions seminars: from the complete notes of Mary Foote”

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• Whatever can happen to anyone can happen to me.

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Happens

  Muriel Rukeyser (1994). “Out of Silence: Selected Poems”, p.121, Northwestern University Press

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• [T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.

  William James

  Differences, Important, Littles

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• I once made the mistake of writing a story with David Corbett. The man smoked me. He can delineate the character and personality of an accordion in three strokes. I didn't even know accordions had character. This act of generosity and wisdom from a very good writer will help anyone who is staring at a blank page, any day, any time. Highly recommended.

  Luis Alberto Urrea

  Mistake, Writing, Character

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• Don't say "The last one there is a rotten egg": unless you're absolutely sure there's a slow kid behind you.

  Cynthia Lewis

  Kids, Eggs, Rotten

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• Flowers and pricker bushes grow out of the same dust.

  Cynthia Lewis

  Flower, Learning, Dust

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• Hitting the kid with the ball might get you the ball, but it won't get you anyone to throw it to.

  Cynthia Lewis

  Kids, Balls, Hitting

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• One thing you can't pretend to be is funny.

  Cynthia Lewis

  One Thing

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• A society's apprehensiveness about divorce is an expression of its fear of change and of its resulting desire that personality remain unvarying.

  Elsie Clews Parsons

  Divorce, Expression, Desire

  Elsie Clews Parsons (1997). “Fear and Conventionality”, p.138, University of Chicago Press

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• True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Inspirational, True Love, Heart

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• Boys are more likely to develop a masculine personality and acquire strong moral standards when they have a loving and nurturant rather than a threatening or fear-inspiring father.

  James Q. Wilson

  Family, Strong, Father

  James Q. Wilson (1997). “The Moral Sense”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

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• More and more research is suggesting that, far from being simply encoded in the genes, much of personality is a flexible and dynamic thing that changes over the life span and is shaped by experience.

  Carol S. Dweck

  Growth, Research, Human Nature

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• Whenever there is a reaching down into innermost experience, into the nucleus of personality, most people are overcome by fear and many run away. . . The risk of inner experience, the adventure of the spirit, is in any case alien to most human beings. The possibility that such experience might have psychic reality is anathema to them.

  Carl Jung

  Running, Fear, Adventure

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• In just 200 tweets we can assess and identify 52 different personality traits of a customer. We ran an analysis over 500,000 people and we really nailed this. Think of providing this powerful insight to a retailer. We can see what they value, not just what they are buying. We have found a 40-45% increase in sales when you recommend upsales based on values instead of past buying behavior.

  Sandy Carter

  Powerful, Past, Thinking

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• To expect a personality to survive the disintegration of the brain is like expecting a cricket club to survive when all of its members are dead.

  Bertrand Russell

  Soul, Brain, Survival

  Bertrand Russell (1997). “Religion and Science”, p.143, Oxford University Press, USA

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• If I was working hard, she bled into my personality. I became more cynical.

  Marg Helgenberger

  Work, Cynical, Hard

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• I have an appearance on a new TV show called 'Bar Karma' on Current TV. I had the most fun ever making this episode. I play someone with a multiple personality, and I think my fans will be surprised and get a real giggle out of it. It's a new model for TV in that it is interactive with the community.

  Genie Francis

  Karma, Fun, Real

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• It is my personality alone that has brought back the waltz and made it a global craze.

  Andre Rieu

  Made, Craze, Waltz

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

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• It just seems like, you agree to have a certain personality or something. For no reason. Just to make things easier for everyone. But when you think about it, I mean, how do you know it's even you?

  Claire Danes

  Mean, Thinking, Conformity

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• I shall never get out of this! There are two of me now: This new absolutely white person and the old yellow one, And the white person is certainly the superior one. She doesn't need food, she is one of the real saints. At the beginning I hated her, she had no personality- She lay in bed with me like a dead body And I was scared, because she was shaped just the way I was only much whiter and unbreakable and with no complaints. I couldn't sleep for a week she was so cold.

  Sylvia Plath

  Real, Sleep, Two Of Me

  Sylvia Plath (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.141, Faber & Faber

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• There's something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Enigma, Clear, Allegory

  "Kubrick, Inside a Film Artist's Maze". Book by Thomas Allen Nelson, p. 10, 2000.

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• Most people stiffen with self-consciousness when they pose for a photograph. Lighting and fine camera equipment are useless if the photographer cannot make them drop the mask, at least for a moment, so he can capture on his film their real, undistorted personality and character.

  Philippe Halsman

  Real, Character, Self

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• Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.

  Walter Pater

  Wall, Real, Voice

  Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry”, p.153, Courier Corporation

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• I mean, I think I liked every band I ever played in because each band was different, each band had a different concept, and each band leader was different... different personalities and musical tastes.

  Buddy Rich

  Mean, Thinking, Leader

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• Thus the radii of all education run together into one center which is called personality.

  Max Stirner

  Running, Together, Radius

  Max Stirner (1967). “The False Principle of Our Education: Or, Humanism and Realism”, Ralph Myles Pub

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