Personality Quotes - Page 18

• I don't think it's possible to write a good novel around a negative personality.

  Alberto Moravia

  Writing, Thinking, Negative

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• I think it is more of an intuitive, circular kind of personality, for starters. And, as I say of horses, the secret to breeding great horses is the three Bs: bones, brains, and balance. If you look at art, it shares some of the same qualities.

  Alice Walton

  Art, Horse, Thinking

  "Alice's Wonderland" by Rebecca Mead, www.newyorker.com. June 27, 2011.

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• The doctrine of the Trinity which was established in the church by the council of Nice, A. D. 325. This doctrine destroys the personality of God, and his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

  J. N. Andrews

  Jesus, Nice, Son

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• Christy Mathewson brought something to baseball no one else had ever given the game. He handed the game a certain touch of class, an indefinable lift in culture, brains, and personality.

  Grantland Rice

  Baseball, Games, Class

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• You can't rob a bank on charm and personality.

  Willie Sutton

  Charm

  Willie Sutton, Edward Linn (2004). “Where the Money Was: The Memoirs of a Bank Robber”, p.111, Broadway Books

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• To read great books does not mean one becomes ‘bookish’; it means that something of the terrible insight of Dostoyevsky, of the richly-charged imagination of Shakespeare, of the luminous wisdom of Goethe, actually passes into the personality of the reader; so that in contact with the chaos of ordinary life certain free and flowing outlines emerge, like the forms of some classic picture, endowing both people and things with a grandeur beyond what is visible to the superficial glance.

  John Cowper Powys

  Book, Mean, People

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• What matters most in a child’s development, they say, is not how much information we can stuff into her brain in the first few years. What matters, instead, is whether we are able to help her develop a very different set of qualities, a list that includes persistence, self-control, curiosity, conscientiousness, grit, and self-confidence. Economists refer to these as noncognitive skills, psychologists call them personality traits, and the rest of us sometimes think of them as character.

  Paul Tough

  Children, Character, Self Confidence

  Paul Tough (2012). “How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I’m just a person, just Jay Park, but people expect me to be the best dancer or a man with the perfect personality. That’s not me.

  Jay Park

  Men, People, Perfect

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• Annie Lalley is one of the funniest and most likable personalities you'll ever see on stage --which makes the depth of her songwriting all the more striking

  Pierce Pettis

  Depth, Annie, Stage

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• A Dream of Undying Fame is a probing, elegant and balanced book. Louis Breger shows how Freud’s traumatic childhood shaped his ambitious, detached and authoritarian personality, and led to the betrayal of his mentor, Josef Breuer. Breger’s analysis exposes a fascinating paradox: Freud both invented psychoanalysis and impoverished its development. A must-read for everyone interested in how ideas can change the world.

  Brenda Webster

  Dream, Betrayal, Book

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• Sometimes the personalities at the helm of the madness industry are, with their drives and obsessions, as mad in their own way as those they study. And that relatively ordinary people are, more and more, defined by their maddest edges.

  Jon Ronson

  People, Mad, Ordinary

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• Men have presented their plans and philosophies for the remedying of earth's ills, but Jesus stands alone in presenting not a system, but His own personality as capable of supplying the needs of the soul.

  A. C. Dixon

  Jesus, Philosophy, Men

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• If you are looking for a lover, a job, a new house, or a serial killer, Snoop is for you. It’s great science and a fun read by a world-renowned personality researcher.

  James W. Pennebaker

  Jobs, Fun, House

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• Few literary depictions of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake match the intensity and visceral power of those in Flacco's gripping first novel. The author's screenwriting talent shines in this story of the earth's destructive power and humanity's moral depravity. The emerging maniacal personality, revealed in increasingly gruesome and venomous detail, rivals the Ripper.Dickens meets Hannibal Lecter. Brace yourself.

  William Bernhardt

  Earthquakes, San Francisco, Shining

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• Men are attracted to me because of my personality!

  Kim Kardashian

  Men

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• Personality is and does something...It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual

  Gordon Allport

  Lying, Doe, Individual

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• With some guys, drugs became a way of life. They went through tremendous personality changes, or they died. Drugs didn't do them any good. In the same way, at certain times in my life, alcohol didn't do me any good. A lot of kids today seem to be taking themselves, their health and their education more seriously, and that's good.

  Greg Noll

  Kids, Guy, Alcohol

  Greg Noll, Andrea Gabbard (1989). “Da Bull: Life Over the Edge”, p.115, North Atlantic Books

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• I was shy, but it came out in a big personality. My turning point was when I let my hair go naturally and I got contact lenses. I am really blind, by the way. I have these big eyes that don’t work!

  Tracee Ellis Ross

  Eye, Hair, Lenses

  FaceBook post by Tracee Ellis Ross from Dec 22, 2012

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• Your brain is the organ of your personality, character, and
  intelligence and is heavily involved in making you who you are.

  Daniel Amen

  Character, Brain, Organs

  Daniel G. Amen, M.D. (2010). “Change Your Brain, Change Your Body: Use Your Brain to Get and Keep the Body You Have Always Wanted”, p.18, Harmony

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• Every man who is any kind of artist has a great deal of female in him. I act and give of myself as a man, but I register and receive with the soul of a woman. The only really good artists are feminine. I can't admit the existence of an artist whose dominant personality is masculine.

  Peter Biskind

  Artist, Men, Giving

  Peter Biskind (2013). “My Lunches with Orson: Conversations between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles”, p.235, Macmillan

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• 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.

  Carlisle Floyd

  Elements, Outsiders, Conflict

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• In no other profession does the character and personality of a director play a more vital role in the development of young people than in the coaching of athletics.

  Clair Bee

  Character, Play, People

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• We are the puzzle pieces who seldom fit with other puzzle pieces. Romantics, idealists, eccentrics, we inhabit single-dom as our natural resting state. In a world where proms and marriage define the social order, we are, by force of our personalities and inner strength, rebels.

  Sasha Cagen

  Order, Inner Strength, Rebel

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• Cinema doesn't connect with the body as artists have in two thousand years of painting, using the nude as the central figure which the ideas seem to circulate around. I think it is important to somehow push or stretch or emphasize, in as many ways as I can, the sheer bulk, shape, heaviness, the juices, the actual structure of the body. Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward.

  Peter Greenaway

  Artist, Thinking, Years

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

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• Everything characters say or do is a clue to their personalities, their histories, and the forces that motivate them.

  William G. Tapply

  Writing, Character, Clue

  William G Tapply (2011). “The Elements of Mystery Fiction: Writing the Modern Whodunit”, p.31, Poisoned Pen Press Inc

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