Personality Quotes - Page 27

• When we die to something, something comes alive within us. If we die to self, charity comes alive; if we die to pride, service comes alive; if we die to lust, reverence for personality comes alive; if we die to anger, love comes alive.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Pride, Self, Lust

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• The monk in hiding himself from the world becomes not less than himself, not less of a person, but more of a person, more truly and perfectly himself: for his personality and individuality are perfected in their true order, the spiritual, interior order.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Order, Individuality

  Thomas Merton (1998). “The seven storey mountain”, Harcourt

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• Men never sound more stupid than when they're telling you they're a very complex personality.

  Clive James

  Stupid, Men, Sound

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• What one discovers in life, I find, is that one's personality defects don't come and go.

  Lynne Truss

  Comes And Goes, Defects

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• Nice clothes fall apart. Nice clocks don't work. Bits fall off the nice cooker. It is hard to accept that pricing is unrelated to quality, but it's plainly true. Nowadays, we pay the price that satisfies our particular personality type; and then we live with the painful consequences.

  Lynne Truss

  Nice, Fall, Pay The Price

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• A true personality . . . is like a robust organism that, with unconscious sureness, seeks out and digests the nourishment appropriate to it and vigorously rejects that which is unsuitable.

  Gustav Mahler

  Robust, Unconscious, Rejects

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• To be perfectly honest, it isn't fair that people have used my personality, and the sacrifices I make because I want to, as an indication that I want to be in a political office.

  Steve Garvey

  Sacrifice, People, Office

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• I have not been on any river that has more of a distinctive personality than does the Missouri River. It's a river that immediately presents to the traveler, 'I am a grandfather spirit. I have a source; I have a life.

  William Least Heat-Moon

  Travel, Rivers, Grandfather

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• The question whether our conscious personality survives after death has been answered by almost all races of men in the affirmative.

  James G. Frazer

  Men, Race, Afterlife

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• In the world of movie personalities the distance between popularity and politics is short.

  Shirley Temple

  Movie, Distance, World

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• You can tell a lot about someone's personality if you know his star sign -Jesus, born on 25 December, fed the five thousand, walked on water -typical Capricorn.

  Harry Hill

  Jesus, Stars, Astrology

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• In my early life, and probably even today, it is not sufficiently understood that a child's education should include at least a rudimentary grasp of religion, sex, and money. Without a basic knowledge of these three primary facts in a normal human being's life --subjects which stir the emotions, create events and opportunities, and if they do not wholly decide must greatly influence an individual's personality --no human being's education can have a safe foundation.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Education, Sex, Children

  Phyllis Bottome (1948). “Search for a Soul”, New York, Reynal & Hitchcock [1948]

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• When white-collar people get jobs, they sell not only their time and energy, but their personalities as well. They sell by the week, or month, their smiles and their kindly gestures, and they must practice that prompt repression of resentment and aggression.

  C. Wright Mills

  Jobs, Practice, White

  C. Wright Mills (2002). “White Collar: The American Middle Classes”, p.17, Oxford University Press

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• Before puberty the child's personality has not yet formed and it is easier to guide its life and make it acquire specific habits of order, discipline, and work.

  Antonio Gramsci

  Children, Order, Discipline

  Antonio Gramsci (2011). “Letters from Prison”, p.348, Columbia University Press

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• I'm the kind of person, if I see something, like a funny video, I want to share it. With Twitter and Tumblr you can do that on a mass scale, and people get to know your personality.

  Aziz Ansari

  People, Funny Videos, Want

  "Questions for Aziz Ansari" by Jessica Grose, www.slate.com. August 12, 2011.

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• The Holy Spirit wants to convert the words of Scripture into transformed personalities.

  David Jeremiah

  Want, Scripture, Spirit

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• Peace is self-control at its widest-at the width where the "self" has been lost, and interest has been transferred to coordinations wider than personality.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Peace, Self, Lost

  Alfred North Whitehead (1966). “Adventure of ideas”

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• There are many talented English personalities, but unfortunately they were all in Hollywood.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Humorous, Hollywood

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• Since I reached the conclusion that the essence of the creative person is being in love with what one is doing, I have had a growing awareness that this characteristic makes possible all the other personality characteristics of the creative person: independence of thought and judgment, honesty, perseverance, curiosity, willingness to take risks and the like.

  Ellis Paul Torrance

  Perseverance, Honesty, Being In Love

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• If you look into their [chimpanzees] eyes, you know you're looking into a thinking mind. They teach us that we are not the only beings with personalities, minds capable of rational thought, altruism and a sense of humor. That leads to new respect for other animals, respect for the environment and respect for all life.

  Jane Goodall

  Eye, Science, Animal

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• Evidently there are plenty of people in journalism who have neither got what they liked nor quite grown to like what they get. They write pieces they do not much enjoy writing, for papers they totally despise, and the sad process ends by ruining their style and disintegrating their personality, two developments which in a writer cannot be separate, since his personality and style must progress or deteriorate together, like a married couple in a country where death is the only permissible divorce.

  Claud Cockburn

  Country, Couple, Divorce

  Claud Cockburn (1967). “I, Claud ...: the autobiography of Claud Cockburn”

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• It is in our interests to let the police and their employers go on believing that the Underground is a conspiracy, because it increases their paranoia and their inability to deal with what is really happening. As long as they look for ringleaders and documents they will miss their mark, which is that proportion of every personality which belongs in the Underground.

  Germaine Greer

  Believe, Long, Missing

  Germaine Greer (1990). “The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings”, p.16, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Personalities and fame pass; the revolution must remain.

  Samora Machel

  Revolution, Fame

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• I like the personality of the Belgians. They're deeply eccentric, which is something that comes across in their design - terrific.

  Miranda Richardson

  Design, Eccentric, Belgians

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• I'm uncomfortable when I'm comfortable. I have to start something new-in the agency or in my personal life-every two years or so. Taking risks gives me energy. I can't help it, it's my personality. I'd like to think it's not really a compulsion toward high risks, but the spirit of an entrepreneur.

  Jay Chiat

  Thinking, Agency, Years

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