Personality Quotes - Page 35

• The study of women's intelligence and personality has had broadly the same history as the one we record for Negroes ... in drawing a parallel between the position of, and feeling toward, women and Negroes, we are uncovering a fundamental basis of our culture.

  Gunnar Myrdal

  Women, Drawing, Feelings

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• In abandoning the vagueness of the sketch the artist shows more of his personality by revealing the range but also the limitations of his talent.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Artist, Vagueness, Talent

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• I'm uncomfortable when I'm comfortable ... I can't help it, it's my personality.

  Jay Chiat

  Helping, Uncomfortable, I Can

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• It's personalities, it's conflict, it's all of these things that actually make performers interesting.

  Simon Cowell

  Interesting, Conflict, Performers

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• Extroversion is an enormously appealing personality style, but we've turned it into an oppressive standard to which most of us feel we must conform.

  Susan Cain

  Style, Extroverts, Standards

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.4, Broadway Books

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• We have a two-tier class system when it comes to personality style. To devalue introversion is a waste of talent, energy and happiness.

  Susan Cain

  Class, Two, Style

  "Giving Introverts Permission to Be Themselves". Interview with Zosia Bielski, www.theglobeandmail.com. January 26, 2012.

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• We learned from Gauguin that every work of art is a transposition, a caricature, a passionate equivalent of a sensation which has been experienced. He freed us from all restraints which the idea of copying naturally placed on our painter's instincts. All artists are now free to express their own personality.

  Maurice Denis

  Art, Freedom, Ideas

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• some actors seek parts similar to their personalities. But, I prefer undergoing a metamorphosis that depends on the role .

  Ben Gazzara

  Roles, Actors, Metamorphosis

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• I wish I was Sienna Miller. When I talk to her, I hope a bit of her party personality will rub off on me, but it never does.

  Keira Knightley

  Party, Wish, Doe

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• If you are going to be a big personality, you've got to have some kind of characteristic gimmick.

  Farley Mowat

  Character, Gimmicks, Kind

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• Art in its widest sense is the extension of the personality: a host of artificial limbs.

  Herbert Read

  Art, Host, Limbs

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• It's somewhat of a contradiction, .. I guess the quieter the voice, the more necessary it is to push it. It's not going to leap out at you and scream. I also can't control how a book is marketed. To say the book marketing is aggressive, fine, I'm happy with that. Push the book. That doesn't mean that my personality or writing style changes.

  David Bergen

  Book, Mean, Writing

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• My biggest challenge will be to play the totally submissive woman. It takes a toll on you when you play someone who's far removed from your personality.

  Regina King

  Play, Challenges, Tolls

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

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• The deserving are not always blest. That peculiar attribute known as personality is as potent a factor as genius.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Peculiar, Genius, Attributes

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• It is remarkable how very individual technique becomes in watercolour. Every man of personality finally arrives at a method peculiarly his own, as unique as his own fingerprint.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Unique, Men, Technique

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• I don't think I have a split personality. I believe the same person I am on the field is the same person I am at home - passionate about everything I do, whether it's reading a Bible or just hanging out with my wife.

  Troy Polamalu

  Bible, Reading, Believe

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• I have always tried to maintain a sense of humanity in my work, to create something that will take on its own personality but also reflect something about our world.

  Dean Mitchell

  Our World, Humanity, World

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• America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams.

  David Brooks

  Dream, America, Democracy

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• The artist dreams of works of real breadth; but, limited by his personality and the nature of his medium, limited by inner disturbances and loss of purpose, he often works more narrowly than he'd intended.

  Eric Maisel

  Dream, Real, Loss

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• Under so much pressure and the situation that I was in, that was the personality that came across with me.

  LaToya London

  Pressure, Situation

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• It is not a question so much of a 'tree like a figure' or a 'root like a figure' - it is a question of bringing out the anonymous personality of these things.

  Graham Sutherland

  Character, Roots, Tree

  Graham Vivian Sutherland, John T. Hayes (1977). “Portraits by Graham Sutherland”

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• Way too much coffee. But if it weren't for the coffee, I'd have no identifiable personality whatsoever.

  David Letterman

  Coffee, Espresso, Too Much

  "Letterman Lets His Guard Down" by Bill Zehme, Esquire, December 1994.

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• The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.

  St. Jerome

  Character, Men, Suffering

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• Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.

  Matthew Arnold

  Character, Perfection, Culture

  Culture and Anarchy ch. 1 (1869)

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• A man made for public life and authority never takes account of personalities; he only takes account of things, of their weight and their conseqences.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Power, Men, Weight

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