Personality Quotes - Page 4

• The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.

  Talcott Parsons

  Function, Behalf

  Talcott Parsons, Robert Freed Bales (1956). “Family Socialization and Interaction Process”, p.16, Psychology Press

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• I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.

  Barbra Streisand

  Beautiful, Selfish, Simple

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• I have an unfortunate personality.

  Orson Welles

  Unfortunate

  Orson Welles, Mark W. Estrin (2002). “Orson Welles: Interviews”, p.21, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Personality is the most important thing to an actress's success.

  Mae West

  Success, Congratulations, Important

  Mae West (1959). “Goodness Had Nothing to Do with it: Autobiography”, Chelsea House

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• Don't try to take on a new personality; it doesn't work.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Trying

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• I think I 'turn off' women. I've a kind of a weird personality. Women may think that I'm a mess.

  Ed O'Neill

  Thinking, May, Kind

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• I dont have the confidence to be a personality.

  Zoe Wanamaker

  Confidence

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• Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a vehicle of entirely new lyric and plastic power.

  Fernand Leger

  Giving, Enlargement, Way

  Fernand Léger, Katharine Kuh (1953). “Léger: Catalogue of Th Exhibition Organized by the Art Institute of Chicago in Collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the San Francisco Museum of Art”

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• While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first personality, which no one should copy.

  Oscar Wilde

  Artist, Firsts, Study

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1689, GENERAL PRESS

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• I have to choose songs that represent my personality.

  Peabo Bryson

  Song

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• I could never do a show, or be a personality like Howard Stern, where you take all that heat from critics. What he does, he does, but the critical heat would crucify me.

  Chuck Barris

  Doe, Heat, Critics

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• I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too.

  Mary Douglas

  Shapes, Living Alone, Convinced

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• I think it's really important to design things with a kind of personality.

  Marc Newson

  Thinking, Design, Important

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• The traditional Christian attitude toward human personality was that human nature was essentially good and that it was formed and modified by social pressures and training.

  Carroll Quigley

  Christian, Attitude, Training

  Carroll Quigley (1966). “Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time”, G S G & Associates Pub

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• The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

  T. S. Eliot

  Art, Sacrifice, Self

  The Sacred Wood "Tradition and the Individual Talent" (1920)

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• My actual personality probably lies someplace between the two.

  Edie Falco

  Lying, Two

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• Personality is everything in art and poetry.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Artist

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1921). “Goethe's Literary Essays”

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• If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Fear, Men, Thinking

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• Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish

  Chevy Chase

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Beautiful, Hate, Cancer

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Men, Perfection, Reverence For Life

  Albert Schweitzer (2015). “The Light Within Us”, p.30, Open Road Media

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• Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.

  Henry James

  Character, Ideas, Two

  Henry James (1930). “Charles W. Eliot: President of Harvard University, 1869-1909”

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• Never do anything that taints your mind. Wrong actions cause negative or evil mental vibrations that are reflected in your whole appearance and personality. Engage in those actions and thoughts that nurture the good qualities you want to have.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Yoga, Evil, Mind

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• Personality is a mask you believe in.

  Robert J. White

  Believe, Mask

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• You might think that it would he the natural desire of every man to develop as an independent personality, but this does not seem to be true.

  Herbert Read

  Independent, Men, Thinking

  Sir Herbert Edward Read (1964). “Selected writings: poetry and criticism”

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