287 Quotes on Personality

• In the subtle crafting of borrowed strengths, even a faint whisper of encouragement can ignite soul-deep fractures into resilient seams.

  Author: Eliza Hawthorne

• In the tapestry of life, it's the mismatched socks that weave tales of joyful accidents, turning every tread taken into a dance of delightful unpredictability.

  Author: Aurora Kingston

• Like life itself, a daring splash of colors spun from whimsical pairs reminds us that joy blooms where uniformity ends.

  Author: Aiden Krichel

• Unscripted wisdom drips from the heart as spontaneously as spring rain, reviving the mind with droplets of authentic insight.

  Author: Mira Linton

• The quiet strength of gentle ambitions draws the clouds down from the sky; it teaches us to slowly reshape our world, rather than breaking it apart.

  Author: Clara Hendricks

• In the frayed fibers of our daily choices, courage is not always a shout but sometimes the timid patter of footsteps we choose to take.

  Author: Marissa Holloway

• Like the interlocking pieces of a puzzle, social harmony is found not in uniformity, but in the diverse shapes and angles of individual experiences coalescing into a balanced whole.

  Author: Elenna Crossfield

• It's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

  Author: Norma Jeane - Marilyn Monroe

• Where there is bravery, there is a voice that refuses to be silenced in anybody taking to heart flowing fully compose portray options.

  Author: Mother Monster - Lady Gaga

• The true power of introverts lies not in submission but in the dedication to listen, redefining indifference to rivals create bonds while expressing resilience quietly.

  Author: Alex Brendan

• Within the stillness of their thoughts, introverts orchestrate a revolution--their insights accumulate like whispers, shaping revolutions unseen.

  Author: Amelia Hawthorne

• Lo and silent, the introvert sculpts change in the still space of listening, revealing worlds unseen within dialogues unheard.

  Author: Maya Chen

• When silence speaks louder than defiance, the true revolution of nature blooms; real change often lies hidden within those who prefer listening to tumult.

  Author: Clara Price

• The buckets of sound that life creates often drown out the subtler saves; it is in the skyscraper's shadow where bold ideas drawn in twilight become fitness lore uncured--softbage cutting sharply and nearly unmatched.

  Author: Mira Tohwang

• In whispered silences, introverts garner strength, creating world-changing dreams buoyed by soft strokes rather than loud blazes.

  Author: Elara Stone

• In worlds dominated by loud certifications, silent contemplation can sidestep you into reevaluation--a potent gala dress friendship wearscribing ballast dire wrong.

  Author: Jasper Kale

• In the gentle stillness of compact minds lies the courage to catalyze profound change, revealing strength woven unobtrusively beneath every saturated silence.

  Author: Clarissa Ensign

• In the whisper of solitude, introverts wield ideas as artfully as legends do swords, ready to change the world without great fanfare.

  Author: Emily Fest

• Sometimes I pretend to be normal, but it gets boring, so I go back to being me.

  Author: Oscar Wilde

• In a world where you can be anything, be kind and kill them with sarcasm

  Author: Jami Smith

• In a world where you can be anything, be kind... and maybe just a little bit sassy

  Author: Nancy Johnson

• You don't have to be crazy to hang out with me...but it sure helps!

  Author: Sarah Sanders

• I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not too sure.

  Author: Jason Kravitz

• Sarcasm is my love language

  Author: Jane Smith

• Believe in yourself and all that you are. Nature's richest treasure lies in human personality.

  Author: Ella Fitzgerald

• Whatever you are, be a good one

  Author: Abraham Lincoln

• The greatest power is staying true to oneself despite the criticisms of others.

  Author: Maya Johnson

• That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me.

  Author: Zhang Ziyi

• You have a nice personality, but not for a human being.

  Author: Henny Youngman

• Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint.

  Author: J. Yeats

• People want performers, personality and drama, and you got that in the .

  Author: Kim Wilde

• There are peaks and valleys in anything and that is especially true for the music business. It is very inconsistent. But if you are wise, you can let those downs really bring you to another level of your personality.

  Author: Bryan White

• I think all photographers fit their vision to their personality.

  Author: Kim Weston

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

  Author: Mae West

• Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.

  Author: Mae West

• I have an unfortunate personality.

  Author: Orson Welles

• I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes, where a woman's personality and sense of self are revealed. I want people to see the dress, but focus on the woman.

  Author: Vera Wang

• I work with structure, but I go outside the box and give it my own spin. I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes - where a woman's personality and sense of style are realized.

  Author: Vera Wang

• I don't have the confidence to be a personality.

  Author: Zoe Wanamaker

• I am a private person and that has always been my personality.

  Author: Grete Waitz

• The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

  Author: Peter Vries

• From birth to age 18 a girl needs good parents. From 18 to 35 she needs good looks. From 35 to 55 she needs a good personality. From 55 on, she needs good cash.

  Author: Sophie Tucker

• What I think we fear is rapid, pronounced, and uncontrollable changes to ourselves, and because of this we have a form of personality inertia - something that resists rapid change.

  Author: Simon Travaglia

• I'm disappointed in acting as a craft. I want everything to go back to Orson Welles and fake noses and changing your voice. It's become so much about personality.

  Author: Spencer Tracy

• At the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense of being lovable without having to qualify for that acceptance.

  Author: Paul Tournier

• Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them.

  Author: Laurette Taylor

• Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.

  Author: Quentin Tarantino

• Art is not in some far-off place. A work of art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability.

  Author: Shinichi Suzuki

• I'm not that complicated as an actor. I have a formula in which I work, yeah. But not like Sean Penn does. Sean is one of the few actors I know who can work like that, actually becoming the character he is playing, and get consistent results. I don't believe you can ever be someone else. You manifest different levels of your own personality to come up with a character.

  Author: Kiefer Sutherland

• Whenever you do an animated project or a voice-over project it's inevitable that part of your personality comes into play.

  Author: Tara Strong

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

  Author: Barbra Streisand

• Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes.

  Author: Meryl Streep

• And I have the support of the writers: I have a great relationship with the creative team, and they have a good hold of my character and my personality, and they come up with some great stuff, and I'm forever trying to change it up, keep it fresh.

  Author: Trish Stratus

• I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality.

  Author: Mark Strand

• To this end the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher.

  Author: John Strachan

• I have a cheat-sheet for each one of my characters about their personality, the way they look, etc. So there is no possible way that I could have writer's block.

  Author: R. Stine

• Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real.

  Author: Frank Stella

• The essence of democracy is its assurance that every human being should so respect himself and should be so respected in his own personality that he should have opportunity equal to that of every other human being to show what he was meant to become.

  Author: Anna Spencer

• Sometimes I feel an obligation to be accessible as a personality, but for me the driving force since the beginning has always been good work, taking risks, trying new things. If the door opens, go through it. Always go forwards.

  Author: David Soul

• Hollywood sold its stars on good looks and personality buildups. We weren't really actresses in a true sense, we were just big names - the products of a good publicity department.

  Author: Ann Sothern

• At MTV, it's very nice sometimes to be able to be very specific. Specificity really makes a news story interesting because you can color it in that personality.

  Author: Tabitha Soren

• You know, I'm a television personality. It's not like I'm a famous hooker or something!

  Author: Brett Somers

• Personality is lower than partiality.

  Author: Goldwin Smith

• The makeup is simply an extension of the personality and colors, clothing, makeup all express something.

  Author: Gene Simmons

• For the division of labor demands from the individual an ever more one-sided accomplishment, and the greatest advance in a one-sided pursuit only too frequently means dearth to the personality of the individual.

  Author: Georg Simmel

• Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious.

  Author: Georg Simmel

• To devise an information processing system capable of getting along on its own - it must handle its own problems of programming, bookkeeping, communication and coordination with its users. It must appear to its users as a single, integrated personality.

  Author: Cliff Shaw

• The reason it has relevance is because I, as a popular Arab personality - the Arab people like me and respect me - thought it was time for me to make an ever so tiny statement about what I thought about this whole thing.

  Author: Omar Sharif

• I have this terrible dark side to my personality, which playing tennis keeps at bay.

  Author: Monica Seles

• Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question.

  Author: Willard Scott

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

  Author: Albert Schweitzer

• Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower.

  Author: Charles Schwab

• Style, no matter how outrageous it is, is still an expression of someone's personality. And my personality is somewhere stuck in the classics.

  Author: Liev Schreiber

• Instead of a weak and vacillating Government, a single, purposeful, energetic personality is ruling today.

  Author: Hjalmar Schacht

• Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.

  Author: Anthony Sampson

• I think it has sullied his presidency. As brilliant a politician as Bill Clinton is, as magnetic a personality as he can be, there is one little screw loose somewhere.

  Author: Morley Safer

• The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible.

  Author: Galen Rowell

• For the sound we produce, everybody is equally important. Each of us has a very different personality and that is what keeps Bush alive.

  Author: Gavin Rossdale

• Just like Tim Robbins is very political - and obviously, Arnold Schwarzenegger must be - I want to be able to have this public personality that's considered authoritative.

  Author: Christy Romano

• When a high-profile personality lives like I do, everybody thinks that person is fated to die young.

  Author: Dennis Rodman

• I talk as I sketch, too, in order to keep their minds off what I'm doing so I'll get the most natural expression I can from them. Also, the talking helps to size up the subject's personality, so I can figure out better how to portray him.

  Author: Norman Rockwell

• I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.

  Author: Gabrielle Reece

• A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them.

  Author: Herbert Read

• 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.

  Author: Herbert Read

• The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit; in more developed forms of society he is an independent personality.

  Author: Herbert Read

• Some of the newer folks in the industry, I'm not sure they are familiar with the term acting. They don't understand what it means to play a character rather than just be a personality.

  Author: Kathleen Quinlan

• 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.

  Author: Carroll Quigley

• The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality.

  Author: Raymond Queneau

• They have to be able to spark my interest so I want to pursue it, and they have to have an awesome personality, really laid-back. All those things are sexy to me.

  Author: Laura Prepon

• You can be fat and love yourself. You can be fat and have a great damn personality. You can be fat and sew your own clothes. But you can't be fat and healthy.

  Author: Susan Powter

• Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.

  Author: Dennis Potter

• Cute is when your personality shines through your looks. Like, when you see someone's personality in the way they walk and you just feel like hugging them every time you see them.

  Author: Natalie Portman

• Personality and socialization aren't the same thing.

  Author: Steven Pinker

• Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual.

  Author: Kenneth Pike

• My significant other right now is myself, which is what happens when you suffer from multiple personality disorder and self-obsession.

  Author: Joaquin Phoenix

• The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.

  Author: S. Perelman

• 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.

  Author: Walter Pater

• 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.

  Author: Talcott Parsons

• The lesson of the last year is this: foreign policy can't be managed through the politics of personality, and our President would do well to take note of an observation John F. Kennedy made once he was in office - that all of the world's problems aren't his predecessor's fault.

  Author: Sarah Palin

• The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.

  Author: George Orwell

• It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.

  Author: George Orwell

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

  Author: Ed O'Neill

• You now have to decide what 'image' you want for your brand. Image means personality. Products, like people, have personalities, and they can make or break them in the market place.

  Author: David Ogilvy

• I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I had to decide early on whether I was to be an actor or a personality.

  Author: Robert Niro

• Songs like the Buck Owens tune, for example, are very simple and straightforward, and recording it really gave me a chance to get into and get a sense of Buck's personality, a feel for that whole Bakersfield sound.

  Author: Juice Newton

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

  Author: Marc Newson

• You know like it has its own personality, its own character.

  Author: Marc Newson

• I try to find what is closest to me in the character. There's many sides to personality, but it's a matter of, do you entertain those specific areas of your personality, or are you afraid to entertain them?

  Author: Corin Nemec

• When you're not blond and thin, you come up with a personality real quick.

  Author: Kathy Najimy

• The friend that I based Heffer on was adopted, and it all played into his total personality.

  Author: Joe Murray

• I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that goes on the screen or the canvass.

  Author: Joe Murray

• I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess.

  Author: Robert Morgan

• The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality.

  Author: Rick Moody

• It makes it very exciting don't you think to live in an age of, of discovery of human personality this way?

  Author: John Money

• Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.

  Author: C. Mills

• Really the team often will take on the personality of its coach.

  Author: Mark Messier

• A quick glance at the American left reveals a movement in the midst of a nervous breakdown, displaying behavior that goes beyond inconsistency into the realm of bipolar moods and multiple personality disorders.

  Author: Michael Medved

• A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.

  Author: George Mead

• Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different.

  Author: Ian Mckellen

• Muhammad Ali is a combination of personality and athlete who is probably better known around the world than any other. He became a great hero.

  Author: Will McDonough

• When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

  Author: W. Maugham

• At times I experience hardship in trying to find the proper point of balance between traditional things and my own personality.

  Author: Princess Masako

• Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken.

  Author: William Marston

• I think my type of personality has all music inside of it, so I am full of music, without even knowing it, without even learning it, without even hearing it.

  Author: Ziggy Marley

• Realizing that our actions, feelings and behaviour are the result of our own images and beliefs gives us the level that psychology has always needed for changing personality.

  Author: Maxwell Maltz

• The "self-image" is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.

  Author: Maxwell Maltz

• I never thought I'd say this, what Obama needs in his personality is a little George Bush.

  Author: Bill Maher

• What matters most in politics is personality. It's not issues; it's not image. It's who you are and what you represent.

  Author: Frank Luntz

• Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

  Author: Amy Lowell

• An actor is an actor is an actor. The less personality an actor has off stage the better. A blank canvas on which to draw the characters he plays.

  Author: Arthur Lowe

• What you have, what you are - your looks, your personality, your way of thinking - is unique. No one in the world is like you. So capitalize on it.

  Author: Jack Lord

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

  Author: LaToya London

• Sometimes you kind of lose yourself in someone else's personality.

  Author: Julie London

• My girlfriend bought me a down jacket, she said it fit my personality.

  Author: Jay London

• It seems obvious to me that the notion of God has never been anything but a kind of ideal projection, a reflection upward of the human personality, and that theology never has been and never can be anything but a more and more purified mythology.

  Author: Alfred Loisy

• The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate - is the simplest and most straightforward and the only one that fits all the facts.

  Author: Oliver Lodge

• I just sit at the drawing board most of the time. I am used to talking to people. I love going to conventions, getting feedback and talking to people. Some artists don't. Some artists sit at their drawing board because their personality actually dictates that.

  Author: David Lloyd

• I'm not really a political satirist. I don't kid myself. I'm more interested in doing the mannerisms and the personality.

  Author: Rich Little

• In grasping the sentiments of the past, we shape the contours of strangers fondly chasing hope, always an echo in a busy crossover reality houses more than theory unveils.

  Author: Iris Peterson

• Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

  Author: Elmer Letterman

• 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.

  Author: Fernand Leger

• Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successfull personality and duplicate it.

  Author: Bruce Lee

• Although I am a public figure, I'm still a little shy. I don't think my own personality is important. I prefer to keep some small dosage of privacy.

  Author: Joshua Lederberg

• Humility is no substitute for a good personality.

  Author: Fran Lebowitz

• I think there is a great difference, in that when the poet is reading you get the whole personality of the person, especially if he's a good reader. Whereas a person just sitting gets what he puts into it.

  Author: James Laughlin

• Wong Kar Wai is a very intense character, very personable, and I believe in general he does not like and he would not want his actors to show their true looks and their true personality on screen.

  Author: Andy Lau

• The idea of eternity lives in all of us. We thirst to live in a belief which raises our small personality to a higher coherence - a coherence which is human and yet superhuman, absolute and yet steadily growing and developing, ideal and yet real.

  Author: Christian Lange

• It seems only reasonable that the people have a right to know virtually everything about the personality they are buying each time they put their money through the box office.

  Author: Alan Ladd

• And I'm not a personality; otherwise I'd be coming out with an album, performing on MTV. All that stuff is possible and I can do that tomorrow. I just have no need.

  Author: Shia LaBeouf

• Only he, who penetrates into the depth of the game, can express his personality in it.

  Author: Vladimir Kramnik

• I am convinced, the way one plays chess always reflects the player's personality. If something defines his character, then it will also define his way of playing.

  Author: Vladimir Kramnik

• What I've learned is that it's okay to take from heroes, such as Debussy, but it has to be filtered through my own personality so that ultimately it's me.

  Author: William Kraft

• It's that I have a good personality and am a good tennis player.

  Author: Anna Kournikova

• I think I'm more European in personality.

  Author: Sally Kirkland

• My style is where you see the individual and where a personality is communicated through actions, decisions, single objects and facts, where the whole draws together to form a history.

  Author: Martin Kippenberger

• 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.

  Author: Regina King

• I would love to be a player today. I had the right personality for it.

  Author: Billie King

• Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.

  Author: Soren Kierkegaard

• Many people think I'm a television personality. I never have been! Just someone who acts it.

  Author: Graham Kennedy

• We are given to the cult of personality; when things go badly we look to some messiah to save us. If by chance we think we have found one, it will not be long before we destroy him.

  Author: Constantine Karamanlis

• I believe that, like most writers, my personality comes through in the fiction. So in that respect my writing can't be like any other author's really.

  Author: Paul Kane

• The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality.

  Author: Benjamin Jowett

• I start with actors that I know personally or I know their work, and there are things about their work or their presence or their own personality that make a character, that exaggerates some qualities and suppresses other qualities. It's always a real collaboration for me.

  Author: Jim Jarmusch

• The puppet characters were combinations of people I had known and to some degree aspects of my own personality. Weird was based on someone I knew in Chicago. Dirty Dragon was based on a good friend I had in Indianapolis.

  Author: William Jackson

• Personality is reduced and deformed with depleted thoughts and stagnant mind.

  Author: King Hussein I

• In this context, the church supports and favors every effort today to seek the full development of the personality of all human beings, and to promote their fundamental rights, their dignity and liberty.

  Author: Claudio Hummes

• My responsibility is always and everywhere the same: to see in my brother more even than the personality and manhood that are his. My task is always and everywhere the same: to see Christ himself.

  Author: Trevor Huddleston

• I get to actually experience what it would be like to be a psycho, which is not a fun one, or to be a cowboy, or to be a weird character of some sort. For me, it suits me. It suits my personality. I'm an emotional kind of person anyway.

  Author: Josh Holloway

• I'm trying to eliminate every vestige of my own personality, style, approach and get into somebody else's skin. Sometimes I feel I've accomplished it. But when I don't, I'm nobody at all, having left myself at home.

  Author: Judy Holliday

• Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.

  Author: Hans Hofmann

• I have sporadic OCD cleaning moments around the house. But then I get lazy and I'm cured. It's a very inconsistent personality trait.

  Author: Chris Hemsworth

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

  Author: Marg Helgenberger

• The intricate messages coded within our genes act like luminous bookmarks in the diverse library of life, each highlighting the annotated chapters of evolution and adaptation Stirlessly renewing old patterns into astonishing discovery.

  Author: Nora Kinsey

• Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless.

  Author: Paul Harris

• If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness.

  Author: M. Harding

• An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.

  Author: Alec Guinness

• We're starting to push the envelope in terms of the expectations, and you can also have your own style, personality and sense of humor, because now we're allowed to.

  Author: Lisa Guerrero

• The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the personage, the greater the profit.

  Author: George Grosz

• My personality doesn't interest me.

  Author: Andrei Gromyko

• Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution.

  Author: Stanislav Grof

• The study of consciousness that can extend beyond the body is extremely important for the issue of survival, since it is this part of human personality that would be likely to survive death.

  Author: Stanislav Grof

• What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine.

  Author: Germaine Greer

• My personality is that I'm a human being like everybody else, just a citizen and a blue collar guy.

  Author: Lee Greenwood

• It's a very complex scenario, and certainly Dave was, and is, not the only person in Pearl Jam with personality flaws. Everybody in this band exhibits some form of neurotic behavior. And we couldn't find a balance, a mutual respect for each other.

  Author: Stone Gossard

• I think George W. Bush has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest.

  Author: Al Gore

• And I, uh, I wonder how anybody can think his personality changes with his success. I've had quite a bit of success but I feel that I'm just the same person as I always was.

  Author: Rube Goldberg

• Personality is everything in art and poetry.

  Author: Johann Goethe

• I am an addictive personality.

  Author: Trisha Goddard

• Cognitive echoes weave the subtleties of learning into the very fabric of our connected minds, illuminating the diverse gestures of thoughts borrowed and shared.

  Author: Aurelia Rias

• I discourage a cult of personality.

  Author: Newt Gingrich

• No, I feel like my personality probably influenced the character, more than the character influenced me.

  Author: Sara Gilbert

• I'm kind of a quirky dresser usually. Like today, I'm actually pretty put together, but I dress kind of off sometimes, but that's just part of my personality.

  Author: Debbie Gibson

• My music is all about an idealistic human personality. I have 19th-century ideals.

  Author: Gordon Getty

• I brought my personality and sense of wonder and I think they wrote as much of my personality as they could. I do not go around kicking butt and saving the universe all the time but they tried to capture me as best as they could in the character.

  Author: Gil Gerard

• I'm sure I'm very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.

  Author: Bob Geldof

• There isn't as much passion and outrage in today's newspapers. That may be because of a corporate decision, but they've lost their personality.

  Author: Michael Gartner

• This kind of charge reveals a good deal about the personality of the people who make it; to impute such motives to another man is to imply you're harboring them yourself.

  Author: Jim Garrison

• I have an extremely addictive personality. I'm an extremist.

  Author: Leif Garrett

• Theatre demands different muscles and different aspects of one's personality.

  Author: Victor Garber

• Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me.

  Author: Michael Gambon

• Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

  Author: Erich Fromm

• I keep my own personality in a cupboard under the stairs at home so that no one else can see it or nick it.

  Author: Dawn French

• Personality is essential. It is in every work of art. When someone walks on stage for a performance and has charisma, everyone is convinced that he has personality. I find that charisma is merely a form of showmanship. Movie stars usually have it. A politician has to have it.

  Author: Lukas Foss

• Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.

  Author: E. Forster

• Nobody's irreplaceable, including me. I think for too long we've had a cult of personality in this company and in this industry, and frankly, I'd like to see that diminish.

  Author: Bill Ford

• 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.

  Author: Carlisle Floyd

• Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

  Author: F. Fitzgerald

• You know, I always got offered other stuff. Not the romantic leads, obviously. But very often it's a role that's underwritten, where the character has no personality at all. And they need a character actor who can fill it in.

  Author: Harvey Fierstein

• You use words like 'introvert' and 'extrovert,' various traits of a personality. A lot of that stuff, we used in drama school, and that was kind of interesting, to realize my teachers sort of ripped off a lot of Jung. And how much of it is part of our society now, these phrases, introvert and extrovert, where it actually came from.

  Author: Michael Fassbender

• My actual personality probably lies someplace between the two.

  Author: Edie Falco

• Gore will not win a popularity contest, he will not win a personality contest, but he can win an idealogical battle, and he can win a battle of experience.

  Author: Susan Estrich

• Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

  Author: Epictetus

• I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I've never been interested in that.

  Author: Brian Eno

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

  Author: T. Eliot

• Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.

  Author: T. Eliot

• We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

  Author: Albert Einstein

• In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

  Author: Henry Dyke

• I mean, I would hope that I have a style or personality that is evident wherever I go.

  Author: Trevor Dunn

• Different people bring out different aspects of ones personality.

  Author: Trevor Dunn

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

  Author: Mary Douglas

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

  Author: Lloyd Douglas

• The only thing I do worry about is that the more films I do the more visible I am going to become as a personality because of press and because of the sheer quantity of films.

  Author: Vincent D'Onofrio

• I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities.

  Author: Walt Disney

• When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years.

  Author: Denis Diderot

• These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to moderate.

  Author: Jacques Derrida

• All artists are now free to express their own personality.

  Author: Maurice Denis

• We get criticized for showing no personality, then we get penalized when we do.

  Author: Lindsay Davenport

• He's computerized, but I won't let him come on cold. I created KITT. I understand the personality of the car.

  Author: William Daniels

• Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

  Author: Salvador Dali

• To maintain one's individuality, integrity, and true personality in the theatre is a big task.

  Author: Cyril Cusack

• You can meet a young person who goes to school and is really enthusiastic, but if a sufficiently strong personality convinces them that this is a waste of time, that person might flunk out.

  Author: Stanley Crouch

• For example I don't work with William Hurt the same way that I will work with Viggo. They're different guys and they work in different ways. So a good sensitive director has his general style and technique and personality that he uses but you don't impose that on the actors.

  Author: David Cronenberg

• You know, you've got serious pieces, you've got light pieces, you've got cooking segments, you've got health-related topics, so it's not as if they've had a unique personality from the get-go.

  Author: Katie Couric

• Where does personality end and brain damage begin?

  Author: Doug Coupland

• Really the only thing holding a lot of records together is the personality of the singer, and the will to write all of these different things.

  Author: Elvis Costello

• You look at a herd of cattle and well, they all look the same... but they know. They all have an individual personality, and those personalities change from day to day. They can have their grumpy days and their happy days and their serene days. But it's unpredictable. You can't be off in outer space when you're dealing with animals.

  Author: Chris Cooper

• Josie needed more of a personality than what the cartoon had to offer.

  Author: Rachael Cook

• An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.

  Author: Joseph Conrad

• I became quite taken over by Johnson's personality at some points while writing the biography, and since I went straight on to The Closed Circle afterwards, I did sometimes feel I could hear him whispering in my ear while I was working on it.

  Author: Jonathan Coe

• The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's.

  Author: Jonathan Coe

• When you see somebody who's got a complaining personality, it usually means that they had some vision of what things could be, and they're constantly disappointed by that. I think that would be the camp that I would fall into - constantly horrified by the things people do.

  Author: Daniel Clowes

• I want to be an actress, not a personality.

  Author: Jill Clayburgh

• Rodents can come across as being quite vacant in the personality stakes.

  Author: Julian Clary

• Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace.

  Author: Kate Chopin

• There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price.

  Author: Shirley Chisholm

• I think that Mos Def is the best actor, but when you talk about rappers in films, I don't really think the quality of the acting is most important because most rappers are put in movies because of the personality and people want to see that.

  Author: Morris Chestnut

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

  Author: Chevy Chase

• The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.

  Author: Paul Cezanne

• Aaron Copland was a man that had a very specific point of view about what music should be which was that, he felt that new music should have the composer should show a personality in his music.

  Author: Elliott Carter

• When I first met my agent, I said, If something comes up and it fits my age range and personality, I would like you to send me up for it, even if it specifies blonde or brunette.

  Author: Tia Carrere

• But to do this kind of work, you have to be very strong, otherwise you lose your personality, your identity.

  Author: Claudia Cardinale

• I try to bring elements of my own personality to every character I've played, but I think I'm pretty similar to the character I'm playing now. The biggest departure would have to have been Freaks and Geeks Sara, who was this sort of subordinate and shy girl.

  Author: Lizzy Caplan

• Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.

  Author: Taylor Caldwell

• Nixon was kind of a loner, he had a cold personality.

  Author: Earl Butz

• A quiet personality sure isn't what you need to attract attention.

  Author: Bill Budge

• On the robot kit, I can choose very boring parts or I can choose exciting and interesting parts. That is a reflection of my personality and the kinds of things I am interested in.

  Author: Bill Budge

• I have to choose songs that represent my personality.

  Author: Peabo Bryson

• I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.

  Author: Norman Brown

• 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.

  Author: David Brooks

• When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.

  Author: Jimmy Breslin

• I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn't exist.

  Author: Berkeley Breathed

• One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality.

  Author: Kenneth Branagh

• There are quite a few honest songwriters out there writing about relationships and their own personality traits. But for some reason, once they step out of the bedroom, their honesty doesn't seem to come with them.

  Author: Billy Bragg

• People should be judged on the basis of their performance, not nationality, personality, education, or personal traits and skills.

  Author: Marvin Bower

• Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality.

  Author: Nadia Boulanger

• An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service.

  Author: Daniel Boorstin

• Y'know what? This is what I go by: It doesn't matter how good-looking a guy is, it just depends on his personality. If a guy can make you laugh and make fun of you, then that's what would win me over. So, yeah.

  Author: Rachel Bilson

• It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality.

  Author: Steven Biko

• The core of my personality consists of many selves.

  Author: Hans Bender

• As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal.

  Author: Max Beerbohm

• If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature.

  Author: Bruce Barton

• 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.

  Author: Chuck Barris

• I had had an extroverted personality with a lot of friends, but when I lost the weight and grew so tall, I withdrew within myself.

  Author: Tyra Banks

• You get a sense of how the show works and then let your personality take over.

  Author: Adam Baldwin

• The personality problem is so tough when you're not able to pay people. It's bad enough when you can pay people, but, when you have people working for free, often their motivation is diminished considerably.

  Author: John Badham

• I would do it today because the thing that appealed to me was not necessarily the mechanics of the robot, but it was his personality and how funny and charming he was.

  Author: John Badham

• In our western civilization we have the glorious example, the great standard of perfection and the teachings of the Christ to guide us. He acts for us as Mediator between our personality and our Soul.

  Author: Edward Bach

• Style is a reflection of your attitude and your personality.

  Author: Shawn Ashmore

• My way of remaining French was the financing scheme I used for Quest for Fire, with Fox funds, since it started as a 100% American production. The film was not in French and yet was French in style, reflecting my personality.

  Author: Jean-Jacques Annaud

• Yes, it must be something that goes very well with my voice, let's say something that I understand that this would be good communication with the others, and I don't pretend for instance, to look for music that would be something that doesn't go with my personality.

  Author: Victoria Angeles

• In Harvest of Stars, there is this notion, not original with me of course, that it will become possible to download at least the basic aspects of a human personality into a machine program.

  Author: Poul Anderson

• As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.

  Author: Mose Allison

• Brains, integrity, and force may be all very well, but what you need today is Charm. Go ahead and work on your economic programs if you want to, I'll develop my radio personality.

  Author: Gracie Allen

• All I need is my brains, my eyes and my personality, for better or for worse.

  Author: William Allard

• You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality, appealing, as it does, not merely to the sensory side of the self, but to its ideal components as well.

  Author: Samuel Alexander

• Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality.

  Author: Edward Albee

• When I died my hair red the first time, I felt as if it was what nature intended. I have been accused of being a bit of a spitfire, so in that way, I absolutely live up to the stereotype. The red hair suits my personality. I was a terrible blonde!

  Author: Amy Adams

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