Personality Quotes

I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do. If a personality fascinates me, whatever mode of expression that personality selects is absolutely delightful to me.

In any case, I married Feroze Gandhi. Once I get an idea in my head, no one in the world can make me change my mind.

Well, you know, I'm the forever optimist.

When you think that you are beautiful, you are liable to think that you are more beautiful than others, and such a thought is not a beautiful thought. To recognize or criticize ugliness and inferiority in others is to create the inferior and the ugly in yourself, and what you create in yourself will sooner or later be expressed through your mind and personality.

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

Well, my smile's pretty hard to miss, considering I'm a gal who likes her lipstick-the redder the better.

Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets.

Obedience is the road to freedom, humility the road to pleasure, unity the road to personality.

I like to talk about lint and coasters, the expansion of the universe and maybe McDonald's. I'm completely turned off by the idea of politics.

When I was a kid, I never did funny things to get attention. I was never a funny person. I was never, like, 'Oh, wow. I could say this some day on stage.'

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise.

A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.

On the spectrum of successful politicians, I'm not introverted the way some have been.

I just have a relationship with my imagination. It's like my friend, almost.

I'm a Scorpio with a Pisces moon. I am very critical of myself. I'm actually way less critical of others than I am of myself. I'm in my own head a lot. It's hard and really discouraging.

A friend of mine jokes that I have a painstaking royalty complex. Like maybe I was a duke in a past life.

My natural inclination to be improv rather than an educated character serves me well.

I think I was born stubborn, that's all.

I'm a very simple person. I'm very shallow. Shallow, simple, easily pleased: that's me.

If a man has a very decided character, has a strongly accentuated career, it is normally the case of course that he makes ardent friends and bitter enemies.

My days of whining and complaining about others have come to an end. Nothing is easier than fault finding. All it will do is discolor my personality so that none will want to associate with me. That was my old life. No more.

I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.

But most of all, what really attracted me to her was her manner. She laughed a lot, and it's easy to fall for someone who can find humor in any situation. She was also intelligent, well read, and well spoken, willing to listen and confident in her beliefs. And most of all, she was warm.

If I'm happy, I look happy; if I'm angry, I show it. Without worrying about how others may react.

Do people ever get over being shy? I think it’s with you for life-like the color of your eyes.

I'm an optimistic guy. I'm one of those big dreamers. I'm one of those kids with that annoying imagination.

She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret.

I was born modest, but it didn't last.

There's no better way to dismantle a personality than to isolate it.

I've got to confess I'm a pragmatic optimist myself.

I drink much less than most people think, and I think much more than most people would believe. I am quite sincere about some of the things which people take very lightly, and almost insultingly unconcerned about some of the things which people take most seriously. In short, I am basically antisocial: certainly not to an alarming degree , but just more so than I appear to be.

I don't drink much alcohol. If it doesn't taste like candy or sparkles, I usually don't drink it.

I am a man of simple tastes-I am quite easily satisfied with the best of everything.

Jean Prouvaire was timid only in repose. Once excited, he burst forth, a sort of mirth accentuated his enthusiasm, and he was at once both laughing and lyric.

I really liked the sound of some projects that Jon Brion had worked on. I was always considered this crazy hothead kid, but I would always just go and just really break bread with someone who I respected. I will completely bow to anybody I respect.

And people who know me would tell you that away from hockey I'm really not that competitive.

A man does not please long when he has only species of wit.

An employer has no business with a man's personality... The task is not to change personality, but to enable a person to achieve and to perform.

My intentions were not to fascinate the world with my personality.

When a superior intellect and a psychopathic temperament coalesce in the same individual, we have the best possible condition for the kind of effective genius that gets into the biographical dictionaries.

I am a patient listener, but opinionated to the point of stubbornness when my mind is made up.

I have a good, hearty laugh and an energetic handshake, and those are trump cards.

I'm extremely compassionate, loving, all of those warm fuzzy things, but the outer shell doesn't project that all the time.

Nothing is so much needed as a secure family life for a people seeking to rise out of poverty and backwardness.

Temperament is the thermometer of character.

Me, as a person, I grow. I'm like a chameleon. You know? That is a gift and a curse for me. But more so a gift, because it never puts me in a box.

I am not a yachting person, by nature, but I have just enough experience on the sea under sail to feel a certain nostalgia for it when I see a big white racing yacht heeled over at cruising speed on the ocean, and I can still tie a mean bowline knot on just about anything in less than 10 seconds.

My imagination is a twisted place.

If a woman has "It," she doesn't need anything else; but if she doesn't have "It," it doesn't matter what else she has.

I think it's fair to say that my temperament is steady - and on the buoyant side.

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

I have a crush on your mind, I fell for your personality and your looks are just a big bonus.

One is always in the dark about one's own personality. One needs others to get to know oneself.

A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and that's everybody's wish... I try to be a role model for black kids, white kids, yellow kids, green kids. This is what I felt was good about my personality.

There is something indefinably keen and wan about her anatomy, and she has a watchful way of looking out of the corners of her eyes without turning her head which could be pleasantly dispensed with, especially when she is in an ill humour and near knives. Through all the good taste of her dress and little adornments, these objections so express themselves that she seems to go about like a very neat she-wolf imperfectly tamed.

A complex is a cluster of energy in the unconscious, charged by historic events, reinforced through repitition, embodying a fragment of our personality, and generating a programmed response and an implicit set of expectations.

A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He breaks his engagements, leaves his letters unanswered, neglects his family duties incorrigibly, because he is powerless to turn his attention down and back from those more interesting trains of imagery with which his genius constantly occupies his mind.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.