Quotes About Personalities

#1. Like so many other pathological personalities in positions of power a million years ago, he might do almost anything on impulse, feeling nothing much. The logical explanations for his actions, invented at leisure, always came afterwards.

Kurt Vonnegut

#2. Indifference to me, is the epitome of all evil.

Elie Wiesel

#3. For a young and presumptuous poet a disposition to write satires is one of the most dangerous he can encourage. It tempts him to personalities, which are not always forgiven after he has repented and become ashamed of them.

Robert Southey

#4. Be accepting. Of everything. People's differences, their similarities, their choices, their personalities. Sometimes it takes a variety to make a good collection. The same goes for people.

Colleen Hoover

#5. Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.

Oscar Wilde

#6. We have very similar brains. But they come out in different personalities.

Guy Berryman

#7. Their lot in life, their station, became a part of their personalities and helped to for my worldview.

John Kasich

#8. I look for dancers who have all the technique in the world. But they must be dancers who are open-minded, who are willing to forget that they know anything. They also have to be gorgeous; they must have a clear image of themselves and strong personalities.

Twyla Tharp

#9. Sometimes I still don't know if I'm prepared to go through the entire season, dealing with the different personalities, the crowds, the politics.

Lamar Odom

#10. Our problem is to become acquainted with our own selves, letting our personalities loose upon the world for the sheer adventure of their full development and in the positive hope that they may in their own way lift the level of humanity.

Norman Vincent Peale

#11. Where history concerns mainly personalities, the drawings become either black or white according to the interests of the writer.

Isaac Asimov

#12. Teachers are the architects of a Nation. They build characters, construct personalities and strengthen spirits in learners who become National Assets of tomorrow.

Kavita Bhupta Ghosh

#13. I mean, I think I liked every band I ever played in because each band was different, each band had a different concept, and each band leader was different ... different personalities and musical tastes.

Buddy Rich

#14. We may differ widely in environments, education, learning, knowledge, or lack of it, and in our personalities, our likes and dislikes. But if we set ourselves the task, we'll find a meeting place somehow and somewhere.

Faith Baldwin

#15. Future generations may or may not judge Wittgenstein to be one of the great philosophers. Even if they do not, however, he is sure always to count as one of the great personalities of philosophy. From our perspective it is easy to mistake one for the other; which he is time will tell.

A.C. Grayling

#16. The weird thing about metal fans is we're all so maladjusted in a lot of ways. We're individualistic and opinionated and severe in our personalities - sometimes we really turn each other off. A little bit of a metal fan goes a long way.

Corey Taylor

#17. Dissociative parts of the personality are not actually separate identities or personalities in one body, but rather parts of a single individual that are not yet functioning together in a smooth, coordinated, flexible way. P14

Suzette Boon

#18. Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.

Mel Brooks

#19. I recently bought a cat, but took it back a day later because our personalities clashed.

David Mitchell

#20. Sometimes the personalities at the helm of the madness industry are, with their drives and obsessions, as mad in their own way as those they study. And that relatively ordinary people are, more and more, defined by their maddest edges.

Jon Ronson

#21. My favorite superheroes when I was younger were the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and they still are. Simply because they rule and you've got 4 different personalities to choose from depending on your mood ... And they're huge human-turtles!!

Jason Reeves

#22. When you meet chimps you meet individual personalities. When a baby chimp looks at you it's just like a human baby. We have a responsibility to them.

Jane Goodall

#23. I repeat that the poor, the sufferers from leprosy, the rejected, the alcoholics, whom we serve, are beautiful people. Many of them have wonderful personalities. The experience which we have by serving them, we must pass on to people who have not had that wonderful experience.

Mother Teresa

#24. I've learned a lot from being a chameleon, sort of adopting the musical personalities of who I was playing with.

Jeremy Denk

#25. Stories of her children when they were small, their round little bodies barely containing their personalities, which bloomed and glittered and melted into her.

Erica Bauermeister

#26. We need strong personalities and only one world champion to attract sponsors.

Anatoly Karpov

#27. I have been at work for some time building an apparatus to see if it is possible for personalities which have left this earth to communicate with us.

Thomas A. Edison

#28. It seems to me ... that I have always lived! I possess memories that go back to the Pharoahs. I see myself very clearly at different ages of history, practicing different professions ... My present personality is the result of my lost [past] personalities.

Gustave Flaubert

#29. We are a breed apart from the rest of humanity, we theatre folk.We are the original displaced personalities, concentrated gatherings of neurotics, egomaniacs, emotional misfits and precocious children.

Herman J. Mankiewicz

#30. It's part of the fun of it to work with strong personalities.

Kelly Lynch

#31. You can't tell. That's something I'm learning here in N.Y.C: you have no fucking idea what people are really like. They're not even two-faced
they're, like, multiple personalities.

Jennifer Egan

#32. We have hands that must work, brains that must think, and personalities that must be developed.

Jill Lepore

#33. Predigested food' should be inscribed over every hall of learning as a warning to all who do not wish to lose their own personalities and their original sense of judgment ...

Emma Goldman

#34. We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread.

Paul Auster

#35. If a person with multiple personalities threatens suicide, is that considered a hostage situation?

Steven Wright

#36. Our personalities seem dangerously to blur and overlap with our mother's; and, in a desperate attempt to know where mother ends and daughter begins, we perform radical surgery.

Adrienne Rich

#37. I really relate to middle America, and I love bright, vibrant, unique, interesting personalities.

Jill Wagner

#38. We're a team, and just by the nature of our sport, we're always promoted together. I think we are definitely two different people with two different personalities, but we're always linked.

Misty May-Treanor

#39. The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

C. G. Jung

#40. You get an idea what a manager has to go through every day. His is at a very high level. He has situations he has to deal with and the expectations he has to deal with, the personalities he has to deal with. It's a lot.

Joe Girardi

#41. I think I brush the surface of being involved politically with the issues and the personalities in the news.

Constance Zimmer

#42. I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely.

Tori Amos

#43. I don't care about faces, personalities or clothes . . . I only care about the soul.

Kaciana Bru

#44. We have different personalities, but in a harmonious way, I'd say. Anyway, we were booked to play at the festival as a duo; and we decided we wouldn't have any rehearsal.

Benny Green

#45. I believe that we start to see our true personalities when we go through the most difficult moments. This is when we get stronger

Ayrton Senna

#46. I'm trying to get low. People's personalities can get in the way of their own work.

Mos Def

#47. A pronoun, too, will aptly reflect the number of its antecedent: "they" does not refer to one person, no matter how many personalities she or he has, or how eager you are to skirt the gender frays.

Karen Elizabeth Gordon

#48. This is why convicts take such pleasure in boasting and exaggerating their own unhappy personalities to the point of burlesque.
They find in boasting the one thing they long for - a semblance of life and liberty.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#49. Things can change only through strong personalities. I am not very good at supporting ignorance and mediocrity, so maybe this leads to arrogant gestures and arrogant responses. So, nobody's perfect.

Edi Rama

#50. People did not change their basic, core personalities. Their values tended to stay the same.

Karin Slaughter

#51. All over America, people are making kamikaze choices about what to wear. They are misrepresenting the goods. They are letting their clothes write checks that their personalities cannot cash.

Simon Doonan

#52. Few of the great creators have bland personalities. They are cantankerous egotists, the kind of men who are unwelcome in the modern corporation.

David Ogilvy

#53. We stand poised on the brink of becoming true cyborgs, of having inorganic features that are inseparable from our bodies, features that modify our abilities, desires, personalities and identities.

Yuval Noah Harari

#54. People cultivate these fully formed personalities.

Kristen Stewart

#55. Band chemistry is a tricky thing. If one guy isn't feeling right with the other guys, everything gets thrown off. When you get the personalities and the chemistry right, that's a grand slam.

Les Claypool

#56. I am always and at once on the defensive, for example, when people speak of races and nations as if they were personalities and had souls and destinies and such like.

Christopher Hitchens

#57. Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

Paul Newman

#58. Not all people are 'people', some are more and some are less. But only those who listen intently with their hearts will recognise them for what they are.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#59. What a thrill it was to play opposite Maurice Evans in this brilliant, dazzling musical, based on the life of two of the greatest personalities in stage history.

Dinah Sheridan

#60. You cannot share your life with a dog, as I had done in Bournemouth, or a cat, and not know perfectly well that animals have personalities and minds and feelings.

Jane Goodall

#61. Team sports are very important for shaping personalities. It's important that kids understand the mentality behind playing team sports and playing for one another and playing with friends.

Brian O'Driscoll

#62. Revolution is indeed a violent process. But if it is to result only in a change of dictatorship, in a shifting of names and political personalities, then it is hardly worth while.

Emma Goldman

#63. On every level, despite differences in personalities and jobs, every single human being needs recognition and support.

Adele Scheele

#64. Every project is different. When I'm working on my albums, I've worked with different producers and they've all had different personalities. The recording studio sets the vibe, and that changes as well.

Diego Boneta

#65. There are some souls, bright and precious, which, like gold and silver, may be subdued by the fiery trial, and yield to new moulds; but there are others, pure and solid as the diamond, which may be shivered to pieces, yet in every fragment retain their indelible characteristics.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#66. In the context of social media, reddit is more about the media than the personalities.

Yishan Wong

#67. I like cats. I used to have a lot of cats, but I don't anymore, now I just have a dog. It does take a certain temperament to have a cat, as they do have certain personalities.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

#68. Sometimes we tend to focus more on the personalities and the conflicts, and it really caricatures the issues.

Mitchell Reiss

#69. the fundamental attribution error is the tendency of human beings to attribute the negative or frustrating behaviors of their colleagues to their intentions and personalities, while attributing their own negative or frustrating behaviors to environmental factors.

Patrick Lencioni

#70. One of the troubles of our times is that we are all, I think, precocious as personalities and backward as characters.

W. H. Auden

#71. We [with Marjane Satrapi] both have very strong personalities, but that's completely normal, because even if you're very well prepared, you never know when you shoot live action.

Vincent Paronnaud

#72. Wrong education and upbringing produces ugly personalities, whereas a fine upbringing and good education will bring forth superior sense and feeling, as well as nobility and purity of mind.

Shinichi Suzuki

#73. There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.

Idris Elba

#74. Motivating people is more than having the right incentives, the right programs and the right benefit packages. It's about tapping into the unique passions, personalities and strengths of those entrusted to our care.

Steve Knox

#75. That's what this democracy was for us, a huge supermarket of mass man where we could take a piece here and a piece there to make our personalities for ourselves instead of putting up with what was given at the beginning.

Seymour Krim

#76. Many marriages falter, it seems to me, not because the couples are out of love, but because they have never been friends as much as lovers. They may love each other, in a vaporously romantic way, but they do not really like each other as individual personalities.

Sydney J. Harris

#77. I surround myself with strong willed, courageous personalities, because I've got to be coached by the best.

Aeriel Miranda

#78. Are we going to just change the personalities in the speakership? Or are we going to fundamentally transform the way we do business here in Washington, D.C.?

Dan Webster

#79. when we first met and felt compelled to talk constantly about each other's faces and personalities and what we loved about each other and all of that routine,

Anonymous

#80. I wonder if he thinks he married a girl with two personalities: vixen and wallflower.

Christina Lauren

#81. Personalities are like impressionistic paintings. At a distance, each person is 'all of a piece'; up close, each is a bewildering complexity of moods, cognitions, and motives.

Theodore Millon

#82. TV writing is tricky to navigate because you have so many different personalities - the actors, multiple producers.

Roger Avary

#83. Very strong personalities must confine themselves in mutual conversation to very gentle subjects.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#84. Every president becomes a caricature. The press, partisans, late-night shows, and other arbiters of our culture these days boil down complicated and multi-faceted personalities into one-dimensional punchlines.

Mark McKinnon

#85. Feeding a crowd?' the woman behind the counter asked.
Yes, ma'am ,' Fang said sweetly.
Yeah, him and all his split personalities, I thought.

James Patterson

#86. I'd want to bring a flamethrower to faculty meetings. The preciousness of academics and their fragile personalities would not be tolerated in any other business in the known universe.

Nic Pizzolatto

#87. Who was there to guide them? The words of self-obsessed politicians, egotistical media personalities, power-crazed newspaper magnates and half-mad clerics? Who could reason sensibly when supplied with all the wrong information for all the wrong reasons?

Robert Rankin

#88. You have to imprint your own style. People like authentic personalities.

Dexter Hawk

#89. I think my writing process changes as I gain more life experience ... It has taken me many years to be able to write a novel that shows the points of view of people of different ages and personalities.

Kathleen Winter

#90. Being an actor is a lot more involved than many people realize; there are hundreds of ways to play any character. Even for a stylized bad guy, there are 4 or 5 different personalities I can play off the top of my head without thinking - better and more experienced actors can do dozens or hundreds.

Conan Stevens

#91. So no, it's not all in the genes, but what isn't in the genes isn't in the family environment either. It can't be explained in terms of the overall personalities or the child-rearing practices of parents.

Steven Pinker

#92. As adults our life is reduced to giving alms to others and receiving them in return. We squander our personalities in orgies of coexistence.

Fernando Pessoa

#93. I've always liked game shows - the competitive aspect and the character-driven personalities you see.

Apolo Ohno

#94. By being an actor, one can explore various personalities of a human being, be that person, behave and live that person's life, and then you are back to your normal life.

Terence Lewis

#95. Each of us extracted different people from our parents by our personalities and hence we had different experiences growing up.

Lisa Unger

#96. Farm animals are just as interesting and intelligent as the dogs and cats who we know a bit betterYet they are treated by the meat industry as though they are inanimate objects with no feelings or personalities.

Emily Deschanel

#97. Sometimes we have to try on a few different personalities before we found ourselves.

Lindsey Kelk

#98. In my 20s because I was working on films so much and travelling so much and doing press, I was single with no kids and I think that's the time when not only are you trying on looks, but you're trying on personalities - you're still really forming.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#99. God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#100. Our political system needs changing. It needs to move away from personalities and patronage to a system of party programs and consultation with the people.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo