1,479 Quotes About Personality


  • Author Sonia Choquette
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    We have bodies. We have personalities. We have histories, stories and experiences. But we are not those things - we are Spirit.

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  • Author Susan Cain
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    Schwartz's research suggests something important: we can stretch our personalities, but only up to a point. Our inborn temperaments influence us, regardless of the lives we lead. A sizeable part of who we are is ordained by our genes, by our brains, by our nervous systems. And yet the elasticity that Schwartz found in some of the high-reactive teens also suggests the converse: we have free will and can use it to shape our personalities.

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

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  • Author Willa Cather
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    William Tavener never heeded ominous forecasts in the domestic horizon, and he never looked for a storm until it broke.

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  • Author Edgar Degas
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    Only two of my personalities are schizophrenic, but one of them is paranoid and the other one is out to get him. Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

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