1,479 Quotes About Personality

  • Author Tatiana Maslany
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    I have trouble sleeping, at the end of the night. There's a lot of stimulus and my brain is processing a lot of different arcs and personalities. I'm always processing things, so I don't sleep.

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  • Author Terence McKenna
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    The overriding problems are brought on by the existence of the ego, a maladaptive behavioral complex in the psyche that gets going like a tumor. If it's not treated - if there's not pharmacological intervention - it becomes the dominant constellation of the personality..

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  • Author W. Somerset Maugham
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    The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that. Its use is for life. Its aim is not beauty but goodness.

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  • Author Kunal Nayyar
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    The really good stand up comedians can be angry but relatable, and they have interestingly humanizing personalities. Their observational skills are far greater than mine, so I'll just stick to reading lines off a page.

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  • Author Paul Newman
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    To that extent that you can sustain and maintain that childlike part of your personality is probably the best part of acting.

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  • Author Peggy Noonan
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    one way to keep people close to you is by not giving them enough. ... with people who give a lot of themselves, you sometimes lean back - but with people who give little you often lean forward, as if they're a spigot in the desert and you're the empty cup. It is the tropism of deprivation: We lean toward those who do not give.

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  • Author Ralph Nader
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    The world is shaped by different people with certain personalities that come out of different upbringings.

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