1,479 Quotes About Personality

Listen, then repeat. Listen, then repeat. That was all it took to pretend well. What was a person’s self but carefully articulated mimicry?

When you see people only as personalities, rather than souls with life missions to fulfill, you forever limit the growth and possibilities of what God has in store for another person.

I'm not stubborn. My way is just better.

The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.

How many of us ever make time to know who our parents really were? How many sunken layers deep are those we thought we knew simply because we loved them?

The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.

I never got to know the who was the man behind the man I thought my father was. I knew the lawyer only but had never ever seen or met or lived with the pianist. And it kills me still today to not have known and spoken to the pianist. The person I knew was his second self. I suspect we have first selves and second delves and perhaps third, fourth, and fifth selves and many more in between.

The truth is what it is to who holds it.

In graduate school, he'd had a teacher who had told him that the best actors are the most boring people. A string sense of self was detrimental, because an actor had to let the self disappear; he had to let himself be subsumed by a character. "If you want to be a personality, be a pop star," his teacher had said.