1,479 Quotes About Personality


  • Author Henrik Ibsen
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    Å, personlighet – han! Hvis han noensinne har hatt ansats til den slags abnormiteter som De kaller personlighet, så er både røttene og trevlene blitt grundig ekstirpert allerede i gutteårene; det kan jeg forsikre Dem.

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  • Author Linus Torvalds
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    I am not a visionary. I'm an engineer. I'm happy with the people who are wandering around looking at the stars but I am looking at the ground and I want to fix the pothole before I fall in.

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  • Author Susanna Kaysen
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    Recovered. Had my personality crossed over that border, whatever and wherever it was, to resume life within the confines of normal? Had I stopped arguing with my personality and learned to straddle the line between sane and insane?

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  • Author Sebastian Faulks
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    Levade had told her one day that there was no such thing as a coherent personality. When you are forty you have no cell in your body that you had at eighteen. It was the same, he said, with your character. Memory is the only thing that binds you to earlier selves; for the rest, you become an entirely different being every decade or so, sloughing off the old persona, renewing and moving on. You are not who you were, he told her, nor who you will be.

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