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• The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Self Esteem, Keys, Behavior Change

  MAXWELL MALTZ, M.D.,F.I.C.S. (1960). “PSYCHO-CYBERNETICS”

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• We're starting to push the envelope in terms of the expectations, and you can also have your own style, personality and sense of humor, because now we're allowed to.

  Lisa Guerrero

  Humor, Expectations, Style

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• It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes, no matter how much happiness they may find there.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Happiness, Home, Men

  Elsie De Wolfe (1975). “The house in good taste”, Ayer Co Pub

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• As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.

  Mose Allison

  Swings, Essentials, Jazz Improvisation

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• Whenever you do an animated project or a voice-over project it's inevitable that part of your personality comes into play.

  Tara Strong

  Play, Voice, Projects

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Nobody's irreplaceable, including me. I think for too long we've had a cult of personality in this company and in this industry, and frankly, I'd like to see that diminish.

  Bill Ford

  Thinking, Cult Of Personality, Long

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• I think I'm more European in personality.

  Sally Kirkland

  Thinking, Europe

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• My personality doesn't interest me.

  Andrei Gromyko

  Interest

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• The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.

  George Orwell

  Intelligent, Men, Intellectual

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.130, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Personality in man is what is "not his own" . . . what come from outside, what he has learned, or reflects, all traces of exterior impressions left in the memory.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Memories, Men, Impression

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• Show me an actress who isn't a personality and I'll show you a woman who isn't a star.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Movie, Stars, Actresses

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• When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Inspirational, Friendship, Children

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• I am quite confident that the most important part of a human being is not his physical body but his nonphysical essence, which some people call soul and others, personality... The nonphysical part cannot die and cannot decay because it's not physical.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Grieving, Essence, People

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• Character develops in stream of struggle and adversity. Character is foundation of your inner beauty which reflects in your personality.

  Anil Sinha

  Struggle, Character, Adversity

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• If education recognizes the intrinsic value of the child's personality and provides an environment suited to spiritual growth, we have the revelation of an entirely new child whose astonishing characteristics can eventually contribute to the betterment of the world.

  Maria Montessori

  Spiritual, Children, Growth

  Maria Montessori (1989). “Peaceful Children, Peaceful World: The Challenge of Maria Montessori”

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• Manner is personality—the outward manifestation of one’s innate character and attitude toward life.

  Emily Post

  Attitude, Character, Manifestation

  Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.2, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.

  Talcott Parsons

  Function, Behalf

  Talcott Parsons, Robert Freed Bales (1956). “Family Socialization and Interaction Process”, p.16, Psychology Press

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• I have to choose songs that represent my personality.

  Peabo Bryson

  Song

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• I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.

  Barbra Streisand

  Beautiful, Selfish, Simple

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• It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.

  George Orwell

  Struggle, Writing, Literature

  George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.231, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Personality is the most important thing to an actress's success.

  Mae West

  Success, Congratulations, Important

  Mae West (1959). “Goodness Had Nothing to Do with it: Autobiography”, Chelsea House

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• While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first personality, which no one should copy.

  Oscar Wilde

  Artist, Firsts, Study

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1689, GENERAL PRESS

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• Really the only thing holding a lot of records together is the personality of the singer, and the will to write all of these different things.

  Elvis Costello

  Writing, Hands, Together

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• Don't try to take on a new personality; it doesn't work.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Trying

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• I think I 'turn off' women. I've a kind of a weird personality. Women may think that I'm a mess.

  Ed O'Neill

  Thinking, May, Kind

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