Personality Quotes - Page 36

• Ratings to me are a little like the Chinese Government. I don't fully understand what makes a rating go. I don't know what makes the American television audience respond to one person and not t another. There very seldom are great differences between many television personalities.

  Tom Brokaw

  Government, Differences, Chinese

  "New Again: Tom Brokaw". Interview with Gale Lopez, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 20, 2015.

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• The surface personality is only the beginning of what we are. So as we meditate, we still that surface personality, we can see beyond it, and we see that we encompass multitudes.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Surface

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• The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself. Check yourself against this list of obstacles to a pleasing personality: interrupting others; sarcasm; vanity; being a poor listener; insincere flattery; finding fault; challenging others without good cause; giving unsolicited advice; complaining; attitude of superiority; envy of others' success; poor posture and dress.

  Harold Geneen

  Attitude, Sarcasm, Vanity

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• Probably careful plotting reflects my personality. I am meticulous by nature. I can't imagine speed-writing anything that happens to pop into my head.

  William Landay

  Writing, Imagine, Speed

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• The extreme side of my personality, which I chose to sort of display, was snowballing and getting a life of its own. It was like looking in a mirror and not recognising myself.

  Brian Molko

  Mirrors, Sides, Extremes

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• Hyun Joong hyung is totally a real man. He is very generous, easy to get along, and dependable. Sometimes, he would hide and cry secretly at night. He won’t tell others when he is sad about something. He’ll bear the sadness himself. He has a strong personality (he will not fall).

  Kim Kyu-jong

  Strong, Real, Fall

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• You can't just look at someone and guess their sexuality. There's no point in assuming that every gay man has just one personality type.

  Cameron Monaghan

  Gay, Men, Looks

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What sort of personality does one need to have, as a twenty-first-century mechanic, to tolerate the layers of electronic bullshit that get piled on top of machines?

  Matthew Crawford

  Bullshit, Firsts, Twenties

  Matthew Crawford (2010). “The Case for Working with Your Hands: Or Why Office Work is Bad for Us and Fixing Things Feels Good”, p.12, Penguin UK

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• Words are living things. They have personality, point of view... agenda.

  Hannibal

  Views, Agendas, Point Of View

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• I respect women like Gloria Steinem who paved the way. But when you say 'feminist' now, there is a message that if you are sexy and you acknowledge that part of your personality publicly, then it's somehow an affront to women. And I reject that.

  Megyn Kelly

  Sexy, Feminist, Way

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• I suppose, the natural outgrowth about writing about two friends, it becomes about their friendship, and the complexities of it, and the way personality plays off each other, and what they each like to do, separately and together.

  Alison McGhee

  Writing, Play, Two Friends

  "Q & A with Kate DiCamillo and Alison McGhee". Interview with Claire Kirch, www.publishersweekly.com. September 9, 2010.

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• That's what this democracy was for us, a huge supermarket of mass man where we could take a piece here and a piece there to make our personalities for ourselves instead of putting up with what was given at the beginning.

  Seymour Krim

  Opportunity, Men, Democracy

  Seymour Krim (1991). “What's this cat's story?: the best of Seymour Krim”, Paragon House Publishers

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• I don't think people buy technology products because of the personalities of the people behind them.

  Jim Balsillie

  Technology, Thinking, People

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• In primary school, every day and especially on Fridays, I was supposed to say, 'I am Turkish, and I am righteous and hardworking,' But all those things did not actually turn us into Turks. This system is somehow creating fake personalities.

  Osman Baydemir

  Friday, School, Creating

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• I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such a young age with my dad, it was really such a gift because I could then negotiate with very difficult personalities - and not end up being the scapegoat. I learned to really pick and choose my battles.

  Faith Prince

  Dad, Age, Battle

  "BRIDGING TV & THEATRE: Faith Prince & DROP DEAD DIVA - Plus Laurents, Robbins, MAME, GYPSY & More!". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. August 14, 2011.

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• Whenever I tell people I'm a misanthrope they react as though that's a bad thing, the idiots. I live in London, for God's sake. Have you walked down Oxford Street recently? Misanthropy's the only thing that gets you through it. It's not a personality flaw, it's a skill.

  Charlie Brooker

  Skills, Oxford, People

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• I think there are very few people who have a real style, a real personality, and real beauty.

  Marisa Berenson

  Real, Thinking, People

  "Marisa Berenson" by Elisa Lipsky-Karasz, www.harpersbazaar.com. September 19, 2011.

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• I just think I'm better equipped to make a study of human personality than trying to get into the mind of animals.

  Sara Gruen

  Animal, Thinking, Mind

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• Sometimes I think the people to feel the saddest for are people who are unable to connect with the profound—people such as my boring brother-in-law, a hearty type so concerned with normality and fitting in that he eliminates any possibility of uniqueness for himself and his own personality. I wonder if some day, when he is older, he will wake up and the deeper part of him will realize that he has never allowed himself to truly exist, and he will cry with regret and shame and grief.

  Douglas Coupland

  Brother, Regret, Grief

  Douglas Coupland (2012). “Life After God”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• In the context of social media, reddit is more about the media than the personalities.

  Yishan Wong

  Media, Social, Reddit

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• The British public like a Briton with personality, someone who comes out on court and isn't dour and down on themselves.

  Jo Durie

  Court, British, Britons

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• Genius is by definition a style of consciousness characterized by the ability to access high energy attractor patterns. It is not a personality characteristic. It is not something that a person has, nor even something that someone is. Those in whom we recognize genius commonly disclaim it. A universal characteristic of genius is humility. The genius has always attributed his insights to some higher influence.

  David R. Hawkins

  Humility, Style, Energy

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• I believe babies are born as innovative personalities... But our social processes work to stamp out exploration and questioning.

  Jay Wright Forrester

  Baby, Teaching, Believe

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• Leadership is not about personality, possessions, or charisma, but all about who you are as a person. I used to believe that leadership was about style but now I know that leadership is about substance, namely character.

  James Hunter

  Believe, Character, Style

  James C. Hunter (2008). “The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership”, p.166, Crown Business

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• American culture is no longer created by the people... A free, authentic life is no longer possible in AmericaTM today. We are being manipulated in the most insidious way. Our emotions, personalities and core values are under siege from media and cultural forces too complex to decode. A continuous product message has woven itself into the very fabric of our existence. Most North Americans now live designer lives-sleep, eat, sit in car, work, shop, watch TV, sleep again. I doubt there's more than a handful of free, spontaneous minutes anywhere in that cycle. We ourselves have been branded.

  Kalle Lasn

  Sleep, Media, Car

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