Personality Quotes - Page 37

• 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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• Personality is a manifestation of ego. Ego is the central sense of separateness that a person has from the rest of the universe. Personality is the form that that separateness take.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ignorance, Ego, Form

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• I think Dr. Ben Carson is a unique political personality. He's what we call a conviction politician. He actually believes in what he says. Here's a fellow who had been a neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins for over 30 years. Babies conjoined at the head, he is the one that did that. He's a superstar. Ben Carson steps away from medicine, looks at the political environment around him, and he is aghast at what he sees.

  Daniel Henninger

  Baby, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• When I look at the human brain I'm still in awe of it. Every single time you lift off the bone and open the durra and there it is - the human brain, the thing that gives a person a personality, that distinguishes each one of us, that there could be more than 6 billion of us here on this planet with brains that look the same, but each one being distinctly different because of what is going on in that thing. I'll never get over my awe of that.

  Benjamin Carson

  Giving, Brain, Looks

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I've done so many interviews that I've gotten past the ego and the personality. I used to feel that there might be something missing, but a few years ago I realized that I was so causative over how the interview went that I was no longer concerned over the effects of the interview.

  John Travolta

  Past, Years, Missing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Unless you drop your personality you will not be able to find your individuality. Individuality is given by existence; personality is imposed by the society.

  Rajneesh

  Individuality, Able, Given

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• Philosophy is a purely personal matter. A genuine philosopher's credo is the outcome of a single complex personality; it cannot be transferred. No two persons, if sincere, can have the same philosophy.

  Havelock Ellis

  Philosophy, Two, Outcomes

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• I'm a vague, conjunctured personality, more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Red, Opinion, Academic

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• If you have the personalities down, you understand them and identify with them; you can stick them in any situation and have a pretty good idea of how they're going to respond. Then it's just a matter of sanding and polishing up the jokes. But if you've got more ambiguous characters or stock stereotypes, the plastic comes through and they don't work as well. These two characters clicked for me almost immediately and I feel very comfortable working with them.

  Bill Watterson

  Character, Ideas, Two

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• What I find horrible nowadays is that people are always trying to find a personality for themselves. Nobody bothers about what you might call a painter's ideal... the kind that's always existed... No. They couldn't care less about that.

  Pablo Picasso

  Always Trying, People, Care

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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• For a young and presumptuous poet a disposition to write satires is one of the most dangerous he can encourage. It tempts him to personalities, which are not always forgiven after he has repented and become ashamed of them.

  Robert Southey

  Writing, Poet, Satire

  William Cowper, Robert Southey (1853). “The Works of William Cowper: Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations”, p.226

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• No charm, no humor, no wit -- and a personality which can only be described as 'icky.' .

  Conan O'Brien

  Charm, Wit

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• The artist works with a concentration of his whole personality, and the conscious part of it resolves conflicts, organized memories, and prevents him from trying to walk in two directions at the same time.

  Henry Moore

  Memories, Artist, Two

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• I considered that the painter's personality should be kept out of things, and therefore pictures should be anonymous. It was I who decided that pictures should not be signed, and for a time Picasso did the same.

  Georges Braque

  Signatures, Should, Painter

  "Letters of the Great Artists - From Blake to Pollock". Book by Richard Friedenthal, Translation by Daphne Woodward, p. 265, 1963.

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• It is not the how of painting but the why. To imitate a style would be a little like teaching a tone of voice or a personality.

  Ben Shahn

  Teaching, Voice, Style

  BEN SHAHN (1957). “THE SHAPE OF CONTENT”

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• It's personalities, it's conflict, it's all of these things that actually make performers interesting.

  Simon Cowell

  Interesting, Conflict, Performers

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• Extroversion is an enormously appealing personality style, but we've turned it into an oppressive standard to which most of us feel we must conform.

  Susan Cain

  Style, Extroverts, Standards

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.4, Broadway Books

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• I wish I was Sienna Miller. When I talk to her, I hope a bit of her party personality will rub off on me, but it never does.

  Keira Knightley

  Party, Wish, Doe

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• Art in its widest sense is the extension of the personality: a host of artificial limbs.

  Herbert Read

  Art, Host, Limbs

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• It is remarkable how very individual technique becomes in watercolour. Every man of personality finally arrives at a method peculiarly his own, as unique as his own fingerprint.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Unique, Men, Technique

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• I don't think I have a split personality. I believe the same person I am on the field is the same person I am at home - passionate about everything I do, whether it's reading a Bible or just hanging out with my wife.

  Troy Polamalu

  Bible, Reading, Believe

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• America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams.

  David Brooks

  Dream, America, Democracy

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• The artist dreams of works of real breadth; but, limited by his personality and the nature of his medium, limited by inner disturbances and loss of purpose, he often works more narrowly than he'd intended.

  Eric Maisel

  Dream, Real, Loss

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• It is not a question so much of a 'tree like a figure' or a 'root like a figure' - it is a question of bringing out the anonymous personality of these things.

  Graham Sutherland

  Character, Roots, Tree

  Graham Vivian Sutherland, John T. Hayes (1977). “Portraits by Graham Sutherland”

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