Personality Quotes - Page 4

• Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a vehicle of entirely new lyric and plastic power.

  Fernand Leger

  Giving, Enlargement, Way

  Fernand Léger, Katharine Kuh (1953). “Léger: Catalogue of Th Exhibition Organized by the Art Institute of Chicago in Collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the San Francisco Museum of Art”

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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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• 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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• When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years.

  Denis Diderot

  Art, Philosophy, Men

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• I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities.

  Walt Disney

  Character, Cartoon, Trying

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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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• 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 think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I've never been interested in that.

  Brian Eno

  Thinking, Ideas, Stage

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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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• I have an unfortunate personality.

  Orson Welles

  Unfortunate

  Orson Welles, Mark W. Estrin (2002). “Orson Welles: Interviews”, p.21, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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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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• I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too.

  Mary Douglas

  Shapes, Living Alone, Convinced

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• I think it's really important to design things with a kind of personality.

  Marc Newson

  Thinking, Design, Important

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• The traditional Christian attitude toward human personality was that human nature was essentially good and that it was formed and modified by social pressures and training.

  Carroll Quigley

  Christian, Attitude, Training

  Carroll Quigley (1966). “Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time”, G S G & Associates Pub

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• Personality is everything in art and poetry.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Artist

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1921). “Goethe's Literary Essays”

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• The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

  T. S. Eliot

  Art, Sacrifice, Self

  The Sacred Wood "Tradition and the Individual Talent" (1920)

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• My actual personality probably lies someplace between the two.

  Edie Falco

  Lying, Two

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• If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Fear, Men, Thinking

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• Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish

  Chevy Chase

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Beautiful, Hate, Cancer

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• Never do anything that taints your mind. Wrong actions cause negative or evil mental vibrations that are reflected in your whole appearance and personality. Engage in those actions and thoughts that nurture the good qualities you want to have.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Yoga, Evil, Mind

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• Personality is a mask you believe in.

  Robert J. White

  Believe, Mask

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• Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Men, Perfection, Reverence For Life

  Albert Schweitzer (2015). “The Light Within Us”, p.30, Open Road Media

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• Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.

  Henry James

  Character, Ideas, Two

  Henry James (1930). “Charles W. Eliot: President of Harvard University, 1869-1909”

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• I'm not really a political satirist. I don't kid myself. I'm more interested in doing the mannerisms and the personality.

  Rich Little

  Children, Kids, Political

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