"Personalities are like impressionistic paintings. At a distance, each person is 'all of a piece'; up close, each is a bewildering complexity of moods, cognitions, and motives."

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Source : Theodore Millon, Roger Dale Davis (1996). “Disorders of personality: DSM-IV and beyond”, Wiley

Theodore Millon

#Distance Quotes #Personality Quotes #Pieces Quotes

“Kevin Keegan said if he had a blank sheet of paper, five names would be on it.”
“Today, computers help us making the music. Its really a tool.”
“Dictators are ludicrous characters, and, you know, in my career and in my life, I've always enjoyed sort of inhabiting these ludicrous, larger-than-life characters that somehow exist in the real world.”
“In truth, we are all part of the team of humanity. And as such, we are all obligated to share ourselves, and our talents, for the sake of the team.”
“Byron owed the vast influence which he exercised over his contemporaries at least as much to his gloomy egotism as to the real power of his poetry.”
“And I'm a pair of pants with a hole scorched through the ass?”
“The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes.”
“I really think the mind of someone who hasn't been welded into place by their work or studios or actors or this whole society is a wonderful mind to work with, so I'd like to do a big picture with an unknown director.”

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

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