Personality famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Since ideology is part of the human personality, it deserves a place in the kingdom of eternal truths.
-- A. B. Yehoshua -
When a pure devotee or spiritual master speak, what he says should be accepted as having been directly spoken by the Supreme Personality of Godhead in the Parampara System.
-- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada -
It is imperative that one approaches a spiritual master, for by such association one proportionately develops his consciousness towards the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
-- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada -
The highest summit of spiritual perfection is knowledge of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
-- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada -
One must execute devotional service under the guidance of a devotee or directly under the guidance of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. It is not possible, however, to train oneself without guidance from the spiritual master.
-- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada -
Basic personality traits develop early in life and over time become inviolable, hardwired. Most people learn little from experience, rarely thinking of adjusting their behavior, see problems as emanating from those around them, and keep on doing what they do in spite of everything, for better or worse.
-- A.S.A. Harrison -
The inspired moment may sometimes be described as a kind of hallucinatory state of mind: one half of the personality emotes and dictates while the other half listens and notates. The half that listens has better look the other way, had better simulate a half attention only, for the half that dictates is easily disgruntled and avenges itself for too close inspection by fading entirely away.
-- Aaron Copland -
Leadership can't be forced or contrived. It has to be your personality.
-- Aaron Rodgers -
God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.
-- Abdul Kalam -
First of all, directing is an idea that you have of a total flow of images that are going on, which are incidentally actors, words, and objects in space. It's an idea you have of yourself, like the idea you have of your own personality which finds its best representation in the world in terms of specific flows of imaginary images. That's what directing is.
-- Abraham Polonsky -
You get a sense of how the show works and then let your personality take over.
-- Adam Baldwin -
On every level, despite differences in personalities and jobs, every single human being needs recognition and support.
-- Adele Scheele -
It's wrong for a guy to have no personality, no heart. Because I don't care about style or money.
-- Adriana Lima -
My father insisted that I learnt the Koran and encouraged me to understand the basic traditions and beliefs of Islam but without imposing any particular views. He was an overwhelming personality but open-minded and liberal.
-- Aga Khan III -
There is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation!... A human being, Hastings, cannot resist theopportunity to reveal himself and express his personality which conversation gives him. Every time he will give himself away.
-- Agatha Christie -
Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence.
-- Aimee Mullins -
I think George W. Bush has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest.
-- Al Gore -
A team should be an extension of a coach's personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
-- Al McGuire -
I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
-- Al McGuire -
The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness".
-- Alain de Botton -
People who readily accept the need for a gym will resist that their personalities might need some work too.
-- Alain de Botton -
Our jobs make relentless calls on a narrow band of our faculties, reducing our chances of achieving rounded personalities and leaving us to suspect (often in the gathering darkness of a Sunday evening) that much of who we are, or could be, has gone unexplored.
-- Alain de Botton -
It seems only reasonable that the people have a right to know virtually everything about the personality they are buying each time they put their money through the box office
-- Alan Ladd -
Effective leadership is about earning respect, and it's also about personality and charisma
-- Alan Sugar -
It was revealed to me many years ago with conclusive certainty that I was a fool and that I had always been a fool. Since then I have been as happy as any man has a right to be.
-- Alastair Sim -
I adore women, and the one thing I want to do more than anything is to see a transformation of personality when someone puts on one of my dresses.
-- Alber Elbaz -
The love of God is a hard love. It demands total self-surrender, disdain of our human personality. And yet it alone can reconcile us to suffering and the deaths of children, it alone can justify them, since we cannot understand them, and we can only make God's will ours.
-- Albert Camus -
The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime, while the herd as such remains dull in thought and dull in feeling.
-- Albert Einstein -
Religious creeds encourage some of the craziest kinds of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors and favor severe manifestations of neurosis, borderline personality states, and sometimes even psychosis.
-- Albert Ellis -
Fat is a barrier, a bellicose statement to others that, to some, justifies hostility in kind. The world says to the fat person, "Your fatness is an affront to me, so we have the right to treat you as offensively as you appear." Fat is not merely viewed as another type of tissue, but as a diagnostic sign, a personal statement, and a measure of personality. Too little fat and we see you as being antisocial, fearful and sexless. Too much fat and we see you as slothful, stupid, and sexually hung up.
-- Albert Ellis -
Only those who respect the personality of others can be of real use to them.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
I don't think it's possible to write a good novel around a negative personality.
-- Alberto Moravia -
I can't tell you why a particular athlete would leave a certain coach, but I can tell you there could be many reasons. They could have personality conflicts. They could have misunderstandings. Lots of stuff can happen.
-- Alberto Salazar -
All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter.
-- Aldous Huxley -
An ideal is merely the projection, on an enormously enlarged scale, of some aspect of personality.
-- Aldous Huxley -
An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.
-- Alec Guinness -
People find my things sometimes aggressive.  But I don't see it as aggressive.  I see it as romantic, dealing with a dark side of personality.
-- Alexander McQueen -
The globe has been circumnavigated, but no man ever yet has; you may survey a kingdom and note the result in maps, but all the savants in the world could not produce a reliable map of the poorest human personality.
-- Alexander Smith -
There's absolutely nothing wrong with Oscar Levant that a miracle can't fix.
-- Alexander Woollcott -
I consider him [i.e Stalin] one of the greatest persons in the history of mankind. In the history of Russia he was, in my opinion, even greater than Lenin. Until Stalin's death I was anti-Stalinist, but I always regarded him as a brilliant personality.
-- Alexander Zinoviev -
I've got to think he's the only guy who smiled when he walked up to the podium. I love that about it and he brings that personality on the field.
-- Alexi Lalas -
Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.
-- Alexis Carrel -
As to virtue . . . it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity and quality of life. It builds up, strengthens and vivifies personality.
-- Alexis Carrel -
It seems obvious to me that the notion of God has never been anything but a kind of ideal projection, a reflection upward of the human personality, and that theology never has been and never can be anything but a more and more purified mythology.
-- Alfred Loisy -
Peace is self-control at its widest-at the width where the "self" has been lost, and interest has been transferred to coordinations wider than personality.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
For that is the power of the camera: seize the familiar and give it new meanings, a special significance by the mark of a personality.
-- Alfred Stieglitz -
I wanted to be the moron of the family, because morons seemed to have more fun, more freedom and more personality.
-- Alice Sebold -
I think you only learn what kind of personality you have by committing to things.
-- Alice Sebold -
Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don't even recognize that growth is happening...Those long periods when something inside ourselves seems to be waiting, holding its breath, unsure about what the next step should be, eventually become the periods we wait for, for it is in those periods that we realize that we are being prepared for the next phase of our life and that, in all probability, a new level of the personality is about to be revealed.
-- Alice Walker -
I get pigeonholed into type-A personality characters, but I'm really not type A. I'm kind of a spaz.
-- Alison Brie -
The most important thing you wear is your personality.
-- America Ferrera -
You can't create a new reality with the same personality.
-- Amit Goswami -
My favorite books have a personality and complexion as distinctly drawn as if the author's portrait were framed into the paragraphs and smiled upon me as I read his illustrated pages.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
When I died my hair red the first time, I felt as if it was what nature intended. I have been accused of being a bit of a spitfire, so in that way, I absolutely live up to the stereotype. The red hair suits my personality. I was a terrible blonde!
-- Amy Adams -
L.A. doesn't have any big personality to me; it's not inspiring.
-- Amy Lee -
The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
-- Anais Nin -
We need strong personalities and only one world champion to attract sponsors
-- Anatoly Karpov -
It is my personality alone that has brought back the waltz and made it a global craze.
-- Andre Rieu -
The annihilation of a woman's personality, individuality, will, character, is prerequisite to male sexuality.
-- Andrea Dworkin -
No 'mise en scène' has the right to be repeated, just as no two personalities are ever the same. As soon as a 'mise en scène' turns into a sign, a cliché, a concept however original it may be, then the whole thing - characters, situation, psychology - become schematic and false.
-- Andrei Tarkovsky -
I think leadership is most effective when it's your own personality. But I feel like it's a natural progression as a quarterback, as well.
-- Andrew Luck -
I think if there's any difference between me and a traditional CEO, it's that I've been unwilling to change myself or shape my personality around what's expected.
-- Andrew Mason -
It sounds maybe a little old fashioned, but the parts I want to play and I do play, you don't want to inject too much of your own personality. What you sacrifice then is a slight mystery.
-- Andrew Scott -
My life - my personality, my habits, even my speech - is a combination of the books I choose to read, the people I choose to listen to, and the thoughts I choose to tolerate in my mind
-- Andy Andrews -
If you look at the people who make up the Bravo landscape from Jeff Lewis to Rachel Zoe and Padma Lakshmi and Tabatha Coffey and the 'Millionaire Matchmaker,' these are very strong personalities that people love to watch and that you... don't see anywhere else.
-- Andy Cohen -
Wong Kar Wai is a very intense character, very personable, and I believe in general he does not like and he would not want his actors to show their true looks and their true personality on screen.
-- Andy Lau -
When I was in theater I was forever trying to inhabit a space which puts yourself under the microscope as an actor and your personality and your take on life, but actually through another portal of a character.
-- Andy Serkis -
He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind.
-- Aneurin Bevan -
It is both humiliating and humbling to discover that a single generation after the events that constructed me as a public personality, I am remembered as a hairdo.
-- Angela Davis -
Ladies, it is not your education, status or personality that has brought you here but the elegance of God which was still and still working upon you.
-- Angela Merkel -
My biggest insecurity is that my personality is too much, and as I get older, it's just getting bigger,
-- Angie Harmon -
Hollywood sold its stars on good looks and personality buildups. We weren't really actresses in a true sense, we were just big names - the products of a good publicity department.
-- Ann Sothern -
My different personalities leave me in peace now.
-- Anna Freud -
It's that I have a good personality and am a good tennis player.
-- Anna Kournikova -
Becoming a mother doesn't always change every aspect of your personality.
-- Anna Torv -
Gisele Bundchen, along w Kate Moss, is a phenomenon. I wish models knew they have to have a personality
-- Anna Wintour -
Models today, she explained, don't understand that to be successful you have to have a personality, intelligence, and issues that you support, and Gisele embodies these qualities.
-- Anna Wintour -
You are not your bank account, our your ambitiousness. You're not the cold clay lump with a big belly you leave behind when you die. You're not your collection of walking personality disorders. You are spirit, you are love.
-- Anne Lamott -
Looking back on the God my friend believed in, he seems a little erratic, not entirely unlike her father - God as borderline personality.
-- Anne Lamott -
Yeah, I have the detail-obsessed, controlling personality of a novelist, but I somehow ended up writing plays.
-- Annie Baker -
I am a bit of a solitude person - a solitary personality. I like being on my own. I don't have any major friendships or relationships with people.
-- Anthony Hopkins -
Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.
-- Anthony Sampson -
It is true that many creative people fail to make mature personal relationships, and some are extremely isolated. It is also true that, in some instances, trauma, in the shape of early separation or bereavement, has steered the potentially creative person toward developing aspects of his personality which can find fulfillment in comparative isolation. But this does not mean that solitary, creative pursuits are themselves pathological.
-- Anthony Storr -
I discovered very soon, especially for movies, because I started in theater, that every director has his own universe. You have to be free enough to try to understand what he wants from you. Especially when that director has a tremendous personality. And I'm talking about people like Pedro Almodovar and Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino and Woody Allen. And you have to adapt. If you don't adapt to them, you are off the thing.
-- Antonio Banderas -
As an actor, when you encounter a psychopathic personality, you naturally want to make him 'bigger than life,' as the Americans say.
-- Antonio Banderas -
After puberty the personality develops impetuously and all extraneous intervention becomes odious.... Now it so happens that parents feel the responsibility towards their children precisely during this second period, when it is too late.
-- Antonio Gramsci -
Is it better to work out consciously and critically one's own conception of the world and thus, in connection with the labours of one's own brain, choose one's sphere of activity, take an active part in the creation of the history of the world, be one's own guide, refusing to accept passively and supinely from outside the moulding of one' own personality?
-- Antonio Gramsci -
There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another to the world.
-- Antonio Machado -
I've always liked game shows - the competitive aspect and the character-driven personalities you see.
-- Apolo Ohno -
If you have character, endeavor, personality, courage and the capacity for concentrated labor, you will do what is your destiny – and, perhaps, even do it well.
-- Ariel Durant -
What motivates me is an ideal of thinking about how football should be. And to try to get near this way of playing. And to try to improve all aspects of my personality that can help me get near this ideal way of playing football.
-- Arsene Wenger -
If I don't ask "Why me?" after my victories, I cannot ask "Why me?" after my setbacks and disasters.
-- Arthur Ashe -
It may be that even if half consciously, we choose our personalities to maintain a certain saving balance in the family's little universe.
-- Arthur Miller -
A picture story is a sequence of images combined with text in such a way that pictures and words reinforce each other. They produce a planned, organized combination giving detailed account of an event, personality or aspect of life.
-- Arthur Rothstein -
What a man is: that is to say, personality, in the widest sense of the word; under which are included health, strength, beauty, temperament, moral character, intelligence, and education.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
In Victorian times the purpose of life was to develop a personality once and for all and then stand on it.
-- Ashley Montagu
