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Wednesday, June 26th, 2024
the Week of Proper 7 / Ordinary 12
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Quotations regarding 'Personality'

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The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.
George Orwell, British Author (1903-1950)
The lesson of the last year is this: foreign policy can't be managed through the politics of personality, and our President would do well to take note of an observation John F. Kennedy made once he was in office - that all of the world's problems aren't his predecessor's fault.
Sarah Palin, American Politician (1964-  )
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, American Sociologist (1902-1979)
Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.
Walter Pater, English Critic (1839-1894)
The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.
S. J. Perelman, American Writer (1904-1979)
My significant other right now is myself, which is what happens when you suffer from multiple personality disorder and self-obsession.
Joaquin Phoenix, American Actor (1974-  )
Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual.
Kenneth L. Pike, American Sociologist (1912-2000)
Personality and socialization aren't the same thing.
Steven Pinker, Canadian Scientist (1954-  )
Cute is when your personality shines through your looks. Like, when you see someone's personality in the way they walk and you just feel like hugging them every time you see them.
Natalie Portman, American Actress (1981-  )
Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.
Dennis Potter, British Dramatist (1935-1994)
You can be fat and love yourself. You can be fat and have a great damn personality. You can be fat and sew your own clothes. But you can't be fat and healthy.
Susan Powter, American Celebrity (1957-  )
They have to be able to spark my interest so I want to pursue it, and they have to have an awesome personality, really laid-back. All those things are sexy to me.
Laura Prepon, American Actress (1980-  )
The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality.
Raymond Queneau, French Poet (1903-1976)
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, American Writer (1910-1977)
Some of the newer folks in the industry, I'm not sure they are familiar with the term acting. They don't understand what it means to play a character rather than just be a personality.
Kathleen Quinlan, American Actress (1954-  )
The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit; in more developed forms of society he is an independent personality.
Herbert Read, English Poet
You might think that it would he the natural desire of every man to develop as an independent personality, but this does not seem to be true.
Herbert Read, English Poet
A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them.
Herbert Read, English Poet
I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.
Gabrielle Reece, Athlete (1970-  )
I talk as I sketch, too, in order to keep their minds off what I'm doing so I'll get the most natural expression I can from them. Also, the talking helps to size up the subject's personality, so I can figure out better how to portray him.
Norman Rockwell, American Artist (1894-1978)
 
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