Personality Quotes — Page 38

Author

“The author can always delve into his own personality and find aspects of himself with which he can dress his characters.”

Character Personality Dresses

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Ray Stevenson

Actor

“Really Edward Teach, Blackbeard, was actually tall, so he was literally larger than life and so he knew that and actually the more you read about him, you realize that he actually respected and knew about the theatricality and he'd rather take a ship by threatening and having the power of his personality and the threat of the oncoming danger to sway the ship to just acquiesce and just give up their cargo and so none of his crew got hurt and they would just take their bounty and he wouldn't have to kill anybody, but of course he earned that reputation, so he was no saint.”

Hurt Giving Up Personality

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Thomas Merton

Writer, Monk

“The monk in hiding himself from the world becomes not less than himself, not less of a person, but more of a person, more truly and perfectly himself: for his personality and individuality are perfected in their true order, the spiritual, interior order.”

Spiritual Order Personality

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Tom Robbins

Novelist, Essayist

“I removed the freeway from its temporal context. Overpasses, cloverleafs, exit ramps took on the personality of Mayan ruins for me. Without destination, without cessation, my run was often silent and empty; there were no increments, no arbitrary graduations reducing time to functional units. I abstracted and purified.”

Running Personality Arbitrary

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Tom Robbins

Novelist, Essayist

“How we shape our understanding of others' lives is determined by what we find memorable in them, and that in turn is determined not by any potentially accurate overview of another's personality but rather by the tension and balance that exist in our daily relationships.”

Understanding Personality Memorable

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Thomas Mann

Novelist

“The books and magazines streamed in. He could buy them all, they piled up around him and even while he read, the number of those still to be read disturbed him. … they stood in rows, weighing down his life like a possession which he did not succeed in subordinating to his personality.”

Book Numbers Personality

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Sean Parker

Entrepreneur

“I've been doing a hybrid of investing and entrepreneurship, which I think initially I wasn't set out to do. But I realized it fit my personality.”

Thinking Personality Investing

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Serena Williams

Tennis Player

“When I'm 32? Hopefully I'll have made my mark with a few different movies, some scary ones and some comedies. I'm really funny, I have a great personality on the camera.”

Personality Cameras Scary

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Seth

Musician

“More than ever, we express ourselves with what we buy and how we use what we buy. Extensions of our personality, totems of our selves, reminders of who we are or would like to be. Great marketers don't make stuff. They make meaning.”

Self Use Personality

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Simon Sinek

Author, Motivational Speaker

“Notoriously outspoken, his sentences always punctuated with profanities, General George S. Patton was the epitome of what a leader should be like - or so he thought. Patton believed a leader should look and act tough, so he cultivated his image and his personality to match his philosophy.”

Philosophy Leader Personality

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Simone Weil

Philosopher, Activist

“The full expression of personality depends upon its being inflated by social prestige; it is a social privilege.”

Expression Personality Privilege

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Ricky Williams

Football Player

“A team takes on the personality of the head coach.”

Team Personality Coaches

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