Personality Quotes — Page 39

Philosopher, Theologian

“Doubt is thought's despair; despair is personality's doubt. . . . Doubt and despair . . . belong to completely different spheres; different sides of the soul are set in motion. . . . Despair is an expression of the total personality, doubt only of thought.”

Soul Expression Personality

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Stephen Burt

Poet

“In pursuing certain virtues - colorful local effects, personae and personality, juxtaposition, close calls with nonsense, uncertainty, critiques of ordinary language - the current crop of American poets necessarily give up on others.”

Giving Up Personality Poetry

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Susan Cain

Author, Speaker

“I actually find extroversion to be a really appealing personality style.”

Style Personality

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Russell Brand

Comedian, Actor

“A personality for the incredibly beautiful can be a pointless cargo.”

Beautiful Personality

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Susan Cain

Author, Speaker

“America had shifted from what influential cultural historian Warren Susman called a culture of character to a culture of personality, and opened up a Pandora's box of personal anxieties of which we would never recover.”

Character America Personality

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Susan Cain

Author, Speaker

“Schwartz's research suggests something important: we can stretch our personalities, but only up to a point. Our inborn temperaments influence us, regardless of the lives we lead. A sizeable part of who we are is ordained by our genes, by our brains, by our nervous systems. And yet the elasticity that Schwartz found in some of the high-reactive teens also suggests the converse: we have free will and can use it to shape our personalities.”

Important Brain Personality

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Susan Sontag

Essayist, Critic, Activist

“A personality is our way of being for others. We hope that others will meet us half way or more, gratify our needs, be our audience, soothe our fears.”

Needs Half Personality

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Swami Vivekananda

Spiritual Leader, Philosopher

“Behind my work was ambition, behind my love was personality, behind my purity was fear, behind my guidance the thirst for power. Now they are vanishing and I drift. I come, Mother, I come, in Thy warm bosom, floating wheresoever Thou takest me, in the voiceless, in the strange, in the wonderland, I come - a spectator, no more an actor.”

Mother Ambition Personality

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Swami Vivekananda

Spiritual Leader, Philosopher

“The person is only a phenomenon, the principle is behind it. Thus from both sides, simultaneously, we find the breaking down of personalities and the approach towards principles, the Personal God approaching the Impersonal, the personal man approaching the Impersonal Man.”

Men Principles Personality

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Ruth Marcus

Journalist

“You can lose your weight, but you can't lose your personality. And people's personalities don't change.”

People Personality Weight

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Rollo May

Psychologist, Author

“In any discussion of religion and personality integration the question is not whether religion itself makes for health or neurosis, but what kind of religion and how is it used? Freud was in error when he held that religion is per se a compulsion neurosis. Some religion is and some is not.”

Personality Errors Neurosis

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Steven Morrissey

Singer-Songwriter

“Singers attract fans with aspects of their own personality. People feel I'm passionate and obsessive. They know this isn't a profession for me, it's a vocation. It's not an egotistical thing, but something else. I'm in a dialogue with my audience, and that's something I need”

People Fans Personality

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