Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Senge

The discipline of personal mastery...starts with clarifying the things that really matter to us (and) living our lives in the service of our highest aspirations.

Queen Rania of Jordan

I'd rather be dealt with as a person than a persona.

Haruki Murakami

She's always polite and kind, but her words lack the kind of curiosity and excitement you'd normally expect. Her true feelings- assuming such things exist- remain hidden away. Except for when a practical sort of decision has to be made, she never gives her personal opinion about anything. She seldom talks about herself, instead letting others talk, nodding warmly as she listens. But most people start to feel vaguely uneasy when talking with her, as if they suspect they're wasting her time, trampling on her private, graceful, dignified world. And that impression is, for the most part, correct.

Gustav Mahler

A true personality . . . is like a robust organism that, with unconscious sureness, seeks out and digests the nourishment appropriate to it and vigorously rejects that which is unsuitable.

Jodie Foster

I don't have a burning desire to act, strangely enough. I don't know that if I hadn't been an actor as a young person, I don't know that I ever would have chosen this because it's not really my personality.

Julie Chen

If you're trying to be something you're not, whether it's an age or a certain type of personality, you're just going to be in misery. You have to own who you are, and part of who you are is your age.

Lauren Bacall

I hope I'm thought of as not just a showbiz personality, but as someone who has lived a life and who has hopefully made a contribution to something along the way - someone who is a human being as well as an actress.

John Key

Your personality as the prime minister feeds through to what you emphasise, and what you don't, how you'll handle a situation - whether you've got the combination of intelligence or instincts to adapt and to make good decisions.

Julie London

Sometimes you kind of lose yourself in someone else's personality.

Karl Kraus

On the stage one must not confuse the nature of a personality with the naturalness of a person.

Karl Lagerfeld

I have no personality, or I have three, depending on how you look at it.

Karl Lagerfeld

Personality begins where comparison ends.

Oscar Isaac

A movie set is like a petri dish for neuroses, you know? It's just, like, egos and weird personalities and, more than anything, fear.

Julie Salamon

I'm also fascinated by the interplay between personal history and the larger forces that form the context for our lives.

Julian Fellowes

If you're supposed to be a 'personality,' then you might as well have a personality.

Nancy Grace

I don't expect everybody to like me. If you try to please everybody, by changing your position and your personality, every time you do that you lose a little bit of yourself.

Paul Newman

To that extent that you can sustain and maintain that childlike part of your personality is probably the best part of acting.

Marion Cotillard

I didn't like anything about myself - my looks, my personality. I was very, very angry.

Noam Chomsky

It is quite possible--overwhelmingly probable, one might guess--that we will always learn more about human life and personality from novels than from scientific psychology

Mike Pence

Donald Trump is a charismatic personality bigger than life.

Joe Murray

The friend that I based Heffer on was adopted, and it all played into his total personality.

Patton Oswalt

I grew up in such a featureless, personality-less suburb. There was nothing to push against.

P. D. James

Death ... obliterates family resemblance as it does personality: there is no affinity between the living and the dead.

Oscar Wilde

Early in life she had discovered the important truth that nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion; and by a series of reckless escapades, half of them quite harmless, she had acquired all the privileges of a personality.

Mae West

When you get the personality, you don't need the nudity.

Mac Miller

I'm addicted to something at all times. Like, it's always music, but maybe sometimes it's a pair of pants or something else. That's just how my personality works.

Liya Kebede

It is important for me that I represent a brand that reflects my personality.

Mark Twain

We must look for our own blame to find our own personality.

Marilyn Ferguson

The beginning of personal transformation is absurdly easy. We have only to pay attention to the flow of attention itself.

Martin Kippenberger

My style is where you see the individual and where a personality is communicated through actions, decisions, single objects and facts, where the whole draws together to form a history

Princess Diana

There's no better way to dismantle a personality than to isolate it.

Oprah Winfrey

Align your personality with your purpose, and no one can touch you.

Oprah Winfrey

I know that I am more than my personality, my body, and my body image.