Famous Quotes & Sayings

Talcott Parsons

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.

Tony Robbins

If you are driven by certainty you can't grow. If you are driven by certainty if somebody messes with you, you can get very intense, even violent, depending upon the person's personality.

Susan Cain

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.

Susan Cain

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

Susan Cain

Extroversion is an enormously appealing personality style, but we've turned it into an oppressive standard to which most of us feel we must conform.

Stone Gossard

It's a very complex scenario, and certainly Dave was, and is, not the only person in Pearl Jam with personality flaws. Everybody in this band exhibits some form of neurotic behavior. And we couldn't find a balance, a mutual respect for each other.

Sonia Choquette

We have bodies. We have personalities. We have histories, stories and experiences. But we are not those things - we are Spirit.

Ross Lynch

Music is poetry with personality,

T. S. Eliot

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion,

Susan Sontag

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.

Taylor Caldwell

Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.

Swami Vivekananda

Too much faith in personality has a tendency to produce weakness and idolatry, but intense love for the Guru makes rapid growth possible.

Rollo May

No one can separate themselves from one's social group and remain healthy, because the very structure of personality is dependent on the community.

Toni Cade Bambara

Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living.

V. S. Pritchett

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

Val Kilmer

I never cultivated a personality. Almost everyone who is really famous has cultivated a personality.

Usher

Success is measured by personal happiness.

Stephanie Seymour

Education always continues. We all know that beauty fades, but what stays is a person's personality, their sense of humor, their wit, what they're interested in. That's what really shines.

Stan Getz

I'm a recovered alcoholic. I don't do anything anymore, but those things, those things take away ... You're a different personality completely when you take those. For those who are really chemically dependent on anything, it's not you.

Sonakshi Sinha

Be comfortable; be you. Whats most important is to understand what suits your body type and personality. Stick to that, and you cant go wrong!

Stanley Kubrick

There's something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories.

Stephenie Meyer

Do you have a multiple personality disorder?

Tim Cook

What makes Siri cool is she has a personality.

Raymond Queneau

The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality.

Victor Garber

Theatre demands different muscles and different aspects of one's personality.

Vernon Lee

Some persons' letters seem almost framed to afford a series of alibis for their personality ...

Vernon Howard

Realize that the surface personality has no interest in anything which might disturb its darling delusions.

Robert Bly

Every part of our personality that we do not love will become hostile to us.

Rick Moody

The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality.

Timbaland

Don't get in my personal life.

Richard M. Nixon

Don't try to take on a new personality; it doesn't work.

Richard M. Nixon

The Jews are just a very aggressive and abrasive and obnoxious personality.

Robert De Niro

I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I had to decide early on whether I was to be an actor or a personality.