Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.
~By Hans Hofmann ~
Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower.
~By Charles M. Schwab ~
And I, uh, I wonder how anybody can think his personality changes with his success. I've had quite a bit of success but I feel that I'm just the same person as I always was.
~By Rube Goldberg ~
Personality is lower than partiality.
~By Goldwin Smith ~
I had had an extroverted personality with a lot of friends, but when I lost the weight and grew so tall, I withdrew within myself.
~By Tyra Banks ~
To devise an information processing system capable of getting along on its own - it must handle its own problems of programming, bookkeeping, communication and coordination with its users. It must appear to its users as a single, integrated personality.
~By Cliff Shaw ~
You know like it has its own personality, its own character.
~By Marc Newson ~
I think all photographers fit their vision to their personality.
~By Kim Weston ~
Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace.
~By Kate Chopin ~
It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality.
~By Steven Biko ~
Muhammad Ali is a combination of personality and athlete who is probably better known around the world than any other. He became a great hero.
~By Will McDonough ~
What I think we fear is rapid, pronounced, and uncontrollable changes to ourselves, and because of this we have a form of personality inertia - something that resists rapid change.
~By Simon Travaglia ~
Sometimes I feel an obligation to be accessible as a personality, but for me the driving force since the beginning has always been good work, taking risks, trying new things. If the door opens, go through it. Always go forwards.
~By David Soul ~
You can meet a young person who goes to school and is really enthusiastic, but if a sufficiently strong personality convinces them that this is a waste of time, that person might flunk out.
~By Stanley Crouch ~
Different people bring out different aspects of ones personality.
~By Trevor Dunn ~
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.
~By Robert De Niro ~
My responsibility is always and everywhere the same: to see in my brother more even than the personality and manhood that are his. My task is always and everywhere the same: to see Christ himself.
~By Trevor Huddleston ~
There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are.
~By Barry Mann ~
I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.
~By Norman O. Brown ~
I just sit at the drawing board most of the time. I am used to talking to people. I love going to conventions, getting feedback and talking to people. Some artists don't. Some artists sit at their drawing board because their personality actually dictates that.
~By David Lloyd ~
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.
~By Stone Gossard ~
You look at a herd of cattle and well, they all look the same... but they know. They all have an individual personality, and those personalities change from day to day. They can have their grumpy days and their happy days and their serene days. But it's unpredictable. You can't be off in outer space when you're dealing with animals.
~By Chris Cooper ~
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.
~By Walter Pater ~
The more you build your life on principle and less on personality - yours or others - the straighter will be your course.
~By Edwin Louis Cole ~
I think that Mos Def is the best actor, but when you talk about rappers in films, I don't really think the quality of the acting is most important because most rappers are put in movies because of the personality and people want to see that.
~By Morris Chestnut ~
An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service.
~By Daniel J. Boorstin ~
I believe that, like most writers, my personality comes through in the fiction. So in that respect my writing can't be like any other author's really.
~By Paul Kane ~
I want to be an actress, not a personality.
~By Jill Clayburgh ~
We are given to the cult of personality; when things go badly we look to some messiah to save us. If by chance we think we have found one, it will not be long before we destroy him.
~By Constantine Karamanlis ~
You know, you've got serious pieces, you've got light pieces, you've got cooking segments, you've got health-related topics, so it's not as if they've had a unique personality from the get-go.
~By Katie Couric ~
Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless.
~By Paul Harris ~
It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.
~By George Orwell ~
Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.
~By C. Wright Mills ~
I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality.
~By Mark Strand ~
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.
~By Norman Rockwell ~
Only he, who penetrates into the depth of the game, can express his personality in it.
~By Vladimir Kramnik ~
I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I've just become this ambitious, say-whatever's-on-her-mind, intimidating person. And that's part of my personality, but it's certainly not anywhere near the whole thing.
~By Madonna Ciccone ~
Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.
~By Alexis Carrel ~
Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.
~By Elmer G. Letterman ~
Just like Tim Robbins is very political - and obviously, Arnold Schwarzenegger must be - I want to be able to have this public personality that's considered authoritative.
~By Christy Romano ~
Everybody that's living in this earth is living in a situation. It's not narrow-minded to the point where everybody is serious and nobody has a personality. I think people die telling jokes.
~By Mike Epps ~
If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
~By Lloyd C. Douglas ~
Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality.
~By Nadia Boulanger ~
I get to actually experience what it would be like to be a psycho, which is not a fun one, or to be a cowboy, or to be a weird character of some sort. For me, it suits me. It suits my personality. I'm an emotional kind of person anyway.
~By Josh Holloway ~
I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess.
~By Robert Morgan ~
Y'know what? This is what I go by: It doesn't matter how good-looking a guy is, it just depends on his personality. If a guy can make you laugh and make fun of you, then that's what would win me over. So, yeah.
~By Rachel Bilson ~
Where does personality end and brain damage begin?
~By Doug Coupland ~
We're starting to push the envelope in terms of the expectations, and you can also have your own style, personality and sense of humor, because now we're allowed to.
~By Lisa Guerrero ~
My way of remaining French was the financing scheme I used for Quest for Fire, with Fox funds, since it started as a 100% American production. The film was not in French and yet was French in style, reflecting my personality.
~By Jean-Jacques Annaud ~
Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution.
~By Stanislav Grof ~
Personality and socialization aren't the same thing.
~By Steven Pinker ~
Aaron Copland was a man that had a very specific point of view about what music should be which was that, he felt that new music should have the composer should show a personality in his music.
~By Elliott Carter ~
I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes, where a woman's personality and sense of self are revealed. I want people to see the dress, but focus on the woman.
~By Vera Wang ~
Nixon was kind of a loner, he had a cold personality.
~By Earl Butz ~
Style is a reflection of your attitude and your personality.
~By Shawn Ashmore ~
My personality doesn't interest me.
~By Andrei A. Gromyko ~
I try to bring elements of my own personality to every character I've played, but I think I'm pretty similar to the character I'm playing now. The biggest departure would have to have been Freaks and Geeks Sara, who was this sort of subordinate and shy girl.
~By Lizzy Caplan ~
For example I don't work with William Hurt the same way that I will work with Viggo. They're different guys and they work in different ways. So a good sensitive director has his general style and technique and personality that he uses but you don't impose that on the actors.
~By David Cronenberg ~
My personality is that I'm a human being like everybody else, just a citizen and a blue collar guy.
~By Lee Greenwood ~
Many people think I'm a television personality. I never have been! Just someone who acts it.
~By Graham Kennedy ~
Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
~By Taylor Caldwell ~
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.
~By Carroll Quigley ~
A person however learned and qualified in his life's work in whom gratitude is absent, is devoid of that beauty of character which makes personality fragrant.
~By Hazrat Inayat Khan ~
This kind of charge reveals a good deal about the personality of the people who make it; to impute such motives to another man is to imply you're harboring them yourself.
~By Jim Garrison ~
Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.
~By Erich Fromm ~
I start with actors that I know personally or I know their work, and there are things about their work or their presence or their own personality that make a character, that exaggerates some qualities and suppresses other qualities. It's always a real collaboration for me.
~By Jim Jarmusch ~
Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.
~By Mae West ~
My actual personality probably lies someplace between the two.
~By Edie Falco ~
I would do it today because the thing that appealed to me was not necessarily the mechanics of the robot, but it was his personality and how funny and charming he was.
~By John Badham ~
There are peaks and valleys in anything and that is especially true for the music business. It is very inconsistent. But if you are wise, you can let those downs really bring you to another level of your personality.
~By Bryan White ~
Realizing that our actions, feelings and behaviour are the result of our own images and beliefs gives us the level that psychology has always needed for changing personality.
~By Maxwell Maltz ~
I never thought I'd say this, what Obama needs in his personality is a little George Bush.
~By Bill Maher ~
The reason it has relevance is because I, as a popular Arab personality - the Arab people like me and respect me - thought it was time for me to make an ever so tiny statement about what I thought about this whole thing.
~By Omar Sharif ~
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
~By Paul Cezanne ~
Jean's whole job is to protect Victoria. Jean is a very practical, very orderly, very disciplined person; she is the personality called the gatekeeper.
~By Erika Slezak ~
The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate - is the simplest and most straightforward and the only one that fits all the facts.
~By Oliver Joseph Lodge ~
The personality problem is so tough when you're not able to pay people. It's bad enough when you can pay people, but, when you have people working for free, often their motivation is diminished considerably.
~By John Badham ~
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.
~By Susan Powter ~
When you're not blond and thin, you come up with a personality real quick.
~By Kathy Najimy ~
Whenever you do an animated project or a voice-over project it's inevitable that part of your personality comes into play.
~By Tara Strong ~
At times I experience hardship in trying to find the proper point of balance between traditional things and my own personality.
~By Princess Masako ~
Art is not in some far-off place. A work of art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability.
~By Shinichi Suzuki ~
The puppet characters were combinations of people I had known and to some degree aspects of my own personality. Weird was based on someone I knew in Chicago. Dirty Dragon was based on a good friend I had in Indianapolis.
~By William Jackson ~
Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality.
~By Edward Albee ~
But to do this kind of work, you have to be very strong, otherwise you lose your personality, your identity.
~By Claudia Cardinale ~
Television is so influential that when an audience sees you day-in and day-out there's a certain acceptance that sets in; you're no longer a threatening personality. They become more willing to accept whatever you present.
~By Doc Severinsen ~
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.
~By Herbert Read ~
I discourage a cult of personality.
~By Newt Gingrich ~
What I've learned is that it's okay to take from heroes, such as Debussy, but it has to be filtered through my own personality so that ultimately it's me.
~By William Kraft ~
If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature.
~By Bruce Barton ~
You get a sense of how the show works and then let your personality take over.
~By Adam Baldwin ~
Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
~By Soren Kierkegaard ~
I would love to be a player today. I had the right personality for it.
~By Billie Jean King ~
I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.
~By Gabrielle Reece ~
Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious.
~By Georg Simmel ~
No, I feel like my personality probably influenced the character, more than the character influenced me.
~By Sara Gilbert ~
There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price.
~By Shirley Chisholm ~
I have a cheat-sheet for each one of my characters about their personality, the way they look, etc. So there is no possible way that I could have writer's block.
~By R. L. Stine ~
As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal.
~By Max Beerbohm ~
If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness.
~By M. Esther Harding ~
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