"They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities."
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"But the personality that finally emerges is largely formed by the environment in which a man happens to find himself during his development, by the structure of the society in which he grows up, by the tradition of that society, and by its appraisal of particular types of behavior."
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"No man is really changed by success. What happens is that success works on the man’s personality like a truth drug, bringing him out of the closet and revealing… what was always inside his head."
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"So, what I am learning to do is (to) learn each of their personalities - to study them, to learn how their natural bent is. Is it toward intellectualism. Is it toward athletics? Toward humor? Ministry? What makes each of them tick? And can I help them blossom in their areas of strength and win their hearts in doing so? So, that's one challenge in doing that."
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"There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another to the world."
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"Mickey was simply a little personality assigned to the purposes of laughter."
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"Animals have personalities like people and must be studied."
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"Inanimate objects sometimes appear endowed with a strange power of sight. A statue notices, a tower watches, the face of an edifice contemplates."
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"Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal."
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"An individual has a healthy personality to the exact degree to which they have the propensity to look for the good in every situation."
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"Intellect is void of affection and sees an object as it stands in the light of science, cool and disengaged. The intellect goes out of the individual, floats over its own personality, and regards it as a fact, and not as I and mine."
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"Theoretically there is no absolute proof that one's awakening in the morning (the finding oneself again in the saddle of one's personality) is not really a quite unprecedented event, a perfectly original birth."
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"Nobody knows whether our personalities pass on to another existence or sphere, but if we can evolve an instrument so delicate to be manipulated by our personality as it survives in the next life such an instrument ought to record something."
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"I have been at work for some time building an apparatus to see if it is possible for personalities which have left this earth to communicate with us."
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"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."
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"The average personality re-shapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete overhaul-desirable or not, it is a natural thing that we should change."
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"I'm not really a political satirist. I don't kid myself. I'm more interested in doing the mannerisms and the personality."
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"Quality effective leaders have the confidence to trust others to try, succeed, and sometimes to fail. We very often confuse personality with leadership. In other words, leadership is not about being a nice person or not a nice person."
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"It is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves."
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"We have a two-tier class system when it comes to personality style. To devalue introversion is a waste of talent, energy and happiness."
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