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Susan Cain Author, Speaker
Personality

"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
Personality

"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
Personality

"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
Personality

"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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Rollo May Psychologist, Author
Personality

"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
Personality

"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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Richard Rossi Artist, Filmmaker
Personality

"The fake healers make you dependent. They aggrandize their personality cult and finances. They increase their stature with titles like Doctor, Bishop, Apostle, Prophet. This increases their authority to manipulate. Watch out for those who put themselves above you. The real ones point to Christ in you. You can pray just like anyone else. The gifts of the Spirit belong to the Holy Spirit. You have this inside you by faith and can be a conduit."

Real Personality Fake
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Zendaya Actress, Singer, Model
Personality

"Every day when I'm thinking about something or want to do something, I say, "Hey, can we shoot some stuff?" or "Hey, can you come with me to the grocery store?" or "Hey, can you..." Just so I can share my personality and who I am, and also use it as a platform to do bigger, more important things."

Thinking Personality Who I Am
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Mae Whitman Actress, Voice Actress
Personality

"It's funny, because I don't have a very addictive personality in any way except for things like stories or books or movies or TV. I just get, like, completely enamored and lost in that world, especially when one really hits the right way. Like, I just can't do anything else."

Book Stories Personality
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Lamar Odom Basketball Player
Personality

"Sometimes I still don't know if I'm prepared to go through the entire season, dealing with the different personalities, the crowds, the politics."

Different Personality Crowds
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Lara Stone Model
Personality

"I just like a good, honest personality. I like a real person, not somebody who is pretending to be something that they're not. That really annoys me."

Real Personality Honest
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Ice Cube Rapper, Actor
Personality

"Success really comes down to the product, not to me, my personality, or what club I'm seen going into or coming out of. None of that matters. What's important is whether or not people feel like they wasted their time or money when they pay for a movie or a CD."

People Personality Cds
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Oprah Winfrey Television host, producer, philanthropist
Personality

"I live in the space where God is. There is no question that that is why I am where I am, and why I have had the success that I've had, is because I allow myself to be guided by that which is greater than myself - than my personality."

Space Personality God Is There
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