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"We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist."
"One is always in the dark about one's own personality. One needs others to get to know oneself."
"We are what we think we are. The habitual inclination of our thoughts determines our talents and abilities, and our personality. So whatever you want to be, start to develop that pattern now."
"When I was in N.W.A. and didn't get paid all the money I was owed, that's when the business side of showbiz hit me. I thought, "Half of this is workin'. I'm famous, but now I need to be famous with some money." That got my brain started at trying to figure out the business end. And once I figured out the business side, I next came to understand that 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."
"An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans."
"The guy you see on the screen isn’t really me. I’m Duke Morrison, and I never was and never will be a film personality like JOHN WAYNE . I know him well. I’m one of his closest students. I have to be. I made a living out of him."
"The suffering of this life not only can make our temperament more like the Divine Personality of Jesus, but it detaches us from this world. This Divine preparation opens our souls to the working and pruning of the Father."
"Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality"
"All we have to do is preserve our personality, to live our own life, be captain of our own ship, and all will be well."
"Enlightenment doesnt occur from sitting around visualizing images of light, but from integrating the darker aspects of the Self into the conscious personality."
"There is a limit to the success of conservative populism and the exploitation of "little guy" or "silent majority" rhetoric, and it is very often reached because of the emaciated, corrupted personalities of the demagogues themselves."
"Attitude and personality are as important as experience and ability."
"It is the duty of all to support and side with Dharma. All must fight and support Dharma regardless of their personality, background, status."
"The juvenile delinquent does not feel his disturbed personality. The intelligent man does not feel his intelligence or the introvert his introversion."
"My personality resembles my designs to a large extent. I'm in sync with myself and I'm transparent, just like my designs."
"Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don't even recognize that growth is happening...Those long periods when something inside ourselves seems to be waiting, holding its breath, unsure about what the next step should be, eventually become the periods we wait for, for it is in those periods that we realize that we are being prepared for the next phase of our life and that, in all probability, a new level of the personality is about to be revealed."
"The secret of photography is, the camera takes on the character and personality of the handler."
"He liked to observe emotions; they were like red lanterns strung along the dark unknown of another's personality, marking vulnerable points."
"When you get the personality, you don't need the nudity."
"Your mental attitude is the most dependable key to your personality."
