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"Science seldom proceeds in the straightforward logical manner imagined by outsiders. Instead, its steps forward (and sometimes backward) are often very human events in which personalities and cultural traditions play major roles."
"The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time."
"What I find horrible nowadays is that people are always trying to find a personality for themselves. Nobody bothers about what you might call a painter's ideal... the kind that's always existed... No. They couldn't care less about that."
"Every room has a mood or personality...and it is this that one desires to develop."
"Insecure about my body, about my personality, sometimes even about my understanding of everything."
"Rebirth is an affirmation that must be counted among the primordial affirmations of mankind. The concept of rebirth necessarily implies the continuity of personality. Here the human personality is regarded as continuous and accessible to memory, so that, when one is incarnated or born, one is able, potentially, to remember that one has lived through previous existences, and that these existences were one's own, ie, they had the same ego form as the present life. As a rule, reincarnation means rebirth in a human body."
"We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die."
"All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter."
"The creative personality never remains fixed on the first world it discovers. It never resigns itself to anything."
"Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world."
"I think that personality traits that come through when somebody is really sincere is what makes them beautiful."
"Repose and cheerfulness is the badge of the gentleman; repose in energy."
"My biggest challenge will be to play the totally submissive woman. It takes a toll on you when you play someone who's far removed from your personality."
"Employing women as my primary protagonists has allowed me to step outside of myself, to distance myself from my own personality, far more easily than were I to look at events from a masculine perspective."
"Acting is the developing of one's own personality, too, you know. That's what the public buys in a star, shall we say, the personality thing."
"The power is with the silent ones, who only live and love and then withdraw their personality. They never say “me” and “mine”; they are only blessed in being instruments"
"They see Hermione as someone who is not vulnerable, but I see her as someone who does have quite a lot of vulnerability in her personality."
"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."
"In this metallic age of barbarians, only a relentless cultivation of our ability to dream, to analyse and to captivate can prevent our personality from degenerating into nothing or else into a personality like all the rest."
"The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth."
