Top 1200 Great Personality Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

The House, being strong, should be generous ... but the constituents have a right to more than generosity.... The law gives me my seat. In the name of the law I ask for it. I regret that my personality overshadows the principles involved in this great struggle; but I would ask those who have touched my life, not knowing it, who have found for me vices which I do not remember in the memory of my life, I would ask them whether all can afford to cast the first stone ... then that, as best judges, they will vacate their own seats, having deprived my constituents of their right here to mine.

Realize that the surface personality has no interest in anything which might disturb its darling delusions.

I can look at a photo and tell you about your child's temperament and personality. All that scans in seconds.

Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.

I'm not an extroverted person, nor am I hyper-confident in my point of view. I just don't have that personality.

Our education apparatus can't be one that produces robots. That can happen in laboratory. There has to be overall personality development.

I do get depressed sometimes, I don't know why. It's since I was a kid and it's just part of my personality.

Just do exactly what you think is unique, fun and specific to your personality, that others aren't doing.

Good is the enemy of great. And that is one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great. We don't have great schools, principally because we have good schools. We don't have great government, principally because we have good government. Few people attain great lives, in large part because it is just so easy to settle for a good life.

If there is a well thought-out design standard, it should be followed. In practice, great design comes from great designers. That is empirically the case. If a great designer did a first-rate standard, that model should be followed. Great design is not democratic; it comes from great designers. If the standard is lousy, then develop another standard.

Whatever you do in life, there's content and form; only those two put together create special meaning of a great work of art or great interpretation of music or a great story that you tell.

You must experience everything that you are feeling. This is what will lead you to the splintered parts of your personality.

What is the elevation of the soul? A prompt, delicate, certain feeling for all that is beautiful, all that is grand; a quick resolution to do the greatest good by the smallest means; a great benevolence joined to a great strength and great humility.

Each meal is an opportunity to express yourself to others, sharing a different perspective of your personality.

Just as the great composer is seldom also a great player, so is the great mathematician seldom also a great teacher.

Death ... obliterates family resemblance as it does personality: there is no affinity between the living and the dead.

Henry is a great man, I really like him. He is a great professional and I think he will be a great captain for them. He's been the outstanding player in the Premiership for the last three or four years

Sex -- the great inequality, the great miscalculator, the great Irritator.

Sometimes photographing people is like pulling teeth, trying to get some sort of personality.

It makes it very exciting don't you think to live in an age of, of discovery of human personality this way?

It sometimes occurs that memory has a personality of its own and volunteers or refuses its information at its will, not at mine.

Did you come out of the womb a dickhead or develop that jockstrap personality on your own? (Hunter)

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

I am a bit of a dynamic personality and have the ability to use my vocabulary in some creative ways.

But I also think it's about a person's personality that draws people in, too, not just their singing.

I want to show my personality through my designs and stay pretty anonymous outside the industry.

It's the disease of thinking that a having a great idea is really 90% of the work. And if you just tell people, 'here's this great idea,' then of course they can go off and make it happen. The problem with that is that there's a tremendous amount of craftsmanship between a having a great idea and having a great product.

My problem is I'm an addictive personality. I can't have one coffee. I can't eat one piece of chocolate. I can't have a little bit of drugs.

Style is an extension of yourself. My approach is to enhance the personality of the wearer, so he has his own voice

I don't mind finding these ugly sides to my personality and exaggerating them because that's something you can write towards.

Success is to improve, grow up, build one team with personality, and then I want to win.

It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.

Everybody is great when things are great. It's the 'not great' stuff that matters.

Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence.

Some persons' letters seem almost framed to afford a series of alibis for their personality.

Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern.

One of the great things about shooting in Los Angeles is you have access to all these great performers. We love working with ensembles, and that process of getting a great group of people together and setting them in motion.

Maybe some people, when they sit down to write their great novel or make their great record or paint their great painting, they have it all planned out in their head. But for me, it's never worked that way.

A man can write one book that can be great, but this doesn't make him a great writer-just the writer of a great book. . . I think a writer has to extend very widely, as well as plunge very deep, to be a great novelist.

Mr. Lincoln was not only a great President, but a great man - too great to be small in anything. In his company I was never in any way reminded of my humble origin, or of my unpopular color.

Frankly, I'll believe in horoscopes the day I can describe my personality to an astrologer and they tell me what date I was born.

What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine.

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Since ideology is part of the human personality, it deserves a place in the kingdom of eternal truths.

The artist's personality, built upon strong desires and compassionate vision, is by its nature prone to depression.

Most people have perceived my brand and my personality as this guy that just is so happy, he has no cares in the world.

My biggest insecurity is that my personality is too much, and as I get older, it's just getting bigger.

When you have great players, playing great, well that's great football!

You have a class of young strong men and women, and they want to give their lives to something. Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they don't need. Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need. We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression.

Every single person has a life to live, a work to do, a glorious personality, a wonderful individuality.

Achievement comes to someone when he is able to do great things for himself. Success comes when he empowers followers to do great things with him. Significance comes when he develops leaders to do great things for him. But a legacy is created only when a person puts his organization into the position to do great things without him.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

Maybe it's a personality thing individual to me, but actors always benefit from body awareness.

Playing an unstable, bipolar, multiple-personality-disorder person is definitely up my alley.

I was not a natural beauty, and I always wanted to be pretty. I just have such an outgoing personality that it's fitting that I would be overdone.

My personality has gotten me some really good job interviews in New York.

I think George W. Bush's personality was overwhelmingly shaped in negative ways by his upbringing.

Having lived in a big city like Mumbai, I feel it gives you another personality in a way.

Competitiveness is a personality thing and competitive people don't become pushovers the day they turn fifty.

Great editors do not discover nor produce great authors; great authors create and produce great publishers.