Top 902 Personalities Quotes & Sayings

I'm interested in personalities, not political parties.

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.

I think fish do have personalities. Fish have very small brains so there's not much going on in there. But different types of fish have different personalities.

I'm always drawn to melancholy personalities.

Everything has a personality: everything sends an emotional signal. Even where this was not the intention of the designer, the people who view the website infer personalities and experience emotions. Bad websites have horrible personalities and instill horrid emotional states in their users, usually unwittingly. We need to design things-products, websites, services-to convey whatever personality and emotions are desired.

We Russians have assigned ourselves no other task in life but the cultivation of our own personalities, and when we're barely past childhood, we set to work to cultivate them, those unfortunate personalities.

Personalities don't love. They want something.

But I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle, I leave the village politics and personalities, yes, and the world of villages and personalities behind, and pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight, too bright almost for spotted man to enter without novitiate and probation.

Some people's personalities are so compelling that they command attention.

Cities have distinct personalities. It's a matter of knowing it.

People's personalities get tweaked at weddings.

Houses, like people, have personalities, and, like the personalities of people, they are partly molded by all that has happened to them.

Democracy should not work on the basis of personalities.

Animals have personalities like people and must be studied.

Usually, English personalities are difficult; they don't take criticism easily.

I'm not afraid to express the different elements of my personality, and I think there's a bad habit in America now to, label people having multiple personalities, things like this, but it's, I feel like, even on the album I describe myself as a hydra which is, many heads, many different personalities.I don't think you need to be one specific person when you can be many.

People cultivate these fully formed personalities.

I think there are people that have very addictive personalities.

Astronauts are not superhuman. They lead ordinary lives and have varied personalities.

Different personalities inspire me as an actor. Especially quirky personalities, maybe people I wouldn't normally get along with or be friends with - I find them inspiring for my work. I find sad emotions to be inspiring and stories of great people that kind of overcame odds.

Four personalities are bound to clash.

You're always going to get different personalities within a team.

One of the difficulties you run into is that acting and celebrity are so closely intertwined. People make careers out of being charismatic personalities. It's one of those things that people have come to expect from actors. Personalities that don't change from role to role. I don't want it that way.

I have a big personality, and I've been attracted to women with big personalities. I think that is usually going to happen when you have big personalities.

You have to have two personalities: your home personality and your work personality and the trick really is not to allow one of those personalities to drain the life out of the other.

In terms of personalities - I don't care about the personalities, I want leadership that's in favor of my principles: free markets, adherence to the Constitution, and equal treatment for everyone under the law.

Animals have personalities and minds and emotions.

It's always intrigued me that amidst the group called slaves there were individuals who were extremely able, who were extremely colorful, who were powerful personalities, who by no means fit the usual images of slaves. They were people who, through their personalities and abilities, were very respected in the community where they lived by both black and white.

Every band is different just because of the different combinations of people really are super unique to every band. The way you work together and the personalities that are being brought to the table. Our band is definitely the best combination of personalities I've worked with so far.

I like writing for individuals with really rich musical personalities.

The gross and net result of it is that people who spend most of their natural lives riding iron bicycles over the rocky roadsteads of this parish get their personalities mixed up with the personalities of their bicycle as a result of the interchanging of the atoms of each of them and you would be surprised at the number of people in these parts who nearly are half people and half bicycles.

Bringing together disparate personalities to form a team is like a jigsaw puzzle. You have to ask yourself: what is the whole picture here? We want to make sure our players all fit together properly and complement each other, so that we don't have a big piece, a little piece, an oblong piece, and a round piece. If personalities work against each other, as a team you'll find yourselves spinning your wheels.

The presidential race should not be a battle of personalities.

I think all actors have addictive personalities.

The society wants you to have beautiful personalities; the society wants you to have personalities which are comfortable for the society, convenient for the society. But the person is not the real thing, the individual is the real thing. The individual is not necessarily always comfortable to the society - in fact he is very inconvenient.

I just loved the idea of writing for different personalities all the time.

Economics, politics, and personalities are often inseparable.

I fight these strange personalities by getting into music.

Personalities and fame pass; the revolution must remain.

All the teams you have have different personalities, and you kind of want it.

Cats are peaceful and tranquil - they bring calmness with their serene personalities.

Facts may be colored by the personalities of the people who present them.

I've been studying the planets and learning the personalities of each planet.

People buy personalities as much as merchandise, and it is a question if they are not influenced more by the personalities with which they come in contact than they are by the merchandise.

Individuals do matter and personalities matter in politics. But if issues are sidestepped due to personalities, then that is very dangerous.

We are not the personalities that our egos are so valiantly defending. Our personalities are simply the result of our current programming.

It is personalities not principles that move the age.

It's part of the fun of it to work with strong personalities.

All the Strats have personalities of their own and feel completely different.

There are many names to Allah plus one you don't know. And each name is an attribute that flexes his characteristics: the Benevolent, the Merciful, the All-Knower... And to me, my names be flexin' personalities of myself: Prince Rakeem, Bobby Digital, Bobby Steels, the RZA, the Rzarector... These are personalities of myself.

The real stars are not good actors or actresses. They're personalities.

The hardest job is getting personalities to mesh.

In combat sports, personalities are what draw.

Researchers find it very necessary to keep blinkers on. They don't want to admit that the animals they are working with have feelings. They don't want to admit that they might have minds and personalities because that would make it quite difficult for them to do what they do; so we find that within the lab communities there is a very strong resistance among the researchers to admitting that animals have minds, personalities and feelings.

My different personalities leave me in peace now.

I'm so glad cities have personalities, just like people have personalities. That's something that makes me smile.

For almost every character I've played in the 43 years I've been working as a professional actor, I've found parts of myself. We are all bipolar in the tiniest essence of what it is. We are all multiple personalities, in a sense, and to be healthy mentally, I think, learning what those multiple personalities are and inviting them in your life is really important.

It's an odd beast, fame. It's got multiple personalities.

In my films, I like to use the same actors again and again, so I know them really well and can bring their unique personalities into the process. However, as a director, I have strict control over the way they express their personalities. I don't want them to go beyond what I need from them, but I also don't want them to underplay. So I modulate their performances very closely, within a certain range of expression.

Departures and arrivals tend to emphasize people's personalities.