#persona

If we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is pristine, we are not going to get paragons of virtue running our affairs. We will get the very rich, who contract out the messy things in life the very dull, who have nothing to hide and nothing to show and the very devious, expert at covering their tracks and ambitious enough to risk their discovery. ↗

— Charles Krauthammer

#ambitious #contract #covering #devious #discovery

Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme. ↗

— Michael Tippett

#disappeared #everything #extreme #figure #his

Thresholds of pain, indignity and incapacity are entirely personal. ↗

— Polly Toynbee

#incapacity #indignity #pain #personal

I'm disappointed in acting as a craft. I want everything to go back to Orson Welles and fake noses and changing your voice. It's become so much about personality. ↗

— Spencer Tracy

#acting #back #become #changing #craft

God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers. ↗

— Abdul Kalam

#ability #creator #develop #god #great

I feel like if I had my personality but was an OB/GYN, you would be psyched. You'd be like, 'My chatty, pop-culture-interested but plainspoken, wants-to-talk-about-clothes but serious-minded doctor.' I feel like I would clean up with patients. That's kind of a cocky thing to say. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#clean up #cocky #doctor #feel #had

Personally, I, Mindy Kaling want to spend like 80 percent of my life hanging out with women. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#i #life #like #my life #out

We need strong personalities and only one world champion to attract sponsors. ↗

— Anatoly Karpov

#champion #need #only #personalities #sponsors

I don't know how it would play out it the long run, if I were go to series with the story, I don't know. I just miss Peter so much on a personal level, that's about what I can say. He's my buddy and I wish he were around. ↗

— Andreas Katsulas

#around #buddy #go #how #i

I didn't really care if I had a coach that much, me personally, because I was brought up to think for myself. ↗

— Billie Jean King

#brought #care #coach #had #i