#personality

We are given to the cult of personality; when things go badly we look to some messiah to save us. If by chance we think we have found one, it will not be long before we destroy him. ↗

— Constantine Karamanlis

#before #chance #cult #destroy #found

Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace. ↗

— Kate Chopin

#bit #born #enables #energy #furnish

I became quite taken over by Johnson's personality at some points while writing the biography, and since I went straight on to The Closed Circle afterwards, I did sometimes feel I could hear him whispering in my ear while I was working on it. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#became #biography #circle #closed #could

I don't think people are fans of me because I wrote hit songs. I think they're fans because I'm a lunatic or a weirdo. The hit songs came out of my idiosyncratic personality, not the other way around. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#because #came #fans #hit #i

You know, you've got serious pieces, you've got light pieces, you've got cooking segments, you've got health-related topics, so it's not as if they've had a unique personality from the get-go. ↗

— Katie Couric

#get-go #got #had #know #light

Socially I never was an outsider. I have never thought of the conflict element before frankly, but perhaps it was wanting to belong, and at the same time wanting to retain one's own personality. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

#belong #conflict #element #frankly #i

I start with actors that I know personally or I know their work, and there are things about their work or their presence or their own personality that make a character, that exaggerates some qualities and suppresses other qualities. It's always a real collaboration for me. ↗

— Jim Jarmusch

#always #character #collaboration #exaggerates #i

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public. ↗

— Epictetus

#character #determine #example #follow #imagine

My responsibility is always and everywhere the same: to see in my brother more even than the personality and manhood that are his. My task is always and everywhere the same: to see Christ himself. ↗

— Trevor Huddleston

#brother #christ #even #everywhere #himself

Someone I met years ago explained to me the difference between a personality and an actor, a personality being Eddie Murphy or Roseanne Barr, and an actor being Morgan Freeman and Alfre Woodard or Marlon Brando. ↗

— Orlando Jones

#ago #being #between #brando #difference