Personality Quotes

If I won’t be myself, who will?

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

We should not mourn for men of high ideals. Rather we should rejoice that we had the privilege of having had them with us, to inspire us by their radiant personalities.

We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.

To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody in the world, and is amenable to statistics.

To be liberated, woman must feel free to be herself, not in rivalry to man but in the context of her own capacity and her personality.

The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the State but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime, while the herd as such remains dull in thought and dull in feeling.

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it.

People don’t find the personal lives of people with much, much more power than any celebrity would have – don’t find their personal lives interesting.

Our most important aim is to develop definite personalities in our cartoon characters. We don’t want them to be just shadows, for merely as moving figures they provoke no emotional response from the public. We invest them with life a caricature of life.

Only the individual can think, and thereby create new values for society — nay, even set up new moral standards to which the life of the community conforms. Without creative, independently thinking and judging personalities the upward development of society is as unthinkable as the development of the individual personality without the nourishing soil of the community.

If I tried to describe my personality I’d start to gush about living by the ocean half of my life, being brought up on Alice in Wonderland, and believing in magic, for years and years.