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“I just think I'm better equipped to make a study of human personality than trying to get into the mind of animals.”

Thinking Trying Mind Humans Animal Study Personality Human Personality

Author:Sara Gruen

“In scripture God brings the animals to the human for naming. In that simple act the human is brought to recognize the particular personality and worth of each living creature. Too bad we forget so often.”

Humans Simple Forget Animal Particular Personality Creatures Scripture Living Creatures

Author:Joan D. Chittister

“Animals have personalities like people and must be studied.”

People Animal Personality

Author:Walt Disney

“I like my life to be pure and clean and organised, and I like to have had eight hours' sleep a night. I honestly don't think I'd be as successful if I was a party animal. Because I don't think my personality would be as focused and open as it is.”

Ifs Thinking Would Be Night Hours Sleep Animal Party Successful Personality Pure Clean Eight Focused Honestly Organised Party Animal

Author:Jessie J

“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.”

Want Mind Feelings Might Strong Difficult Community Animal Personality Resistance Very Strong Researchers Labs Admitting Blinkers

Author:Jane Goodall

“You cannot share your life with a dog, as I had done in Bournemouth, or a cat, and not know perfectly well that animals have personalities and minds and feelings.”

Knows Mind Wells Done Feelings Animal Share Dog Personality Cat

Author:Jane Goodall

“An animal on a leash is not tamed by the owner. The owner is extending himself through the leash to that part of his personality which is pure dog, that part of him which just wants to eat, sleep, bark, hump chairs, wet the floor in joy, and drink out of a toilet bowl.”

Want Joy Sleep Animal Dog Personality Drink Pure Chairs Owners Wet Bowls Toilets Bark Extending Tamed Leashes

Book:A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses

Source: A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses

“The child begins life as a pleasure-seeking animal; his infantile personality is organized around his own appetites and his own body. In the course of his rearing the goal of exclusive pleasure seeking must be modified drastically, the fundamental urges must be subject to the dictates of conscience and society, urges must be capable of postponement and in some instances of renunciation completely.”

Source: The Magic Years: Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early Childhood

“Anyone who's lived with companion cats or dogs knows that they are unique individuals with their own personalities. I think animals' secret to getting along is that they are not burdened by an ego.”

Thinking Knows Individual Animal Secret Dog Personality Ego Unique Cat Companion Getting Along Unique Individuals

Author:Jonathan Balcombe

“Animal personalities have always intrigued me, the desire to find out more about them made a reader out of me.”

Made Desire Animal Personality Reader Intrigued

Book:Bill Peet: An Autobiography

Source: Bill Peet: An Autobiography

“The real tough thing is working with actors. I'm a designer and used to working with artists, so there is some familiarity with the personalities that come up, but actors are their own animal.”

Real Used Artist Actors Animal Personality Tough Come Up Designer Familiarity Tough Things

Author:Rick Heinrichs

“One of the most revolutionary concepts to grow out of our clinical experience is the growing recognition that innermost core of man's nature - the deepest layers of his personality, the base of his 'animal nature' - is basically socialized, forward-moving, rational and realistic... He is realistically able to control himself, and he is incorrigibly socialized in his desires. There is no beast in man, there is only man in man.”

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Author:Carl Rogers