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“The genetic stage of a gene pool can be identified by the personality characteristics of the local God. Jehovah of Genesis is a low-level barbarian macho punk God. He boastfully claims to have created the heaven and the stars and the world, but provides no technical details or replicable blueprints. His preoccupations, whims, anxieties, jealousies, rules and hatred of women are primitive mammalian brain. His petty prides are primate.”

Source: Evolutionary Agents

“Tranquillizers do not change our environment, nor do they change our personalities. They merely reduce our responsiveness to stimuli. They dull the keen edge of the angers, fears, or anxiety with which we might otherwise react to the problems of living. Once the response has been dulled, the irritating surface noise of living muted or eliminated, the spark and brilliance are also gone.”

Has Beens Problem Might Gone Environment Personality Anxiety Response Edges Surface Noise Dull Sparks Our Environment Stimulus Brilliance Irritating Responsiveness Living Once

Author:Indra Devi

“There is an element in which anxiety co-represents with aspects of my personality I wouldnt want to give up. It allows you to have foresight. I may not be as empathetic. Its hard to figure out the difference between pathology and personality.”

Want Giving May Hard Differences Figures Personality Giving Up Elements Anxiety Aspect Foresight Empathetic Pathology I May Not Be

Author:Scott Stossel

“When I was young I was very shy and that was my personality. I was a pretty sensitive kid and quite neurotic, filled with a lot of anxiety.”

Kids Young Personality Anxiety Filled Sensitive Shy Neurotic

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“A lot of the problems of parenthood are universal. Yes, it's harder being younger and growing up yourself, but all those anxieties and problems are going to be faced by anyone at any age. When people hear about teenage parents and teenage pregnancy, they attribute a lot of personality traits to those individuals, which is just such a bizarre thing when you really think about it. Like, how does age and circumstance equate to some kind of personality trait?”

People Thinking Kind Problem Age Individual Parent Growing Up Personality Circumstances Anxiety Pregnancy Parenthood Traits Teenage Bizarre Personality Traits

Author:Aisling Loftus

“There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.”

Men Two War Force Interest Personality Anxiety

Book:Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut

Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut

“There is no evidence that we've been placed on this planet to be especially happy or especially normal. And in fact our unhappiness and our strangeness, our anxieties and compulsions, those least fashionable aspects of our personalities, are quite often what lead us to do rather interesting things.”

Facts Interesting Planets Personality Normal Anxiety Evidence Aspect Unhappiness Compulsion Interesting Things Fashionable Strangeness

Book:The Psychopath Test

Source: The Psychopath Test

“The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness".”

Worry Sadness Personality Anxiety Determined Calming Calm Down Feeling Sad

Author:Alain de Botton

“America had shifted from what influential cultural historian Warren Susman called a culture of character to a culture of personality, and opened up a Pandora's box of personal anxieties of which we would never recover.”

Character America Culture Personality Anxiety Boxes Historian Influential Pandora Pandora's Box

Author:Susan Cain

“In any age courage is the simple virtue needed for a human being to traverse the rocky road from infancy to maturity of personality. But in an age of anxiety, an age of herd morality and personal isolation, courage is a sine qua non. In periods when the mores of the society were more consistent guides, the individual was more firmly cushioned in his crises of development; but in times of transition like ours, the individual is thrown on his own at an earlier age and for a longer period.”

“To say that my anxiety is reducible to the ions in my amygdala is as limiting as saying that my personality or my soul is reducible to the molecules that make up my brain cells or to the genes that underwrote them.”

Soul Home Fighting Brain Personality Anxiety Flight My Soul Cells Genes Molecules Reflexes Brain Cells Ions

Author:Scott Stossel