“After Mengistu consolidated his power in 1978, his personality gradually began to change. His ability to listen and his patience faded away. We could now see these qualities were pretences only; he had been putting on his best behavior in his bid for support.” AbilityQualitySupportPersonalityBehaviorFadedPretence Author:Mengistu Haile Mariam
“One of the effects it [cocaine] had on my personality - my moods, my behaviors - was that it inhibited me a lot. It kind of took possibilities out of my world, and made the focus of things very narrow.” WorldKindMadeFocusEffectsPossibilityPersonalityBehaviorMoodCocaine Author:George Carlin
“Any form of corporal punishment or 'spanking' is a violent attack upon another human being's integrity. The effect remains with the victim forever and becomes an unforgiving part of his or hier personality--a massive frustration resulting in a hostility which will seek expression in later life in violent acts towards others. The sooner we understand that love and gentleness are the only kinds of called-far behavior towards children, the better. The child, especially, learns to become the kind of human being that he or she has experienced. This should be fully understood by all caregivers.” ShouldHumansKindChildrenFormHuman BeingsForeverEffectsExpressionPersonalityIntegrityBehaviorUnderstoodVictimRemainsPunishmentViolentFrustrationMassiveGentlenessHostilityUnforgivingSpankingCaregiversCorporal PunishmentViolent Acts Author:Ashley Montagu
“It's a very complex scenario, and certainly Dave was, and is, not the only person in Pearl Jam with personality flaws. Everybody in this band exhibits some form of neurotic behavior. And we couldn't find a balance, a mutual respect for each other.” PersonsFormPersonalityBalanceBandBehaviorComplexesMutualFlawsPearlsScenariosNeuroticJamExhibitsDaveMutual RespectPersonality FlawsPearl Jam Author:Stone Gossard
“People are very good [at] thinking about agents. The mind is set really beautifully to think about agents. Agents have traits. Agents have behaviors. We understand agents. We form global impression of their personalities. We are really not very good at remembering sentences where the subject of the sentence is an abstract notion.” PeopleThinkingMindRememberFormSubjectsPersonalityBehaviorNotionVery GoodSentencesImpressionAgentsAbstractTraitsReally Beautiful Author:Daniel Kahneman
“If you are referring to the characters of The Room, each character has a different personality which you can see very clearly on the screen. If you are referring to the actors, they give me different emotions, personality which represents human behavior.” IfsGivingHumansDifferentCharacterActorsRoomsEmotionPersonalityBehaviorGive MeScreensHuman BehaviorReferringDifferent Emotions Author:Tommy Wiseau
“We act, we behave, and we feel the vibration that we're in at the present time according to what we consider our self image to be. And we do not deviate from that pattern. The image you hold of yourself is a premise, a foundation (idea) on which your entire personality is built. This image, not only controls your behavior but your circumstances as well.” FeelsWellsIdeasSelfPersonalityCircumstancesBehaviorBuiltFoundationPatternsBehaveVibrationsPremisesPresent TimeDeviate Author:Maxwell Maltz
“The difference between me as Brian Warner or Marilyn Manson is just words. Same personality, sensibility, sense of humor, behavior. He is me.” DifferencesPersonalityBehaviorSense Of HumorSensibilityBrianManson Author:Marilyn Manson
“I wasn't writing, I wasn't drawing, and personality-wise, I was just completely arrogant. I'm not trying to be overly apologetic for my behavior - I wasn't evil. The lifestyle I had was one that lent itself to becoming more and more self-involved.” WritingTryingSelfEvilWisePersonalityBecomingInvolvedBehaviorDrawingLifestyleArrogantBecoming MoreApologetic Author:Patti Smith
“[Donald] Trump's behavior during the presidential campaign was often erratic, seemingly based on discernable personality traits, including narcissism, arrogance, impulsiveness, and a lack of predictability.” PersonalityTrumpBehaviorIncludingCampaignsPresidentialArroganceTraitsNarcissismPredictabilityPresidential CampaignPersonality TraitsErratic Author:David Krieger
“A fence can be protective around your family - a familial fence. Then, there are the people who only know how to take, to abuse, to offend and they build fences to keep you out. They don't have time to talk, they don't have kind words, they only talk about themselves. They never give an olive branch or forgiveness - they create a fence because of their personality or behavior and they want to create a barrier to keep people out.” PeopleKnowsWantGivingKindKnow HowPersonalityBehaviorAbuseOur FamilyBranchesBarriersFenceProtectiveOlivesKind WordsOlive Branches Author:Russell Hornsby
“The thing is, autism is all different, you know, variables. And you start out with a certain amount of, you know, the point where the differences in the brain are going to just be a personality variant and, like, for very mild Asperger's. But you get into more severe kinds of autism where there's obvious speech delay, obvious abnormal behavior in a two and three-year-old child, you know, the initial neurology is different from case to case. But all children with autism are going to do better if they get really good educational intervention.” IfsKnowsYearsKindChildrenTwoDifferentCertainThreeDifferencesBrainCasesPersonalityAmountSpeechBehaviorObviousEducationalThree YearsAutismSevereDelayInterventionInitialsGet RealAbnormalVariablesGood EducationNeurologyAspergersThree Year OldsChildren With Autism Author:Temple Grandin
“Having children changes your behavior. Your personality doesn't change, but you're more cautious of what you say and how you say it to start with-so that already changes things. My mind is not completely mine anymore. I used to be able to concentrate and achieve things. Now I find it much harder to focus, because it just seems that half your brain doesn't belong to you anymore. My kids are still little. Maybe it will change more when they're older, but I doubt it.” MindChildrenKidsBrainDoubtFocusAchievePersonalityBehaviorCautiousHaving Children Author:Vanessa Paradis
“Identical twins are ideal lab specimens for studying the difference between learned and inherited traits since they come from the womb preloaded with matching genetic operating systems. Any meaningful differences in their behaviors or personalities are thus likely to have been acquired, not innate.” Has BeensDifferencesStudyPersonalityBehaviorIdealsMeaningfulTraitsTwinsWombInnateIdenticalLabsMatchingOperating SystemsIdentical Twin Author:Jeffrey Kluger
“The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.” HumansSelfSelf EsteemKeysPersonalityBehaviorHuman BehaviorCyberneticsHuman PersonalityPsycho CyberneticsPersonality TypesBehavior Change Book:PSYCHO-CYBERNETICS Source: PSYCHO-CYBERNETICS
“When you live on your own for a long time, however, your personality changes because you go so much into yourself you lose the ability to be social, to understand what is and isn't normal behavior. There is an entire world inside yourself, and if you let yourself, you can get so deep inside it you will forget the way to the surface. Other people keep our souls alive, just like food and water does with our body.” PeopleIfsWorldWayLongDoeSoulBodySocialWaterLosesAbilityForgetAlivePersonalityBehaviorNormalLong TimeSurfaceDeep Inside Book:Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God Source: Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God
“The country and culture commonly known as "America" had had a badly split personality all through its history. Its overt laws were almost always puritanical for a people whose covert behavior tended to be Rabelaisian; its major religions were all Apollonian in varying degrees---its religious revivals were often hysterical in a fashion almost Dionysian.” PeopleCountryAmericaLawCultureReligiousKnownFashionPersonalityDegreesBehaviorMajorsSplitsRevivalHystericalCovertSplit Personality Author:Robert A. Heinlein