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“Lacan , Derrida and Foucault are the perfect prophets for the weak, anxious academic personality, trapped in verbal formulas and perennially defeated by circumstances. They offer a self-exculpating cosmic explanation for the normal professorial state of resentment, alienation, dithering passivity and inaction.”

“If in addition to being physically unattractive you find that you do not get along well with others, do not under any circumstances attempt to alleviate this situation by developing an interesting personality. An interesting personality, is, in an adult, insufferable. In a teenager it is frequently punishable by law.”

Ifs Wells Law Interesting Situation Personality Circumstances Adults Developing Teenager Adolescence Unattractive Alleviate Insufferable Interesting Personalities

Book:The Fran Lebowitz Reader

Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“Our impulses are our birthright. To alter personality would be unjust, almost criminal, for the impulses that make a fool or worse of us in certain circumstances may be necessary for our happiness.”

May Would Be Certain Fool Personality Circumstances Criminals Impulse Unjust Birthright

Author:Gertrude Atherton

“I have less time, less tolerance for bullshit, more interest in good taste, more confidence in my own judgement. The culture with which I surround myself is a reflection of my personality and the circumstances of my life, which is in part how it should be.”

Should Culture Interest My Own Personality Circumstances Taste Reflection Tolerance Judgement Surround Bullshit Good Taste

Book:Songbook

Source: Songbook

“The circumstances of your life are neither good nor bad. They are appropriate to the needs of your soul. They may or may not be what your personality desires.”

Needs May Soul Desire Spirituality Personality Circumstances Your Soul Appropriate

Author:Gary Zukav

“There are more similarities than differences when it comes to preparation of a performance. You're using some lyrics, you have a relationship with them, they apply to different parts of your life and different circumstances, different memories, different stories you have in your head. You form personal relationships with the song. I think that's very similar, in a way, to prepping a character. You pour your own personality, in a sense, into the character, you sympathize with a character in a way that's similar to the way you might sympathize with a song.”

Thinking Way Different Character Stories Might Form Song Differences Memories Personality Circumstances Performances Preparation Similarity Personal Relationships

Author:Scarlett Johansson

“We do not have many women leaders in the world. But if you look at the current examples, most of those few female leaders that we have today lead their countries under the pressure of difficult political and economic circumstances. They all posses strong personalities and have real political influence on the domestic and international scene.”

“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.”

Feels Wells Ideas Self Personality Circumstances Behavior Built Foundation Patterns Behave Vibrations Premises Present Time Deviate

Author:Maxwell Maltz

“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

“How often, you wonder, has the direction of your life been shaped by such misunderstandings? How many opportunities have you been denied--or, for that matter, awarded--because someone failed to see you properly? How many friends have you lost, how many have you gained, because they glimpsed some element of your personality that shone through for only an instant, and in circumstances you could never reproduce? An illusion of water shimmering at the far bend of a highway.”

Matter Opportunity Lost Water Wonder Personality Circumstances Elements Illusion Instant Denied Misunderstanding Highways Many Friends

Book:The View from the Seventh Layer: Stories

Source: The View from the Seventh Layer: Stories

“The peculiar striations that define someone's personality are too numerous to know, no matter how close the observer. A person we think we know can suddenly become someone else when previously hidden strands of his character are called to the fore by circumstance.”

Thinking Knows Persons Matter Character Personality Circumstances Peculiar Observers Strands

Author:Elliot Perlman

“…There are times when something is asked of us, and we find we must do it. There is no calculation involved, no measure of the necessity of the thing itself, the action that must be performed. There is simply an acknowledgment that we will do the thing in question, and then the thing is done, often at considerable personal cost. " "What goes into these decisions? What tiny factors, invisible, in the jutting edges of personality and circumstance, contribute to this inevitability?”

Done Action Decision Personality Involved Circumstances Cost Edges Tiny Invisible Factors Calculations Inevitability Acknowledgment

Book:The Curfew

Source: The Curfew