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“We have a two-tier class system when it comes to personality style. To devalue introversion is a waste of talent, energy and happiness.”

Two Energy Class Talent Style Personality Waste Introversion Devalue Class System

Author:Susan Cain

“Frank Martin is a rarity. Dexterous as a player, writer and singer, he is thoughtful and skilled in his approach and passionate in his delivery. He is a unique, first-class musical personality.”

Firsts Class Player Personality Approach Unique Musical Passionate Singers Thoughtful Frank Delivery First Class Rarity

Author:Tom Kimmel

“you know a person is having a severe personality crisis if you see a high school class ring on a finger beyond the first semester in college. Male or female. It's a big sign saying nothing has mattered to my life since senior year.”

Source: Sacred cows-- and other edibles

“Introversion - along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness - is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology.”

Class Personality Disappointment Traits Sensitivity Cousin Seriousness Shyness Introversion Pathology Personality Traits Sociability

Book:Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

Source: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“I'm from Alabama and I have morals and I have class. That's my personality.”

Moral Class Personality Alabama

Author:Katherine Webb

“How do we work together? For if we want liberation for women, then we're committed to building a society in which these distances--of class and economics--dissolve, and all our authentic differences--cultures, personalities, sexualities, talents, and aspirations--emerge and are equally nourished.”

Ifs Want Together Culture Differences Freedom Class Talent Building Personality Diversity Economics Distance Committed Sexuality Liberation Aspiration Working Together

Author:Irena Klepfisz

“The writer has a life and a personality but the problem of today is that most of those writers have exactly the same life; they belong to the same social class, the same milieu, they have the same experiences. Once you read one of those books, you have read them all. And this is a problem.”

Book Problem Today Social Class Personality Social Class Milieu

Author:Pascal Bruckner

“Ira [Gershwin] was the shyest, most diffident boy we had ever known. In a class of lower east side rapscallions, his soft-spoken gentleness and low-keyed personality made him a lovable incongruity. He spoke in murmurs, hiding behind a pair of steel-rimmed glasses..Ira had a kid brother who wore high stiff collars, shirts with cuffs and went out with girls.”

Made Kids Girl Sides Behinds Known Class Boys Brother Personality Lows East Shirts Pairs Spokes Hiding Steel Gentleness Collars Lovable Spectacles Ira Gershwin Cuffs East Side Incongruity

Author:Yip Harburg

“Our traditional stories are based on an aristocratic model without a middle class, whereas The Arabian Nights reflect people living in cities, traders, merchants, travelers, with a wide range of personalities.”

People Stories Night Cities Class Middle Personality Models Wide Traditional Range Middle Class Traveler Merchants Traders Arabian Aristocratic Living In The City Arabian Nights

Author:Marina Warner

“In terms of media, we did not get the kind of media attention that somebody like a Donald Trump got, because media is not necessarily interested in the issues facing the middle class, more interested in attacks in personality. So I think there were a lot of reasons.”

Thinking Kind Reason Term Attention Class Issues Middle Media Personality Trump Middle Class

Author:Bernie Sanders

“I'm often in conversations with people who have learning disabilities, and they talk about how they were teased and perhaps laughed at sometimes as children. That was never the case with me. Maybe it was something about my personality, my temperament, but I don't ever remember being teased. I remember the awkwardness of leaving class to go to a special class, but that's all.”

People Children Sometimes Remember Class Cases Special Personality Conversation Leaving Disability Laughed Temperament Awkwardness Learning Disability

Author:Jerry Pinkney