“The puppet characters were combinations of people I had known and to some degree aspects of my own personality. Weird was based on someone I knew in Chicago. Dirty Dragon was based on a good friend I had in Indianapolis.” PeopleCharacterMy OwnKnownPersonalityDegreesAspectCombinationDirtyDragonsChicagoGood FriendPuppetsIndianapolisMy Own Personality Author:William Jackson
“People who are enlightened in previous lifetimes have a certain degree of difficulty in regaining their enlightenment. Sometimes it comes in childhood. Sometimes it takes many years to reintegrate the personality structure that they gained when they first entered into this world.” PeopleWorldYearsFirstsSometimesCertainTeacherChildhoodThis WorldPersonalityDegreesEnlightenmentDifficultyStructureLifetimeEnlightened Author:Frederick Lenz
“I've always been passionately in love with movies, to such a degree that even as a young person of about nineteen or twenty I thought maybe I would try to become a film director. The reason I didn't do it was because I felt I didn't have the right personality. At that time in my life, I was mortally shy.” TryingPersonsReasonFilmYoungFeltPersonalityDirectorsDegreesTwentiesShyRight PersonNineteenFilm Directors Author:Jonathan Lethem
“Wisdom does not depend on mind and memory but on the maturity, purity and perfection of the individual personality. ... Therefore, insights are not passed on through the mind, but - and this particularly - through intuition or inspiration. The degree of wisdom is therefore determined by the state of development of the individual.” MindDoeStatesInspirationIndividualMemoriesMagicPersonalityDependsDevelopmentDegreesPerfectionInsightIntuitionDeterminedMaturityPurityMysticismIndividual Personality Author:Franz Bardon
“It seems that every generation needs its public, tweedy, literary personality to sell its consumer electronics. To whatever degree I can live up to the Plimptonian legacy, I am humble and proud.” NeedsI CanSeemsGenerationsPersonalityProudDegreesSellsHumbleConsumersLegacyElectronics Author:John Hodgman
“Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality. One can judge objectively to what extent a person has succeeded in his task, to what degree he has realized his potentialities. If he has failed in his task, one can recognize this failure and judge it for what it is - a moral failure.” IfsMenGivingPersonsImportantLife IsEffortMoralJudgingProductsPersonalityBirthDegreesTasksMoral Failure Author:Erich Fromm
“What I find is that the taking, the stealing, the appropriation of images has to do with prior availability, and it sets up a degree where things can be shared... It's like 50% off... You can let something of another emotion or another personality sign on your work, or co-sign it.” EmotionPersonalityDegreesStealingAvailabilityAppropriation Author:Richard Prince
“We've known each other [in Motorpsycho ] since 1985 or '86, are really different as personalities, and yet have actually never disagreed to any degree. We are really complimentary as musicians and songwriters too, and come from two total opposites in our approaches.” TwoDifferentKnownPersonalityDegreesApproachMusicianOppositesSongwriters Author:Bent Saether
“I'm interested in the limits of personality, in the possibility of change, and the saving power of art. Do powerful works of art raise our consciousness to such a degree that we refrain from sliding into moral hazard? Do we take note? Or are we doomed to repetition?” ArtPowerfulConsciousnessMoralPossibilityPersonalityLimitsDegreesRaisesNotesSavingWorks Of ArtDoomedRepetitionRefrainHazardsPossibility Of ChangeMoral Hazard Author:Adam Ross
“One does have to learn to travel with a degree of humility and that reflected in writing and personality.” WritingDoeHumilityPersonalityDegrees Author:John Gimlette
“I would hesitate to say the characters [ in Bink & Gollie] are too related to either to us [me and Alison McGhee], but they certainly draw on our physical traits and personality traits and then exaggerate them to the nth degree.” CharacterPersonalityDegreesDrawsRelatedTraitsPersonality Traits Author:Kate DiCamillo
“In WWE there's a huge degree of acting you need to have to become legendary, to become popular. You have to become a great actor in WWE and that's something I've honed from a young age. I could never be the biggest guy on the show when I first started wrestling; it was all about the giants. But I could have the biggest personality, the biggest character.” NeedsFirstsCharacterShowsAgeYoungGuyActorsActingHugePersonalityDegreesGiantsWrestlingWweYoung AgeLegendaryGreat Actors Author:Chris Jericho
“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