“I think there is a great difference, in that when the poet is reading you get the whole personality of the person, especially if he's a good reader. Whereas a person just sitting gets what he puts into it.” IfsThinkingPersonsWholeReadingDifferencesPoetPersonalityReaderSitting Author:James Laughlin
“I always felt different as a kid, and the Kinks were like, 'Yeah, we're the Kinks.' Celebrate your difference; don't be afraid of your sense of humor, or your personality, or who you are. It emboldened me.” DifferentKidsFeltDifferencesPersonalityYeahWho You AreCelebrateSense Of HumorKink Author:Michael Weatherly
“Ratings to me are a little like the Chinese Government. I don't fully understand what makes a rating go. I don't know what makes the American television audience respond to one person and not t another. There very seldom are great differences between many television personalities.” KnowsLittlesPersonsGovernmentDifferencesAudienceTelevisionPersonalityChineseRatingChinese GovernmentAmerican Television Author:Tom Brokaw
“Standardized personality differences between the sexes are of this order, cultural creations to which each generation, male and female, is trained to conform.” OrderSexDifferencesGenerationsCreationPersonalityFemaleMalesConform Author:Margaret Mead
“Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves. The great difference between sport and art is that sport, like a sonnet, forces beauty within its own system. Art, on the other hand, cyclically destroys boundaries and breaks free.” KnowsGivingArtCharacterHandsOpportunityForceSportsDifferencesWhiteBreakPlayerPersonalityArt IsTestsShiningBonesBoundariesSonnetBeauty Within Author:Rita Mae Brown
“On every level, despite differences in personalities and jobs, every single human being needs recognition and support.” NeedsHumansJobsDifferencesHuman BeingsLevelsSupportPersonalityDespiteRecognition Author:Adele Scheele
“Good acting is all in the writing. If it isn't on the page, then it really won't make any difference. You cannot act on force of personality alone.” IfsWritingForceDifferencesActingPersonalityPagesGood Acting Author:Larry Hagman
“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.” WantGivingMayHardDifferencesFiguresPersonalityGiving UpElementsAnxietyAspectForesightEmpatheticPathologyI May Not Be Author:Scott Stossel
“I think if there's any difference between me and a traditional CEO, it's that I've been unwilling to change myself or shape my personality around what's expected.” IfsThinkingDifferencesPersonalityShapesExpectedTraditionalCeoUnwilling Author:Andrew Mason
“Expenditure--like ugliness and errors--becomes a totally new thing when we attach our own personality to it, and measure it by that wide difference which is manifest (in our own sensations) between ourselves and others.” DifferencesMoneyPersonalityErrorsDebtWideSensationsManifestNew ThingsUglinessExpenditures Book:Middlemarch: Top Novelist Focus Source: Middlemarch: Top Novelist Focus
“There is a difference between dramatizing your sensibility and your personality. The literary works which we think of as classicsdid the former. Much modern writing does the latter, and so has an affinity with, say, night-club acts in all their shoddy immediacy.” ThinkingWritingDoeNightDifferencesModernPersonalityClubsFormerLatterSensibilityAffinityImmediacyLiterary WorksNight Club Author:Paul Horgan
“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.” IfsWantTogetherCultureDifferencesFreedomClassTalentBuildingPersonalityDiversityEconomicsDistanceCommittedSexualityLiberationAspirationWorking Together Author:Irena Klepfisz
“Everyone is different: different shapes, sizes, colors, beliefs, personalities, and you have to celebrate those differences.” DifferentBeliefDifferencesColorPersonalityShapesSizeCelebrateEveryone Is Different Author:Kelly Clarkson
“We are all individualized expressions of God, of oneness. But we do have personality differences. Everyone who has had more than one child knows that they come in with personalities. The moment they come in - some come in screaming, some sleep through that first night and stay peaceful the rest of their lives - you see the differences.” KnowsFirstsChildrenMomentsNightDifferencesSleepExpressionPersonalityPeacefulOneness Author:Wayne Dyer
“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.” ThinkingWayDifferentCharacterStoriesMightFormSongDifferencesMemoriesPersonalityCircumstancesPerformancesPreparationSimilarityPersonal Relationships Author:Scarlett Johansson
“I've made the decision to adhere to three general truths when it comes to my novels: There will be a love-story element to the story, the novel will be set in eastern North Carolina, and the characters will be likeable. Then, I make each novel unique through differences in voice, perspective, age and personalities of the characters, and of course, plot.” MadeCharacterStoriesAgeThreeCoursesVoiceDifferencesDecisionNovelPerspectivePersonalityElementsUniqueLove StoryPlotEasternCarolinaNorth CarolinaLikeable Author:Nicholas Sparks
“It is the individual's ability to deal with the unexpected that characterizes the difference between success and failure.” IndividualDifferencesAbilityDealsPersonalityUnexpectedSuccess And Failure Author:Ross Perot
“You have to realize that the game is played by people and not by robots. You have to try to get across in the broadcast the difference in personalities of these players, and that's part of the fun, of course, being in a position where you can pass along that knowledge because you represent the fan.” PeopleTryingCoursesGamesFunRealizingDifferencesPlayerFansPositionPersonalityRobots Author:Martin Tyler
“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
“Well, the difference in working with the Supremes and the other girl groups like Martha and the Vandellas, and the Marvelettes, you let the material dictate to you, uh, really, how you worked with the group, and with the talent, and the personalities. All of these things was instrumental in having all of the groups, uh, retain their own identity. Uh, and, and the material had a lot to do with it, you know.” KnowsWellsGirlDifferencesGroupsTalentIdentityMaterialsPersonalitySupremeOther GirlGirl Groups Author:Cholly Atkins
“There's a bit of a difference in the way he sounds. Samuel E. Wright lent his voice and personality to the animated film with his booming voice. I have a high-tenor voice. Instead, I have to figure out a way to convince the audience to come along with me and accept this new texture and tambour to the way Sebastian sounds. I have a great dialect coach.” WayFilmBitsSoundVoiceDifferencesAcceptingAudienceFiguresPersonalityCoachesConvinceTextureAnimatedDialectTenorsAnimated FilmsDialect Coach Author:Tituss Burgess
“You will recover [from a broken heart] by beginning to identify the difference between frightened and loving parts of your personality.” HeartDifferencesBrokenPersonalityFrightened Author:Gary Zukav
“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
“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
“I feel too much. That's what's going on.' 'Do you think one can feel too much? Or just feel in the wrong ways?' 'My insides don't match up with my outsides.' 'Do anyone's insides and outsides match up?' 'I don't know. I'm only me.' 'Maybe that's what a person's personality is: the difference between the inside and outside.' 'But it's worse for me.' 'I wonder if everyone thinks it's worse for him.' 'Probably. But it really is worse for me.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayFeelsPersonsDifferencesEmotionWonderToo MuchPersonalityWrong WayInside And Outside Author:Jonathan Safran Foer
“"My insides don't match up with my outsides." "Do anyone's inside and outsides match up?" "I don't know. I'm only me." "Maybe that's what a person's personality is: the difference between the inside and the outside."” KnowsPersonsDifferencesPersonality Author:Jonathan Safran Foer