“Personalities are like impressionistic paintings. At a distance, each person is 'all of a piece'; up close, each is a bewildering complexity of moods, cognitions, and motives.” PersonsPiecesPaintingPersonalityDistanceMoodMotiveComplexityCognition Book:Disorders of personality: DSM-IV and beyond Source: Disorders of personality: DSM-IV and beyond
“The great pines stand at a considerable distance from each other. Each tree grows alone, murmurs alone, thinks alone. They do notintrude upon each other. The Navajos are not much in the habit of giving or of asking help. Their language is not a communicative one, and they never attempt an interchange of personality in speech. Over their forests there is the same inexorable reserve. Each tree has its exalted power to bear.” ThinkingGivingHelpingLanguageGrowsTreePersonalityBearsHabitSpeechAskingDistanceForestsReservesExaltedInexorableInterchange Book:The Song of the Lark Source: The Song of the Lark
“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
“The people who write official histories for the Army believe that a generation needs to pass before you can tackle the official history. It's useful to have some distance. Sources become available. Passions cool. It allows an opportunity to make some real assessments and judgments about personalities and characters.” PeopleNeedsWritingBelieveRealCharacterPassionOpportunityGenerationsSourcePersonalityJudgmentArmyDistanceAvailableOfficialsAssessmentPersonality And Character Author:Rick Atkinson
“The distance at which all shooting weapons take effect screens the killer against the stimulus sensation which would otherwise activate his killing inhibitions. The deep, emotional layers of our personality simply do not register the fact that the crooking of the finger to release a shot tears the entrails of another man.” MenFactsEffectsTearsEmotionalPersonalityWeaponsShotsDistanceFingersKillingScreensReleaseShootingSensationsKillersLayersAnother ManStimulusRegisterInhibitionsActivateDeep Emotional Author:Konrad Lorenz
“Employing women as my primary protagonists has allowed me to step outside of myself, to distance myself from my own personality, far more easily than were I to look at events from a masculine perspective.” LooksMy OwnStepsEventsPerspectivePersonalityDistancePrimariesMasculineProtagonistsEmployingMy Own PersonalityDistance Myself Author:Tom Robbins
“I've never been the type of photographer to live with people I photograph. You know, shoot heroin with them, that kind of thing. I respect those photographers that work that way. But part of my personality is a certain amount of distance, and part of my attraction to the medium of photography is this distance where you're in the world, but you're removed from it.” PeopleWorldKindPersonalityPhotographyDistancePhotographerPhotographAttractionHeroin Author:Alec Soth