“American culture is no longer created by the people... A free, authentic life is no longer possible in AmericaTM today. We are being manipulated in the most insidious way. Our emotions, personalities and core values are under siege from media and cultural forces too complex to decode. A continuous product message has woven itself into the very fabric of our existence. Most North Americans now live designer lives-sleep, eat, sit in car, work, shop, watch TV, sleep again. I doubt there's more than a handful of free, spontaneous minutes anywhere in that cycle. We ourselves have been branded.” PeopleWayHas BeensTodayLife IsValuesCultureForceSleepEmotionExistenceWatchesDoubtMinutesMediaCarTvsProductsPersonalityMessagesComplexesCoreDesignerShopsCyclesFabricConsumerismSpontaneousHandfulAmerican CultureWovenOverconsumptionInsidiousCore ValuesSiegeBrandedAuthentic LifeUnder Siege Author:Kalle Lasn
“Doubt is thought's despair; despair is personality's doubt. . . . Doubt and despair . . . belong to completely different spheres; different sides of the soul are set in motion. . . . Despair is an expression of the total personality, doubt only of thought.” DifferentSoulSidesDoubtExpressionPersonalityDespairSpheresDifferent Sides Author:Soren Kierkegaard
“Like most people, Im fascinated by characters who are completely flawed personalities, riven by anguish and doubt, and are psychologically suspect.” PeopleCharacterDoubtPersonalitySuspectsFascinatedAnguishFlawed Author:Chang-Rae Lee
“Mr. Beerbohm in his way is perfect ... He has brought personality into literature, not unconsciously and impurely, but so consciously and purely that we do not know whether there is any relation between Max the essayist and Mr. Beerbohm the man. We only know that the spirit of personality permeates every word that he writes ... He is without doubt the prince of his profession.” KnowsMenWayWritingSpiritLiteraturePerfectDoubtHe ManPersonalityRelationProfessionMaxEssayists Author:Virginia Woolf
“Knowledge and personality make doubt possible, but knowledge is also the cure of doubt; and when we get a full and adequate sense of personality we are lifted into a region where doubt is almost impossible, for no man can know himself as he is, and all fullness of his nature, without also knowing God.” KnowsMenNatureKnowingDoubtImpossiblePersonalityCuresRegionsAdequateFullnessKnowing God Author:Thornton T. Munger
“Emotional, physical, and spiritual estrangement and ontological and religious doubt inform my personality, my thoughts, and my characters, which are, more often than not, masks for my own being and my being in the world - a world that frightens me insofar as I don't understand it.” WorldCharacterSpiritualReligiousMy OwnDoubtEmotionalPersonalityMaskMy ThoughtsEstrangement Author:Norman Lock
“For me, there's always an early-'70s sense. There's always a sprinkle of it - if I do it exactly like that, sometimes it becomes too costume-y or too thought out. But the influences are there, without a doubt, always, because to me, that was the part that I also felt was the most defining of my own personality and my own style, and I also think that it's timeless. You never look wrong.” IfsThinkingLooksSometimesFeltMy OwnDoubtInfluenceStylePersonalityTimelessCostumesDefiningSprinklesMy Own StyleMy Own Personality Author:Paul Weller
“Seeing a photograph of myself is often pretty jarring. Why is it that the vision I see of myself in a photo is so different than the one I see in a mirror - not to mention the "self" that I see in my mind's eye? Pondering it can pretty easily cast me into a vortex of self-doubt, wondering how the me that people experience - my voice, my personality, my creative expression - is regarded without my knowledge.” PeopleMindDifferentSelfEyeVoiceWonderVisionCreativeDoubtSeeingExpressionPersonalityMirrorsPhotographCastsPonderingSelf-doubtVortexCreative Expression Author:Keith Murray
“If we understood, as we do not, the physical bases for intellectual structures, I have little doubt that we would find structures in the brain for social interactions, or language, or analysis of personality - a whole variety of systems developed on the basis of a specific biological endowment.” IfsLittlesWholeLanguageSocialBrainDoubtPersonalityIntellectualUnderstoodBasesStructureVarietyAnalysisInteractionEndowmentSocial Interaction Author:Noam Chomsky
“Having children changes your behavior. Your personality doesn't change, but you're more cautious of what you say and how you say it to start with-so that already changes things. My mind is not completely mine anymore. I used to be able to concentrate and achieve things. Now I find it much harder to focus, because it just seems that half your brain doesn't belong to you anymore. My kids are still little. Maybe it will change more when they're older, but I doubt it.” MindChildrenKidsBrainDoubtFocusAchievePersonalityBehaviorCautiousHaving Children Author:Vanessa Paradis
“I believe strongly in what John Keats called negative capability: the trait or practice that allows a poet to remain in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact & reason. For Keats, William Shakespeare exemplified negative capability, and I do think it's extraordinary that for all the thousands of pages Shakespeare left behind, we really don't know much about Shakespeare's own personality or opinions.” ThinkingBelieveReasonI BelieveOpinionDoubtMysteryPoetPersonalityNegativeExtraordinaryUncertaintyCapabilityTraitsLeft Behind Author:James Arthur
“You have no doubt guessed long since that the conquest of time and the escape from reality, or however else it may be that you choose to describe your longing, means simply the wish to be relieved of your so-called personality. That is the prison where you lie.” MayMeanLongRealityLyingWishDoubtPersonalityLongingPrisonNo DoubtYou ChooseConquestRelieved Book:Steppenwolf: A Novel Source: Steppenwolf: A Novel
“'You hate America, don't you?' 'That would be as silly as loving it,' I said. 'It's impossible for me to get emotional about it, because real estate doesn't interest me. It's no doubt a great flaw in my personality, but I can't think in terms of boundaries. Those imaginary lines are as unreal to me as elves and pixies. I can't believe that they mark the end or the beginning of anything of real concern to a human soul. Virtues and vices, pleasures and pains cross boundaries at will.'” ThinkingBelieveHumansSaidI CanRealSoulEndsWould BePainAmericaHateTermInterestLinesPleasureVirtueDoubtImpossibleEmotionalPersonalityConcernCrossesMarkVicesSillyBoundariesNo DoubtFlawsImaginaryEstatesHuman SoulUnrealPain And PleasurePixiesMother NightImaginary Lines Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape and flows around things, and finds the secret paths no one else has thought about - the tiny hole through the roof or the bottom of a box. There's no doubt it's the most versatile of the five elements. It can wash away earth; it can put out fire, it can wear a piece of metal down and sweep it away. Even wood, which is its natural complement, can't survive without being nurtured by water And yet, you haven't drawn on those strengths in living your life, have you?” I CanEarthWaitingWaterNaturalDealsSecretPathDoubtFireFivePiecesHavensPersonalityShapesElementsFlowDown AndBottomBoxesWoodsTinyHolesNo DoubtMetalsRoofLive Your LifeComplementVersatileGeishaFive Elements Author:Arthur Golden