“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.” MenLifeGivingImportantCharacterLife IsEffortProductsPersonalityBirthTasksIntelligenceBirthdayGiving BirthInspirational BirthdayFinding Your PathBirth LifeMy Own PersonalityPersonality And Character Author:Erich Fromm
“Adults look upon a child as something empty that is to be filled through their own efforts, as something inert and helpless for which they must do everything, as something lacking an inner guide and in constant need of inner direction. . . . An adult who acts in this way, even though he may be convinced that he is filled with zeal, love, and a spirit of sacrifice on behalf of his child, unconsciously suppresses the development of the child's own personality.” WayNeedsLooksMayChildrenSpiritEffortSacrificePersonalityDevelopmentAdultsEmptyFilledConstantGuidesConvincedLook UpHelplessLackingBehalfZeal Author:Maria Montessori
“Society and personality live in a continuing reciprocal relation with each other. The search for personal change without efforts to change the institutions within which we live and grow will, therefore, be met with only limited reward.” GrowsChangeEffortPersonalityMetsRelationInstitutionsRewardsContinuingSocial ChangeReciprocalPersonal Change Author:Lillian B. Rubin
“German writings attain popularity through a great name, or through personalities, or through good connections, or through effort,or through moderate immorality, or through accomplished incomprehensibility, or through harmonious platitude, or through versatile boredom, or through constant striving after the absolute.” WritingLiteratureNamesEffortPersonalityConnectionsAbsolutesConstantStriveBoredomAccomplishedPopularityModeratesHarmoniousImmoralityPlatitudesVersatile Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“I am so very honored to be the recipient of MIPCOM's 2011 Personality of the Year. However, the accomplishments that have led to this honor are not mine alone. They are the result of the tireless efforts of so very many talented colleagues.” YearsResultsEffortMinesPersonalityHonorAccomplishmentColleaguesHonored Author:Anne Sweeney
“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
“That peace that we're after, lies somewhere beyond personality, beyond the perception of others, beyond invention and disguise, even beyond effort itself. You can join the game, fight the wars, play with form all you want, but to find real peace, you have to let the armor fall.” WantWarRealPlayFormLyingFallFightingGamesEffortPersonalityPerceptionInventionDisguiseArmorPerception Of Others Author:Jim Carrey
“Most of my writing is an effort, one way or another, to figure something out about myself, and often when I read dialogue between my characters I recognize it as a discussion between two aspects of my own personality, aspects which are too often at odds.” WayWritingTwoCharacterMy OwnEffortFiguresPersonalityAspectDialogueOne WayDiscussionOddsMy Own Personality Author:Ron Currie Jr.
“Man is an onion made up of a hundred integuments, a texture made up of many threads. The ancient Asiatics knew this well enough, and in the Buddhist Yoga an exact technique was devised for unmasking the illusion of the personality. The human merry-go-round sees many changes: the illusion that cost India the efforts of thousands of years to unmask is the same illusion that the West has labored just as hard to maintain and strengthen.” MenYearsHumansWellsMadeHardEnoughEffortPersonalityCostIllusionHundredYogaIndiaWestRoundsAncientTechniqueBuddhistThreadTextureMerryOnionsMerry Go RoundUnmasking Book:Steppenwolf: A Novel Source: Steppenwolf: A Novel