Best personality & elements Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I would predicate that in all great works of genius masculine and feminine elements in the personality find expression, whether this androgynous nature is played out sexually or not.”

Expression Personality Genius Elements Feminine Masculine Great Work Sexually Masculine And Feminine Androgynous

Author:May Sarton

“A home life where it's so full of so many rigorous ideas about the way things should be, this word "should," I think is absolutely toxic to children. It hurts their personalities, it hurts their points of view in the world, it hurts their ability to be open and caring and curious. An element of allowance in a family, is, I think, really a positive thing.”

Thinking World Way Should Children Ideas Home Hurt Ability Views Personality Elements Caring Point Of View Curious Toxic Should I It Hurts Allowance Positive Things Home Life

Author:Mark Ruffalo

“I like to be as diverse as possible. I think the humorous side and the serious side are both elements of my personality. It's what makes me who I am and if I was to neglect either one of those sides and just focus on one of them, it wouldn't be the full spectrum of my personality.”

Ifs Thinking Sides Focus Serious Personality Elements Humorous Who I Am Neglect Diverse Spectrum

Author:Macklemore

“Poetry examines an emotional truth. It's an experience filtered through the personality of the poet. We look to poetry for visions, not scientific truths. The poet's job is to combine new elements. Explore their melting, seeping into one another.”

Looks Jobs Poetry Vision Emotional Poet Personality Elements Melting Scientific Truth

Book:Claiming Breath

Source: Claiming Breath

“My idea of marriage, as of every other partnership, ... is that each member shall contribute to it his or her personality, unrepressed and uncoerced. Thus, and only thus, we obtain the most complex synthesis possible, which may well surpass in beauty, as it surely does in interest and human value, the separate elements of such an association.”

Humans Wells May Doe Ideas Values Interest Marriage Personality Members Elements Complexes Association Partnership Human Values Synthesis

Book:Inheritance

Source: Inheritance

“The element which is conveniently missing from today's Republican Party is the human one. People's hopes and realities become numbers and words, devoid of personality and easy to erase.”

People Humans Reality Today Easy Party Numbers Missing Personality Republican Elements Republican Party Erase

Author:Steven Weber

“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.”

Want Giving May Hard Differences Figures Personality Giving Up Elements Anxiety Aspect Foresight Empathetic Pathology I May Not Be

Author:Scott Stossel

“Faith as ultimate concern is an act of the total personality. It happens in the center of the personal life and includes all its elements. Faith is the most centered act of the human mind. It is not a movement of a special section or a special function of man's total being. They all are united in the act of faith.”

Mind Humans Happens Faith United Special Movement Personality Elements Concern Ultimate Function Human Mind Personal Life Sections

Author:Paul Tillich

“The reader brings to the work personality traits, memories of past events, present needs and preoccupations, a particular mood of the moment and a particular physical condition. These and many other elements in a never-to-be-duplicated combination determine his response to the text.”

Needs Moments Past Memories Conditions Events Particular Personality Reader Elements Response Determine Mood Combination Traits Preoccupation Personality Traits Past Events

Book:Transactions with literature: a fifty-year perspective : for Louise M. Rosenblatt

Source: Transactions with literature: a fifty-year perspective : for Louise M. Rosenblatt

“People are complex, and I think it's a huge element of what I do, because you have to balance out the fact that you talk about quite serious things with a sense of irony and tongue-in-cheek humor. That's my personality as well.”

People Thinking Wells Facts Serious Huge Personality Balance Elements Complexes Tongue Irony Cheeks Serious Things Tongue In Cheek

Author:Marina and the Diamonds

“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.”

Made Character Stories Age Three Courses Voice Differences Decision Novel Perspective Personality Elements Unique Love Story Plot Eastern Carolina North Carolina Likeable

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“Ruskin's much-derided moral theory of art was part of an attempt to show that this human activity, which we value so highly, engaged the whole of human personality. His insistence on the sanctity of nature was part of an attempt to develop Goethe's intuition that form cannot be put together in the mind by an additive process, but is to be deduced from the laws of growth in living organisms, and their resistance to the elements.”

Source: Selected Writings

“Education is character development, harmonious completion of human personality. But what the state accomplishes in this field is dull drill, extinction of natural feeling, narrowing of the spiritual field of vision, destruction of all the deeper elements of character in man. The state can train subjects...but it can never develop free men who take their affairs into their own hands; for independent thought is the greatest danger that it has to fear.”

“When friends enter a home, they sense its personality and character, the family's style of living - these elements make a house come alive with a sense of identity, a sense of energy, enthusiasm, and warmth , declaring: "This is how we are; this is how we live."”

Character Home House Energy Alive Style Identity Personality Elements Enthusiasm Warmth Declaring Personality And Character

Author:Ralph Lauren

“As a writer, it's fun to free yourself enough to tap into some darker elements of your personality that sometimes I don't even know exist. It doesn't feel like work.”

Knows Feels Sometimes Enough Fun Personality Elements Free Yourself

Author:Richard Shepard

“In work we act under the predominant motive of external, rational necessities; in pleasure, under the predominant motive of other, equally general necessities of human nature. Rest or recreation is the element in which the personality seeks to renew its strength from these stimuli that exhaust the reserve of human resources. It's an element introduced into life by the person himself.”

Humans Persons Pleasure Human Nature Personality Elements Resources Rational Motive Reserves Stimulus Recreation Human Resources

Book:What Is to Be Done?

Source: What Is to Be Done?

“I wanted to make a massive work so as soon as Nick Mitzevich invited me I said yes straight away and began to make the work. The island was made in direct response. I used the diagnostic tool of Rorschach blots - something designed to extract and evaluate the dark and unconscious elements of our personality.”

Made Said Wanted Used Dark Personality Elements Tools Direct Response Islands Unconscious Massive Invited Evaluate Rorschach

Author:Ben Quilty

“I am a child of the Enlightenment. I think irrational belief is a dangerous phenomenon, and I try to consciously avoid irrational belief. On the other hand, I certainly recognize that it's a major phenomenon for people in general, and you can understand why it would be. It does, apparently, provide personal sustenance, but also bonds of association and solidarity and a means for expressing elements of one's personality that are often very valuable elements. To many people it does that. In my view, there's nothing wrong with that.”

“One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality.”

Character Faces Personality Elements Unique

Author:Kenneth Branagh

“The Catholic novelist in the South will see many distorted images of Christ, but he will certainly feel that a distorted image of Christ is better than no image at all. I think he will feel a good deal more kinship with backwoods prophets and shouting fundamentalists than he will with those politer elements for whom the supernatural is an embarrassment and for whom religion has become a department of sociology or culture or personality development.”

Thinking Feels Culture Christ Deals Personality Development Elements Catholic South Novelists Prophet Department Sociology Embarrassment Shouting Kinship Backwoods

Author:Flannery O'Connor

“Charisma is the numinous aura around a narcissistic personality. It flows outward from a simplicity or unity of being and a composure and controlled vitality. There is gracious accommodation, yet commanding impersonality. Charisma is the radiance produced by the interaction of male and female elements in a gifted personality. The charismatic woman has a masculine force and severity. The charismatic man has an entrancing female beauty. Both are hot and cold, glowing with presexual self love.”

“How often, you wonder, has the direction of your life been shaped by such misunderstandings? How many opportunities have you been denied--or, for that matter, awarded--because someone failed to see you properly? How many friends have you lost, how many have you gained, because they glimpsed some element of your personality that shone through for only an instant, and in circumstances you could never reproduce? An illusion of water shimmering at the far bend of a highway.”

Matter Opportunity Lost Water Wonder Personality Circumstances Elements Illusion Instant Denied Misunderstanding Highways Many Friends

Book:The View from the Seventh Layer: Stories

Source: The View from the Seventh Layer: Stories

“My love affair with (him) had a wonderful element of romance to it, which I will always cherish. But it was not an infatuation, and here’s how I can tell: because I did not demand that he become my Great Emancipator or my Source of All Life, nor did I immediately vanish into that man’s chest cavity like a twisted, unrecognizable, parasitical homonculus. During our long period of courtship, I remained intact within my own personality, and I allowed myself to meet (him) for who he was.”

Men Long I Can Romance My Own Wonderful Source Personality Periods Demand Elements Affair Crush Cherish Chests Infatuation Twisted Love Affair Courtship My Own Personality

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“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?”

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