Best personality & interest Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams.”

Dream America Certain Culture Interest Democracy Personality Aspiration Clash Mobility

Author:David Brooks

“Each person discovers a field of allurements, the totality of which bears the unique stamp of that person’s personality. Destiny unfolds in the pursuit of individual fascinations and interests... By pursuing your allurements, you help bind the universe together. The unity of the world rests on the pursuit of passion.”

“Perhaps teenagers don't interest me as much as children do since I still feel (even at 58) to be a fairly adolescent personality, especially in my enthusiasms, and I find myself an uninteresting fictional character.”

Feels Children Stills Character Interest Personality Enthusiasm Teenager Fictional Character

Author:Scott Bradfield

“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

“I have less time, less tolerance for bullshit, more interest in good taste, more confidence in my own judgement. The culture with which I surround myself is a reflection of my personality and the circumstances of my life, which is in part how it should be.”

Should Culture Interest My Own Personality Circumstances Taste Reflection Tolerance Judgement Surround Bullshit Good Taste

Book:Songbook

Source: Songbook

“The inspiration of a noble cause involving human interests wide and far, enables men to do things they did not dream themselves capable of before, and which they were not capable of alone. The consciousness of belonging, vitally, to something beyond individuality; of being part of a personality that reaches we know not where, in space and time, greatens the heart to the limit of the souls ideal, and builds out the supreme character.”

“All technical refinements discourage me. Perfect photography, larger screens, hi-fi sound, all make it possible for mediocrities slavishly to reproduce nature; and this reproduction bores me. What interests me is the interpretation of life by an artist. The personality of the film maker interests me more than the copy of an object.”

Film Artist Sound Interest Perfect Objects Personality Photography Screens Interpretation Copies Makers Mediocrity Bores Discouraging Reproduction Refinement

Author:Jean Renoir

“A great teacher is not simply one who imparts knowledge to his students, but one who awakens their interest in it and makes them eager to pursue it for themselves. He is a spark plug, not a fuel pipe. The reason colleges exist is to bring students into contact with contagious personalities, for otherwise they might as well be correspondance schools.”

Wells Reason Might School Interest Teacher Students College Personality Contact Pursue Fuel Sparks Pipe Contagious Great Teacher Impart Plugs

Author:Edmund Ware Sinnott

“We cannot know the young child's personality by studying his systems of interest, for his attention is as yet too labile, his reactions impulsive, and interests unformed. From adolescence onward, however, the surest clue to personality is the hierarchy of interests, including the loves and loyalties of adult life.”

Knows Children Young Interest Attention Study Personality Adults Including Loyalty Reactions Adolescence Clue Hierarchy Young Children Impulsive Love And Loyalty

Book:Becoming; Basic Considerations for a Psychology of Personality

Source: Becoming; Basic Considerations for a Psychology of Personality

“For more than a year, he'd felt destined to marry Isabel Arundell; now, suddenly, he wasn't so sure. He loved her, that was certain, but he also resented her. He loved her strength and practicality but resented her overbearing personality and tendency to do things on his behalf without consulting him first; loved that she tolerated his interest in all things exotic and erotic but hated her blinkered Catholicism. Charles Darwin had killed God but she and her family, like so many others, still clung to the delusion.”

Years Firsts Stills Certain Felt Interest Personality All Things Atheist Tendencies Hated Delusion Catholicism First Love Destined Behalf Erotic Exotic Consulting Practicality Overbearing

Author:Mark Hodder

“I am not a communist first and an individualist second. I am an individualist first, and I don't mean this in the shallow, purely egotistical sense of self-interest and everyone else be damned. I mean this in the true sense of enlightenment, recovery of personality, and the full development of personality.”

Firsts Mean Self Interest Personality Development Enlightenment Recovery Communist Shallow Self Interest Sense Of Self Egotistical

Author:Murray Bookchin

“Early in my career as a domme, I both admired and feared becoming one of those career dommes. I saw, in myself, and in some other women in that industry, the way that sex work could eclipse the other parts of your personality, the way that I started to feel as if I wasn't qualified to do anything else. I had always known that I wanted to be a writer, and I stopped writing for a time while I was domming; the experience subsumed my other interests, and it scared me. Now, however, I have nothing but admiration for them.”

Ifs Way Feels Writing Wanted Sex Interest Known Careers Saws Personality Industry Becoming Scared Admiration Qualified Eclipse Sex Work Becoming One

Author:Melissa Febos

“Religious life is not going to go away. It will take a different form. Why am I so sure it's not going to go away? Because there are people whose personalities and gifts, and interests and soul, are simply immersed in living this kind of a spiritual lifestyle. That only makes sense. If you can live an artistic lifestyle, why can't somebody live a spiritual lifestyle? We've always, in every single great tradition, had a percentage of the population that stands in the middle of us being the beacon that calls us to realize that the spiritual life is an essential part of every life.”

People Kind Different Soul Spiritual Interest Realizing Religious Personality Tradition Lifestyle Artistic Make Sense Going Away Spiritual Life Religious Life

Author:Joan D. Chittister

“Society should emphasize personality. Accomplishment. Interest. Intelligent things. I think everybody should look as good as possible too.”

Thinking Interest Personality Intelligent Accomplishment

Author:Iris Apfel

“There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.”

Men Two War Force Interest Personality Anxiety

Book:Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut

Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut

“You bring to chess facets of your personality and what you are. I have interests other than chess, like music and world and current affairs. I also have many friends around the world with whom I like to keep in touch.”

World Interest Personality Affair Currents Chess Around The World Facets Many Friends Current Affairs

Author:Viswanathan Anand

“Take someone who doesn't keep score, who's not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing, who has not the slightest interest even in his own personality: he's free.”

Spiritual Interest Personality Losing Competition Score

Author:Rumi

“'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.'”

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