“Despite the insanity of using whether you would want to have a beer with someone as a legitimate reason for voting for or against them, I always felt that is indicative of a massive problem in politics: It matters as much what your personality is as how smart you are or how good you are at your job. That is a huge, huge problem. A lot of people who are very smart or very good at their jobs are not people I would want to ever have a beer with - but I would want them making massive policy decisions with huge implications for the future of the planet.” PeopleWantMatterReasonProblemJobsFeltDecisionPolicyPlanetsHugePersonalitySmartVery GoodDespiteBeerInsanityVotingMassiveImplicationsVery Smart Author:Michael Schur
“We think we need to create ourselves, always doing a paste-up job on our personalities. That is because we're trying to be special rather than real. We're pathetically trying to conform with all the other people trying to do the same.” PeopleThinkingNeedsTryingRealJobsSpecialPersonalityConform Author:Marianne Williamson
“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.” LooksJobsPoetryVisionEmotionalPoetPersonalityElementsMeltingScientific Truth Book:Claiming Breath Source: Claiming Breath
“On every level, despite differences in personalities and jobs, every single human being needs recognition and support.” NeedsHumansJobsDifferencesHuman BeingsLevelsSupportPersonalityDespiteRecognition Author:Adele Scheele
“I'm pulling out different aspects of my personality in writing each character and, if I'm doing my job well, I'm being true to the situation and true to the character.” IfsWritingWellsDifferentCharacterJobsSituationPersonalityAspectBeing TruePulling Author:Bill Watterson
“I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to promote myself. These days there's far more pressure to make a mark, so the temptation is to make adventure television or personality shows. I hope the more didactic approach won't be lost.” YearsShowsJobsLostTelevisionAdventureHugePersonalityApproachAdvantageYears AgoMarkPressureTemptationSecureThese DaysDidactic Author:David Attenborough
“The organizer who creates roles, who creates the holes that will force the pegs to their shape, is a prime creator of personality itself. When we ask of a man, "What is he?" the answer is usually given in terms of his major role, job, or position in society; he is the place that he fills, a painter, a priest, a politician, a criminal.” MenJobsAsksGivenForceTermAnswersRolesPositionPersonalityPoliticianShapesMajorsCreatorCriminalsHolesPainterPriestsPrimeOrganizerPeg Book:THE ORGANIZATIONAL REVOLUTION Source: THE ORGANIZATIONAL REVOLUTION
“My job is not to talk smack about anything. This is why I dislike strongly doing magazine articles: My personality does not translate to print. People don't read it as sarcasm, and it just comes off badly.” PeopleDoeJobsPersonalityMagazinesSarcasmPrintArticlesDislikeTranslateSmackSmack Talk Author:Sandra Bullock
“The thing with animation is that you record the actors like a radio show and then the animators become actors in their own way because it's their job to take this puppets and make them seem alive. They bring their own personalities to the way they move these puppets.” WayShowsSeemsJobsMovingActorsRecordsAlivePersonalityRadioAnimationPuppetsAnimator Author:Wes Anderson
“I feel that I have a certain amount of experience and I'm still learning so much. But a director's job is so vast; they have so much to do with the preparation. You have to be great with all kinds of personalities and you have to be very patient, there's a lot of skills I'm not sure if I have. So I don't know if I'm ready to direct, but who knows what the future has.” IfsKnowsFeelsKindStillsJobsCertainReadyPersonalityAmountDirectorsSkillsDirectPatientAll KindsPreparationNot Sure Author:Jason Statham
“If you give a little credit to the concept of the artist, I think you ought to indulge excesses a bit, because that reflects the personality of the writer. Now if a joke is in bad taste or it's not funny, okay, that's awhole different thing, but how you craft a joke is really what the writer's job is, and I don't think that technique should be subject to any editorial constraints.” IfsThinkingGivingShouldLittlesDifferentJobsArtistBitsSubjectsPersonalityOughtTasteJokesConceptsOkayCreditTechniqueCraftsDifferent ThingsExcessIndulgeConstraintsEditorialsBad Taste Author:Bill Watterson
“I'd be dong something creative - something I could express my personality through. I enjoyed working as a gardener before music consumed more of my time. I would probably be still working as a gardener, perhaps, and I wouldn't mind doing odd jobs on the side that were creative, but I'm not sure what they'd be.” MindStillsJobsSidesCreativePersonalityEnjoyedOddNot SureMy TimeConsumedGardenerOdd Jobs Author:Vance Joy
“In the process of developing a character, you do, in fact, start to take him on as a personality. It's part of my job.” CharacterFactsJobsProcessPersonalityDeveloping Author:Richard Gere
“These days we seem more bound to our bosses than ever before. We even identify our own selves with the jobs we do: "What do you do?" is the first question we ask each other at parties, as if a job title could express a fundamental truth about our personality.” IfsFirstsSelfSeemsJobsAsksPartyPersonalityFundamentalsBoundsThese DaysTitlesBossJob Titles Author:Tom Hodgkinson
“I'm really comfortable in a stressful, leadership position. I need this job. I need to do this. This fits my personality. This is the best thing for me, short of playing.” NeedsJobsPositionPersonalityFitComfortableBest ThingsStressful Author:Avery Johnson
“You must find some way to elevate your act of writing into an entertainment. Usually this means giving the reader an enjoyable surprise. Any number of devices will do the job.... These seeming amusements in fact become your 'style.' When we say we like the style of certain writers, what we mean is that we like their personality as they express it on paper.” WayGivingWritingMeanFactsJobsCertainNumbersStylePersonalityReaderPaperSurpriseEntertainmentDevicesAmusementEnjoyableSeeming Author:William Zinsser
“We have had a good working relationship. He has got a tough job. We had different ideas sometimes and we got on pretty well. I have challenged him and he has challenged me. His form has been up and down and that can be tough. I suppose we've been lucky. Sourav and I complement each other. We are two different personalities. He is softer than me. I probably spoke my mind in the change rooms in a rougher way than him. Sourav and I formed an odd couple but it seems to have worked.” WayMindWellsHas BeensTwoIdeasDifferentSometimesSeemsJobsFormRoomsPersonalityCoupleLuckyToughDown AndOddSpokesGood WorkUp And DownComplementDifferent IdeasOdd Couple Author:John Wright
“I have to reign in my personality a little bit. Sometimes you want to go more colorful, but that's not my job on the [Grimm] show. My job is to be the center of the show, and the further you move out the more it can get wild.” WantLittlesSometimesShowsJobsMovingBitsPersonalityLittle BitReignColorfulGrimm Author:David Giuntoli
“Part of an actor's job is to actually adopt the world-view of the character she is playing and to tell the story from that vantage point. If an actor represses large aspects of their personality, they will have a severely limited range and castability. Great actors cultivate effortless access to their subpersonalities. Many acting teachers call this 'freeing your instrument.'” IfsWorldCharacterStoriesJobsActorsViewsActingTeacherPersonalityAspectInstrumentsAccessRangeGreat ActorsEffortlessWorld ViewVantage PointActing Teachers Author:Jack Lemmon
“With recidivism algorithms, for example, I worry about racist outcomes. With personality tests [for hiring], I worry about filtering out people with mental health problems from jobs. And with a teacher value-added model algorithm [used in New York City to score teachers], I worry literally that it's not meaningful. That it's almost a random number generator.” PeopleProblemJobsUsedValuesNumbersCitiesWorryTeacherNew YorkExamplePersonalityModelsTestsMental HealthMeaningfulOutcomesScoreRacistNew York CityHiringAlgorithmsHealth ProblemsGeneratorRecidivism Author:Cathy O'Neil
“It is true that we need a consensus to go forward with restoring passenger rail in America, and often a consensus is formed by political action, via government. That is all true. But we have no such consensus, and no one in government or politics these days has the will or the force of personality or perhaps even the understanding of the situation to get on with job of forming a consensus supporting rail.” NeedsGovernmentActionJobsAmericaPoliticalForceUnderstandingSituationPersonalityThese DaysConsensusPassengersRailRestoringPolitical Action Author:James Howard Kunstler
“I had been a veteran of pretty challenging job searches, so I knew firsthand how frustrating, confusing, and demoralizing the job search process can be. Even after you get a job, many people join companies and discover in the first couple weeks that they aren't a good match with the personality and values of the company.” PeopleFirstsJobsValuesProcessChallengesCompanyWeekPersonalityCoupleVeteranConfusingFrustratingDemoralizing Author:Kathryn Minshew
“On a purely personal level, it's very strange, because as a kid, Superman informed my personality. Now I've been given the job of forming Superman's personality and, in some ways, drawing on my own background.” WayKidsJobsGivenMy OwnLevelsStrangePersonalityDrawingBackgrounds Author:J. Michael Straczynski
“When someone tells you they’ve just bought a house, they might as well tell you they no longer have a personality. You can immediately assume so many things: that they’re locked into jobs they hate; that they’re broke; that they spend every night watching videos; that they’re fifteen pounds overweight; that they no longer listen to new ideas. It’s profoundly depressing.” WellsIdeasMightJobsNightHateHousePersonalityAssumingVideoBrokePoundsLockedEvery NightNew IdeasDepressingFifteenOverweight Author:Douglas Coupland