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“Personality in man is what is "not his own" . . . what come from outside, what he has learned, or reflects, all traces of exterior impressions left in the memory.”

Men Left Memories Personality Impression Exterior

Author:G. I. Gurdjieff

“Those same forces that drive a genius to create the things or ideas that entertain or enlighten us often gobble so much of his personality that he has none left for the social graces.”

Ideas Left Force Social Grace Personality Genius Enlightening Social Graces

Book:Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Source: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

“Seldom do we experience the charisma and character of a dynamic personality such as Lou Holtz, the very successful former football coach of Notre Dame. Lou has left his distinctive mark of success everywhere he has coached. Winning Every Day is not just a catchy phrase, but with Coach Holtz, a way of life.”

Way Character Winning Left Successful Football Personality Mark Coaches Former Phrases Charisma Distinctive Catchy Dames Football Coach Notre Dame Dynamic Personality

Author:Carl Pohlad

“People are stereotypes, they are caricaturized. It comes from both sides of the political aisle, it comes from the press. It's all about conflict, it's all about personality, and there are huge stakes in the policies that are being debated, and I think there's a hunger amongst a very significant, maybe even a critical mass of Americans, clustered on the left, right, and center, to have an adult conversation about how we're going to solve these problems ... but it's not for the fainthearted.”

“The people who hanged Christ never, to do them justice, accused Him of being a bore - on the contrary; they thought Him too dynamic to be safe. It has been left for later generations to muffle up that shattering personality and surround Him with an atmosphere of tedium.”

People Has Beens Jesus Left Christ Justice Generations Personality Safe Jesus Christ Contrary Atmosphere Surround Bores Accused Shattering Tedium Dynamic Personality

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“On that night I was left with only the truth that nothing of our personality survives after death, that in the end all that was Misha Vainberg would evaporate along with the styles and delusions of his epoch, leaving behind not one flutter of his sad heavy brilliance, not one damp spot around which his successors could congregate to appreciate his life and times.”

Ends Night Left Behinds Style Personality Appreciate Leaving Heavy Spots Delusion Brilliance After Death Epoch Successors Damp Life And Time

Book:Absurdistan and Super Sad True Love Story: Two Bestselling Novels

Source: Absurdistan and Super Sad True Love Story: Two Bestselling Novels

“The artist's personality must be left in his dressing-room; his soul must be denuded of its own sensations and clothed with the base or noble qualities he is called upon to exhibit.... [he] must leave behind him the cares and vexations of life, throw aside his personality for several hours, and move in the dream of another life, forgetting everything.”

“It is the task of the scenarist to invent little pieces of business that are so characteristic and give so deep an insight into his creatures, that their personalities clearly and organically unfold before the eyes of the audience so that the latter feel that the actions of these people are contingent upon their characters, that there exists some kind of a logical fate, and that nothing is left to mere accident or coincidence.”

People Giving Feels Kind Littles Character Eye Action Left Audience Pieces Fate Personality Creatures Tasks Mere Insight Accidents Characteristics Latter Logical Coincidence

Author:Ernst Lubitsch

“It has been remarked that when one passes among the patients of the psychiatric ward, he encounters among the several sufferers every aspect of normal personality in morbid exaggeration. ... As one passes through the modern centers of enterprise and of higher learning, he is met with similar autonomies of development. ... The scientist, the technician, the scholar, who have left the One for the Many are puffed up with vanity over their ability to describe precisely some minute portion of the world. Men so obsessed with fragments can no more be reasoned with than other psychotics.”

“For years and years and years... people showed me pictures that had been left unclaimed at big photo-finishers. Sometimes I think it changed my personality, sometimes I wonder if it didn't damage my brain.”

People Ifs Thinking Years Sometimes Bigs Left Brain Wonder Changed Personality Damage Sometimes I Wonder Finishers

Author:Michael Lesy

“Some people say I'm kinda country, but I like to take risks on fashion. I kinda go left sometimes, so you can get a taste of my personality.”

People Country Sometimes Left Risk Fashion Personality Taste

Author:Toni Braxton

“Even if you tried to extinguish your personality, what is left in the story will reflect it, perhaps by its negation. Our lives provide the bricks from which we build these cathedrals.”

Ifs Stories Left Our Lives Personality Bricks Cathedrals Negation

Author:Aleksandar Hemon

“If I can choose who I am in the moment, then I can choose to come in as my left brain personality and all of the skill sets that goes with that.”

Ifs I Can Moments Left Brain Personality Skills Who I Am Left Brain

Author:Jill Bolte Taylor

“While liberals had embraced Obama as someone who had left-wing progressive ideas, the truth is that by personality he's a very incremental guy.”

Ideas Guy Left Personality Truth Is Wings Progressive Left Wing

Author:Anna Quindlen

“Why is it so many political parties never learn that lesson? There was an obsession on the right to get [Hillary] Clinton. There was an obsession on the left to get - frankly, look at - look at the liberals in the early 1980s with [Ronald] Reagan. They got so caught up in the personality that they could n`t see the forest.”

Looks Political Left Party Personality Lessons Clinton Caught Forests Obsession Caught Up Political Parties

Author:Chuck Todd

“There was no God in his heart, he knew; his ideas were still in riot; there was ever the pain of memory; the regret for his lost youth-yet the waters of disillusion had left a deposit on his soul, responsibility and a love of life, the faint stirring of old ambitions and unrealized dreams...... And he could not tell why the struggle was worth while, why he had determined to use to the utmost himself and his heritage from the personalities he had passed... He stretched out his arms to the crystalline, radiant sky. I know myself," he cried, "but that is all.”

Source: This Side of Paradise