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“Information defines your personality, your memories, your skills.”

Memories Information Personality Skills Our Memories

Author:Ray Kurzweil

“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

“The House, being strong, should be generous ... but the constituents have a right to more than generosity.... The law gives me my seat. In the name of the law I ask for it. I regret that my personality overshadows the principles involved in this great struggle; but I would ask those who have touched my life, not knowing it, who have found for me vices which I do not remember in the memory of my life, I would ask them whether all can afford to cast the first stone ... then that, as best judges, they will vacate their own seats, having deprived my constituents of their right here to mine.”

“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

“There are more similarities than differences when it comes to preparation of a performance. You're using some lyrics, you have a relationship with them, they apply to different parts of your life and different circumstances, different memories, different stories you have in your head. You form personal relationships with the song. I think that's very similar, in a way, to prepping a character. You pour your own personality, in a sense, into the character, you sympathize with a character in a way that's similar to the way you might sympathize with a song.”

Thinking Way Different Character Stories Might Form Song Differences Memories Personality Circumstances Performances Preparation Similarity Personal Relationships

Author:Scarlett Johansson

“Wisdom does not depend on mind and memory but on the maturity, purity and perfection of the individual personality. ... Therefore, insights are not passed on through the mind, but - and this particularly - through intuition or inspiration. The degree of wisdom is therefore determined by the state of development of the individual.”

Mind Doe States Inspiration Individual Memories Magic Personality Depends Development Degrees Perfection Insight Intuition Determined Maturity Purity Mysticism Individual Personality

Author:Franz Bardon

“It seems to me... that I have always lived! I possess memories that go back to the Pharoahs. I see myself very clearly at different ages of history, practicing different professions... My present personality is the result of my lost [past] personalities.”

Different Seems Age Past Lost Memories Results Personality Profession Reincarnation Different Ages

Author:Gustave Flaubert

“We exist only by virtue of what we possess, we possess only what is really present to us, and many of our memories, our moods, our ideas sail away on a voyage of their own until they are lost to sight! Then we can no longer take them into account in the total which is our personality. But they know of secret paths by which to return to us.”

Knows Ideas Lost Memories Secret Virtue Path Personality Return Accounts Sight Mood Sail Our Memories Voyages

Book:Remembrance of Things Past: The captive. The fugitive. Time regained

Source: Remembrance of Things Past: The captive. The fugitive. Time regained

“It sometimes occurs that memory has a personality of its own and volunteers or refuses its information at its will, not at mine.”

Sometimes Memories Information Mines Personality Refuse Volunteer

Book:The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“...the idea of a spiritual part of our nature that survives death, the notion of an afterlife, ought to be easy for religions and nations to sell. This is not an issue of which we might anticipate widespread skepticism. People will want to believe it, even if the evidence is meager to nil... compelling testimony ... provides that our personality, character, memory ... resides in the matter of the brain, it is easy not to focus on it, to find ways to evade the weight of the evidence.”

“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

“Everything around me is evaporating. My whole life, my memories, my imagination and its contents, my personality - it's all evaporating. I continuously feel that I was someone else, that I felt something else, that I thought something else. What I'm attending here is a show with another set. And the show I'm attending is myself.”

Feels Whole Shows Felt Imagination Memories Personality Whole Life My Imagination Attending Book Of Disquiet

Author:Fernando Pessoa