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“In most instances, the driving force behind the action is the mood, the personality, the attitude of the character - or all three. Therefore, the mind is the pilot. We think of things before the body does them.”

Thinking Life Mind Doe Character Body Action Three Force Behinds Attitude Greatness Personality Driving Mood Instance Pilots Driving Force

Author:Walt Disney

“One of the effects it [cocaine] had on my personality - my moods, my behaviors - was that it inhibited me a lot. It kind of took possibilities out of my world, and made the focus of things very narrow.”

World Kind Made Focus Effects Possibility Personality Behavior Mood Cocaine

Author:George Carlin

“Personalities are like impressionistic paintings. At a distance, each person is 'all of a piece'; up close, each is a bewildering complexity of moods, cognitions, and motives.”

Persons Pieces Painting Personality Distance Mood Motive Complexity Cognition

Book:Disorders of personality: DSM-IV and beyond

Source: Disorders of personality: DSM-IV and beyond

“When I have just sat down and tried to write the lyrics of a song, usually about half of it sounds like bullshit. I just have to go away from something and come back to it again later. I do a lot of editing and switching around and putting little pieces together to get the right mood and personality, and it takes me forever to get a song finished.”

Writing Littles Together Song Sound Half Forever Pieces Personality Down And Finished Mood Sat Going Away Take Me Bullshit Editing Switching

Author:Matt Berninger

“The personality of the artist, at first a cry or a cadence or a mood and then a fluid, and lambent narrative, finally refines itself out of existence, impersonalises itself, so to speak. The aesthetic image in the dramatic form is life purified in and reprojected from the human imagination. The mystery of aesthetic like that of material creation is accomplished. The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.”

“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

“If your child is going to develop a healthy personality with the capacity to remain intact and grow, she must learn how to test reality, regulate her impulses, stabilize her moods, integrate her feelings and actions, focus her concentration and plan.”

Ifs Children Feelings Reality Action Grows Focus Plans Personality Healthy Capacity Tests Our Children Mood Impulse Your Children Concentration Integrating

Author:Stanley Greenspan

“My favorite superheroes when I was younger were the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and they still are. Simply because they rule and you've got 4 different personalities to choose from depending on your mood...And they're huge human-turtles!!”

Humans Stills Different Huge Personality My Favorite Mood Teenage Superhero Turtles Ninja Mutants Ninja Turtle Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Author:Jason Reeves

“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

“Confusion conditions activity, which conditions consciousness, which conditions embodied personality, which conditions sensory experiences, which conditions impact, which conditions mood, which conditions craving, which conditions clinging, which conditions becoming, which conditions birth, which conditions aging and death.”

Consciousness Conditions Personality Birth Becoming Activity Impact Aging Mood Confusion Craving Clinging Sensory

Author:Gautama Buddha

“People's mood is really determined primarily by their genetic make-up and personality, and in the second place by their immediate context, and only in the third and fourth place by worries and concerns and other things like that.”

People Worry Personality Concern Thirds Determined Mood Fourth Second Place

Author:Daniel Kahneman

“Usually, your personality doesn't come out on the cover of Vogue. If the photographer says, "Smile," you smile. You might not be in a good mood that day, but you're smiling anyway.”

Personality Photographer Mood Vogue Good Mood

Author:Cindy Crawford

“Bad acting comes in many bags, various odors. It can be performed by cardboard refugees from an Ed Wood movie, reciting their dialogue off an eye chart, or by hopped-up pros looking to punch a hole through the fourth wall from pure ballistic force of personality, like Joe Pesci in a bad mood. I can respect bad acting that owns its own style.”

I Can Eye Force Acting Style Wall Personality Pure Various Woods Mood Holes Dialogue Bags Fourth Refugee Odor Bad Mood Reciting Bad Acting

Author:James Wolcott

“You can only be in a bad mood for so long before you have to face up to the fact that it isn't a bad mood at all; it's just your sucky personality.”

Long Facts Faces Personality Mood Bad Mood

Book:The Complete Jessica Darling Series: Sloppy Firsts, Second Helpings, Charmed Thirds, Fourth Comings, Perfect Fifths

Source: The Complete Jessica Darling Series: Sloppy Firsts, Second Helpings, Charmed Thirds, Fourth Comings, Perfect Fifths