“Develop and build your business’s personality that stands out. People want to buy from people.” PeopleWantPersonalityStanding Out Author:Yanik Silver
“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.” PeopleWorryPersonalityConcernThirdsDeterminedMoodFourthSecond Place Author:Daniel Kahneman
“There are a lot of things going on in politics at the moment which means that people can't concentrate on politicians' personalities and the characters of those who are actually running this country. This can overcome what politics is about.” PeopleMeanCountryMomentsCharacterRunningPersonalityPoliticianOvercoming Author:John Newman
“People with antisocial personality disorders aren't automatically bad - they simply approach the world with a more ruthless set of lenses. The lack of empathy or very weak empathy and the ability to read other people's weak spots can be a flammable combination when you get in the way of something they want. But they aren't a different species. They're a part of our spectrum.” PeopleWorldWayWantDifferentAbilityPersonalityApproachEmpathyWeakSpeciesSpotsCombinationDisorderLensesSpectrumRuthlessAntisocialLack Of EmpathyPersonality DisordersWeak Spots Author:Eden Robinson
“Jon Hamm is incredibly good at playing people who have secrets and are hiding aspects of their personality, and obviously Don Draper had a lot of that.” PeopleSecretPersonalityAspectHiding Author:Greg Mottola
“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
“I think that people all grow up and have their same personalities, but you can say, "Oh, I can see the roots of this personality, which I didn't like, but then you grew up, and I can still see you as that person, but I do really like you now." Which is sort of how I feel about children - I mean, about children who I knew when I was a child and grew up with, and they're still my friends, and children that I know as children who I see growing up, and every year I like them more.” PeopleThinkingKnowsFeelsYearsMeanChildrenPersonsStillsI CanGrowsGrowing UpGrowingLike YouGrewPersonalityGrew UpMy FriendsRootsReally Like You Author:Ann Patchett
“People huddle together in doctrinaire herds, and the same jackasses who, without the slightest risk, now scream against racism are the same conformist personality types who would have carried torches in lynch mobs a century ago.” PeopleTogetherRiskCenturyTypePersonalityRacismScreamHerdsTorchesConformistJackassesPersonality TypesAgainst Racism Author:Jim Goad
“What you might call the "symbol pushers" - that is to say, all of the people who deal with figures, with paper, with men, who manipulate - to use a better or nicer word - manipulate men and signs and words. All those today have not only to sell their service, but in the bargain, they have to sell their personality, more or less. There are exceptions.” PeopleMenUseMightTodayDealsFiguresPersonalityPaperSellsSymbolsExceptionManipulateBargains Author:Erich Fromm
“Bernie Sanders just seems to not have the personality to engage with people at the grassroots level.” PeopleSeemsLevelsPersonalityGrassroots Author:Julianne Malveaux
“I think the people that really understand my personality and my real fans understand that I'm not really PC; I'm not very kosher, so sometimes I go way over the line, but a lot of things are also meant in humor.” PeopleThinkingWayRealSometimesLinesFansPersonalityKosher Author:Jason Roy
“The people who know the sort of personality or persona that I give across more on Twitter just realize that I'm just being messy and I'm just snatching wigs.” PeopleKnowsGivingRealizingPersonalityJust BeingMessyPersonaBeing MeWigs Author:Jason Roy
“I still want to be the cute maknae of the group so rather than growing out my moustache and saying that I've matured and that "I'm a man", I would rather show people how I've grown up little by little through my personality.” PeopleMenWantLittlesStillsShowsGrowingGroupsPersonalityCuteMaturedMoustache Author:Seungri
“Just as an informal, nonscientific observation, most people's personalities don't seem to change very much during their lives. There are exceptions in the case of people who go through hugely traumatic events or suffer from brain injury or disease. Some would argue that religious conversions can have deep personality-altering effects. But these are all exceptions to the rule.” PeopleSeemsSufferingReligiousBrainCasesEffectsEventsPersonalityDiseaseArguingConversionObservationInjuryExceptionException To The RuleTraumatic EventsBrain Injury Author:Neal Stephenson
“My personality does well with people who are deemed difficult. I don't know why it does but I just seem to get along with them. The more difficult the better.” PeopleKnowsWellsDoeSeemsDifficultPersonality Author:Nicole Kidman
“It takes about a year to write an opera for me, but not a really a year of writing. I'm touring at the same time, and I'm playing, sometimes doing smaller projects.[The opera] Akhnaten fits in with Gandhi and Einstein, so that forms a trilogy in a way.I picked people who were these kind of larger than life characters, who kind of changed the world they lived in by almost the force of their personality and their inventiveness. People that I think not only do I admire but I think they're admirable people.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayWritingYearsKindSometimesCharacterFormForceChangedPersonalityFitProjectsAdmireOperaTouringAdmirableLarger Than LifeTrilogiesInventiveness Author:Philip Glass
“When I go to Europe or South America, they laugh at things that are totally different than what Americans would laugh at. It's just so crazy how we're so different in personalities with other people.” PeopleDifferentAmericaLaughingCrazyPersonalityEuropeSouthSouth America Author:Mike Tyson
“A fence can be protective around your family - a familial fence. Then, there are the people who only know how to take, to abuse, to offend and they build fences to keep you out. They don't have time to talk, they don't have kind words, they only talk about themselves. They never give an olive branch or forgiveness - they create a fence because of their personality or behavior and they want to create a barrier to keep people out.” PeopleKnowsWantGivingKindKnow HowPersonalityBehaviorAbuseOur FamilyBranchesBarriersFenceProtectiveOlivesKind WordsOlive Branches Author:Russell Hornsby
“The radio voice, you're in the studio, there's nobody around, and you're using your personality and enunciation skills to get the message across. At the stadium, there are vendors, there are people, the fans talking to each other. It's very difficult. If you were to speak as a radio disk jockey, no one would ever understand what you're saying.” PeopleIfsSpeakDifficultVoiceTalkingFansPersonalitySkillsMessagesRadioStudiosStadiumsJockeysDiskVendors Author:Charlie Brotman
“I think the Arab world has no personality cult situation going on that they have in much of the Western world, South America included. They are a culture of words and religion, and you won't see manycsa charismatic people on Al Jazeera, except for the ones who are now learned presenters. You see Arab leaders getting on TV - which was very hard for me working out how to do the part, since Arab leaders are looking somnambulant, staring into their microphone, almost as if someone's got a hand up their back.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldHardHandsAmericaCultureSituationLeaderTvsPersonalitySouthWesternWork OutStaringAlsCultMicrophonesWestern WorldCharismaticSouth AmericaArab WorldHands UpPresenter Author:Alexander Siddig
“If you read people like say Bruce Blair one of the leading, most sober, knowledgeable specialists, he says, look, [Donald Trump] statements are all over the map, but his personality is frightening, he's a complete megalomaniac.” PeopleIfsLooksPersonalityTrumpStatementsMapsFrighteningSoberSpecialistsKnowledgeableBlairMegalomaniacs Author:Noam Chomsky
“I think one thing that always attracted me to movies was the personalities. I went to movies not because the stories necessarily appealed to me, but because of the people in them.” PeopleThinkingStoriesOne ThingPersonality Author:Robert Osborne
“My favorite decade of cinema would be kind of the '40s, yeah. I like things in the '30s, but you know, the sound recording in the '30s wasn't very good. But for some reason the movies in the '40s have the best personalities: Jimmy Stewart, Gary Cooper, Betty Grable, Gene Tierney, and all those people. For some reason, I seem to gravitate more toward the '40s, and I don't necessarily know why. I just love the people.” PeopleKnowsKindReasonSeemsWould BeSoundPersonalityYeahVery GoodMy FavoriteDecadesCinemaBe KindGenesJimmyGaryJimmy Stewart Author:Robert Osborne
“There is such a thing as genius, and these are people who do not have a formal disability, DSM-IV-type. They may have liberal eccentricities or quirks in their personality, but they don't rise to the level of a disability.” PeopleMayLevelsTypePersonalityGeniusDisabilityFormalEccentricityQuirks Author:Darold Treffert
“Just because people don't trust people doesn't mean [they] don't like them. There are lots of paranoid people in the world. You figure out their personalities and make them work.” PeopleWorldMeanFiguresPersonalityDon't TrustParanoidDon't Trust People Author:Samuel L. Jackson
“I am a child of the Enlightenment. I think irrational belief is a dangerous phenomenon, and I try to consciously avoid irrational belief. On the other hand, I certainly recognize that it's a major phenomenon for people in general, and you can understand why it would be. It does, apparently, provide personal sustenance, but also bonds of association and solidarity and a means for expressing elements of one's personality that are often very valuable elements. To many people it does that. In my view, there's nothing wrong with that.” PeopleThinkingTryingMeanChildrenDoeHandsWould BeBeliefViewsDangerousPersonalityElementsMajorsEnlightenmentValuablePhenomenonAssociationIrrationalSolidaritySustenanceIrrational Beliefs Author:Noam Chomsky
“Johnny Storm is such an iconic character. There's a lot of personality traits and things to him that people are really going to look forward to seeing.” PeopleLooksCharacterSeeingPersonalityStormTraitsIconicPersonality Traits Author:Michael B. Jordan
“If people are foolish, they are bound to mix the personality and the Truth, and to build a temple around the personality and form a religion.” PeopleIfsFormPersonalityBoundsFoolishTemples Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti
“Success really comes down to the product, not to me, my personality, or what club I'm seen going into or coming out of. None of that matters. What's important is whether or not people feel like they wasted their time or money when they pay for a movie or a CD.” PeopleFeelsImportantMatterPayProductsPersonalityClubsComing OutCdsWhat's Important Author:Ice Cube
“I don't think we're the screaming femme fatale running away from danger as much as we used to be. I think people are seeing us as much more multi-layered personalities with desires, and wants, and needs as much as any male figure out there.” PeopleThinkingWantNeedsRunningUsedDesireSeeingFiguresDangerPersonalityMalesUsed To BeRunning AwayFemmeWants And NeedsFemme Fatale Author:Barbara Crampton
“Narcissism, like the other personality disorders, is a condition that's known as ego-syntonic. In other words, the paranoid person really does believe that people are after him, and the narcissist really does believe that he or she is better than or more entitled than other people, and truly doesn't see why that's not the case.” PeopleBelievePersonsDoeKnownCasesConditionsPersonalityEgoDisorderNarcissismEntitledParanoidNarcissistPersonality Disorders Author:Jeffrey Kluger
“Some people are the best lyricists, got the most gas, but they don't know have the personality or the people skills to go out there and network and get they recognition and they name out there. Sometimes people can get in the way of they own selves man, real talk.” PeopleKnowsMenWayRealSelfSometimesNamesPersonalitySkillsRecognitionGasReal TalkLyricistsPeople Skills Author:E-40
“I'm often in conversations with people who have learning disabilities, and they talk about how they were teased and perhaps laughed at sometimes as children. That was never the case with me. Maybe it was something about my personality, my temperament, but I don't ever remember being teased. I remember the awkwardness of leaving class to go to a special class, but that's all.” PeopleChildrenSometimesRememberClassCasesSpecialPersonalityConversationLeavingDisabilityLaughedTemperamentAwkwardnessLearning Disability Author:Jerry Pinkney
“I think it comes down to the type of personality that the performing arts seem to attract. And that's outgoing, very sensitive - sometimes incredibly insecure - people, that for some reason need a lot of validation. They have a lot that they have to get out, and they choose one of the hardest professions in the world in which to exist, being as sensitive as you need to be.” PeopleThinkingWorldNeedsArtSometimesReasonSeemsTypePersonalityProfessionHardestPerformingSensitiveInsecureValidationOutgoingPerforming ArtsInsecure People Author:Audra McDonald
“It's hard to say how we compare to other people. We each inhabit our own personalities. I have often felt that I'm a very neutral being and that I have almost no personality. I'm drawn to writing partly because I'm fascinated by the mimetic process.” PeopleWritingHardFeltProcessPersonalityCompareFascinated Author:Joyce Carol Oates
“I don't know whether I am different from other people. Perhaps I am. Perhaps no one has a personality, and people are inventing themselves in the context in which they find themselves.” PeopleKnowsDifferentPersonalityInventing Author:Joyce Carol Oates
“Literature has become too psychological. We discount the physical, when in fact much of life is physical. People's personalities are partly formed by, or in response to, how they take up space; the physical mask has some relation, howsoever obscure, to the mental work happening underneath.” PeopleFactsLife IsLiteratureSpacePersonalityHappeningsRelationResponsePsychologicalMaskObscureDiscounts Author:Karan Mahajan
“As a model I had a lot of success when I was 17 and 18 years old. It was before social media, before the world was what the world is, but even then it was terrifying, to be 18 years old and people knowing who you are, and I was this personality who was completely devoid of who I actually was. It was almost like being a manufactured boy band. You're sort of like a wind up doll; they wind you up and put you on the runway or something like that.” PeopleWorldYearsSocialBoysKnowingMediaWindPersonalityBandModelsWho You AreSocial MediaDollsRunwayKnowing Who You AreBoy Bands Author:Karen Elson
“Acting is one of the professions I most respect because if you tried something and you can't do it and you thought at one time in your life - and of course, I did at one time of my life want it - and you realize that you can't do it that you can't just switch your personality that way, then you are in awe of people who can.” PeopleIfsWayWantCoursesRealizingActingPersonalityProfessionAweOne TimeTime Of My Life Author:Sherry Lansing
“Movies are a powerful medium. People think you are your character. I've had plenty of people who think I'm Drago. They don't know about the chemical engineering part of my personality. They don't know about the geek part of my personality.” PeopleThinkingKnowsCharacterPowerfulPersonalityMediumsPlentyChemicalsEngineeringGeekChemical Engineering Author:Dolph Lundgren
“While a lot of my day, like most people's, is spent thinking about me, I can see how it's a universal thing: the competition, the clashes of personality that fuel the world and fill the world, are the exact same ones that take place just between two people. I just think politics is a form, en masse, of human relations.” PeopleThinkingWorldPersonalityRelationCompetitionClashHuman Relations Author:Nellie McKay
“You want to put people together who will work well, and each movie kind of has its own personality in terms of how people are working or the temperature on set, and we want people who will fit in with that mix. It's one of the really important parts of it.” PeopleKindImportantTogetherTermPersonalityFit Author:Suzanne Todd
“I think producing is first about understanding and finding people who understand it in the same way throughout the crew and everybody who's going to be working on it. And a piece of that is also personality, because there's a lot of psychology into being a good producer.” PeopleThinkingUnderstandingPsychologyPersonalityProducers Author:Suzanne Todd
“I'm not afraid to express the different elements of my personality, and I think there's a bad habit in America now to, label people having multiple personalities, things like this, but it's, I feel like, even on the album I describe myself as a hydra which is, many heads, many different personalities.I don't think you need to be one specific person when you can be many.” PeopleThinkingDifferentPersonalityHabitNot AfraidMultipleBad HabitsMultiple Personalities Author:Marilyn Manson
“I think some people are born to Entertain. They just have those personalities and they are great at it. Their forte isn't singing so they use auto tune, etc... But they have a lot of talent in entertaining.” PeopleThinkingTalentPersonalitySinging Author:Orianthi
“I prefer people to disagree with me because I really don't think I'm smart enough to know what all the answers are and I think the back and forth ... we have a lot of it in our office, strong personalities, big intellects, good ideas - I think that back and forth has produced better strategies and tactics for us than if I sat in my office and decided we're doing those 10 things and that's the end of it.” PeopleThinkingEnoughStrongPersonalityOfficeSmartStrategyIntellectSatDisagreeStrong PersonStrong Personality Author:Rob Manfred
“I can't tell you about acting. You can develop all the skills, voice, gesture, movement, you can develop by exercise and practice but finally fundamentally it's mining from yourself, from your own personality, from what you know. If you can't know it you can have a good guess by people you know or books you've read.” PeopleBookActingPersonalityExerciseMining Author:Peter O'Toole
“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.” PeopleKindDifferentSoulSpiritualInterestRealizingReligiousPersonalityTraditionLifestyleArtisticMake SenseGoing AwaySpiritual LifeReligious Life Author:Joan D. Chittister
“As an individual, you know what you are good at and what you're not good at, so over time as you are hiring, you should be hiring for the skill requirements as the rule, but you should also be thinking, "What am I less good at?" and knowing you need to hire those people to create a stronger team. Different personalities are good at different things, but as a leader and and entrepreneur, it often has to start with you and building around your shortcomings.” PeopleThinkingDifferentIndividualLeaderTeamBuildingPersonalityStrongerEntrepreneurShortcomingsHiring Author:Alexis Maybank
“Back home I had always been comfortable around people. I was the troublemaker, always being funny - that's just who I am. I'm Latina; I've always had that extra little flavor. But when I got to New York, it became about being comfortable with myself in a place where I didn't know many people, and that was the big challenge. Ultimately my personality helped me build relationships with the people I was working with, and I was able to stand out.” PeopleHomeChallengesPersonalityExtrasStanding OutLatinaTroublemaker Author:Joan Smalls