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“Being an actor is such a humiliating experience because you are selling yourself to the public, your face, your personality, and that is humiliating. As you get older, it becomes more humiliating because you've got less to sell.”

Faces Actors Personality Sells Selling Your Face Humiliating Selling Yourself

Author:Katharine Hepburn

“It seems that every generation needs its public, tweedy, literary personality to sell its consumer electronics. To whatever degree I can live up to the Plimptonian legacy, I am humble and proud.”

Needs I Can Seems Generations Personality Proud Degrees Sells Humble Consumers Legacy Electronics

Author:John Hodgman

“If you do not smile, you are judged lacking in a 'pleasing personality' - and you need to have a pleasing personality if you want to sell your services, whether as a waitress, a salesman, or a physician.”

Ifs Want Needs Personality Sells Judged Physicians Lacking Salesman Waitress

Book:Escape from Freedom

Source: Escape from Freedom

“...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.”

“The manual worker does not have to sell his personality. He doesn't have to sell his smile.”

Doe Personality Sells Workers Manuals His Smile

Author:Erich Fromm

“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.”

People Men Use Might Today Deals Figures Personality Paper Sells Symbols Exception Manipulate Bargains

Author:Erich Fromm

“Narcissistic personalities usually do do better than you and me and the average person. We've always seen it in the office. The person who speaks up more in meetings, the person who's charismatic, who can sell an idea with more excitement and energy.”

Persons Ideas Energy Speak Personality Office Sells Meetings Average Excitement Narcissistic Better Than You Average Person Charismatic

Author:Jeffrey Kluger