“I do my own analysis on the teams I am refereeing. I will know some of the personalities, the players who could be difficult customers in a scrum situation, the ones I am going to have to really work hard on early in the game to get what I want.” KnowsWantHardGamesDifficultMy OwnSituationPlayerTeamHard WorkPersonalityCustomersAnalysisScrum Author:Alan Lewis
“If you have the personalities down, you understand them and identify with them; you can stick them in any situation and have a pretty good idea of how they're going to respond. Then it's just a matter of sanding and polishing up the jokes. But if you've got more ambiguous characters or stock stereotypes, the plastic comes through and they don't work as well. These two characters clicked for me almost immediately and I feel very comfortable working with them.” IfsFeelsWellsTwoIdeasMatterCharacterSituationPersonalityComfortableJokesSticksGood IdeasPlasticStereotypeAmbiguityAmbiguous Author:Bill Watterson
“Under so much pressure and the situation that I was in, that was the personality that came across with me.” SituationPersonalityPressure Author:LaToya London
“But the plain fact of the matter is that, for any person to successfully lead others, he or she must deal with reality and be ready to accept the fact that leadership , at times, can bring out the worst in us. And understanding, as well as coming to grips with the darker side of your personality, is key to dealing with real-life situations.” WellsPersonsRealMatterFactsRealityMotivationalUnderstandingSidesDealsSituationAcceptingWorstReadyKeysPersonalityReal LifeDarker Side Author:Donald T. Phillips
“If in addition to being physically unattractive you find that you do not get along well with others, do not under any circumstances attempt to alleviate this situation by developing an interesting personality. An interesting personality, is, in an adult, insufferable. In a teenager it is frequently punishable by law.” IfsWellsLawInterestingSituationPersonalityCircumstancesAdultsDevelopingTeenagerAdolescenceUnattractiveAlleviateInsufferableInteresting Personalities Book:The Fran Lebowitz Reader Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader
“I never heard of anybody who admired the character of sheep. Even the gentlest human personalities in contact with them are annoyed by their lack of brains, courage and initiative, by their extraordinary ability to get themselves into uncomfortable or dangerous situations and then wait in inert helplessness for someone to rescue them.” HumansCharacterWaitingAbilityBrainSituationHeardDangerousPersonalityExtraordinaryContactUncomfortableSheepInitiativeRescueAnnoyedHelplessnessHuman PersonalityDangerous Situations Author:Dorothy Canfield Fisher
“When you're more mature, you do start telling the truth, in odd situations. "I'm sorry, I've broken a glass here. Is that expensive? I'll pay for it. I'm sorry." And you do that so that people in the room might go, "What a strong personality that person has. I like to have sex with people with strong personalities."” PeoplePersonsMightStrongSexRoomsPaySituationBrokenPersonalitySorryGlassesOddExpensiveTelling The TruthMatureI'm SorryStrong PersonStrong Personality Author:Eddie Izzard
“I have a lot of different traits to my personality, depending on who I'm around, and what the dynamic in the situation is.” DifferentSituationPersonalityTraits Author:Mary Elizabeth Winstead
“Forgiveness is key to enchanted love because it is key to living right, period. It is the capacity to see beyond the veil of personality and worldly illusions. No one is perfect or attractive every day. Forgiveness means we are capable of relating to someone on a deeper level than the ordinary self. And that we are committed to doing so no matter what the appearances are, no matter what the situation is.” MeanSelfMatterPerfectLove IsLevelsSituationKeysPersonalityPeriodsCapableOrdinaryIllusionCapacityNo Matter WhatCommittedAppearanceDeeperAttractiveWorldlyVeilsEnchantedLiving Right Author:Marianne Williamson
“I'm pulling out different aspects of my personality in writing each character and, if I'm doing my job well, I'm being true to the situation and true to the character.” IfsWritingWellsDifferentCharacterJobsSituationPersonalityAspectBeing TruePulling Author:Bill Watterson
“... the man in the violent situation reveals those qualities least dispensable in his personality, those qualities which are all he will have to take into eternity with him.” MenQualitySituationViolenceHuman NatureHe ManPersonalityEternityViolentAfterlifeDispensable Book:A Good Man is Hard to Find Source: A Good Man is Hard to Find
“But without Adolf Hitler, who was possessed of a demonic personality, a granite will, uncanny instincts, a cold ruthlessness, a remarkable intellect, a soaring imagination and - until the end, when, drunk with power and success, he overreached himself - an amazing capacity to size up people and situations, there almost certainly would never have been a Third Reich.” PeopleHas BeensEndsImaginationSituationHistoryColdPersonalityCapacityThirdsInstinctSizeIntellectDrunkRemarkablePossessedNaziSoarNazi GermanyDemonicUncannyGraniteRuthlessness Author:William L. Shirer
“Your personality as the prime minister feeds through to what you emphasise, and what you don't, how you'll handle a situation - whether you've got the combination of intelligence or instincts to adapt and to make good decisions.” DecisionSituationPersonalityInstinctHandleCombinationMinistersPrimePrime MinisterGood Decision Author:John Key
“I do not like to encourage personalized politics, so we would not like it to be thought that just because certain political personalities were attacked, this means the situation is very grave. The true gravity of the situation comes from the fact that ordinary members of the NLD are repressed all the time. We don't want a completely paralyzed political organization, while a select few leaders are protected by international attention.” WantMeanFactsPoliticalCertainAttentionSituationLeaderPersonalityMembersOrdinaryOrganizationInternationalGravesGravityProtectedSelectRepressedParalyzedPersonalized Author:Aung San Suu Kyi
“Not all comedy clubs or situations are ideal, especially when you're first coming up and I think that's good for you. Eventually you get to express your real personality.” ThinkingFirstsRealSituationComedyPersonalityIdealsClubsComedy Clubs Author:Joe Rogan
“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
“It is true that we need a consensus to go forward with restoring passenger rail in America, and often a consensus is formed by political action, via government. That is all true. But we have no such consensus, and no one in government or politics these days has the will or the force of personality or perhaps even the understanding of the situation to get on with job of forming a consensus supporting rail.” NeedsGovernmentActionJobsAmericaPoliticalForceUnderstandingSituationPersonalityThese DaysConsensusPassengersRailRestoringPolitical Action Author:James Howard Kunstler
“Wisdom is not developable, as if it's a matter of luck or personality or genetics. Well it's just not the case. Wisdom involves our accumulated knowledge about a subject but also a reverence for life, for an understanding that our immediate actions have long-term consequences, and for an appreciation that there are different ways of knowing and understanding situations.” DifferentActionUnderstandingSituationPersonalityConsequenceLuckAppreciationReverence Author:Alan Briskin
“I think that every person has many, many people inside of them. We change our personality depending on who we are talking to or what situation we are in.” PeopleThinkingPersonsTalkingSituationPersonalityWho We Are Author:Viggo Mortensen
“If someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill himself, is it considered a hostage situation?” IfsHumorFunnySituationPersonalityHumorousWittySarcasticMultipleHostageMultiple Personalities Author:George Carlin
“Modern man has transformed himself into a commodity; he experiences his life energy as an investment with which he should make the highest profit, considering his position and the situation on the personality market. He is alienated from himself, from his fellow men and from nature. His main aim is profitable exchange of his skills, knowledge, and of himself, his "personality package" with others who are equally intent on a fair and profitable exchange. Life has no goal except the one to move, no principle except the one of fair exchange, no satisfaction except the one to consume.p97.” MenShouldMovingEnergyGoalSituationPrinciplesModernPositionPersonalitySkillsHighestFairsAimFellowsInvestmentProfitSatisfactionTransformedConsideringCommodityFellow ManPackagesProfitableModern ManArt Of Loving Book:THE ART OF LOVING Source: THE ART OF LOVING
“God does not always call us to go back physically to a place we have been. But if for example we have a difficult time submitting to a boss with a certain personality God may call us to continue working with someone who has the same personality until we master the situation in a godly way. God does not want us to be on the run He wants us to confront our fears and frustrations in order to find peace in Him.” IfsWayWantMayDoeHas BeensRunningCertainOrderDifficultSituationExampleMastersPersonalityFrustrationBossGodlyDifficult TimesFinding Peace Author:Joyce Meyer