“Flaubert spoke true: to succeed a great artist must have both character and fanaticism and few in this country are willing to pay the price. Our writers have either no personality and therefore no style or a false personality and therefore a bad style; they mistake prejudice for energy and accept the sensation of material well-being as a system of thought.” WellsCountryCharacterArtistEnergyPayMistakeAcceptingStyleWillingMaterialsPersonalitySucceedPrejudiceWell BeingSpokesSensationsGreat ArtFanaticismGreat ArtistPay The Price Author:Cyril Connolly
“Quality effective leaders have the confidence to trust others to try, succeed, and sometimes to fail. We very often confuse personality with leadership. In other words, leadership is not about being a nice person or not a nice person.” TryingPersonsSometimesQualityLeaderNiceFailingPersonalitySucceedNice PersonTrust Others Author:Simon Sinek
“Expecting the best means that you put your whole heart (i.e. the central essence of your personality) into what you want to accomplish. People are defeated in life not because of lack of ability, but for lack of wholeheartedness. They do not wholeheartedly expect to succeed. Their heart isn't in it, which is to say, they themselves are not fully given.” PeopleWantHeartMeanWholeMotivationalGivenAbilityPersonalitySucceedEssenceAccomplishWhat You WantExpectingDefeatedWholeheartedlyWholeheartednessExpecting The Best Book:The Power Of Positive Thinking For Young People Source: The Power Of Positive Thinking For Young People
“Literature is the adventure. It's the story, it's the fight, it's people falling in love, it's people with deep personality disorders who succeed anyway beyond themselves. That's what great literature is.” PeopleStoriesFallFightingLiteratureAdventurePersonalitySucceedFalling In LoveDisorderGreat LiteraturePersonality Disorders Author:Walter Mosley
“The ability to change one's mind is probably a key characteristic of the successful investor. Dogmatic and rigid personalities rarely, if ever, succeed in the markets. The markets are a dynamic process, and sustained investment success requires the ability to modify and even change strategies as markets evolve.” IfsMindProcessAbilitySuccessfulKeysPersonalitySucceedStrategyInvestmentEvolveCharacteristicsInvestorsDogmaticAbility To ChangeInvestment Success Author:Jack D. Schwager
“The gospel shows us that our spiritual problem lies not only in failing to obey God, but also in relying on our obedience to make us fully acceptable to God, ourselves and others. Every kind of character flaw comes from this natural impulse to be our own saviour through our own performance and achievement. On the one hand, proud and disdainful personalities come from basing your identity on your performance and thinking you are succeeding. But on the other hand, discouraged and self loathing personalities also come from basing your identity on your performance and thinking you are failing.” ThinkingKindSelfCharacterShowsProblemHandsSpiritualLyingNaturalFailingIdentityPersonalityProudSucceedAchievementPerformancesObedienceImpulseFlawsAcceptableDiscouragedSaviourLoathingSelf LoathingCharacter Flaws Author:Timothy Keller
“Through this experience [of makimg movies], I recognized what an extraordinary set of personality traits it takes to be able to succeed in that world, and I was really drawn to the character work we could build with actors as a result.” WorldCharacterAbleActorsResultsPersonalitySucceedExtraordinaryTraitsPersonality Traits Author:Meera Menon
“The books and magazines streamed in. He could buy them all, they piled up around him and even while he read, the number of those still to be read disturbed him. … they stood in rows, weighing down his life like a possession which he did not succeed in subordinating to his personality.” StillsBookNumbersPersonalitySucceedPossessionMagazinesDisturbedWeighing Author:Thomas Mann
“School was more than academics; an education prepared you for the humdrum of real life: working with others, tempering one's personality to assimilate with the group but without losing your individual identity, understading the factors of logic, reasoning, and debate. For a person - vampire or human - to succeed in the world, unlocking the mysteries of the universe was insufficient. One would also need to grasp the mysteries of human nature.” WorldNeedsHumansPersonsRealSchoolUniverseIndividualGroupsMysteryHuman NatureIdentityPersonalitySucceedLosingLogicPreparedDebateReal LifeFactorsVampireReasoningInsufficientHumdrumUnlockingWorking With Others Book:The Van Alen Legacy: Number 4 in series Source: The Van Alen Legacy: Number 4 in series