“Variety, individuality, peculiarity, eccentricity and indeed crankiness are agreeable to the British mind; they make life more interesting.” MindInterestingPersonalityIndividualityBritishVarietyEccentricityCrankiness Author:Dorothy L. Sayers
“It takes an enormous amount of energy, creative energy withdrawn from the total economy of the person, to hold a trait underground, and, unfortunately, needs and drives do not go underground alone; they carry with them useful parts of the personality, depriving it of richness and the possibility of a variety of response.” NeedsPersonsEnergyEconomyCreativePossibilityPersonalityAmountResponseEnormousVarietyDenialTraitsRichnessCreative EnergyDepriving Book:Advice from a Failure Source: Advice from a Failure
“It was a very easy way to have a group of friends on a very large campus - a sense of identity. It was a great place to learn how to navigate a variety of personalities, which you kind of have to do in life. You've got the shy woman and you've got the obnoxious woman and you've got the brainiac and you've got the social climber and you've got the introvert and the extrovert, and you're all living together. I think it gave me valuable experience in learning how to live with people that are different than you are. And that's an important lesson. You can bet it comes in very handy in the Senate.” PeopleThinkingWayKindImportantDifferentTogetherSocialEasyGroupsIdentityPersonalityLessonsValuableVarietyShySenateIntrovertCampusNavigateObnoxiousHandyEasy WayLiving TogetherClimbersImportant LessonsExtrovertsGroup Of Friends Author:Claire McCaskill
“If we understood, as we do not, the physical bases for intellectual structures, I have little doubt that we would find structures in the brain for social interactions, or language, or analysis of personality - a whole variety of systems developed on the basis of a specific biological endowment.” IfsLittlesWholeLanguageSocialBrainDoubtPersonalityIntellectualUnderstoodBasesStructureVarietyAnalysisInteractionEndowmentSocial Interaction Author:Noam Chomsky
“There were a lot of times that I'd rather be hanging out with friends, or out at a show, but instead I stay home and work on music. It's important to me that I make a lot of work and have a lot of variety and change for myself, because of the kind of personality I have. I have to bring my best self and my best work to the table.” KindImportantHomePersonalityVarietyHanging Out Author:Jenn Wasner