Quotes: Personality

It seems obvious to me that the notion of God has never been anything but a kind of ideal projection, a reflection upward of the human personality, and that theology never has been and never can be anything but a more and more purified mythology.

I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.

You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality, appealing, as it does, not merely to the sensory side of the self, but to its ideal components as well.

Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.

The study of consciousness that can extend beyond the body is extremely important for the issue of survival, since it is this part of human personality that would be likely to survive death.

Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.

Television is so influential that when an audience sees you day-in and day-out there’s a certain acceptance that sets in; you’re no longer a threatening personality. They become more willing to accept whatever you present.

Songs like the Buck Owens tune, for example, are very simple and straightforward, and recording it really gave me a chance to get into and get a sense of Buck’s personality, a feel for that whole Bakersfield sound.

I am a private person and that has always been my personality.