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The difference between me and other people is that they all walk around with onion skins wrapped around them. Pre-meditations, pretentions, the faces that they present to the world, the faces that they present to themselves.. onion skins that come in layer after layer. They're on the inside of all that. And I... I am the inside of the onion skin walking around. I am only me.

~ C. Joybell C.

C. Joybell C. Inspirational Inspirational Life Inspirational Quotes Life Living Onion Skins People Persona The World

Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow worldLike a Colossus; and we petty menWalk under his huge legs, and peep aboutTo find ourselves dishonourable graves.

~ William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare Caesar Colossus Dishonor Giant Grave Influence Julius Caesar Persona Petty Poetry

We seldom look up to the person, we usually look up to their persona.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Mokokoma Mokhonoana Admiration Admire Adviser Advisers Aphorism Aphorisms Aphorist Aphorists Confidant Confidante Confidantes Confidants Consultant Consultants Counselor Counselors Esteem Funny Guide Guides Guru Gurus Hilarious Humor Humorous Humour Impression Joke Jokes Look Up To Mentor Mentors Mentorship Persona Quotations Quotes Respect Revere Reverence Role Model Role Models Satire Venerate Veneration

Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Mokokoma Mokhonoana Angelic Aphorism Aphorisms Aphorist Aphorists Atheism Atheist Atheists Bad Base Believer Believers Bible Blameless Chaplain Chaplains Church Churches Churchman Churchmen Clergyman Clergymen Cleric Clerics Congregation Congregations Corrupt Criminal Crooked Curate Curates Debased Debauched Decent Degenerate Depraved Dishonest Dishonorable Disreputable Dissolute Ecclesiastic Ecclesiastics Ethical Evil Foul Funny Godless Good High Minded Hilarious Honest Honorable Humor Humorous Humour Image Imam Imams Immoral Impress Impression Impure Iniquitous Irreproachable Joke Jokes Law Abiding Lewd Licentious Loose Lowdown Man Of The Cloth Men Of The Cloth Minister Ministers Miscreant Moral Morally Wrong Nefarious Noble Nonbeliever Nonbelievers Obscene Padre Padres Pagan Parson Parsons Pastor Pastors Persona Perverse Perverted Preacher Preachers Priest Priests Principled Promiscuous Pure Quotations Quotes Rector Rectors Reprobate Reverend Reverends Righteous Saintly Satire Shady Shameless Sinful Sleazy Synagogue Synagogues Unchaste Unconscionable Unethical Unprincipled Unscrupulous Unvirtuous Upright Upstanding Vicar Vicars Vile Villainous Virtuous Wanton Wicked Wish Wrongful

What does this wildish intuition do for women? Like the wolf, intuition has claws that pry things open and pin things down, it has eyes that can through the shields of persona, it has ears that hear beyond the range of mundane human hearing. With these formidable psychic tools a woman takes on a shrewd and even precognitive animal consciousness, one that deepens her femininity and sharpens her ability to move confidently in the outer world.

~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Clarissa Pinkola Estés Animal Consciousness Confident Femininity Intuition Persona Psychic Tools Wild Woman Wolf Women Women Who Run With Wolves

Who would you impress if the world was blind?

~ Shannon L. Alder

Shannon L. Alder Beauty Life Missions Life Purpose Outlook Outward Appearances Persona Perspective Self Confidence Self Esteem Self Worth Vanity

When my turn on the program comes, I am not nervous at all—because all this is happening out of time, out of space. I am, for a moment, a figure of my own fantasy, and I play my appointed role as if I were in the movies.

~ Eva Hoffman

Eva Hoffman Acting Fantasy Imagination Introspection Mask Mirror Persona Reality Self Self Awareness Self Presentation Stage

A man's work reveals him. In social intercourse he gives you the surface that he wishes the world to accept, but in his book or his picture the real man delivers himself defenceless. No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind. No one can produce the most casual work without disclosing the innermost secrets of his soul.

~ W. Somerset Maugham

W. Somerset Maugham Art Facade Persona Personality Society Work

I am a strong individual that may seem weak; but, my strength is in my ability to stay in the fight and sure my enemies that I can take the punches; and, still stay strong in my weakness. Because within time God will turn my weak persona to my strength. I will be able to show myself and others that being strong in a weak persona is a sign of humility.

~ Temitope Owosela

Temitope Owosela Persona Strength Weakness

(reporter interviewing Broadway dancer Tommy Tune:) 'Do you think that greats like Fred Astaire possessed some kind of magic?'(pause)'No. Magic possesses them'.

~ Tommy Tune

Tommy Tune Artistry Creativity Magic Persona Star Power Talent

The most important thing in business is a persona, Nico,' he was fond of saying. 'People want to know immediately what they're dealing with. And when they think about you, you've got to stand out in their minds--like one of those characters in a novel.

~ Candace Bushnell

Candace Bushnell Business Nico O Neilly Persona Stand Out

Levade had told her one day that there was no such thing as a coherent personality. When you are forty you have no cell in your body that you had at eighteen. It was the same, he said, with your character. Memory is the only thing that binds you to earlier selves; for the rest, you become an entirely different being every decade or so, sloughing off the old persona, renewing and moving on. You are not who you were, he told her, nor who you will be.

~ Sebastian Faulks

Sebastian Faulks Being Changing Character Memory Persona Personality

It's good when a man deceives your expectations, when he doesn't correspond to the preconceived notion of him. To belong to a type is the end of a man, his condemnation. If he doesn't fall into any category, if he's not representative, half of what's demanded of him is there. He's free of himself, he has achieved a grain of immortality.

~ Boris Pasternak

Boris Pasternak Individuality Misconception Originality Persona Self

Rumors run wild when one sacrifices for self and temporarily forsakes those who assume entitlement to one's persona.

~ T.f. Hodge

T.f. Hodge Entitlement Forsake Person Persona Rumors Sacrifice Self Self Help

Be sure that whatever you are is you.

~ Theodore Roethke

Theodore Roethke Persona Personalities Self Awareness Self Identity

In each generation, there is this certain wisdom of the ages that gets reburied in the fleeting drivels of modernity; then, like a diamond in the rough, it is yet again unearthed by a very small minority who not only restores it, but also polishes it and presents it as something new, something highly valuable and refreshing as understood by the current.

~ Criss Jami

Criss Jami Burial Burial Ground Change Classic Current Diamond Diamond In The Rough Drivel Eternal Fashion Fleeting Gem Generation Honesty Intergenerational Intergenerational Relations Lasting Majority Minority Modernity New Permanent Persona Platitudes Polish Presentation Progression Refreshing Relevance Restoration Special Time Tradition Trend Truth Unearth Wisdom Wisdom Of The Ages

Using the voice is a physical act, one that first announces the existence of the body of residence and then trumpets its arrival in a public space.

~ Elizabeth Alexander

Elizabeth Alexander Identity Persona

You think you must fit the role others have laid out for you. That is the lie you need to conquer.

~ Elizabeth Carlton

Elizabeth Carlton Identity Lie Life Persona Role

Behind every face lies a mask. Behind it lies another onion layer of mask. If you peel the skins, you may cry.

~ Khang Kijarro Nguyen

Khang Kijarro Nguyen Identity Mask Persona

Realize that the tests you endure will mold your character, persona, and will. The more heartbreak and pain you will feel with your trials in life, the greater your joy and glory will be once you've overcome. Not IF, not POSSIBLY, not MAYBE, but ONCE you have overcome.

~ J. Junior Reynolds Ii

J. Junior Reynolds Ii Character Glory Heartbreak Joy Life Life Lessons Overcome Pain Persona Personality Will

Isabelle and Amory were distinctly not innocent, nor were they particularly brazen. Moreover, amateur standing had very little value in the game they were playing, a game that would presumably be her principal study for years to come. She had begun as he had, with good looks and an excitable temperament, and the rest was the result of accessible popular novels and dressing-room conversation culled from a slightly older set. Isabelle had walked with an artificial gait at nine and a half, and when her eyes, wide and starry, proclaimed the ingenue most. Amory was proportionately less deceived. He waited for the mask to drop off, but at the same time he did not question her right to wear it. She, on her part, was not impressed by his studied air of blasé sophistication. She had lived in a larger city and had slightly an advantage in range. But she accepted his pose--it was one of the dozen little conventions of this kind of affair. He was aware that he was getting this particular favor now because she had been coached; he knew that he stood for merely the best game in sight, and that he would have to improve his opportunity before he lost his advantage. So they proceeded with an infinite guile that would have horrified her parents.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald Character Courtship Persona Romance

He hasn’t really seen you, not as you want to be seen, but he’s starting to, a little.

~ Colleen Chen

Colleen Chen Infatuation Love Persona Perspective

But I have never wanted to be perceived as chatty and bright. I have always wanted to be solemn and mysterious.

~ Sara Baume

Sara Baume A Line Made By Walking Perception Persona Sara Baume

It is so easy to practice a creditable degree of so seeming virtue, and so difficult to purify and direct the affections of the heart, that I feel myself in continual danger of appearing better than I am; and I verily believe it is possible to make one’s whole life a display of splendid virtue and agreeable qualities, without ever setting foot towards the narrow path, or even one’s face towards the strait gate.” – Hannah More

~ Karen Swallow Prior

Karen Swallow Prior Authenticity Genuine Faith Hannah More Life Perception Persona Reputation Virtue

God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though--and what an odd way to achieve success. I'm an exhibitionist who wants to hide, but is unsuccessful at hiding; therefore, somehow I succeed.

~ David Foster Wallace

David Foster Wallace Art Artist Exhibition Irony Persona Success Writing

It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how I come to know trees fear man.

~ Alice Walker

Alice Walker Abuse Abuse Survivor Change Comfort Defence Dehumanisation Persona Tree Wood

Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to.

~ Orson Scott Card

Orson Scott Card Community Genealogy Persona

I am so afraid that strangers with think me good! and there is a degree of hypocrisy in appearing much better than one is.” - Hannah More

~ Karen Swallow Prior

Karen Swallow Prior Appearance Goodness Hannah More Hypocrisy More Than Meets The Eye Persona Reputation

The outfit, tight in places, and loose in some, says as much in the buttons as it does in cuffs.

~ Kristen Henderson

Kristen Henderson Artifice Artless Poem Button Clothes Cuffs Fashion Loose Outfist Perfect Poem Persona Tight

All year long Sylvia had been trying to overthrow her guileless, college girl image. She knew cottons with big full skirts and university personalities would have looked hopelessly naive in New York. Sylvia wanted to be hard and urban.

~ Elizabeth Winder

Elizabeth Winder Clothes Fashion Persona Urban

They’re called sock puppets. We create armies of artificial online personas – user accounts that espouse views certain interested parties want espoused. We flood forums, online comment sections, social media. ... It’s amazing what a few people and a little money can accomplish online. Our puppets have turned whole elections. … Everything the public sees is managed. If there’s a valuable brand to protect – whether it’s a person or a dish soap – these fuckers are out there protecting it, shaping the narrative. I mean… who the hell follows dish soap on Twitter? How does anyone believe that shit’s real? (p. 292-294)

~ Daniel Suarez

Daniel Suarez Ai Artificial Computer Election Internet Manipulation Persona Twitter

I insist on caprice as a necessary countermeasure to slavery. Otherwise, my own dictatorial mind must take -- unknown to me -- its instructions from a mastermind.

~ Norman Lock

Norman Lock Caprice Free Will Huck Finn Literary Character Appropriation Persona

My persona is less miserable than a lot of contemporary poetry speakers are.

~ Billy Collins

Billy Collins Miserable Persona Than
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