Personality Quotes

To devise an information processing system capable of getting along on its own - it must handle its own problems of programming, bookkeeping, communication and coordination with its users. It must appear to its users as a single, integrated personality.

~ Cliff Shaw

I've never been in the top three of Sports Personality. And I won't be in the top three again. You have just got to accept what it is.

~ Mo Farah

It would be great to be recognised for my achievements, but Sports Personality isn't about that.

~ Victoria Pendleton

I like both athletic girls and girly girls. It depends on their personality. I like girls who can go out and play sports with me and throw the football around, but you don't want a girl who's too much tougher than you. I like brainy girls who can respond to what I'm saying.

~ Josh Hutcherson

Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.

~ Mae West

When I was in theater I was forever trying to inhabit a space which puts yourself under the microscope as an actor and your personality and your take on life, but actually through another portal of a character.

~ Andy Serkis

What's great about an office Christmas party is that it uncovers and reveals parts of your personality that you didn't see coming.

~ Will Speck

Yes, I'm blonde. When I started as an actor, because of the accent and my body and my personality, it was not what the stereotype of the Latina woman in Hollywood is, so they didn't know where to put me. The blond hair wasn't matching. The moment I put my hair dark, it was better for my work.

~ Sofia Vergara

Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.

~ C. Wright Mills

I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I've just become this ambitious, say-whatever's-on-her-mind, intimidating person. And that's part of my personality, but it's certainly not anywhere near the whole thing.

~ Madonna Ciccone

I never cultivated a personality. Almost everyone who is really famous has cultivated a personality.

~ Val Kilmer

Being famous before you've formed your personality, before you have that self-esteem, is dangerous.

~ Chris Evert

When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years.

~ Denis Diderot

To this end the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher.

~ John Strachan

As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal.

~ Max Beerbohm

Some folks hesitate to seize additional strength because they think it wrong or dangerous to be a powerful individual. Somehow they have acquired the false notion that tyranny or dictatorship or cruelty are the outcomes of a powerful personality. These characteristics are not power. They are weaknesses disguised as power.

~ Vernon Howard

I know what my limitations are as an actor, but my strength is putting myself into a well-written part. When I get in trouble is when I have to fix it, or when I have to carry it on personality.

~ George Clooney

Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the body; not the personality, nor the emotions, for these also will vanish with death.

~ Ramana Maharshi

I stopped smoking. But my personality I still have. I get up in the morning, and not everybody loves me, so if you want to call that a bad habit, there's that.

~ Don Rickles

My personality, when tasked with creating meals, goes something like this: Is there a way we can make this more difficult? Because let's do that. I don't mean to complicate things. It's just - why buy pre-packaged potato salad when you can spend your morning boiling potatoes and flipping out because there's no dill in the house?

~ Sloane Crosley

Sydney in general is eclectic. You can be on that brilliant blue ocean walk in the morning and then within 20 minutes you can be in a completely vast suburban sprawl or an Italian or Asian suburb, and it's that mix of people, it's that melting pot of people that give it its vital personality.

~ Baz Luhrmann

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

~ Albert Einstein

I really admire a woman for her intelligence, her personality. Beauty is not enough.

~ Roberto Cavalli

We recruit our people for personality. We look for the people person, with innate warmth, sweetness, and intelligence. These are the people who are sending your message out to the customers and potential customers, so we recruit for personality first and foremost.

~ Steve Wynn

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.

~ John Key

The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.

~ Talcott Parsons

Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real.

~ Frank Stella

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

~ Henry Van Dyke

I think my type of personality has all music inside of it, so I am full of music, without even knowing it, without even learning it, without even hearing it.

~ Ziggy Marley

Doing things like playing music, something that's so natural and basic to human function, running around in nature, eating delicious food. These things are intrinsic in basic, primordial to human beings, so that's sort of a way to return to a blank canvas, allowing my true personality to return.

~ Ezra Miller

Cute is when a person's personality shines through their looks. Like in the way they walk, every time you see them you just want to run up and hug them.

~ Natalie Portman

The pressure on young chefs today is far greater than ever before in terms of social skills, marketing skills, cooking skills, personality and, more importantly, delivering on the plate. So you need to be strong. Physically fit. So my chefs get weighed every time they come into the kitchen.

~ Gordon Ramsay

I developed a problem with authority. Any time that authority was what I interpreted as being unjust, I stood up to it, and that became my personality.

~ Tom Petty

I do not make any apologies for my manner or personality. I come from a long line of very strong, black African-American women who neither bend nor bow. I haven't had very good modeling in submission.

~ Faye Wattleton

My best personality trait that I think I'm very approachable. And my worst is that I can be moody.

~ Enrique Iglesias

Arrogance, ignorance, and incompetence. Not a pretty cocktail of personality traits in the best of situations. No sirree. Not a pretty cocktail in an office-mate and not a pretty cocktail in a head of state. In fact, in a leader, it's a lethal cocktail.

~ Graydon Carter

Sexiness is all about your personality, being genuine and confident, and being a good person.

~ Erin Heatherton

A good fragrance should have a certain personality that makes people identify the scent with you.

~ Shakira

A magnetic personality doesn't necessarily indicate a good heart.

~ Laura Linney

When people see your personality come out, they feel so good, like they actually know who you are.

~ Usain Bolt