Quotes about personality

„Creativity is not the domain of one single person. Through free-association of thoughts and brainstorming, an accidental suggestion can be the best solution.“

—  Joshua Fernandez Malaysian film director 1974

It takes two bright sparks to BOO, Aug 23, 1998, New Straits Times, 30, 6 June 2011 http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=u8BhAAAAIBAJ&sjid=yxQEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6806,6354243&dq=joshua-fernandez+film&hl=en,

„A healthy person goes "Yes," "No," and "Whoopee!" An unhealthy person goes "Yes, but," "No, but," and "No whoopee."“

—  Eric Berne Canadian psychiatrist 1910 - 1970

Quoted in They Shoot Managers, Don't They? http://books.google.com/books?id=iXkq-lFFJpcC&lpg=PP1&dq=They%20shoot%20managers%2C%20don't%20they&pg=PA3#v=onepage&q&f=false by Terry L. Paulson, pg. 3

„It is not so much the kind of person a man is as the kind of situation in which he finds himself that determines how he will act.“

—  Stanley Milgram Social psychologist 1933 - 1984

Source: Obedience to Authority : An Experimental View (1974), p. 205
Context: The social psychology of this century reveals a major lesson: often it is not so much the kind of person a man is as the kind of situation in which he finds himself that determines how he will act.

„The objective of education reform is to creat learning individual, organization, and society. An educated person or the authentic learning outcome should possess the following abilities and characteristics which are based on Thai cultural heritage and appropriate level of education: good physical and mental health, critical thinking, intellectual inquisitiveness, professionalism, sense of responsibility, honesty, selfsacrifice, perseverance, team spirit, adherence to democracy, and love for King, Country and Religion.“

—  Sukavich Rangsitpol Thai politician 1935

The Reason and the objective of Education Reform

„I strongly believe that, as a citizen of the world, any person has the right to learn“

—  Sukavich Rangsitpol Thai politician 1935

Education for All People and Education for Life

„People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.“

—  Rick Riordan, book The Battle of the Labyrinth

Source: The Battle of the Labyrinth

„The action outcome, x, may then be said to be dependent upon a combination of effective personal force and effective environmental force, thus:
x = f (ff person, ff environment).
One is tempted to formulate the underlying relation between the two independent variables as an additive one, for if the effective environmental force is zero (which would mean that the combination of environmental factors neither hinders nor furthers the result at), then x will depend only on the effective personal force.“

—  Fritz Heider German psychologist 1896 - 1988

Source: The psychology of interpersonal relations, 1958, p. 82

„I'd make Liam my slave and I would make him be my (uh) personal trainer!“

—  Zayn Malik British singer 1993

„If a person doesn’t think there is a God to be accountable to, then—then what's the point of trying to modify your behaviour to keep it within acceptable ranges? That's how I thought anyway. I always believed the theory of evolution as truth, that we all just came from the slime. When we, when we died, you know, that was it, there is nothing …“

—  Jeffrey Dahmer American serial killer, cannibal and necrophile 1960 - 1994

In an interview with Stone Phillips, Dateline NBC (29 November 1994)

„Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.“

—  Tennessee Williams American playwright 1911 - 1983

„A person can't change all at once.“

—  Stephen King, book The Stand

Source: The Stand

„No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side.

Or you don't.“

—  Stephen King, book The Stand

Source: The Stand

„Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.“

—  Stephen King American author 1947

„Dustin Hoffman and Al Pacino play losers very well. But my audience like to be in there vicariously with a winner. That isn't always popular with critics. My characters have sensitivity and vulnerabilities, but they're still winners. I don't pretend to understand losers. When I read a script about a loser I think of people in life who are losers and they seem to want it that way. It's a compulsive philosophy with them. Winners tell themselves, I'm as bright as the next person. I can do it. Nothing can stop me.“

—  Clint Eastwood actor and director from the United States 1930

On his role in The Beguiled
Source: Clint: The Life and Legend (1999), p. 189.

„Optics is an example of the different ways a human is able to see things in the world. The same goes for the color of a person's skin and even though optics present that there are differences in color, these do not state that they should necessarily be treated as different.“

—  Edward Bouchet African American academic 1852 - 1918

Unsourced

„I really am… shinobi trash. But the one thing I still learned is this. That void is something that everyone helps you fill. Just because you face adversity and hardships, is no reason to give up on this world. A person willing to throw away all those memories… of their friends and comrades, will never find peace of mind. Resorting to something like that isn't going to bury that hole. If you persevere and endure, someone will be there to support you!“

—  Hatake Kakashi, book Naruto

„For three months,
a person sits and looks at you,
imagining a kiss.“

—  Etgar Keret Israeli and polish writer and screenwriter 1967

„Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person, when we obey because there is fear.“

—  Jiddu Krishnamurti Indian spiritual philosopher 1895 - 1986

1960s, Freedom From The Known (1969)
Context: Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person, when we obey because there is fear. So violence isn't merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper, and we are inquiring into the very depths of violence.
When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.

„There are three persons living in each of us: the one we think we are, the one other people think we are, and the one God knows we are.“

—  Leonard Ravenhill British writer 1907 - 1994

Source: Why Revival Tarries