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The only thing that can effect a big change in personality is something that physically rewires the brain and/or alters the body's chemical milieu.
You can only be in a bad mood for so long before you have to face up to the fact that it isn't a bad mood at all; it's just your sucky personality.
In cases in which the related previous personality had committed suicide, the subject has shown an inclination to contemplate and threaten suicide.
When you're not working with the same people, you tend to sound different. Even if my personality is the same, it's reflected off different people.
Like most people, Im fascinated by characters who are completely flawed personalities, riven by anguish and doubt, and are psychologically suspect.
No one can separate themselves from one's social group and remain healthy, because the very structure of personality is dependent on the community.
I've got a very behind-the-scenes personality. I don't know how I became a performer. I like to stay discreet, out of the public eye, very low-key.
I think sometimes women are stuck in a type. I've never dated the same type. I fall in love with personalities, and they come in different packages.
I've always maintained that all characters and all personalities are in all of us. The whole thing is available. You're not this or that, no one is.
Intellectuals incline to be individualists, or even independents, are not team conscious and tend to regard obedience as a surrender of personality.
Although I am a public figure, I'm still a little shy. I don't think my own personality is important. I prefer to keep some small dosage of privacy.
Extroversion is an enormously appealing personality style, but we've turned it into an oppressive standard to which most of us feel we must conform.
We are far more than our bodies and personalities. The inner spirit is always beautiful and lovable, no matter how our outer appearances may change.
We renovate the heart by, of course, changing it, but we can't do that, really, without changing the other essential parts of the human personality.
Today's Catholic church seems to reward authoritarian personalities who are clearly ill, violent, sexually obsessed and unable to remember the past.
All one's personality is embedded in gloves and hats after they've been good and used. Show me a glove and I'll tell you the character of its owner.
I have never had one moment of stage fright and performing has always been a huge thrill and source of enjoyment for me. It's part of my personality.
Kat and I were in our 20s when we won in '88. Our personalities were already established. We were ready to move on to a life of professional skating.
Ladies, it is not your education, status or personality that has brought you here but the elegance of God which was still and still working upon you.
When you meet chimps you meet individual personalities. When a baby chimp looks at you it's just like a human baby. We have a responsibility to them.
Since God knows our future, our personalities, and our capacity to listen, He isn't ever going to say more to us than we can deal with at the moment.
I really do force myself to not be fully engaged with all the technology at once, just because I have an addictive personality and I get too into it.
It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.
It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality.
Each character is a completely whole person with their problems and many sides to their personality. It's so rich with details as well, like the set.
I have been at work for some time building an apparatus to see if it is possible for personalities which have left this earth to communicate with us.
I just like a good, honest personality. I like a real person, not somebody who is pretending to be something that they're not. That really annoys me.
George Oppen wasn't a larger than life personality, but I'm not either. And he lived a long time, so he was happy. Going down in flames is fine, too.
A man made for public life and authority never takes account of personalities; he only takes account of things, of their weight and their conseqences.
I'm still an obsessive personality, and I still think I'm right, and I still believe my literary balls hang far lower than nearly anyone else's alive.
Every aspect of your personality, if you're wise, you're able to separate each one of them and put them to use at the best time for the best position.
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
Honestly, my personality is cool and easy-going. But once I started wearing skirts and put on some make up, I transform into that sexy kind of person.
I was so moved by the intelligence,sense of fun and personalities of the animals I worked with on Babe that by the end of the film I was a vegetarian.
Work is an extension of personality. It is achievement. It is one of the ways in which a person defines himself, measures his worth, and his humanity.
A personality is our way of being for others. We hope that others will meet us half way or more, gratify our needs, be our audience, soothe our fears.
So much are our minds influenced by the accidents of our bodies, that every man is more the man of the day than a regular and consequential character.
Probably careful plotting reflects my personality. I am meticulous by nature. I can't imagine speed-writing anything that happens to pop into my head.
The principle of happiness should be like the principle of virtue: it should not be dependent of things, but be a part of personality [and character].
I believe that, like most writers, my personality comes through in the fiction. So in that respect my writing can’t be like any other author’s really.
The juvenile delinquent does not feel his disturbed personality. The intelligent man does not feel his intelligence or the introvert his introversion.
I think it's every artist's nature to want to escape. It's also human nature in a way, depending on your personality, to want to get away from it all.
But most dragons seem to have interesting personalities--besides probably having quite good reasons for what they do, if only one could understand them
A man's personality is matured only when he appropriates the truth, whether it is spoken by Balaam's ass or a sniggering wag or an apostle or an angel.
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.
Jean's whole job is to protect Victoria. Jean is a very practical, very orderly, very disciplined person; she is the personality called the gatekeeper.
I get a lot of joy from playing instruments, and I have a different personality on each instrument. I like to let that come out. I get kind of selfish.
Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.
Now that I think about it, you’d have to be a glutton for punishment to keep coming near me given my acerbic personality where you’re concerned. (Tory)
There is an innate innocence in the concious Vata personality. A delicate, sensitive, and aware nature reveals the graceful Vata component of any type.