Ira [Gershwin] was the shyest, most diffident boy we had ever known. In a class of lower east side rapscallions, his soft-spoken… — Yip Harburg Copy Share Image
“The different people are not like other people, but being different is nothing to be ashamed of. Because other people are not… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“The 'big five' factors of personality are neuroticism (which reflects emotional stability), extroversion (seeking the company of others), openness (interest in new… — Donald O. Clifton Copy Share Image
Places come to exist in our imaginations because of stories, and so do we. When we reach for a "sense of place,"… — William Kittredge Copy Share Image
It is often falsely assumed, even by feminists, that sexuality is the enemy of the female who really wants to develop these… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“The one she needed most kept aloof, for she was, to hear her talk, changing her selves as quickly as she drove… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Somehow our society has formed a one-sided view of the human personality, and for some reason everyone understood giftedness and talent only… — Lev Vygotsky Copy Share Image
Florey was not an easy personality. His drive and ambition were manifest from the day he arrived ... He could be ruthless… — Allen Drury Copy Share Image
Soul is that part of you that longs for harmony and cooperation and sharing and reverence for life. When you make decisions… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
It is true that many creative people fail to make mature personal relationships, and some are extremely isolated. It is also true… — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be famous or get any sort of recognition for my person or my personality; it has always been… — Francois Arnaud Copy Share Image
I guess there's only two possible places ideas can come from. One is the outside: everything that happens to you and everything… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
Man is not merely the sum of his masks. Behind the shifting face of personality is a hard nugget of self, a… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The first thing to look for when searching for a great employee is somebody with a personality that fits with your company… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
What is charm, it is not a moral quality, it is not intellectual for no man by much thinking is able to… — Flora Thompson Copy Share Image
I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to promote myself.… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
He will be England captain one day. Jack Wilshere is a real leader. I saw how he spoke with the referee and… — Fabio Capello Copy Share Image
To touch on people's lives [ in a way they ] haven't been touched on before, it´s fascianting. You know, it's one… — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
Your emotional reactions to the evil you encounter and your judgments of it show you what you need to change in yourself.… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
The clothes do not match my personality. I'm more of a very conservative, blue-blazer kind of guy. But as far as my… — Dick Vitale Copy Share Image
While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I think national issues play into gubernatorial races less than, obviously, in Senate and Congressional races. Much less. They tend to be… — Ed Rendell Copy Share Image
The idea of eternity lives in all of us. We thirst to live in a belief which raises our small personality to… — Christian Lous Lange Copy Share Image
Style is, above all, a system of forms with a quality and a meaningful expression through which the personality of the artist… — Meyer Schapiro Copy Share Image
From since I could remember I've always been an artist, drawing, painting and so forth. I would also always draw made up… — Ashley Purdy Copy Share Image
When white-collar people get jobs, they sell not only their time and energy, but their personalities as well. They sell by the… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
How infinitely happier and more grateful is the whole personality or spirit when it finds something nourishing in art or writing or… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
He knew something was going to happen and his entire system was waiting on it. He thought it was going to be… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
It has taken more than a hundred scientists two years to find out how to make the product in question; I have… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
American secretaries of state have typically been more buttoned up than bon vivant, but John Quincy Adams's diplomatic successes - bigger than… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
Many abused children cling to the hope that growing up will bring escape and freedom. But the personality formed in an environment… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“All social intercourse between human beings is a response of personality to personality, grading upward from the most casual brush between man… — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
Awareness by itself is not enough: it must be joined by mastery. We need gradually to develop a steering ability to keep… — Piero Ferrucci Copy Share Image
You can make your hair perfect, buy a $700 dress. But you are still you. You still do crazy things when no… — Levita Charin Copy Share Image
K. Dot was a kid who was trying to find himself in music, finding trends, um, bending towards - ready to bend… — Kendrick Lamar Copy Share Image
Fuzzy logic will produce a computer that will even seem to have a personality. It will seem to have a character. It… — Owsley Stanley Copy Share Image
Every creative genius has been a channel. Every masterwork has been created through the channeling process. Great works are not created by… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
“Those who are aware of their condition and experience themselves as "multiple" might refer to themselves as "we" rather than "I." I… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
Ben [Peeler] and I have known each other for a decade. He trusts my crazy ideas and spontaneous combustion and he gets… — Shelby Lynne Copy Share Image
Even when political reporting is not reduced to personality, political photography is. An article might offer depth and complexity, but is illustrated… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image