Away Quote by Douglas Coupland

Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.

— Sam Shepard

Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes.

— Meryl Streep

“Personality is a physical matter almost entirely; it lowers the people it acts on - I've seen it vanish in a long sickness. But…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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.

— Neal Stephenson

Personality is less a finished product than a transitive process. While it has some stable features, it is at the same time continually undergoing…

— Gordon W. Allport

If we understood, as we do not, the physical bases for intellectual structures, I have little doubt that we would find structures in the…

— Noam Chomsky

More and more research is suggesting that, far from being simply encoded in the genes, much of personality is a flexible and dynamic thing…

— Carol S. Dweck

The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness".

— Alain de Botton

Personality is and does something...It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual

— Gordon Allport

“Understanding our personalities makes it significantly easier to change the things within our grasp. This is whole point of studying various frameworks! Some people…

— Anne Bogel

Where does personality end and brain damage begin?

— Douglas Coupland

A personality is our way of being for others. We hope that others will meet us half way or more, gratify our needs, be…

— Susan Sontag