Personality Quote by Mark Leyner

I suffer a little bit from Napoleonism, if you will.

— Gary Coleman

“By common consent the eminent man of the time was Napoleon Bonaparte, the revolution queller, the burgher sovereign, the imperial democrat, the supreme captain,…

— William Milligan Sloane

“Neurotics, proceed with delusions of grandeur. Napoleon Bonaparte, take the lead. Jesus Christ, bring up the rear. Simulate severe depression. Non-communicative with repressed hostility.”

— Samuel R. Delany

“the very notion of personality, which is what we are trying to get at here, seems to have very limited application to me and…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

“To be in the psychological space of the unconscious requires considerable affirmation of self in spite of numerous cultural conflicts.”

— Robert Waggoner

Gradually I began to intellectually reject some of the delusionally influenced lines of thinking which had been characteristic of my orientation. This began, most…

— John Forbes Nash

World leaders and major political figures have often had delusions of grandeur.

— Gavin Esler

“There are many other escapes from the empirical, external self, which might seem to be, but are not, contemplation. For instance, the experience of…

— Thomas Merton

“Not everyone is allotted the chance to become a personality; most remain types, and never experience the rigor of becoming an individual. But those…

— Hermann Hesse

“In consequence I'm inclined to reserve all judgements, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I've no personality,' I would tell myself. My curiosity embraced everything; I believed in an absolute truth, in the need for moral law; my…

— Simone de Beauvoir

“Denied a Lenin and deprived of Napoleon, France retreated into the last and, we must hope, indestructible redoubt, the world of Astérix . The…

— Eric J. Hobsbawm