Overconfidence is a failure of imagination. Imagine an alternative to your expectation, and your judgment improves.
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Quotes tagged ‘Personality’
I don't want people to dislike me. I'm indifferent to whether they dislike me.
My doctor asked me what I am using for birth control. I told him my personality. It's 100% effective.
It's OK to be an eccentric; it's not OK to be a rude and dirty eccentric.
Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough.
I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.
I am not good. I am not virtuous. I am not sympathetic. I am not generous. I am merely and above all a creature of intense passionate feeling. I feel—everything. It is my genius. It burns me like fire.
I am a world that cannot be explored in one day. I am not a place for cowards.
I am fragile and unholy. Open. Ravage. Eat.
One who could make of himself a vacuum into which others might freely enter would become master of all situations. The whole can always dominate the part.
I am not good. I am not virtuous. I am not sympathetic. I am not generous. I am merely and above all a creature of intense passionate feeling. I feel—everything. It is my genius. It burns me like fire.
She is the kind of girl who lives for poetry old and new, But in her heart the poems she loves most are only two, one is about regret, the other is about you.
I am convinced that different people awaken different beasts in you.
Do you know what really turns me on? What I find incredibly sexy? Kindness.
I am very much aware of my own double self... The well-known one is very under control; everything is planned and very secure. The unknown one can be very unpleasant. I think this side is responsible for all the creative work — he is in touch with the child. He is not rational, he is impulsive and e…
I want very much to tell, to talk about, the wholeness inside every human being. It's a strange thing that every human being has a sort of dignity or wholeness in him, and out of that develops relationships to other human beings, tensions, misunderstandings, tenderness, coming in contact, touching a…
Still, the longer I was around her, the more I could see the colours of her mind and the recesses of her heart. There was a beast in there. But there was also a girl who was afraid of being a beast, and who wondered if other people had beasts in their hearts too. There was strength, and there was al…
She is oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, and phosphorus. The same elements that are inside the rest of us, but I can’t help thinking she’s more than that and she’s got other elements going on that no one’s ever heard of, ones that make her stand apart from everybody else.
Character is determined by choice, not opinion.
You're too sweet, I can't tell you how sweet I think you are.