Graham Yost Quotes

You can always tell your true values by looking at your behavior -- especially under pressure.

You don't know what people are really like until they're under a lot of stress.

Most people can bear adversity; but if you wish to know what a man really is give him power.|

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

There's no better way to test a person than to put them in the middle of a war. That's clearly going to show what kind of a character you're telling a story about.

If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.

If you don't have enemies, you don't have character.

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

Circumstances do not determine a man, they reveal him.

The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel. Anybody can behave well when things are going smoothly.

Pressure lets you know what kind of person you are.

Everything is good when you're winning. But true colors come out when you lose.

It's the high-pressure situations that bring out the real you.

Politicians aren't special. They lie the same way we all do, revealing their true nature under pressure.

I am one of these characters who seems to thrive off a little bit of niggle, a little bit of pressure.

Sift each of us through the great sieve of circumstance and you have a residue, great or small as the case may be, that is the man or the woman.

A man's character is not judged after he celebrates a victory, but by what he does when his back is against the wall.

When it's asshole-tightening time, that's when you see what people are made of. Or at least what their asshole is made of.

The depth and strength of our character is defined by our moral code. People only reveal themselves when they're thrown out of the usual conditions of their lives. That's when the truth of who they are is revealed.

Enemies are an indication of character.

It is only our deeds that reveal who we are.

If you have no enemies, you have no character.

Character isn't who you are when life goes your way. Character is who you really are when the bottom falls out.

Conflict, which rouses up the best and highest powers in some characters, in others not only jars the whole being, but paralyzes the faculties.

Watch people do their most common actions; these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.