Richard Branson Quotes

People cultivate these fully formed personalities.

Our lives are shaped as profoundly by personality as by gender or race. And the single most important aspect of personality ... is where we fall on the introvert-extrovert spectrum.

It's a funny thing, character, the way it brands people as they age, rising from within to leave its scar.

The world is shaped by different people with certain personalities that come out of different upbringings.

I wondered to what extent people remained the same as they'd been when very young; if one peeled back the layers of living one would come to the know child.

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

More and more research is suggesting that, far from being simply encoded in the genes, much of personality is a flexible and dynamic thing that changes over the life span and is shaped by experience.

Character isn't inherited.

very few people change after well say seven or seventeen. Not really. They get more this or more that and of course look a bit different. But inside they are the same.

People talk about escapism as if it's a bad thing... Once you've escaped, once you come back, the world is not the same as when you left it. You come back to it with skills, weapons, knowledge you didn't have before. Then you are better equipped to deal with your current reality.

Personality, in our sense, is a Shakespearean invention.

I believe I know why it is satisfying to me to hear someone. When I can really hear someone, it puts me in touch with him; it enriches my life. It is through hearing people that I have learned all that I know about individuals, about personality, about interpersonal relationships.

People say a lot of things, like "You can't teach personality" or "You can't teach charisma," and I find that it's not true.

One of the troubles of our times is that we are all, I think, precocious as personalities and backward as characters.

People who know me, recognize a definite difference in my poise and in my personality, because I've grown.

My mom helped me. I was very shy growing up, but my shyness sort of manifested in a big personality.

I have been told I've got a darkish personality. A few times." Takahashi swings his trombone case from his right shoulder to his left. Then he says, "It's not as if our lives are divided simply into light and dark. There's shadowy middle ground. Recognizing and understanding the shadows is what a healthy intelligence does. And to acquire a healthy intelligence takes a certain amount of time and effort. I don't think you have a particularly dark character.

It is true that many creative people fail to make mature personal relationships, and some are extremely isolated. It is also true that, in some instances, trauma, in the shape of early separation or bereavement, has steered the potentially creative person toward developing aspects of his personality which can find fulfillment in comparative isolation. But this does not mean that solitary, creative pursuits are themselves pathological.

I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life. They seek position, marriage, reputation, outward success of money, and remain unhappy and neurotic even when they have attained what they were seeking. Such people are usually confined within too narrow a spiritual horizon. Their life has not sufficient content, sufficient meaning. If they are enabled to develop into more spacious personalities, the neurosis generally disappears.

Success does not implant bad characteristics in people. It merely steps up the growth rate of the bad characteristics they already had.

Personality, too, is destiny.

Character is, for the most part, simply habit become fixed.

People who readily accept the need for a gym will resist that their personalities might need some work too.

In Victorian times the purpose of life was to develop a personality once and for all and then stand on it.

I was a psychology major. I think that definitely helps in general life; I enjoy trying to figure out why people are the way they are.