Ken Wilber Quotes

There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be half so interesting.

I myself have 12 hats and each one represents a different personality. Why just be yourself.

I feel like people are actually just built differently, have different chemicals going on in their goddamn brain.

I find nice people kind of boring.

Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.

I have to admit that 'Psychology Today' was one of the first magazines I started reading, back when I was 13 or 14, because I was the kind of kid that was curious about the mysterious human mind - I hoped to learn about telekenisis, multiple personalities, psychosis, and various other cool and terrible things that happened inside people's heads.

I am a Gemini and can adapt to most atmospheres. You get two for the price of one when you are a Gemini.

With any character I have played, there's infinite possibilities for how they might behave, depending on who they are talking to or how they react to things.

I have a lot of different traits to my personality, depending on who I'm around, and what the dynamic in the situation is.

There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.

Character is expressed through our behavior patterns, or natural responses to things.

I've just always sort of been mesmerized by our minds and how people think and how people react differently.

I have three alter egos.

I think we all have different personalities... and even in relationships, we can be called psycho, and we can be called sweet, based on what the person feels about you.

I was a very impulsive, emotional kid.

Laura from The Mysteries Of Laura is the most different from me personally that I've ever played. I'm a very thoughtful, forward-thinking, planner kind of person. I love Excel spreadsheets and five-year-plans, and I love to review every year how my New Year's resolutions went. I'm like that, and that is not Laura at all.

Just us as people, we're different around different people and in different environments.

I'm cocky. It's different. Cocky is playful.

Steve [Jobs] proves that it's OK to be an asshole... He just has a different OS.

If I had to express in one word what makes their [creative individuals'] personalities different from others, it's complexity. They show tendencies of thought and action that in most people are segregated. They contain contradictory extremes; instead of being an "individual," each of them is a "multitude."

Damita Jo. Jo. That's my middle name. It's let in about the different characters that live within me. They say we have 200 characters that we portray with different people.

I think that I have a lot of different personalities inside me, and I can just draw on them when I need to. And that, I don't know, maybe that makes me sort of schizophrenic in my real life, but it helps at work.

It's true that the best way of knowing yourself is to put yourself into different situations.

To me Arthur and James Bond aren't the same because they both drink. So I would kind of equate it to that. They're different guys who both have a similar habit. To me they're very different guys though.

Extroverts want us to have fun, because they assume we want what they want. And sometimes we do. But "fun" itself is a "bright" word, the kind of word that comes with flashing lights and an exclamation point! One of Merriam-Webster's definitions of "fun" is "violent or excited activity or argument." The very word makes me want to sit in a dimly lit room with lots of pillows-by myself.