As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality. (Quote by - Mose Allison)

The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit; in more developed forms of society he is an independent personality. (Quote by - Herbert Read)

Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower. (Quote by - Charles Schwab)

Sometimes I feel an obligation to be accessible as a personality, but for me the driving force since the beginning has always been good work, taking risks, trying new things. If the door opens, go through it. Always go forwards. (Quote by - David Soul)

Wong Kar Wai is a very intense character, very personable, and I believe in general he does not like and he would not want his actors to show their true looks and their true personality on screen. (Quote by - Andy Lau)

Jean's whole job is to protect Victoria. Jean is a very practical, very orderly, very disciplined person; she is the personality called the gatekeeper. (Quote by - Erika Slezak)

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character. (Quote by - Peter De Vries)

Personality in man is what is "not his own" . . . what come from outside, what he has learned, or reflects, all traces of exterior impressions left in the memory. (Quote by - George Gurdjieff)

The reason it has relevance is because I, as a popular Arab personality - the Arab people like me and respect me - thought it was time for me to make an ever so tiny statement about what I thought about this whole thing. (Quote by - Omar Sharif)

That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me. (Quote by - Zhang Ziyi)

Under so much pressure and the situation that I was in, that was the personality that came across with me. (Quote by - LaToya London)

My way of remaining French was the financing scheme I used for Quest for Fire, with Fox funds, since it started as a 100% American production. The film was not in French and yet was French in style, reflecting my personality. (Quote by - Jean-Jacques Annaud)

I am an addictive personality. (Quote by - Trisha Goddard)

I discourage a cult of personality. (Quote by - Newt Gingrich)

You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality, appealing, as it does, not merely to the sensory side of the self, but to its ideal components as well. (Quote by - Samuel Alexander)

The core of my personality consists of many selves. (Quote by - Hans Bender)

There is no one greater than the onewho realizes and admits his own mistake. (Quote by - Kazi Shams)

You know, you've got serious pieces, you've got light pieces, you've got cooking segments, you've got health-related topics, so it's not as if they've had a unique personality from the get-go. (Quote by - Katie Couric)

Just like Tim Robbins is very political - and obviously, Arnold Schwarzenegger must be - I want to be able to have this public personality that's considered authoritative. (Quote by - Christy Romano)

Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me. (Quote by - Michael Gambon)

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)

I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I had to decide early on whether I was to be an actor or a personality. (Quote by - Robert De Niro)

Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality. (Quote by - Edward Albee)

My style is where you see the individual and where a personality is communicated through actions, decisions, single objects and facts, where the whole draws together to form a history. (Quote by - Martin Kippenberger)

I'm sure I'm very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality. (Quote by - Bob Geldof)