Quotes about Persona
He had a face like a nutcracker; a scrawny man of no particular age, with merry secretive eyes.
— William Faulkner
We have the choice of two identities: the external mask which seems to be real...and the hidden, inner person who seems to us to be nothing, but who can give himself eternally to the truth in whom he subsists. (295)
— Thomas Merton
I think he tries to be nice. But he has absolutely zero self-awareness. None. Zip. So we see the public Donald Trump, the candidate, as being different than the in-person Donald Trump.
— Mark Cuban
Saint abroad, and a devil at home.
— John Bunyan
It reminds me of a remark Lucien [Carr] once made to me: He said You never seem to give yourself away completely, but of course dark-haired people are so mysterious.
— Jack Kerouac
I feel like a fraud... My name is not even actually Ashton. Ashton is my middle name.
— Ashton Kutcher
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
You're three or four different men but each of them out in the open. Like all Americans.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
No one can wear a mask for very long.
— Seneca
It is character that communicates most eloquently...In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.
— Stephen Covey
I'm not like a real person. I love being artificial. I think there's a little magic in the fact that I'm so totally real, but look so artificial at the same time.
— Dolly Parton
Cock your hat - angles are attitudes.
— Frank Sinatra