The New Personality Self-Portrait Quotes

“Personality disorders, on the other hand, are long-term patterns of inflexible and maladaptive behavior that are manifest from adolescence.”
― John M. Oldham, The New Personality Self-Portrait: Why You Think, Work, Love and Act the Way You Do

“your personality style—will be fairly set by the end of childhood, and you will be playing the “game of life” in your distinctive way for the remainder of your years.”
― John M. Oldham, The New Personality Self-Portrait: Why You Think, Work, Love and Act the Way You Do

“To psychiatrists, the inborn biological, genetic aspect of your personality is called your temperament.”
― John M. Oldham, The New Personality Self-Portrait: Why You Think, Work, Love and Act the Way You Do

“foundations of personality are inherited”
― John M. Oldham, The New Personality Self-Portrait: Why You Think, Work, Love and Act the Way You Do

“Your personality style is your own, utterly individual amalgam of fourteen separate, identifiable styles.”
― John M. Oldham, The New Personality Self-Portrait: Why You Think, Work, Love and Act the Way You Do

“What you choose to do in your life, how you choose it, and how you deal with Work-domain difficulties (including being out of work or having to work two jobs to make ends meet) are also revealing of your personality style.”
― John M. Oldham, The New Personality Self-Portrait: Why You Think, Work, Love and Act the Way You Do

“Conscientious individuals are ruled by their heads. Emotions, urges, whims, or hungers do not often get the best of them.”
― John M. Oldham, The New Personality Self-Portrait: Why You Think, Work, Love and Act the Way You Do

“Idiosyncratic types are sustained by the rich inner worlds of their Selves; they may or may not be successful by other people’s standards or fit comfortably into the social order, but no matter what others say or convention dictates, they continue to march to their own drummer.”
― John M. Oldham, The New Personality Self-Portrait: Why You Think, Work, Love and Act the Way You Do

“We seem historically to be more comfortable with others who are similar to us rather than different—same”
― John Oldham, The New Personality Self-Portrait: Why You Think, Work, Love and Act the Way You Do