Tellegen Personality Quotes & Sayings

The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active. — Dan Deacon

How the world can change, It can change like that, Due to one little word: Married. — Fred Ebb

There is no better gift a society can give children than the opportunity to grow up safe and free - the chance to pursue whatever dreams they may have. — John Roberts

There are some few instances in which it is virtuous to disobey. — Ann Radcliffe

Peculiar trait of the western people, thought Grant, that you could sleep with their wives, despoil their daughters, sponge on them, defraud them, do almost anything that would mean at least ostracism in normal society, and they would barely seem to notice it. But refuse to drink with them and you immediately became a mortal enemy. What the hell? He didn't even want to think about the west or its people and their peculiarities. Let them be. Once he was in Sydney, who knew, he might never come back. — Kenneth Cook

Like mothers, taxes are often misunderstood, but seldom forgotten — George Bramwell, 1st Baron Bramwell

When the space of a lapsus no longer carries any meaning (or interpretation), then only is one sure that one is in the unconscious. — Anonymous

Sing sweet, but put a little dirt in it. — Duke Ellington

A while ago, I wished upon a shooting star that one day I'd find someone to love ... and now holding you in my arms makes me realize that wishes really do come true, — Sherry Soule

I lie in my bed and think about poking something sharp into my skin. To see if it will hurt, to see if I'll bleed, to test whether I'm still alive. I don't though. For one, because moving means effort. Two, because I'm afraid if [I] start bleeding that I won't stop myself from draining all life from my body. Or worse, that I will. — Janet Gurtler

Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly. — Alain De Botton

Life is short, art is infinite. — Oscar Wilde

Jesus Christ, Noah, it's like you want it to be complicated. Win the girl. Then keep her. Don't let her go. Get it straight. One of us needs to get it right and, out of the two of us, you're the one who has a shot. — Katie McGarry

I have never met one person who likes Grand Funk. — Ritchie Blackmore

Do I believe in God? That somebody made all this happen for a reason, that there's something waiting for us after we die? That there's a purpose to all this crap? I don't know. I'd like to be able to say "Yes, of course" almost as much as I'd like to be able to say "Absolutely not," but there's evidence on both sides of the fence. — Mira Grant

Arguably the mos intriguing characteristic assessed by the Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire (MPQ), a widely used test developed by the University of Minnesota's eminent psychologist Auke Tellegen, is "absorption," which describes a particular style of focusing. If you get a high score in this trait, you're naturally inclined toward what he calls a "respondent" or "experiential" way of focusing. — Winifred Gallagher