The combination of Ponzi's huge personality and the enormous if brief success of his scheme, combined with the tremendous publicity which surrounded it, is ultimately what attached his name to it.

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

The reason that war is such a fascinating subject for writers is because it's a revealer. Put a bunch of people in an adrenaline-fuelled, life-or-death situation and their fundamental behaviours are exposed, the scrim is taken away and the motivations behind each personality come out to play.

I think the corporate world is pretty starved for personality. The reason you have comic strips like 'Dilbert' and sitcoms like 'The Office' is that people just can't be genuine human beings in a corporate environment. So if you can really be your own self, even if it's a little bit different, I think people are really drawn to that.

For the sound we produce, everybody is equally important. Each of us has a very different personality and that is what keeps Bush alive.

I actually find extroversion to be a really appealing personality style.

It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality.

I know a lot of people who make records, and when you meet them, it's not their personality or they're not what you're expecting. But El-P is exactly what you'd expect.

If you have a cool personality, the photographer will want to work with you because he or she will have more fun on set.

One aspect of my mum's personality that has influenced me is her love of Hollywood and the golden era of black-and-white films.

My father has the most tremendous personality and wonderful looks - he looks like Fredric March.

My character and personality is today and tomorrow; I do not work well remembering further back.

Christians have always been fodder for comedians who have tended to portray them as anoraks - slightly clammy, beatifically smiley dullards with barely a personality between them.

I have a business-running personality.

If I'm going to give someone advice on what to buy, you want a personality to back it up rather than some robot telling you X is better than Y.

CPAC brings together thousands of conservative leaders and organizations. Regularly seen on C-SPAN and other national news networks, CPAC has been the premier event for any major elected official or public personality seeking to discuss issues of the day with conservatives.

People always accused me of not smiling like my rival Olga Korbut, but that was just my personality. When you're balancing on a nine-inch beam, you have to concentrate. But if you look back at the footage, I was always smiling and waving at the crowd after my performances.

The chance to play a character with a split personality is an actor's dream.

You get a sense of how the show works and then let your personality take over.

NMDA receptors are concentrated in the areas that control learning and memory, higher functions like multitasking, and some of the more subtle aspects of personality. When the immune system makes antibodies that attack these receptors, people may have seizures and violent fits.