David Keirsey Professions : Psychologist Born : August 31, 1921 Died : July 30, 2013 Browse All Authors Top 5 quotes by David Keirsey If you do not want what I want, please try not to tell me that my want is wrong. Or if my beliefs are different from yours, at least pause before you set out to correct them. Or if my emotion seems less or more intense than yours, given the same circumstances, try not to ask me to feel other than I do. Or if I act, or fail to act, in the manner of your design for action, please let me be. I do not, for the moment at least, ask you to understand me. That will come only when you are willing to give up trying to change me into a copy of you. David Keirsey design giving-up trying Our attempts to reshape others may produce change, but the change is distortion rather than transformation. David Keirsey transformation produce may Artisans ought to be enjoyed for what they are instead of condemned for what they are not, something that can also be said of the other three temperaments. David Keirsey artisans three said You want to be the first to do something. You want to create something. You want to innovate something...I often think of Edison inventing the light bulb. That's what I want to do. I want to drive over the bridge coming out of New York there and look down on that sea of lights that is New Jersey and say, `Hey, I did that!' David Keirsey light new-york thinking Whether at home or at work, ISTJs are nothing if not reliable, particularly when it comes to inspecting the people and things in their jurisdiction-quietly seeing to it that uniform quality of product is maintained, and that those around them uphold certain standards of attitude and conduct. David Keirsey home attitude people Similar Authors Bruno Bettelheim psychologist Boris Sidis psychologist Anthony Greenwald psychologist Arnold Gesell psychologist Arno Gruen psychologist Anna Freud psychologist All Authors
