Quick Test - How Other People See You

Grab a pencil and paper and keep track of your letter answers and check your total and explanation at end.

1. When do you feel your best?
(a) In the morning
(b) During the afternoon and early evening
(c) Late at night

2. You usually walk
(a) Fairly fast, with long steps
(b) Fairly fast, but with short, quick steps
(c) less fast, head up, looking the world in the face
(d) less fast, head down
(e) very slowly

3. When talking to people, you
(a) stand with your arms folded
(b) have your hands clasped
(c) have one or both your hands on your hips
(d) touch or push the person to whom you are talking
(e) play with your ear, touch your chin, or smooth your hair

4. When relaxing, you sit with
(a) your knees bent and your legs neatly side by side
(b) your legs crossed
(c) your legs stretched out or straight
(d) with one leg curled under you

5. When something really amuses you, you react with:
(a) a big, appreciative laugh
(b) a laugh, but not a loud one
(c) a quiet chuckle
(d) a sheepish smile

6. When you go to a party or social gathering, you
(a) make a loud entrance so everyone notices you
(b) make a quiet entrance, looking around for someone you know
(c) make quietest possible entrance and try to stay unnoticed

7. You are working hard, concentrating hard. You are interrupted. You:
(a) welcome the break
(b) feel extremely irritated
(c) vary between these two extremes

8. Which of the following colors do you like most?
(a) red or orange
(b) black
(c) yellow or light blue
(d) green
(e) dark blue or purple
(f) white
(g) brown or gray

9. When you are in bed at night, in those last few moments before going to sleep, you lie:
(a) stretched out on your back
(b) stretched out face down on your stomach
(c) on your side, slightly curled
(d) with your head on one arm
(e) with your head under the covers

10. You often dream that you are
(a) falling
(b) fighting or struggling
(c) searching for something or somebody
(d) flying or floating
(e) You usually have a dreamless sleep
(f) You're dreams are always pleasant

POINTS:

1. (a) 2 (b) 4 (c) 6
2. (a) 6 (b) 4 (c) 7 (d) 2 (e) 1
3. (a) 4 (b) 2 (c) 5 (d) 7 (e) 6
4. (a) 4 (b) 6 (c) 2 (d) 1
5. (a) 6 (b) 4 (c) 3 (d) 5 (e) 2
6. (a) 6 (b) 4 (c) 2
7. (a) 6 (b) 2 (c) 4
8. (a) 6 (b) 7 (c) 5 (d) 4 (e) 3 (f) 2 (g) 1
9. (a) 7 (b) 6 (c) 4 (d) 2 (e) 1
10.(a) 4 (b) 2 (c) 3 (d) 5 (e) 6 (f) 1

Add the total number of points.

• OVER 60 POINTS: Others see you as someone they should "handle with care." You are seen as vain, self-centered, and extremely dominant. Others may admire you and wish they could be more like you, but they don't always trust you and hesitate to become too deeply involved with you.
• FROM 51 TO 60 POINTS: Your friends see you as an exciting, highly volatile, rather impulsive personality; a natural leader, quick to make decisions (though not always the right ones). They see you as bold and venturesome, someone who will try an adventure. They enjoy being in your company because of the excitement you radiate.
• FROM 41 TO 50 POINTS: Others see you as fresh, lively, charming, amusing practical, and always interesting; someone who is constantly the center of attention, but sufficiently well-balanced not to let it go to your head. They see you also as kind, considerate, and understanding; someone who will cheer them up and help them out.
• FROM 31 TO 40 POINTS: Other people see you as sensible, cautious, careful, and practical. They see you as clever, gifted, or talented, but modest. Not a person who makes friends too quickly or too easily, but someone who is extremely loyal to the friends you do make and who expects the same loyalty in return. Those who really get to know you realize that it takes a lot to shake your trust in your friends, but, equally, that it takes you a long time to get over it if that trust is broken.
• FROM 21 TO 30 POINTS: Your friends see you as painstaking and fussy. They see you as very, very cautious and extremely careful, a slow and steady plodder. It would really surprise them if you ever did something impulsively or on the spur of the moment. They expect you to examine everything carefully from every side and then, usually decide against it. They think this reaction on your part is caused partly by your careful nature and partly by laziness.
• UNDER 21 POINTS: People think you are shy, nervous, and indecisive, someone who needs to be looked after, whom always wants someone else to make the decisions and who doesn't want to get involved with anyone or anything. They see you as a worrier, who sees problems that don't exist. Some people think you're boring. Only the people who know you well know that you aren't.

Early one morning, a mother went in to wake up her son. "Wake up, son. It's time to go to school!"
"But why, Mom? I don't want to go."
"Give me two reasons why you don't want to go."
"Well, the kids hate me for one, and the teachers hate me, too!"
"Oh, that's no reason not to go to school. Come on now and get ready."
"Give me two reasons why I should go to school."
"Well, for one, you're 52 years old. And for another, you're the Principal!"

• Ah, yes, divorce, from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet. -Robin Williams
• Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month that I can be myself. -Roseanne
• Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place. -Billy Crystal
• You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you a look that says, My God, you're right I never would've thought of that. -Dave Barry
• According to a new survey, women say they feel more comfortable undressing in front of men than they do undressing in front of other women. They say that women are too judgmental, where, of course, men are just grateful. -Jay Leno
• In the last couple of weeks I have seen the ads for the Wonder Bra. Is that really a problem in this country? Men not paying enough attention to women's breasts? -Jay Leno
• We have women in the military but they don't put us in the front lines. They don't know if we can fight, if we can kill. I think we can. All the general has to do is walk over to the women and say, You see the enemy over there? They say you look fat in those uniforms. -Elayne Boosler
• There's a new medical crisis. Doctors are reporting that many men are having allergic reactions to latex condoms. They say they cause severe swelling. So what's the problem? -Jay Leno
• When the sun comes up, I have morals again. -Elayne Boosler
• There's very little advice in men's magazines, because men don't think there's a lot they don't know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, I know what I'm doing, just show me somebody naked. -Jerry Seinfield
• If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten. -George Carlin
• Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house. -Johnny Carson
• The problem with the designated driver program, it's not a desirable job. But if you ever get sucked into doing it, have fun with it. At the end of the night, drop them off at the wrong house. -Jeff Foxworthy
• See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time. -Robin Williams
• The safest seat in an airplane is within the black box.
• The best and most beautiful things cannot be seen or touched. They must be felt with the love. (Helen Keller)
• When I go home and turn my light off at night, I know I did my best. (Lady Diana, the princess of Wales 1961-1997)
• You shouldn't gloat about anything you've done; you ought to keep going and try to find something better to do. (David Packard 1913-1996)
• You always admire what you don't understand (Eleanor Roosvelt 1884-1962)
• One cool judgement is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat ( Wodrow Wilson 1856-1924)
• To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. (Golda Meir 1898-1978)
• The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to people who can't read it. (Carlo Goldoni 1707-1793)
• A university should be a place of light, of liberty and of learning (Benjamin Disraeli, 1873)
• Our greatest glory in life consists not in never falling but in rising each time we fall (Silken Lemen 1965- )
• Every adversity has within it the seed of an equivalent or a greater benefit (Nepolean Hill 1883- ?)
• What if someone you've never met, someone you've never seen, someone you've never known was the only someone for you (Rajeev Goel 1969 - )
• The amazing thing about love is that you can't do anything about it. You can't plan for it. You can't stop it. You can't make it happen. You can't make it not happen. And no one's figured it out. (Larry King 1933- )
• Love is like jigsaw puzzles. When two pieces don't match each other, they never will. But there is always another piece out there to match. (Kitty Hung)
• The true strength is not the measure of the body, it is the measure of the soul.
• The life insurance premium for cats is much lower than human beings because cats have nine lives (Sunday Times)
• The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like human, but that human will begin to think like computers (Sydney J. Harris)
• Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up. (James Magary)
• People who make no mistakes do not usually make anything. (Bishop W.C. Magee)
• Money will buy a pretty good dog but it won't buy the wag of his tail. (Henry Wheeler Shaw)
• The best mirror in the world is an old friend (George Herbert)
• It has been my observation that being beaten is often a temporary condition, giving up is what makes it permanent (Marilyn Vos Savant)
• Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened (Winston Churchill)
• It ain't over till it's over (Yogi Berra).
• No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent, work transforms talent into genius. (Anna Pavlova)
• How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. (Gabrielle Chanel)
• Success didn't spoil me; I've always been insufferable. (Fran Lebowitz)
• The world is moving so fast these days that a person who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it. (Harry Emerson)
• The secret to success is to do the common things uncommonly well. (John D. Rockefeller Jr)
• Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed. (Corita Kent)
• Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance. (Samuel Johnson)
• Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. (Will Rogers)
• You can succeed at almost anything for which you have unlimited enthusiasm. (Charles Schwab)
• When you reach for the stars, you may not get them, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either. (Leo Burnett)
• Better ruined ten times than dead once. (Yiddish Proverb)
• Success has no rules, but you can learn a lot from failure. (Jean Kerr)
• The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavourable. Favourable conditions never come. (C.S. Lewis)
• Well done is better than well said. (Benjamin Franklin)
• Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved. (William Jennings Bryan)
• It's better to be young in your failure than old in your success. (Flannery O'Connor)
• Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. (Ronald E. Osborn)
• Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win. (Bernadette Devlin)
• You can't build your reputation on what you're going to do. (Henry Ford)
• What we call results are beginnings. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
• Behind every successful person, there are a lot of unsuccessful years.(Bob Brown)
• Success is never final and failure never fatal. It's the courage that counts. (George Tilton)
• You see things; and you say, "Why?". But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?" (George Bernard Shaw)
• The dedicated life is the life worth living. You must give with your whole heart. (Annie Dillard)
• The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. (Vince Lombardi)
• I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near. (Margaret Thatcher)
• Don't wait for ideal circumstances; they will never come; nor for the best opportunities. (Janet Erskine Stuart)
• I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich. (Gertrude Stein)
• You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. (Beverly Sills)
• Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one. (Bill Bradley)
• Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do than what one can do. (Lin Hutang)
• You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can't, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don't give up. (Charles Yeager)
• Knowing what you are good at is not the answer, knowing what you are bad at is the key. (Henry Lewis, founder of Action Computer Supplies)
• You fall in love with personality but you live with character. (Srba Cvetkovic)

• You don't learn anything the second time you're kicked by a mule. --Anonymous
• True wisdom is plenty of experience, observation, and reflection. False wisdom is plenty of ignorance, arrogance, and impudence. --Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw)
• Often a liberal antidote of experience supplies a sovereign cure for a paralyzing abstraction built upon a theory. --Benjamin Nathan Cardozo
• Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience. --Clarence Day
• Sensible people find nothing useless. --Jean de La Fontaine
• Desire to know why and how, curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight is the continued and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure. --Thomas Hobbes
• Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you. --Aldous Huxley
• The great tragedy of science -- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. --Thomas H. Huxley
• It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. --Thomas H. Huxley
• The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a creative mind to spot wrong questions. --Anthony Jay
• Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards. --Vernon Law (baseball pitcher)
• No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience. --John Locke
• Learning and visionary approaches appear to be superior to planning as means for creating strategy. --Henry Mintzberg
• . . .by chance you will say, but chance only favors the mind which is prepared. --Louis Pasteur
• If people don't have their own vision, all they can do is "sign up" for someone else's. This result is compliance, never commitment. --Peter M. Senge
• It can be no dishonor to learn from others when they speak good sense. --Sophocles
• And others' follies teach us not,
  Nor much their wisdom teaches.'
  And most, of sterling, is what
  Our own experience preaches. --Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• Does he have 17 years of experience or one year of experience 17 times? --Paul R. Weisenfeld