Best 196 quotes in «characteristics quotes» category

It has been stated that a characteristic mark of a combination is surprise; surprise for the defender, not for the assailant, since otherwise the combination will probably be unsound.

I think provincialism is an endemic characteristic with mankind, I think everybody everywhere is provincial, but it is particularly striking with Texans, and we tend to be very Texcentric.

I think the thing about the Internet is that it has so many characteristics that can be easily construed to be similar or almost identical to print that it can be misleading.

It is a characteristic of the weak and criminal to attribute to others the misfortunes that are the result of their own wickedness.

It is characteristic of ideology to impose self-evident facts as self-evident facts.

It is a characteristic of pleasure that we can never recognize it to be pleasure till after it is gone.

It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.

It is characteristic of the emotions of the very young infant that they are of an extreme and powerful nature.

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

It's characteristic of democracy that majority rule is understood as being effective not only in politics but also in thinking. In thinking, of course, the majority is always wrong.

It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.

It is indeed paradoxical that, while the apologists of capitalism usually consider the 'price mechanism' to be the great advantage of the capitalist system, price flexibility proves to be a characteristic feature of the socialist economy.

It is the worst of all superstitions to assume that the epistemological characteristics of one branch of knowledge must necessarily be applicable to any other branch.

It's not convincing to say you are a child of God if you have none of the characteristics of your Father.

It seems to be a characteristic of all great work that it creators wear a cloak of imprecision.

It's obviously a characteristic of human beings that we like to feel superior to others, but our problem is we are not superior

It would seem evident, therefore, that the secret of the American short story was the treatment of characteristic American life, with absolute knowledge of its peculiarities and sympathy with its method.

It’s really important to understand that God is not an impersonal force. Even though He is invisible, God is personal and He has all the characteristics of a person. He knows, he hears, he feels and he speaks.

It was the first and most striking characteristic of Socrates never to become heated in discourse, never to utter an injurious or insulting word -- on the contrary, he persistently bore insult from others and thus put an end to the fray.

[My father] was always saying I'd end up like my grandfather. Okay. My grandfather was an architect, I'm an architect. It's true, certain characteristics are similar.

[Joseph] Stalin closes the exposition of these [Leon Trotsky] ideas with the words, "Such are in general the characteristic features of [Vladimir] Lenin's conception of the proletarian revolution.

Mistrust is the most necessary characteristic of the Chess player

I've come to the conclusion that the core characteristic that separates companies that get innovation from those that don't is a simple word: curiosity.

Knowledge, unlike information, is a human characteristic; there can be information no one knows, but there can't be knowledge no one knows.

Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.

One characteristic of Americans is that they have no toleration at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed.

Now it is characteristic of play that one plays without reason and there must be no reason for it. Play is its own good reason.

nursing was regarded as simply an extension of the unpaid services performed by the housewife - a characteristic attitude that haunts the profession to this day.

One characteristic that I have observed about the timing of all good traders is that they never try to squeeze out the last point in a stock.

One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.

One of the characteristics of kitsch is precisely the neutralization of 'extreme situations', particularly death, by turning them into some sentimental idyll.

One of the characteristics of successful scientists is having courage.

One of the main characteristics that differentiates Dubai from other commercial centres is its openness to innovation and the freedoms it grants people and institutions to operate.

Our heavenly bodies are going to be similar to our present ones, only better. We'll look enough like we do now to recognize and identify each other. We're going to have a lot of the same characteristics that we have now.

[on what characteristics Nobel prize winning physicists had in common] I cannot think of a single one, not even intelligence.

Procrastination in the beginning and precipitation towards the conclusion is the characteristic of such bodies.

Particularity and separability are infirmities of the mind, not characteristics of the universe.

Perfectibility is one of the most unequivocal characteristics of the human species.

Philanthropy is one of the most hopeful characteristics of our time.

Politics is the womb in which war develops - where its outlines already exist in their hidden rudimentary form, like the characteristics of living creatures in their embryos.

Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.

Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice.

repression, however, is not the most obvious characteristic of the sea; the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look.

Science fiction is the characteristic literary genre of the century. It is the genre that stands in opposition to literary modernism.

Scarcely have I ever heard or read the introductory phrase, "I may say without vanity," but some striking and characteristic instance of vanity has immediately followed.

So-called racial characteristics are not really racial at all but are due to the historical experiences of the communities in question.

Slavic peoples get their physical characteristics from potatoes, their smoldering inquietude from radishes, their seriousness from beets.

The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.

That typically English characteristic for which there is no English name -esprit de corps.

The ability to be cool, confident, and decisive in crisis is not an inherited characteristic but is the direct result of how well the individual has prepared himself for the battle.