Best 196 quotes in «characteristics quotes» category

I have more of a vivid imagination than I have talent. I cook up ideas. It's just a characteristic.

I have great confidence in human curiosity - even though I don't know what curiosity is from a biological point of view. One of its characteristics has got to be the willingness to explore.

I know I am judged unfairly by my physical characteristics and ostracized because of that so I say, "Yes, I'm a black man.

In her early days she had that beatific expression characteristic of Victorian prettiness - like a sheep painted by Raphael.

I'm very sensitive. Emotionally, I bruise very easily. I'm a Leo, and this is very characteristic of our sign.

In excess, most endeavors and possessions take on the characteristics of their opposite.

Images have become our true sex objects. It is this promiscuity and the ubiquity of images, this viral contamination of images which are the fatal characteristics of our culture.

I'm a typically lazy person. It is sort of characteristic of actors.

In the characteristics of the perfected man of the Gita, I do not see any to correspond to physical warfare.

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.

In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of more conventional stimuli.

Islam is not a race, yet Islamophobia partakes of racist characteristics.

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.

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 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 ideology to impose self-evident facts as self-evident facts.

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

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

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

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

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'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 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.

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.

[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.

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

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

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.

Mistrust is the most necessary characteristic of the Chess player

[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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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