Best 196 quotes in «characteristics quotes» category

You may say what you want to, but in my opinion she had more sand in her than any girl I ever see; in my opinion she was just full of sand.

A characteristic of intuitive solutions and new ideas is that of being obvious once they are discovered.

Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics.

Actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.

Anyone developing new products and new technology needs one characteristic above all else: hope.

An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty.

Any characteristic that you can't stand in another person is an aspect of you that you can't stand in yourself. Once you discover that this characteristic is also in you, your resistance towards the other person gets replaced with compassion.

A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim of all beneath it.

Apathy is one of the characteristic responses of any living organism when it is subjected to stimuli too intense or too complicated to cope with. The cure for apathy is comprehension.

A positive attitude and an open mind are true characteristics of all good fishermen

As usual, it occurred to me that words were the only thing that could possibly save me from this situation. This was a characteristic misunderstanding on my part. When action was needed, I was absorbed in words; for words proceeded with such difficulty from my mouth that I was intent on them and forgot all about action. It seemed to me that actions, which are dazzling, varied things, must always be accompanied by equally dazzling and equally varied words.

A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and so-called backward peoples.

Be intensely result-oriented in everything you do. This is a key characteristic of high performers.

But I'll try to immerse myself in as many of the formal characteristics of site as possible in the landscape.

Certain characteristics of the subject are clear. To begin with, we do not in this subject deal with particular things or particular properties: we deal formally with what can be said about any thing or any property. We are prepared to say that one and one are two, but not that Socrates and Plato are two.

Characteristics cling to families.

Entanglement is not one but rather the characteristic trait of quantum mechanics.

Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

Confidence is a characteristic of a positive attitude. The greatest achievers and leaders remain confident regardless of circumstances.

Conservatism, being an upper-class characteristic, is decorous; and conversely, innovation, being a lower-class phenomenon, is vulgar. ...Innovation is bad form.

Clarity is not a characteristic of the human spirit.

Diversity is its most consistent characteristic....The characteristics of freely improvised music are established only by the sonic-musical identity of the person or persons playing it.

Each asana is like a piece of music that has a certain characteristic, a certain power.

Ever the characteristic manners of cowardice.

I am positive that flexibility is a feminine characteristic.

Good temper and moderation are the characteristics of parliamentary language.

High-consequence risks form one particular segment of the generalised 'climate of risk' characteristic of late modernity - one characterised by regular shifts in knowledge-claims as mediated by expert systems.

Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature.

Humor must be one of the chief attributes of God. Plants and animals that are distinctly humorous in form and characteristics are God's jokes.

Hypocrisy is the characteristic feature of the dying bourgeois epoch.

Every Englishman is an average Englishman: it is a national characteristic.

Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen.

Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.

Futility is the defining characteristic of life.

Great companies that build an enduring brand have an emotional relationship with customers that has no barrier. And that emotional relationship is on the most important characteristic, which is trust.

He has all the characteristics of a dog - except loyalty.

He was endowed with the extraordinary powers of endurance characteristic of madmen and simpletons.

Humility, never me; it is a characteristic I expect to find in other people.

I'd say that, to be a good deal maker, you have to have three basic characteristics - timing, timing, and timing.

I despise in others my own characteristics.

I'd like to say that parody is a celebration of a person's specific characteristics, as opposed to mockery.

I don't think that modesty is the outstanding characteristic of contemporary politics, do you?

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

If there is one characteristic more than others that contemporary public worship needs to recapture it is this awe before the surpassingly great and gracious God.

If there is one characteristic that signals creativity in business, it might be follow-through.

If you see me performing, you're going, that guy is simply the most extroverted guy I've ever seen. But if you've seen me very often on a daily basis and all the while growing up, I was very, very introverted. Very introverted. So I have sort of the extremes of both of those characteristics.

If there is a defining characteristic of a man as opposed to a boy, maybe it's patience.

If your life becomes only a medium of production, then many of the good human values and characteristics will be lost.

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