Best 196 quotes in «characteristics quotes» category

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.

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

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

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

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

Good temper and moderation are the characteristics of parliamentary language.

Ever the characteristic manners of cowardice.

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

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

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.

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.

Futility is the defining characteristic of life.

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.

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

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

I am positive that flexibility is a feminine characteristic.

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

I despise in others my own characteristics.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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