Best 196 quotes in «characteristics quotes» category

Never justify someones wrong action, without them apologizing first & admitting their wrongs. If you do. You are not making them better, but you are making them worse on the bad things they do.

One of the characteristics of humility is the ability to take the second place without striving for self-promotion

Resentment was the hinge of her personality.

She had always wanted to do every thing, and had made more progress in both drawing and music than many might have done with so little labour as she ever would submit to... She was not much deceived as to her own skill either as an artist or a musician, but she was not unwilling to have others deceived, or sorry to know her reputation for accomplishment often higher than it deserved.

She discovered, when it was too late, that she had mistaken the means for the end—that riches, rightly used, are instruments of happiness, but are not in themselves happiness. In this wilful blight of her affections, she found them valueless as means: they had been the end to which she had immolated all her affections, and were now the only end that remained to her. She did not confess this to herself as a principle of action, but it operated through the medium of unconscious self-deception, and terminated in inveterate avarice. She laid on external things the blame of her mind's internal disorder, and thus became by degrees an accomplished scold.

Slavery and indecisiveness are characteristics of most Christians of the world

The primary feature of women is not a 'beauty', it's a 'mystery'.

Sympathy is a characteristic trait of politicians and empathy an emotion of the masses.

The current generation of solar and wind power systems generally introduce instability into the electrical utility grid system with their intermittent power generation characteristics and electronically generated harmonic energy.

When people support you when you have done something wrong. It doesnt mean you are right, but it means those people are promoting their hate , bad behavior or living their bad lives through you.

The wave quality of light is the same as that of the electron. The wave determines the probable location of the photon of light when it is detected. The wave character of light is not vibrating stuff like a wave of water but rather a wavelike function encoding information about where you'll find the photon of light once it is detected. Until it reaches the detector plate, like the electron, it is seemingly passing through both slits simultaneously, making its mind up about its location only once it is observed [...]. It's this act of observation that is such a strange feature of quantum physics. Until I ask the detector to pick up where the electron is, the particle should be thought of as probabilistically distributed over space, with a probability described by a mathematical function that has wavelike characteristics. The effect of the two slits on this mathematical wave function alters it in such a way that the electron is forbidden from being located at some points on the detector plate. But when the particle is observed, the die is cast, probabilities disappear, and the particle must decide on a location.

The boundaries of this world are forever shifting – from day to night, joy to sorrow, love to hate, and from life itself to death; and who can say at what moment we may suddenly cross over the border, from one state of existence to another, like heat applied to some flammable substance? I have been given my own ever-changing margins, across which I move, continually and hungrily, like a migrating animal. Now civilized, now untamed; now responsive to decency and human concern, now viciously attuned to the darkest of desires.

Wiesel, ebenfalls ein Berliner, zeichnete sich durch die Gabe eines außerordentlichen Scharfsinnes und unerschrockenster Dialektik aus, war im hohen Grade beredt, ein Freidenker derbster Art, unaufhörlicher Raisonneur, ganz cynisch und fast Lachen erregend in seinen Manieren. [...] Wunderbarer Weise war er mit Adam Müller, der ganz entgegengesetzten Grundsätzen und Manieren huldigte, auf's innigste befreundet, ja sogar unentbehrlich für diesen. [...] Nach dem Tode desselben schrieb Müller einen äußerst merkwürdigen Brief über seinen Freund. „Ich verliere viel an ihm, sagte er; er ersetzte und repräsentirte mir nicht nur die ganze liberale und demokratische Welt, und überhob mich nicht nur der Mühe, die Iournale und Bücher meines Gegenpart zu lesen, sondern er trieb das alles auf die rechte deutsche Höhe, bis zur Läugnung des persönlichen Gottes, zur Behauptung, daß alles Unglück in der ganzen Weltgeschichte aus dem Glauben an eine persönliche Offenbarung herrühre. Drei Stunden hindurch habe ich ihn einmal über letztern Punkt auf meinem Zimmer mit wirklich teuflischer Grazie und Sachkenntniß rasen hören.

When you speak, be sure of what you are speaking. Don't be rambling full of words that have no integrity or truth. Nobody wants to confide in you when they doubt what you say. If you are filled with untruths, those characteristics make it hard for anyone to believe in you.

You don't have to live in anyone's shadow. Allow your unique characteristics to shine forth and Illuminate your way.

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

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.

Actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

Characteristics cling to families.

Clarity is not a characteristic of the human spirit.

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

Ever the characteristic manners of cowardice.

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

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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

Good temper and moderation are the characteristics of parliamentary language.

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.

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

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

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.