Best 196 quotes in «characteristics quotes» category

[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

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

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.

[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.

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

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Starvation is the characteristic of some people not having enough food to eat. It is not the characteristic of there being not enough food to eat.

stoicism is the fundamental characteristic of the French.

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

Superiority to circumstances is one of the most prominent characteristics of great men.

That spirit of mockery characteristic of the guaracha was part of the mambo from the beginning.

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.

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

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

The art of utterance persuades initially by its music and its rhythm, before semiotic or personal characteristics come into play.

The characteristic feature of capitalism that distinguishes it from pre-capitalist methods of production was its new principle of marketing. Capitalism is not simply mass production, but mass production to satisfy the needs of the masses.

The age of automation is going to be the age of "do it yourself".

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

The characteristic of the new birth is that I yield myself so completely to God that Christ is formed in me.

The chief characteristics of the [liberal] attitude are human sympathy, a receptivity to change, and a scientific willingness to follow reason rather than faith.

The American Civil War produced carnage that has often been thought reserved for the combination of technological proficiency and inhumanity characteristic of a later time.

The characteristic of the present age is craving credulity.

The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.

The characteristic of every neurosis is to represent itself as natural.

The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.

The Dalmatian breed of dog has many primitive characteristics.

The heathen mythology not only was not true, but was not even supported as true; it not only deserved no faith, but it demanded none. The very pretension to truth, the very demand of faith, were characteristic distinctions of Christianity.

The defense against childish helplessness is what lends its characteristic features to the adult's reaction to the helplessness which he has to acknowledge - a reaction which is precisely the formation of religion.

The kingdom of God is a theocracy. And as it is the only form of government which will redeem and save mankind, it is necessary that every soul should be rightly and thoroughly instructed in regard to its nature and general characteristics

The leading characteristic of the savage state is its refusal or avoidance of industry.

The fact that the Prophet cared for every human being and tried his best to ensure their security in the hereafter must be the most telling of his compassionate and merciful characteristics.