Best 196 quotes in «characteristics quotes» category

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 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.

Futility is the defining characteristic of life.

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

Characteristics cling to families.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Clarity is not a characteristic of the human spirit.

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

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

Ever the characteristic manners of cowardice.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Hypocrisy is the characteristic feature of the dying bourgeois epoch.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.