Best 196 quotes in «characteristics quotes» category

We cannot and must not get rid of nor deny our characteristics. But we can give them shape and direction.

We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.

Whatever it is that makes a person charming, it needs to remain a mystery .. once the charmer is aware of a mannerism or characteristic that others find charming, it ceases to be a mannerism and becomes an affectation.

What is characteristic of illusions is that they are derived from human wishes.

Which is the most universal human characteristic: fear, or laziness?

We have the agency to choose which characteristics will define us; those choices are not thrust upon us.

Wilderness is not defined by the absence of certain activities, but rather by the presence of certain unique and invaluable characteristics.

When I am no longer being copied, I shall know that I am a back number. ... the fear of being copied is often the characteristic of the meager imagination.

26. Don’t marry someone with intolerable characteristics in the hopes of changing him or her. If you can’t live with someone who drinks or someone who isn’t a Christian or someone who isn’t clean, then don’t marry that kind of person. The chances for miraculous improvements or changes in behavior are slim. What you see is what you get!

With theory, we can separate fundamental characteristics from fascinating idiosyncrasies and incidental features. Theory supplies landmarks and guideposts, and we begin to know what to observe and where to act.

At sixteen, you still think you can escape from your father. You aren't listening to his voice speaking through your mouth, you don't see how your gestures already mirror his; you don't see him in the way you hold your body, in the way you sign your name. You don't hear his whisper in your blood.

First, create your ego. Then destroy it. This is all of life.

You are both daring and unscrupulous, and you think fast. I have been looking for a person with those particular characteristics. Also I noticed you speak Babylonian.

Children are no longer being parented, but are raised. Thats why they don't have morals, ethics,humanity and manners, because their parents neglected them. We now live in a society that doesnt care about right or wrong.

Good writers always have a strong sense of who they are and who they are not. Like actors, their boundaries are strong, and fluid. They have a deep understanding of the human condition, and an empathy that is not so diffuse that it is diluted.

I dont celebrate any friendship that was build on hate, because we share the common enemy.

If I were to go back in time with the knowledge that I have today about Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS), I would invest the money into changing the electrical characteristics of my body and exhaust that route first, particularly if no one else in the home is showing the condition. If everyone is sick in the home, it is probably an environmental issue that warrants expense on changing the environmental factors.

I'm rarely rude except accidentally, and that doesn't really count...

It's often like this with burgeoning characters. They start with such basic personalities that they take on other voices before they finally grow secure in their own.

Lucy, you're as transparent as a pane of glass, and there's not a speck of guile to be seen in you. Yet in a way you're a mystery to me.

He was a compact, clearcut man, with precise features, a lot of very soft black hair, and thoughtful dark brown eyes. He had a look of wariness, which could change when he felt relaxed or happy, which was not often in these difficult days, into a smile of amused friendliness and pleasure which aroused feelings of warmth, and something more, in many women.

If you have influence on other people. Dont be influenced by their hate, money, jealousy, anger and popularity .

Love isn't blind. It sees but it doesn't mind.

Many things have been compared to a brick, mainly as a tribute to their intellect or to their aerodynamic characteristics.

Moral obligations verses Legal obligations. Legally, you must abide by the laws of the land or face the consequences of being fined, imprisoned or both. Moral obligations tend to lean more towards a spiritual nature of a person. Some people perform immoral acts because legally there are no consequences. Morals birth in the heart of the individual. Moral characteristics are developed at an early age and continue into adulthood. It's a disgrace to neglect having good moral character.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Slavery and indecisiveness are characteristics of most Christians of the world

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.

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.

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

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

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.

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.