Characteristics Of Quotes

#1. The qualities which a man seeks in his beloved are those characteristics of his own soul, whether he knows it or not.

Plato

#2. There is a great deal of talk about loyalty from the bottom to the top. Loyalty from the top down is even more necessary and much less prevalent. One of the most frequently noted characteristics of great men who have remained great is loyalty to their subordinates.

George S. Patton

#3. To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.

Robertson Davies

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

Richard Serra

#5. Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.

Edward De Bono

#6. Well, rather than to give you my impression on Los Angeles, per se, my older sister's husband is and American, therefore I have a pretty good idea of the, perhaps the characteristics of Americans in general.

Nobuo Uematsu

#7. One of the most significant characteristics of healthy self esteem is that it is the state of one who is not at war either with himself or with others.

Nathaniel Branden

#8. New York state grape scientists go so far as to say that 'the site characteristics of rain fall, soil nutrients, organic matter, high lime, soil texture and pH are minor compared with soil depth, temperature and replant status.

Jeff Cox

#9. Love brings to light the lofty and hidden characteristics of the lover
what is rare and exceptional in him: to that extent it caneasily be deceptive with respect to what is normal in him.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Sam Houston

#11. Economics brings into view that conflict of choice is one of the permanent characteristics of human existence.

Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins

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

Horace Mann

#13. The nuances and organic characteristics of a character become second nature if I'm doing my job well.

Rob Paulsen

#14. The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.

Plato

#15. Technology is the penultimate chameleon, taking on the characteristics of its handler. In some hands technology is a tool of treachery, while in others it morphs into a peaceful protest. In still others, it represents the bleeding edge of freedom.

Brock N. Meeks

#16. To all players I can recommend the following: simplicity and economy. These are the characteristics of the opening systems of many great masters ... A solid opening repertoire fosters self-confidence.

Lajos Portisch

#17. Every literature, in its main lines, reflects the chief characteristics of the people for whom, and about whom, it is written.

Edith Wharton

#18. As free human beings we can use our unique intelligence to try to understand ourselves and our world. But if we are prevented from using our creative potential, we are deprived of one of the basic characteristics of a human being.

Dalai Lama XIV

#19. In a business, you have a vision, and you follow the vision. You have to execute. And then you have to learn how to run a good business. And I think if you look at the characteristics of any successful fashion business, it's all about that.

Mickey Drexler

#20. It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#21. The normal is what you find but rarely. The normal is an ideal. It is a picture that one fabricates of the average characteristics of men, and to find them all in a single man is hardly to be expected.

W. Somerset Maugham

#22. One of the characteristics of the young is "I want it now."

Ann Landers

#23. Love brings the high and concealed characteristics of the lover into the light
what is rare and exceptional in him: to that extent it easily deceives regarding his normality.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#24. There are three characteristics of wisdom: knowledge, experience and patience.

Eraldo Banovac

#25. Lobsters displays all three of the classic biological characteristics of an insect, namely: 1. It has way more legs than necessary. 2. There is no way you would ever pet it. 3. It does not respond to simple commands such as "Here, boy!"

Dave Barry

#26. Of course most people underestimate the warrior characteristics of the Anglo-Saxon and Norman peoples anyway. It takes a heap of piety to keep a Viking from wanting to go sack a city.

Jerry Pournelle

#27. The main characteristics of romantic love are craving: an intense craving to be with a particular person, not just sexually, but emotionally.

Helen Fisher

#28. The term 'androgyny' ... defines a condition under which the characteristics of the sexes, and the human impulses expressed by men and women, are not rigidly assigned. Androgyny seeks to liberate the individual from the confines of the appropriate.

Carolyn Heilbrun

#29. One of the characteristics of sects is that they judge all other believers to be lost. What they claim, in effect is, "Unless you agree with me on all issues that I define as essential, you cannot be saved.

Flavil R. Yeakley Jr.

#30. Overemphasis of efficiency leads to an unfortunate circularity in design: for reasons of efficiency early programming languages reflected the characteristics of the early computers, and each generation of computers reflects the needs of the programming languages of the preceding generation.

Kenneth E. Iverson

#31. Suffering is described in terms of three characteristics of impermanence or transitory nature, unsatisfactoriness and selflessness.

Dalai Lama XIV

#32. The talent for discovering the unique and marketable characteristics of a product and service is a designer's most valuable asset.

Primo Angeli

#33. The dirigible came to rest as lightly as a butterfly on an egg, if the butterfly were to stumble a bit and list heavily to one side and the egg to take on the peculiar characteristics of Scotland in winter: more soggy and more gray than one would think possible.

Gail Carriger

#34. Humility and Gratitude are the twin characteristics of happiness.

Richard C. Edgley

#35. Skaz is a rather appealing Russian word (suggesting "jazz" and "scat", as in "scat-singing", to the English ear) used to designate a type of first-person narration that has the characteristics of the spoken rather than the written word.

David Lodge

#36. Just as the unique characteristics of both males and females contribute to the completeness of a marriage relationship, so those same characteristics are vital to the rearing, nurturing, and teaching of children.

David A. Bednar

#37. Great men suffer hours of depression through introspection and self-doubt. That is why they are great. That is why you will find modesty and humility the characteristics of such men.

Bruce Barton

#38. Equality and justice, the two great distinguishing characteristics of democracy, follow inevitably from the conception of men, all men, as rational and spiritual beings.

Robert M. Hutchins

#39. I have confronted theoretical positions whose protagonists claim that what I take to be historically produced characteristics of what is specifically modern are in fact the timelessly necessary characteristics of all and any moral judgment, of all and any selfhood.

Alasdair MacIntyre

#40. When people speak admiringly of a butch, what I see is someone who has taken on the best gendered characteristics of both woman and man, left a lot of the stuff born of misogyny and heterosexism behind, and walked forward into the world without apology.

S. Bear Bergman

#41. It's one of the characteristics of a leader that he not doubt for one moment the capacity of the people he's leading to realize whatever he's dreaming. Imagine if Martin Luther King had said, 'I have a dream. Of course, I'm not sure they'll be up to it.

Benjamin Zander

#42. One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.

John W. Foster

#43. Love is one of the chief characteristics of Deity, and ought to be manifested by those who aspire to be the sons of God ...

Joseph Smith Jr.

#44. If we believe that the Holocaust was a result of the inherent characteristics of Jews, Germans, Poles, Lithuanians, Ukrainians, or anyone else, then we are moving in Hitler's world. -

Timothy Snyder

#45. To convulse reality from within, to demonstrate it as fractured spacing, became the collective result of all that vast range of techniques to which surrealist photographers resorted and which they understood as producing the characteristics of the sign.

Rosalind E. Krauss

#46. Laws ostensibly directed at undocumented immigrants inevitably affect the treatment of lawfully present immigrants and citizens who share the ethnic, racial, or national origin characteristics of undocumented immigrants.

Pratheepan Gulasekaram

#47. I. All the distinctive characteristics of personality are ascribed to the Holy Spirit in the Bible.

R.A. Torrey

#48. Sigmund Freud was once asked to describe the characteristics of maturity, and he replied: lieben un arbeiten ("loving and working"). The mature adult is one who can love and allow himself or herself to be loved and who can work productively, meaningfully, and with satisfaction.

David Elkind

#49. In no system which shows mental characteristics can any part have unilateral control over the whole. In other words, the mental characteristics of the system are imminent, not in some part, but in the system as a whole.

Gregory Bateson

#50. 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.

Derek Bailey

#51. One of the characteristics of plays that are made into films is that they can be very talky.

Tom Wilkinson

#52. The financial system as a whole has had the characteristics of a Ponzi scheme if we look at it fundamentally.

Tim Lee

#53. None save her people knew her history, but there were wonderful stories of how she had bowed to tradition, and concentrated in herself the characteristics of a thousand wizard fathers. In the blossom of her youth she had sought strange knowledge, and had tasted thereof, and rued.
("The Basilisk")

R. Murray Gilchrist

#54. The inability to experience regret is one of the diagnostic characteristics of sociopaths.

Kathryn Schulz

#55. Let's not pretend that mental phenomena can be mapped on to the characteristics of billiard balls.

Gregory Bateson

#56. Listen, I mean that from my knowledge of the world that I see around me, I think that it is much more likely that the reports of flying saucers are the results of the known irrational characteristics of terrestrial intelligence than of the unknown rational efforts of extra-terrestrial intelligence.

Richard P. Feynman

#57. be careful with whom you spend time. My dad says, "If you want to fly with eagles, don't run with turkeys." You will acquire the characteristics of the people you spend time with.

Christopher V. Flett

#58. 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.

Jean Baudrillard

#59. The vocabulary for discussing smells, tastes and textures, the primary characteristics of wine, seems paltry compared with the far better developed lexicon for sights and sounds.

Anonymous

#60. On the Contrary, to Aristotle the 'forms' were in the things because they were the particular characteristics of these things

Jostein Gaarder

#61. As buoyancy is not contrary to other characteristics of leadership, including decisiveness, accountability and performance standards, I don't ever think it can be self-defeating.

Kevin Allen

#62. While it might seem that anyone can be a value investor, the essential characteristics of this type of investor-patience, discipline, and risk aversion-may well be genetically determined.

Seth Klarman

#63. diversity. The imperial steamroller gradually obliterated the unique characteristics of numerous peoples (such as the Numantians), forging out of them new

Yuval Noah Harari

#64. The first essential characteristics of nonviolent action is that it is creative.

Hildegard Goss-Mayr

#65. One of the characteristics of some drugs (such as cocaine) is that they make a person feel strong and alert - when in fact the opposite is the case. Don't allow yourself to be deceived.

Billy Graham

#66. It is much easier for me to define what makes a novel French or Russian, but defining the characteristics of an Australian novel are difficult for me as it is all too close - I can't see the woods for the trees.

Robert Dessaix

#67. One constructs for oneself a satisfactory system only when one is ignorant of the characteristics of the phenomena to be explained.

Maupertuis

#68. With full responsibility for my words as a professional biologist, I do not hesitate to say that all existing and genuine knowledge about the way in which the physical characteristics of human communities are related to their cultural capabilities can be written on the back of a postage stamp.

Lancelot Hogben

#69. Propriety of manners, and consideration for others, are the two main characteristics of a gentleman.

Benjamin Disraeli

#70. Man is the "ethical animal" ethical in potentiality even if, unfortunately, not in actuality. His capacity for ethical judgment like freedom, reason and the other unique characteristics of the human being is based upon his consciousness of himself.

Rollo May

#71. In my opinion, the true pioneers are those artists who make manifest in their works the new content, the determining characteristics of life in our time.

Mikhail Sholokhov

#72. I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.

Giacomo Casanova

#73. Besides confidence and a smile, we learned, the other characteristics of an alpha male were being well-groomed, possessing a sense of humor, connecting with people, and being seen as the social center of a room.

Neil Strauss

#74. One of the characteristics of love relationships that flower is a relatively high degree of mutual self-disclosure

Nathaniel Branden

#75. This intriguing 'somewhere else,' where intelligence no longer matters and awareness melts away, commands us to cherish our remains of innocence -- because of all the characteristics of human nature, the richest by far is passion for the perfectly useless.

Hans W. Silvester

#76. The user experience design of a product essentially lies between the intentions of the product and the characteristics of your user.

David Kadavy

#77. Muslims shared many of the deep-seated characteristics of the Anglo-Saxon elite-an intuitive resentment of culture, an amicable contempt for women, a proclivity for riding about on horses, a pleasure in discipline, and a covert homophilia.

James Cameron

#78. You must possess the characteristics of Joshua in order to take possession of Canaan.

Sunday Adelaja

#79. The physical characteristics of the child Jesus will always remain a point of discussion. No artist has ever produced a type, nor ever will, that has in it all that the varying minds of all time will acknowledge as complete.

Henry Ossawa Tanner

#80. Mischief and craft are plainly seen to be characteristics of this creature. - Claudius Aelianus, third century A.D., writing about the octopus

Peter Godfrey-Smith

#81. One of the distinguishing characteristics of the true work of art is that it is able to both contain and express different meanings - meanings which may in fact contradict each other.

Edward Lucie-Smith

#82. In other words, we are interested in the anatomical and mental characteristics of men living under the same biological, geographical, and social environment, and as determined by their past.

Franz Boas

#83. Truth out of season bears no fruit To me, that means two things. One: There's a time and place for every kind of knowledge to flourish. Two: The personal characteristics of great messengers are usually irrelevant.

The RZA

#84. Part of an actor's job, in my opinion, is adjust to the characteristics of the director and try to understand to how he tries to work.

David Zayas

#85. An excess of the desire to appear grown up is one of the defining characteristics of adolescence.

Michael Chabon

#86. Furthermore, the Latin American nuclear-weapon free zone which is now nearing completion has become in several respects an example which, notwithstanding the different characteristics of each region, is rich in inspiration.

Alfonso Garcia Robles

#87. Upon the civilization of the world. The best one can do is to estimate, as intelligently as possible, the national characteristics of the peoples engaged,

Lafcadio Hearn

#88. This meant he belonged to a special subcategory of human called a "teenager," the chief characteristics of which were a weakened resistance to gravity, a vocabulary of grunts, a lack of spatial awareness, copious amounts of masturbation, and an unending appetite for cereal.

Matt Haig

#89. These are some of the characteristics of the state of mind which the creation and appreciation of haiku demand: Selflessness, Loneliness, Grateful Acceptance, Wordlessness, Non-intellectuality, Contradictoriness, Humor, Freedom, Non-morality, Simplicity, Materiality, Love, and Courage.

R.H. Blyth

#90. Particularity and separability are infirmities of the mind, not characteristics of the universe.

Dee Hock

#91. The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

E. M. Forster

#92. The U.S. increasingly has taken on the characteristics of what we describe as 'failed states.'

Noam Chomsky

#93. The unconscious process moves spiral-wise around a center, gradually getting closer, while the characteristics of the center grow more and more distinct.

Carl Jung

#94. Our very existence imposes rules determining from where and at what time it is possible for us to observe the universe. That is, the fact of our being restricts the characteristics of the kind of environment in which we find ourselves. That principle is called the weak anthropic principle.

Stephen Hawking

#95. It was hard to venture back near the place you'd been bred without settling into the characteristics of the person you'd been there.

Joe Hill

#96. One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.

Jean Cocteau

#97. We do not discuss the anatomical, physiological, and mental characteristics of man considered as an individual; but we are interested in the diversity of these traits in groups of men found in different geographical areas and in different social classes.

Franz Boas

#98. As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'

Marshall McLuhan

#99. The varying physical characteristics of the actors may also necessitate changes. Sean Connery is six feet four. Dustin Hoffman isn't.

Sidney Lumet

#100. He had four of the characteristics of a superior man: - in his conduct of himself, he was humble; in serving his superiors, he was respectful; in nourishing the people, he was kind; in ordering the people, he was just.

Confucius