Characteristics Quotes - Page 14

• The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.

  Robert J. Shiller

  Inspirational, Focus, Intelligence

  Robert J. Shiller (2015). “Irrational Exuberance”, p.189, Princeton University Press

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• Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. Every advance into knowledge opens new prospects, and produces new incitements to farther progress.

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Curiosity, Progress

  Samuel Johnson, William Page (1860). “Life and Writings”, p.37

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• If there is any characteristic that is distinctly human, it is the capability for reflective self-consciousness.

  Albert Bandura

  Philosophy, Educational, Self

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• Asperger's syndrome has probably been an important and valuable characteristic of our species throughout evolution.

  Tony Attwood

  Autism, Important, Aspergers

  Tony Attwood (2006). “The Complete Guide to Asperger's Syndrome”, p.12, Jessica Kingsley Publishers

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• Man's characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed not by a material environment brutally imposed on him, but by a conscience superior to his own, the superiority of which he feels. Because the greater, better part of his existence transcends the body, he escapes the body's yoke, but is subject to that of society.

  Emile Durkheim

  Men, Society, Yoke

  Emile Durkheim (2005). “Suicide: A Study in Sociology”, p.213, Routledge

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• The devil's characteristic has been to originate sin and tempt others to sin

  Wayne Grudem

  Devil, Sin, Has Beens

  Wayne A. Grudem (2009). “Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine”, p.385, Harper Collins

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• One of the characteristics of love relationships that flower is a relatively high degree of mutual self-disclosure - a willingness to let our partner enter into the interior of our private world and a genuine interest in the private world of that partner. Couples in love tend to show more of themselves to each other than to any other person.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Couple, Flower, Love You

  Nathaniel Branden (2008). “The Psychology of Romantic Love: Romantic Love in an Anti-Romantic Age”, p.134, Penguin

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• Leadership is understanding people and involving them to help you do a job. That takes all of the good characteristics, like integrity, dedication of purpose, selflessness, knowledge, skill, implacability, as well as determination not to accept failure.

  Arleigh Burke

  Inspiring, Leadership, Determination

  "Naval Leadership : Voices of Experience". Book by Karel Montor (p. 18), 1998.

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• 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

  Loyalty, Army, Men

  "War As I Knew It". Book by George S. Patton, 1947.

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• The teens are emotionally unstable and pathic. It is a natural impulse to experience hot and perfervid psychic states, and it is characterized by emotionalism. We see here the instability and fluctuations now so characteristic. The emotions develop by contrast and reaction into the opposite.

  G. Stanley Hall

  Children, Emotional, Opposites

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• Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man.

  Karl Pearson

  Men, Emotional, Order

  Karl Pearson (2007). “The Grammar of Science”, p.108, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A Positive Mental Attitude is the right mental attitude. What is the right mental attitude? It is most often comprised of the "plus" characteristics symbolized by such words as faith, integrity, hope, optimism, courage, initiative, generosity, tolerance, tact, kindliness, and good common sense. A person with positive mental attitude aims for high goals and constantly strives to achieve them.

  Napoleon Hill

  Positive, Attitude, Integrity

  Napoleon Hill, W. Clement Stone (1960). “Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Humility, Greatness, Men

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• Public charities and benevolent associations for the gratuitous relief of every species of distress, are peculiar to Christianity; no other system of civil or religious policy has originated them; they form its highest praise and characteristic feature.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Religious, Relief, Peculiar

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.205

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• There is not a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American.

  Mark Twain

  Humans

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.3881, Delphi Classics

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• 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

  Character, Men, Average

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• Growth and psychic development are therefore guided by: the absorbent mind, the nebulae and the sensitive periods, with their respective mechanisms. It is these that are hereditary and characteristic of the human species. But the promise they hold can only be fulfilled through the experience of free activity conducted in the environment.

  Maria Montessori

  Independent, Psychics, Growth

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• Here was one of the white man's most characteristic behavior patterns - where black men are concerned. He loves himself so much that he is startled if he discovers that his victims don't share his vainglorious self-opinion.

  Malcolm X

  Men, Self, White Man

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.245, Ballantine Books

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

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Humility, Vanity, People

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• Here is my wish for you and every other child, woman, and man on the face of the earth: Spend one week saying only kind, caring things to yourself. Say thank you at least ten times an hour, direct five toward yourself and five to the world at large. Compliment yourself (and others) each time an effort is made. Notice all the wonderful qualities and characteristics about yourself and those around you. One week. You will never go back. And your whole life will be a glorious meditation.

  Cheri Huber

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Children

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• Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.

  Abraham Maslow

  Children, Creativity, Birth

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• Although the act of nurturing another's spiritual growth has the effect of nurturing one's own, a major characteristic of genuine love is that the distinction between oneself and the other is always maintained and preserved.

  M. Scott Peck

  Love, Spiritual, Growth

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

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• Whether we electrons, light quanta, benzol molecules, or stones, we shall always come up against these two characteristics, the corpuscular and the undular.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Light, Two, Molecules

  Werner Heisenberg (1971). “Physics and Beyond: Encounters and Conversations”

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• To study men, we must look close by; to study man, we must learn to look afar; if we are to discover essential characteristics, we must first observe differences.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Science, Men, Discovery

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• I then began to study arithmetical questions without any great apparent result, and without suspecting that they could have the least connexion with my previous researches. Disgusted at my want of success, I went away to spend a few days at the seaside, and thought of entirely different things. One day, as I was walking on the cliff, the idea came to me, again with the same characteristics of conciseness, suddenness, and immediate certainty, that arithmetical transformations of indefinite ternary quadratic forms are identical with those of non-Euclidian geometry.

  Henri Poincare

  Success, Science, Ideas

  Henri Poincare (2012). “The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare”, p.649, Modern Library

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