Characteristics Quotes - Page 28

• 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.

  David Berg

  Looks, Body, Enough

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• Standing, standing, standing - why do I have to stand all the time? That is the main characteristic of social Washington.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Politics, Social, Standing

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The characteristic of the present age is craving credulity.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Age, Craving, Credulity

  Speech at Oxford, 25 November 1864, in 'The Times' 26 November 1864

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• And it is characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes family and a state.

  Aristotle

  Men, Evil, Unjust

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.16, Aristotle

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• Persons without education certainly do not want either acuteness or strength of mind in what concerns themselves, or in things immediately within their observation; but they have no power of abstraction, no general standard of taste, or scale of opinion. They see their objects always near, and never in the horizon. Hence arises that egotism which has been remarked as the characteristic of self-taught men.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Self, Mind

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.175, Delphi Classics

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

  Dalai Lama

  Lost, Mediums, Humans

  The Dalai Lama, Howard C. Cutler, Dalai Lama, Howard Cutler (2005). “The Art Of Happiness At Work”, p.62, Hachette UK

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• What characteristics do I look for when hiring somebody? That's one of the questions I ask when interviewing. I want to know what kind of people they would hire.

  Jeff Bezos

  Teamwork, People, Looks

  "Jeff Bezos: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 2002.

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• If you listen to the urban speech patterns there you'll find it's quite characteristic that a sentence will begin in one language, go through a second language and end in a third. It's the very playful, very natural result of juggling languages. You are always reaching for the most appropriate phrase.

  Salman Rushdie

  India, Phrases, Speech

  "Salman Rushdie". Salon Interview, www.salon.com. January 28, 1996.

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• In literature and in art, alike, this gloomy fashion of regarding Death has been characteristic of Christianity. Death has been painted as a skeleton grasping a scythe, a grinning skull, a threatening figure with terrible face and uplifted dart, a bony scarecrow shaking an hourglass - all that could alarm and repel has been gathered round this rightly-named King of Terrors.

  Annie Besant

  Fashion, Art, Kings

  Annie Besant (2012). “The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant”, p.332, Jazzybee Verlag

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• To imagine is the characteristic act, not of the poet's mind, or the painter's, or the scientist's, but of the mind of man.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Men, Imagination, Mind

  "The Reach of Imagination". Essay by Jacob Bronowski, 1967.

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• We are dealing with a fundamental characteristic, inherent in human nature, a potentiality given to all or most human beings at birth, which most often is lost or buried or inhibited as the person gets enculturated.

  Abraham Maslow

  Often Is, Humanity, Fundamentals

  Abraham H. Maslow (2013). “Toward a Psychology of Being”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

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• For conservation to be successful it is necessary to take into consideration that it is a characteristic of man that he can only be relied upon to do anything consistently which is in his own interest.

  Prince Philip

  Successful, Men, Humanity

  Speech at the World Wildlife Fund: British National Appeal Banquet, London, 1962. "The Environmental Revolution: Speeches on Conservation, 1962-77", 1978.

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• It is the worst of all superstitions to assume that the epistemological characteristics of one branch of knowledge must necessarily be applicable to any other branch.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Branches, Superstitions, Assuming

  Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method”

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

  Nathaniel Branden

  Flower, Self, Love Relationship

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

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• 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.

  Rex Harrison

  Needs, Mystery, Charming

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• In excess, most endeavors and possessions take on the characteristics of their opposite.

  Tim Ferriss

  Opposites, Excess, Endeavor

  "The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich". Book by Timothy Ferriss, 2007.

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• If you are going to be a big personality, you've got to have some kind of characteristic gimmick.

  Farley Mowat

  Character, Personality, Gimmicks

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• Leaders exhibit two essential characteristics, the willingness to confront adversity and a clearly articulated future preference.

  Martin O'Malley

  Leadership, Adversity, Two

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• The characteristic virtue of Englishmen is power of sustained practical activity and their characteristic vice a reluctance to test the quality of that activity by reference to principles.

  R. H. Tawney

  Quality, Vices, Principles

  'The Acquisitive Society' (1921)

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• The characteristic feature of the loser is to bemoan, in general terms, mankind's flaws, biases, contradictions, and irrationality - without exploiting them for fun and profit

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Fun, Loser, Flaws

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.15, Random House

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• It is curiosity, quite right-a divine curiosity. A characteristic of the gods is curiosity.

  David Attenborough

  Curiosity, Divine

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• Just because someone thinks they remember something in detail, with confidence and with emotion, does not mean that it actually happened, .. False memories have these characteristics too.

  Elizabeth Loftus

  Memories, Mean, Thinking

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• The Anglo-Saxon has established himself in climates totally diverse - Canada, South Africa, and India - and, through several generations, has preserved his essential race characteristics. He is not, of course, superior to climatic influences; but even in warm climates, he is likely to retain his aggressive vigor long enough to supplant races already enfeebled.

  Josiah Strong

  Race, Long, Generations

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• Optimism is a good characteristic, but if carried to an excess, it becomes foolishness. We are prone to speak of the resources of this country as inexhaustible; this is not so.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Optimism, Excess

  Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

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

  Ann Landers

  Maturity, Want, Young

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