Characteristics Quotes - Page 40

• I steal things from people, characteristics, and I just stock them in my head like a library to use for characters in the future.

  Luke Mably

  Character, People, Library

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

  Edith Wharton

  People, Literature, Lines

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.4525, Delphi Classics

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• ... overconfidence in one's own ability is the root of much evil. Vanity, egoism, is the deadliest of all characteristics. This vanity, combined with extreme ignorance of conditions the knowledge of which is the very A B C of business and of life, produces more shipwrecks and heartaches than any other part of our mental make-up.

  Alice Foote MacDougall

  Business, Ignorance, Roots

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• If there is one characteristic that signals creativity in business, it might be follow-through.

  Michael Ray

  Creativity, Might, Signals

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• Once you strike a note on the organ, it's going to stay with you until you either make it louder or softer or let it go. So it's a little bit like the human voice, so you can put a human characteristic in it.

  Booker T. Jones

  Voice, Let It Go, Littles

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• You have to look for a unique quality in that person and it's not just always physical. I don't think models are great models because of their face or their body. Obviously, I think their physical characteristics are important, but I think it's very much about your personality and inner beauty and really understanding how to be a great model instinctively. And that's where it all comes from.

  Michael Flutie

  Unique, Thinking, Personality

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Faith, courage, optimism, looking forward, bring us new life and more life. Futility, frustration, living in the past are not only characteristic of 'old age'; they contribute to it.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Frustration, Past, Optimism

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• Our good nature and endearing qualities will not arouse the answers to our prayers. Rather it is our mischievous, dishonest attributes that provide the master keys to heaven. When we identify and work to transform our self-centered qualities and crooked characteristics, the key turns and the gates unlock. Blessings and good fortune are now free to rain down upon us.

  Yehuda Berg

  Prayer, Rain, Blessing

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• The human brain had a vast memory storage. It made us curious and very creative. Those were the characteristics that gave us an advantage - curiosity, creativity and memory. And that brain did something very special. It invented an idea called 'the future.'

  David Suzuki

  Memories, Creativity, Ideas

  Canada.com Interview, April 23, 2007.

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• The ability to change one's mind is probably a key characteristic of the successful investor. Dogmatic and rigid personalities rarely, if ever, succeed in the markets. The markets are a dynamic process, and sustained investment success requires the ability to modify and even change strategies as markets evolve.

  Jack D. Schwager

  Successful, Keys, Investment Success

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• The [chief] characteristic of Hitler's leadership [was] his over-estimation of the power of the will. [To win the war] this will had only to be translated into faith down to the youngest private soldier.

  Erich von Manstein

  War, Winning, Soldier

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• I despise in others my own characteristics.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Despise, My Own

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• The defense against childish helplessness is what lends its characteristic features to the adult's reaction to the helplessness which he has to acknowledge - a reaction which is precisely the formation of religion.

  Sigmund Freud

  Adults, Defense, Reactions

  Sigmund Freud (1973). “Abstracts of the Standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud”

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• Both Newton and Darwin were driven by the data and were forced to recognize that they couldn't explain everything. It may be a characteristic of great scientists to know what to accept and what to leave out.

  Lewis Wolpert

  Data, May, Newton

  Lewis Wolpert (1998). “The Unnatural Nature of Science”, p.72, Harvard University Press

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• I use [Heraclitus' discovery of] enantiodromia for the emergence of the unconscious opposite in the course of time. This characteristic phenomenon practically always occurs when an extreme, onesided tendency dominates conscious life; in time an equally powerful counterposition is built up, which first inhibits the conscious performance and subsequently breaks through the conscious control.

  Carl Jung

  Powerful, Discovery, Opposites

  Carl Jung (2016). “Psychological Types”, p.489, Routledge

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• Eliminate the clutter. That's the key. Eliminate the clutter and understand the important things. First and foremost, the most important thing is affecting the people around you in a positive way. Second thing is, be one of those guys that's going to out-study every person there is on what you need to do from a game-plan standpoint, what you need to do from a characteristic standpoint to stand apart. The last thing is, throw it to the color jersey we're wearing.

  Jim McElwain

  Keys, Color, Games

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• When someone comes under abuse or attack a characteristic response is to blame yourself, especially if you are locked into a relationship of being attacked regularly, and making apologies for your abuser. It actually affects Christians living in Islamic circumstances more, and one Palestinian Christian spoke about that problem of needing to defend Islam in order to protect yourself.

  Mark Durie

  Christian, Islamic, Apology

  "Fear of Islam". SBS Insight, www.sbs.com.au. November 2, 2010.

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• So-called racial characteristics are not really racial at all but are due to the historical experiences of the communities in question.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Community, Historical, Dues

  Arnold J. Toynbee (1987). “A Study of History: Abridgement of”, p.402, Oxford University Press

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• It is not the willingness to kill on the part of our soldiers which most concerns me. That is an inherent part of war. It is our lack of respect for even the admirable characteristics of our enemy; for courage, for suffering, for death, for his willingness to die for his beliefs, for his companies and squadrons which go forth, one after another, to annihilation against our superior training and equipment.

  Charles Lindbergh

  War, Soldier, Training

  Journal entry on July 21, 1944. "The Wartime Journals of Charles A. Lindbergh". Book by Charles Lindbergh, 1970.

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• The first characteristic of Rossini's music is speed - a speed which removes from the soul all the sombre emotions that are so powerfully evoked within us by the slow strains in Mozart. I find also in Rossini a cool freshness, which, measure by measure, makes us smile with delight.

  Stendhal

  Soul, Delight, Firsts

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• I have used the word "attention," which I borrow from Simone Weil, to express the idea of a just and loving gaze directed upon individual reality.  I believe this to be the characteristic and proper mark of the active moral agent.

  Iris Murdoch

  Believe, Reality, Ideas

  Iris Murdoch (1967). “The Sovereignty of Good Over Other Concepts”, p.33, Psychology Press

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• There are four characteristics which brand a country unmistakably as a dictatorship: one-party rule, executions without trial or with a mock trial for political offenses, the nationalization or expropriation of private property, and censorship. A country guilty of these outrages forfeits any moral prerogatives, any claim to national rights or sovereignty, and becomes an outlaw.

  Ayn Rand

  Country, Party, Rights

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.388, Penguin

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• Traces of nobility, gentleness and courage persist in all people, do what we will to stamp out the trend. So, too, do those characteristics which are ugly. It is just unfortunate that in the clumsy hands of a cartoonist all traits become ridiculous, leading to a certain amount of self-conscious expostulation and the desire to join battle.

  Walt Kelly

  Self, Hands, People

  Walt Kelly (1974). “Pogo revisited: containing the complete volumes of The Pogo poop book, Instant Pogo [and] The Jack Acid Society black book”, Simon & Schuster

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• There are two kinds of geniuses. The characteristic of the one is roaring, but the lightning is meagre and rarely strikes; the other kind is characterized by reflection by which it constrains itself or restrains the roaring. But the lightning is all the more intense; with the speed and sureness of lightning it hits the selected particular points - and is fatal.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Reflection, Two, Lightning

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• Driving forward is the chief characteristic of western man since the Sumerians. His dread triad of vices is property-holding, voraciousness, and lust.

  Antonio Gramsci

  Men, Lust, Vices

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