Characteristics Quotes · Page 11

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…

— Jacob Bronowski

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

— De philosopher DJ Kyos

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

— Gregory Bateson

Geek it's really more a characteristic where you don't socialize. You don't talk the normal languages.

— Steve Wozniak

How characteristic of your perverse heart that longs only for what happens to be out of reach.

— Anonymous

It is a characteristic of the weak and criminal to attribute to others the misfortunes that are the result of their own…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

Maybe this is a characteristic of happy people. An ability to be entertained by the world.

— Clare Morrall

Cubans joke and satirize everything that life gives them, and I think that's a positive characteristic.

— Fernando Perez

Most Of The Characteristics We Think We Guys Want In A Wife Aren't The Ones That Make For A Good Lifelong Relationship.…

— Sabelo Lan Mashabela

Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic - that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene…

— Evelyn Waugh

Does this have anything to do with the unit we’re studying? Because I can’t find anything about desired characteristics of a mate…

— Becca Fitzpatrick

The great virtue of bureaucracy - indeed, perhaps its defining characteristic ~ was that it was an institutional method for applying general…

— Max Weber

It’s one of the characteristics of a leader that he not doubt for one moment the capacity of the people he’s leading…

— Benjamin Zander

Politics is the womb in which war develops - where its outlines already exist in their hidden rudimentary form, like the characteristics…

— Carl von Clausewitz

By some ardent enthusiasts Chess has been elevated into a science or an art. It is neither; but its principal characteristic seems…

— Emanuel Lasker

The trade of the petty usurer is hated with most reason: it makes a profit from currency itself, instead of making it…

— Aristotle

I am often asked if leaders are born or made. The answer, of course, is both. Some characteristics, like IQ and energy,…

— Jack Welch

In other words, the propositions of philosophy are not factual, but linguistic in character - that is, they do not describe the…

— A.J. Ayer

The ability to see yourself as a temporary expression of intention and to see yourself in all of humanity is a characteristic…

— Wayne Dyer

As to scenery (giving my own thought and feeling), while I know the standard claim is that Yosemite, Niagara Falls, the Upper…

— Walt Whitman

The hope for the twentieth century rests on recognition that war and depression are man-made, and needless. They can be avoided in…

— Carroll Quigley

But whenever I meet dynamic, nonretarded Americans, I notice that they all seem to share a single unifying characteristic: the inability to…

— Chuck Klosterman

New approaches are needed, new orientations in both thought and action. We must make the transition to a new civilization...We are talking…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

Savant syndrome is not a disorder in the same way as autism is a disorder or dementia is a disorder. Savant syndrome…

— Darold Treffert

Disability is a characteristic like hair color; it's not a defining principle.

— Jean Driscoll

The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust

— Brennan Manning

It's obviously a characteristic of human beings that we like to feel superior to others, but our problem is we are not…

— Wallace Shawn

I have my own style, but it's different for each kind of music. There are certain little characteristic things every player has.

— Tommy Bolin

It is a characteristic of pleasure that we can never recognize it to be pleasure till after it is gone.

— Alexander Smith

For it is characteristic of true simplicity that there may radiate from its utmost directness a good many glinting things.

— Christopher Ricks

It is a singular characteristic of love that we cannot hide it where it exists, or pretend it where it does not…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.

— James S. Coleman

Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature.

— Noam Chomsky

Philanthropy is one of the most hopeful characteristics of our time.

— Mary Livermore

I want to live the next chapter in my life without my lips as my defining characteristic.

— Lisa Rinna

I'd say that, to be a good deal maker, you have to have three basic characteristics - timing, timing, and timing.

— Richard Armitage

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

— Tim Lee

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

[on what characteristics Nobel prize winning physicists had in common] I cannot think of a single one, not even intelligence.

— Enrico Fermi

I think it would be very difficult to play somebody if they didn't think they had any virtues or redeeming characteristics.

— John Hurt