Characteristics Quotes · Page 13

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

— Mark Twain

I have more of a vivid imagination than I have talent. I cook up ideas. It's just a characteristic.

— Francis Ford Coppola

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

— Rob Paulsen

Their racial characteristics are such that we cannot understand or trust even the citizen Japanese.

— Henry L. Stimson

repression, however, is not the most obvious characteristic of the sea; the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look.

— Marianne Moore

At Bayern you need other characteristics to assert yourself. Just being good is not enough there.

— Michael Ballack

Cherishing Columbus is a characteristic of white history, not American history.

— James W. Loewen

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

— Richard Serra

It has been stated that a characteristic mark of a combination is surprise; surprise for the defender, not for the assailant, since…

— Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

If the most significant characteristic of man is the complex of biological needs he shares with all members of his species, then…

— W. H. Auden

All the characters on 'Girls' are growing and changing, which is how real people behave, especially when we're young, trying to figure…

— Zosia Mamet

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

— Werner Heisenberg

Images have become our true sex objects. It is this promiscuity and the ubiquity of images, this viral contamination of images which…

— Jean Baudrillard

I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and…

— Giacomo Casanova

When people speak admiringly of a butch, what I see is someone who has taken on the best gendered characteristics of both…

— S. Bear Bergman

Always in the short story there is this sense of outlawed figures wandering about the fringes of society… As a result there…

— Frank O'Connor

I would like to carve my novel in a piece of wood. My characters—I would like to have them heavier, more three-dimensional…

— Georges Simenon

Freedom only for supporters of the government, only for the members of one party - however numerous they may be - is…

— Rosa Luxemburg

The kitchen clock is more convenient than sidereal time. We must use the popular category, as we do by the Linnæan classification,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

That's really the big inspiration of this movie. It's really looking at a man who's really showing all the traits and all…

— Oren Moverman

We still dislike hypocrites. It's a very American characteristic. We still like people who have ideas and who are willing to stand…

— David McCullough

Listen, I mean that from my knowledge of the world that I see around me, I think that it is much more…

— Richard P. Feynman

The most significant moment will be when we stop referring to the hiring of qualified women (and racial, ethnic and religious minorities)…

— Amy Trask

The third major characteristic of God - "infinitude" - is the catchall, the universal modifier of Christian theology. God is not merely…

— George H. Smith

Each asana is like a piece of music that has a certain characteristic, a certain power.

— Laura Huxley

It is the characteristic of a weak and diseased mind to fear the unfamiliar.

— Seneca the Younger

My characteristics are to control the game, stay in the middle and organise the team, but I can adapt as well.

— Jorginho

Perfectibility is one of the most unequivocal characteristics of the human species.

— William Godwin

Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth.

— John Ruskin

Perseverance is a positive, active characteristic. It is not idly, passively waiting and hoping for some good thing to happen.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

— James Weldon Johnson

The most important characteristics you need to succeed in business are resilience, determination and persistence.

— Karren Brady

A positive attitude and an open mind are true characteristics of all good fishermen

— Kevin VanDam

Be intensely result-oriented in everything you do. This is a key characteristic of high performers.

— Brian Tracy

Procrastination in the beginning and precipitation towards the conclusion is the characteristic of such bodies.

— James Madison

Love is one of the chief characteristics of Deity, and ought to be manifested by those who aspire to be the sons…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

Though leadership may be hard to define, the one characteristic common to all leaders is the ability to make things happen.

— Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom

Perhaps the most significant moral characteristic of a nation is its hypocrisy.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

If there is a defining characteristic of a man as opposed to a boy, maybe it's patience.

— Lance Armstrong

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

— Tony Attwood