The defining characteristic of pessimists is that they tend to believe that bad events will last a long time, will undermine everything… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
This girl has the spark of life. This is my primary filter for new friends (girl- and otherwise) and the highest compliment… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
The dynamic principle of fantasy is play, a characteristic also of the child, and as such it appears inconsistent with the principle… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The comptroller of New York City ought to have all the characteristics of a major corporation's CFO - quiet rigor, obsessive care… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
Science fiction is the characteristic literary genre of the century. It is the genre that stands in opposition to literary modernism. — David G. Hartwell Copy Share Image
The most consistent characteristic of awakened teachers and people I have met is a childlike nature. They laugh, cry, twinkle, and joke,… — Catherine Ingram Copy Share Image
If anything, Brown is more oriented towards the other side of the Atlantic than Blair. Most of his reforming ideas and intellectual… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
I always try to make a voice to go with the characteristics - if the guy's a hothead or he's cool, whatever. — Peter Cullen Copy Share Image
The target of preventive war must have several characteristics. It must be virtually defenceless; it must be important enough to be worth… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The "sayings" of a community, its proverbs, are its characteristic comment upon life; they imply its history, suggest its attitude toward the… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Many of my ardent admirers would be roundly shocked and disturbed if they realized that everything I believe is thoroughly moral, thoroughly… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Gradually I began to intellectually reject some of the delusionally influenced lines of thinking which had been characteristic of my orientation. This… — John Forbes Nash Copy Share Image
The great characteristic of men of active genius is a sublime self-confidence, springing not from self-conceit, but from an intense identification of… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
“I dont celebrate any friendship that was build on hate, because we share the common enemy.” — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
I do not deny certain kinds of biological differences. But I always ask under what conditions, under what discursive and institutional conditions,… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
It seems to me now that mathematics is capable of an artistic excellence as great as that of any music, perhaps greater;… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships that they give credibility to the opinions they attack. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Offence is so easily given. And where the 'minority' issue is involved, the rules seem to shift about: most of the time… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
Again, it is possible to fail in many ways (for evil belongs to the class of the unlimited and good to that… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The wonder is that the characteristic efficacy to touch and inspire deep creative centers dwells in the smallest nursery fairy tale-as the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
You can have unbelievable intelligence, you can have connections, you can have opportunities fall out of the sky. But in the end,… — Marsha Johnson Evans Copy Share Image
We all yearn to fly. We are creatures of longing. We do not need to [physically fly] to be airborne. What I… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
Men's ideas about what women are have been formed from their ruling caste position, and have assigned women characteristics that would most… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
Aging is no accident. It is necessary to the human condition, intended by the soul. We become more characteristic of who we… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
