Perseverance is a positive, active characteristic. It is not idly, passively waiting and hoping for some good thing to happen. — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics. — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
There is one central characteristic of anarchism on the matter of means, and that central principle is a principle of direct action… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
We must distinguish between genes that cause physical characteristics, like the color of your eyes or hair, over which you have no… — Erwin W. Lutzer Copy Share Image
It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Mars is the next frontier, what the Wild West was, what America was 500 years ago. It's time to strike out anew....Mars… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Still, there may be technologies that are very useful in identifying people over the age of 18 because they have all kinds… — Richard Blumenthal Copy Share Image
Obviously the more transparency we have as auditors, the more we can get, but the main goal is to understand important characteristics… — Cathy O'Neil Copy Share Image
You talk about seeing around corners as an element of success. That's what differentiates the good leader. Not many people have it.… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
One of the characteristics of every great teacher I've known is tremendous exertion. It's interesting: You may see them as spiritual people… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
None of the three great apes is considered ancestral to modern man, Homo sapiens, but they remain the only other type of… — Dian Fossey Copy Share Image
The ability to be cool, confident, and decisive in crisis is not an inherited characteristic but is the direct result of how… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
The common characteristics of people make a community possible, but it is their uncommon qualities that make it better. — John Henry Fischer Copy Share Image
Does it not appear to you versatility is the true and rare characteristic of that rare thing called genius-versatility and playfulness? In… — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share Image
The characteristic feature of capitalism that distinguishes it from pre-capitalist methods of production was its new principle of marketing. Capitalism is not… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The study of dreams may be considered the most trustworthy method of investigating deep mental processes. Now dreams occurring in traumatic neuroses… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
When you have trouble getting out of bed in the morning, remember that your defining characteristic-what defines a human being-is to work… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Various kinds of self-forgetting, usually accompanied by illusions and myths, make it possible to live without the intransigent facing of death-in the… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Running is the classical road to self-consciousn ess, self-awareness and self-reliance. Independence is the outstanding characteristic of a runner. He learns the… — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
The radical left is doing everything they can to destroy the moral fiber of America. They want to do away with the… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
Sometimes you need to put your own characteristics into the actor, and you take different things from the character that you admire… — Bonnie Wright Copy Share Image
The work of the inventor consists of conceptualizing, combining, and ordering what is possible according to the laws of nature. This inner… — Friedrich Dessauer Copy Share Image
A man is known to his dog by the smell, to his tailor by the coat, to his friend by the smile;… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It is one of the peculiar characteristics of the photograph that it isolates single moments in time. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
For in 1900 all electromagnetic radiation of longer wavelengths was already known at least to the extent that one could not seek… — Max von Laue Copy Share Image
