Characterized Quotes

148 quotes by 144 authors

On the Internet, companies are scale businesses, characterized by high fixed costs and relatively low variable costs. You can be two sizes: You can be… — Jeff Bezos
Britain is characterized not just by its independence but, above all, by its openness. — David Cameron
No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair,… — Anton Chekhov
A critic once characterized baseball as six minutes of action crammed into two-and-one-half hours. — Ray Fitzgerald
The old system of having a baby was much better than the new system, the old system being characterized by the fact that the man… — Dave Barry
The melting pot failed to function in one crucial area. Religions and nationalities, however different, generally learned to live together, even to grow together, in… — Theodore Hesburgh
The intellectual activity of those without power is always characterized as non-intellectual. — Paulo Freire
Childhood is a complex dialectical process characterized by periodicity, unevenness in the development of different functions, metamorphosis or qualitative transformation of one form into another,… — Lev S. Vygotsky
Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even… — Elbert Hubbard
The solitary ascent of the Dru had the immediate effect of expanding the horizons of my ideas about mountaineering. It made me aware of possibilities… — Walter Bonatti
The teens are emotionally unstable and pathic. It is a natural impulse to experience hot and perfervid psychic states, and it is characterized by emotionalism.… — G. Stanley Hall
Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life. — Henri Bergson
In this modern world plagued with counterfeits for the Lord's plan, we must not be misled into supposing that we can discharge our obligations to… — Marion G. Romney
A contemporary poet has characterized this sense of the personality of art and of the impersonality of science in these words,-'Art is myself; science is… — Claude Bernard
Postal officials say that before Christmas they receive tons of letters written to Santa Claus, but after Christmas how few letters of thanks are sent… — Robert E. Lee
The brain, or cerebrum, is a material entity located inside the skull which may be inspected, touched, weighed, and measured. It is composed of chemicals,… — Jose Manuel Rodriguez Delgado
The brain seems to be made up of a bewildering complexity of parts, and the cells within the parts seem to be characterized by an… — Gordon Shepherd
Geology is part of that remarkable dynamic process of the human mind which is generally called science and to which man is driven by an… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
As the priest is characterized by his cassock, so the smoker by his pipe. The way in which he holds it, raises it to his… — E T A Hoffmann
The art of our time, sacred art included, will necessarily be characterized by a certain poverty, grimness and roughness which correspond to the violent realities… — Thomas Merton

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