Characteristics Quotes
Whether we electrons, light quanta, benzol molecules, or stones, we shall always come up against these two characteristics, the corpuscular and the undular.
No garment which distorts the shape and motion of the wearer is beautiful, nor s any garment beautiful which emphasizes more than one or at most two of your sexual characteristics.
The Jew has always been a people with definite racial characteristics and never a religion.
The main characteristics of effective leadership are intelligence, integrity or loyalty, mystique, humor, discipline, courage, self sufficieny and confidence.
Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question.
The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.
Of course most people underestimate the warrior characteristics of the Anglo-Saxon and Norman peoples anyway. It takes a heap of piety to keep a Viking from wanting to go sack a city.
One of the main characteristics that differentiates Dubai from other commercial centres is its openness to innovation and the freedoms it grants people and institutions to operate.
I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments.
The Jew lends himself easily to Communism because it enables him to devote himself to a high cause, involving all of humanity, characteristics which are natural to him as a Jew.
It's not convincing to say you are a child of God if you have none of the characteristics of your Father.
I think I would not be described as a character actor in that I don't take on characteristics which are very alien to me.
Leaders exhibit two essential characteristics, the willingness to confront adversity and a clearly articulated future preference.
One of the characteristics of love relationships that flower is a relatively high degree of mutual self-disclosure
When the church really takes on the humble characteristics of Christ, that's going to lead to revival.
Slavic peoples get their physical characteristics from potatoes, their smoldering inquietude from radishes, their seriousness from beets.
Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.
Propriety of manners, and consideration for others, are the two main characteristics of a gentleman.
Their racial characteristics are such that we cannot understand or trust even the citizen Japanese.
People think they know me from my songs. But my repertoire of songs is so wide-ranging that you'd have to be a madman to figure out the characteristics of the person who wrote all those songs.
Sometimes you need to put your own characteristics into the actor, and you take different things from the character that you admire - sometimes you can't see the boundaries anymore.
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.
We can hardly escape the feeling that the unconscious process moves spiral-wise round a centre, gradually getting closer, while the characteristics of the centre grow more and more distinct.
This is a lesson mankind has not yet learned. We identify, and stratify, and treat persons largely on the basis of their accidental (physical) characteristics, which have no deeper meaning.
Two important characteristics of maps should be noticed. A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness.
It is one of the peculiar characteristics of the photograph that it isolates single moments in time.
You spend your life training to be an actor, observing people's characteristics so that you can design characters around what you've seen.
A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little 'personal characteristics.'
What we think of as 'Physical beauty' is almost certainly a tag for a complex of useful survival characteristics. Smartness - intelligence - among them.
People of all countries have the right to choose their own social system and road to development in the light of their national conditions and characteristics.
One of the characteristics of mudslinging is that mud sticks if it's thrown with enough force for long enough.
As you become more present in your own life, you will begin to enlighten others by your example.
The American Civil War produced carnage that has often been thought reserved for the combination of technological proficiency and inhumanity characteristic of a later time.
The self has the characteristic that it is an object to itself, and that characteristic distinguishes it from other objects and from the body.
To all players I can recommend the following: simplicity and economy. These are the characteristics of the opening systems of many great masters... A solid opening repertoire fosters self-confidence.
The success of one market model cannot be migrated to another. Ignoring Macau's special characteristics and duplicating a Las Vegas or an Atlantic City would not be a successful strategy.
The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.
To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.
The art of utterance persuades initially by its music and its rhythm, before semiotic or personal characteristics come into play.
It is a characteristic of pleasure that we can never recognize it to be pleasure till after it is gone.
While it might seem that anyone can be a value investor, the essential characteristics of this type of investor-patience, discipline, and risk aversion-may well be genetically determined.
I think provincialism is an endemic characteristic with mankind, I think everybody everywhere is provincial, but it is particularly striking with Texans, and we tend to be very Texcentric.
As buoyancy is not contrary to other characteristics of leadership, including decisiveness, accountability and performance standards, I don't ever think it can be self-defeating.