Characteristics Quotes

Now it is characteristic of play that one plays without reason and there must be no reason for it. Play is its own good reason.

[Joseph] Stalin closes the exposition of these [Leon Trotsky] ideas with the words, "Such are in general the characteristic features of [Vladimir] Lenin's conception of the proletarian revolution."

Worry is characteristic of the heathen, not the Christian.

Diversity is its most consistent characteristic....The characteristics of freely improvised music are established only by the sonic-musical identity of the person or persons playing it.

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

I think it would be very difficult to play somebody if they didn't think they had any virtues or redeeming characteristics.

We cannot and must not get rid of nor deny our characteristics. But we can give them shape and direction.

What characteristics do I look for when hiring somebody? That's one of the questions I ask when interviewing. I want to know what kind of people they would hire.

A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and so-called backward peoples.

Feminists are those who cannot stand female characteristics.

The more you create authentic power, the more the characteristics of authentic power become yours, and the more meaning, purpose and joy enter your life.

It seems to be a characteristic of all great work that it creators wear a cloak of imprecision.

Unteachable from infancy to tomb — There is the first & main characteristic of mankind.

I agree today that a man has no business trying to tell women what their characteristics are, which ones are inborn, which are more admirable, which will be best utilized by what occupations.

Humanity would have plunged into a new dark age of absolutely frightening and appalling characteristics without Churchill.

Solidity, caution, integrity, efficiency. Lack of imagination, hypocrisy. These qualities characterize the middle classes in everycountry, but in England they are national characteristics.

A man is ridiculous less through the characteristics he has than through those he affects to have.

The devil's characteristic has been to originate sin and tempt others to sin

Few of humanity's characteristics are more disconcerting than its ability to reduce world-events to its own level, wherever this may happen to be.

Conservatism, being an upper-class characteristic, is decorous; and conversely, innovation, being a lower-class phenomenon, is vulgar. ...Innovation is bad form.

Anyone developing new products and new technology needs one characteristic above all else: hope.

Humility and Gratitude are the twin characteristics of happiness.

The inability to experience regret is one of the diagnostic characteristics of sociopaths.

Humor must be one of the chief attributes of God. Plants and animals that are distinctly humorous in form and characteristics are God's jokes.

One characteristic of Americans is that they have no toleration at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed.

That spirit of mockery characteristic of the guaracha was part of the mambo from the beginning.

Knowledge, unlike information, is a human characteristic; there can be information no one knows, but there can't be knowledge no one knows.

I know I am judged unfairly by my physical characteristics and ostracized because of that so I say, "Yes, I'm a black man."

The chief characteristics of the [liberal] attitude are human sympathy, a receptivity to change, and a scientific willingness to follow reason rather than faith.

All art has this characteristic-it unites people.

Suicide and antipathy to fires in a bedroom seem to be among the national characteristics. Perhaps the same moral cause may originate both.

I'm a typically lazy person. It is sort of characteristic of actors.

It is the worst of all superstitions to assume that the epistemological characteristics of one branch of knowledge must necessarily be applicable to any other branch.

Politics is the womb in which war develops - where its outlines already exist in their hidden rudimentary form, like the characteristics of living creatures in their embryos.

I steal things from people, characteristics, and I just stock them in my head like a library to use for characters in the future.

In the characteristics of the perfected man of the Gita, I do not see any to correspond to physical warfare.

You know, what we list as a hate group are groups that vilify or defame entire groups of people, typically for their immutable characteristics.

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

Success does not implant bad characteristics in people. It merely steps up the growth rate of the bad characteristics they already had.

One of the characteristics of successful scientists is having courage.

Silences, as every observer knows, have strange characteristics all their own - passionate silences, and hateful silences, and silences full of friendly, purring content.

Does this have anything to do with the unit we’re studying? Because I can’t find anything about desired characteristics of a mate anywhere in our text.

No one likes to admit that in the end we all die by inches, gradually losing all the defining visual characteristics that make us us

Clarity is not a characteristic of the human spirit.

As much as we admire all the characteristics of a Ronald Reagan, as soon as something goes wrong, people will hate those same characteristics.

Equality and justice, the two great distinguishing characteristics of democracy, follow inevitably from the conception of men, all men, as rational and spiritual beings.

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

There's no denial that one's gender orientation is certainly a core characteristic of any person, but it's not the only one.

[My father] was always saying I'd end up like my grandfather. Okay. My grandfather was an architect, I'm an architect. It's true, certain characteristics are similar.

As Buddhism moved to the West, one of the big characteristics was the strong place of women. That didn't exist in the countries of origin. It's just a sign of our culture.