Characteristics Quotes

• One characteristic of winners is they always look upon themselves as a do it yourself project.

  Denis Waitley

  Attitude, Winning, Looks

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• The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair.

  Herbert Read

  Attitude, Political, Despair

  Herbert Read (1963). “Selected Writings: Poetry and Criticism”

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• Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual.

  Kenneth Lee Pike

  Personality, Important, Identity

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• But I'll try to immerse myself in as many of the formal characteristics of site as possible in the landscape.

  Richard Serra

  Trying, Landscape, Site

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• The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Psychology, Mind, Subjectivity

  Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”

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• As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'

  Marshall McLuhan

  Technology, Media, Age

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• 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.'

  Helen Rowland

  Men, Literature, Littles

  Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.64, Lulu.com

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• I look for these qualities and characteristics in people. Honesty is number one, respect, and absolutely the third would have to be loyalty.

  Summer Altice

  Loyalty, Respect, Honesty

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• For each of us, life is a journey. Heavenly Father designed it for us out of love. Each of us has unique experiences and characteristics, but our journey began in the same place before we were born into this world.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Father, Unique, Journey

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• For the source of any characteristic so widespread and uniform as this adaptation to environment we must go back to the very beginning of the human race.

  Ellsworth Huntington

  Science, Race, Environmental

  Ellsworth Huntington (2016). “A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American”, p.5, VM eBooks

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• Certain characteristic properties of elements can be foretold from their atomic weights.

  Dmitri Mendeleev

  Elements, Weight, Certain

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• Indian names were either characteristic nicknames given in a playful spirit, deed names, birth names, or such as have a religious and symbolic meaning.

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Religious, Names, Symbolic Meaning

  Charles Alexander Eastman, Michael Oren Fitzgerald (2007). “The Essential Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa): Light on the Indian World”, p.14, World Wisdom, Inc

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• Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

  Aristophanes

  Voice, Politician, Breeding

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• An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.

  Walter Bagehot

  Sacrifice, Giving, Political

  Walter Bagehot (1974). “The collected works of Walter Bagehot”

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• The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number.

  Dave Barry

  Birthday, Sex, Eye

  Dave Barry (2009). “Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus”, p.146, Ballantine Books

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• There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

  Warren Buffett

  Life, Nature, War

  "The Superinvestors of Graham-and-Doddsville". Essay by Warren Buffett published in Hermes, the Columbia Business School Magazine (1984), later quoted in "31 years ago, Warren Buffett revealed the secret to investing and correctly predicted nobody would listen" by Myles Udland, www.businessinsider.com. August 24, 2015.

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• I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Stupidity, Fool, Honest

  Giacomo Casanova “The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt”, Library of Alexandria

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• When I think about the world I would like to leave to my daughter and the grandchildren I hope to have, it is a world that moves away from unequal, unstable, unsustainable interdependence to integrated communities - locally, nationally and globally - that share the characteristics of all successful communities.

  William J. Clinton

  Success, Daughter, Moving

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• One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.

  Jean Cocteau

  Dream, Regret, Cutting

  "La Difficulté d'Etre ('The Difficulty of Being')". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1947.

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• A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.

  James S. Coleman

  Teacher, Children, Function

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• Overall, the challenge of leadership is both moral and one of developing the characteristics that make us respected by one another.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Leadership, Challenges, Moral

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• He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Love, Courage, Strong

  "The Christian Herald", Vol. 92, p. 72, 1969.

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• All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  "The Age of Uncertainty". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith, 1977.

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• Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

  Khalil Gibran

  Mother, Wisdom, Self

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• The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.

  Milton Glaser

  Real, Independent, Persistence

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