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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• 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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• 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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• All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one... characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Perseverance, Future, Fighting

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• Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic.

  Larry McMurtry

  Ignorance, Historical, Looks

  Larry McMurtry (2010). “Oh What a Slaughter: Massacres in the American West: 1846--1890”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which have not been obvious to the superficial observer.

  Hesketh Pearson

  Character, Men, Age

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• As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Wisdom, Saying Nothing, Few Words

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• The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.

  Jose Saramago

  Attitude, Haughtiness, Aliens

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• The fact that the Prophet cared for every human being and tried his best to ensure their security in the hereafter must be the most telling of his compassionate and merciful characteristics.

  Cat Stevens

  Facts, Prophet, Compassionate

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• I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances.

  Simone Weil

  Play, Barbarism, Circumstances

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.143, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.

  Elie Wiesel

  Memories, People, Holocaust

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• It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Music, People, Mechanic

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• Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents.

  Alan Dundes

  Children, Grandparent, Asian Culture

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• It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others.

  Aristotle

  Spiritual, Kindness, Men

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• Diversity in the world is a basic characteristic of human society, and also the key condition for a lively and dynamic world as we see today.

  Hu Jintao

  Keys, Diversity, World

  Hu Jintao's Speech to Federal Parliament, www.smh.com.au. October 24, 2003.

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• Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.

  Robin Morgan

  People, Groups, Oppression

  Robin Morgan (2014). “The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches”, p.38, Open Road Media

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• It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.

  John Desmond Bernal

  Science, Essence, Long

  John Desmond Bernal (1967). “The origin of life”

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• In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of more conventional stimuli.

  Jerome Bruner

  Perception, Recognition, Process

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• People who work on the user interface side need to have empathy as a key characteristic. But if you are writing device drivers you don't really need to understand humans so well.

  Andy Hertzfeld

  Writing, Keys, People

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• Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press.

  Christian Lous Lange

  Communication, Media, Intellectual

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• In a government whose distinguishing characteristic should be a diffusion and equalization of its benefits and burdens the advantage of individuals will be augmented at the expense of the community at large.

  Martin Van Buren

  Government, Community, Benefits

  United States. President (1837-1841 : Van Buren), Martin Van Buren (1838). “Message from the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress: At the Commencement of the Third Session of the Twenty-fifth Congress”, p.12

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• The Dalmatian breed of dog has many primitive characteristics.

  Louis Leakey

  Dog, Dalmatians, Primitive

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• The level of potential physical productivity of a society depends on both the development of the intellect of its members, and a minimal standard of both demographic characteristics and of consumption.

  Robert Trout

  Development, Levels, Demographics

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• After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings.

  Harry Seidler

  War, Technology, Earthquakes

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• Alfred Nobel's discoveries are characteristic; powerful explosives can help men perform admirable tasks. They are also a means to terrible destruction in the hands of the great criminals who lead peoples to war.

  Pierre Curie

  Powerful, War, Mean

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