Characteristics Quotes - Page 19

• When people speak admiringly of a butch, what I see is someone who has taken on the best gendered characteristics of both woman and man, left a lot of the stuff born of misogyny and heterosexism behind, and walked forward into the world without apology.

  S. Bear Bergman

  Taken, Apology, Men

  S. Bear Bergman (2010). “Butch is a Noun”, p.66, arsenal pulp press

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• Every writer is working from his own individual world view, and that can become as characteristic as a fingerprint.

  Don Pendleton

  Views, World, Individual

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• A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature

  George Orwell

  Hate, Men, Receiving

  George Orwell (2012). “Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.132, Lulu.com

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• I believe that all genial classrooms share at least five characteristics that guide their instruction regardless of content or grade level. These characteristics are (1) freedom to choose, (2) open-ended exploration, (3) freedom from judgment, (4) honoring every student's experience, and (5) belief in every student's genius.

  Thomas Armstrong

  Believe, Genius, Levels

  Thomas Armstrong (1998). “Awakening Genius in the Classroom”, p.60, ASCD

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• Indeed, this is an important characteristic of the globalization debate: the tendency toward glorifying all things indigenous even when they deserve to be left in the past.

  Franklin Foer

  Past, Important, Debate

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• The most important attribute for success in value investing is patience, patience, and more patience. The majority of investors do not possess this characteristic.

  Peter Cundill

  Important, Majority, Investing

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• Humility and Gratitude are the twin characteristics of happiness.

  Richard C. Edgley

  Gratitude, Humility, Twins

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• Running is the classical road to self-consciousn ess, self-awareness and self-reliance. Independence is the outstanding characteristic of a runner. He learns the harsh reality of his physical and spiritual limitations when he runs. He learns that personal commitment, sacrifice and determination are his only means to betterment. Runners get promoted only through self-conquest.

  Noel Coward

  Running, Spiritual, Determination

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• It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Science, Supposing That, Forever

  Calvin Coolidge (2001). “The Quotable Calvin Coolidge: Sensible Words for a New Century”, Images from the Past Incorporated

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• The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.

  Ayn Rand

  Rights, Essentials, Denial

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.465, Penguin

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• Obedience, submission, discipline, courage--these are among the characteristics which make a man.

  Samuel Smiles

  Men, Discipline, Obedience

  Samuel Smiles (1881). “Duty, with Illustrations of Courage, Patience, and Endurance”

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• Humility is the key characteristic of a worship leader. Actually, the key for any great leader.

  Chris Tomlin

  Humility, Keys, Leader

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• It’s really important to understand that God is not an impersonal force. Even though He is invisible, God is personal and He has all the characteristics of a person. He knows, he hears, he feels and he speaks.

  Tanya Luhrmann

  Important, Speak, Invisible

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• He has all the characteristics of a dog - except loyalty.

  Sam Houston

  Loyalty, Dog, Luck

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• In her early days she had that beatific expression characteristic of Victorian prettiness - like a sheep painted by Raphael.

  James Agate

  Women, Sheep, Expression

  James Agate (1946). “A Shorter Ego: Ego 4, Ego 5, Ego 6”

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• The power to become habituated to his surroundings and therefore to no longer be grateful for what is good in it is a marked characteristic of mankind and needs to be fought against if a person is to be happy.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Gratitude, Grateful, Needs

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• When a honeybee dies it releases a death pheromone, a characteristic odour that signals the survivors to remove it from the hive. The corpse is promptly pushed and tugged out of the hive. The death pheromone is oleic acid. What happens if a live bee is dabbed with a drop of oleic acid? Then no matter how strapping and vigourous it might be, it is carried kicking and screaming out of the hive.

  Carl Sagan

  Science, Survivor, Kicking

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• An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty. Men who have practiced tortures on animals without pity, relating them without shame, how can they still hold their heads among human beings?

  Samuel Johnson

  Animal, Men, Shame

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• I have been envious of male characteristics, if not the men themselves. I'm jealous of the ease with which they seem to inhabit their professional pursuits: the lack of apologizing, of bending over backward to make sure the people around them are comfortable with what they're trying to do. The fact that they are so often free of the people-pleasing instincts I have considered to be a curse of my female existence.

  Lena Dunham

  Jealous, Men, People

  Lena Dunham (2014). “Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"”, p.135, Random House

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• An entrepreneur is born with the mentality to take risks, though there are several important characteristics: courage, faith in yourself, and above all, even when you fail, to learn from failure and get up and try again.

  Sheldon Adelson

  Entrepreneur, Risk, Important

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• My position and the state will never allow me to become a dictator, but an authoritarian style of rule is characteristic of me, and I have always admitted it. You need to control the country, and the main thing is not to ruin people's lives.

  Alexander Lukashenko

  Country, People, Style

  "Profile: Alexander Lukashenko". news.bbc.co.uk. January 09, 2007.

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

  Clay Shirky

  Information, Humans, Knows

  Clay Shirky (2010). “Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators”, p.88, Penguin

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• The university is a vast public utility which turns out future workers in today's vineyard, the military-industrial complex. They've got to be processed in the most efficient way to see to it that they have the fewest dissenting opinions, that they have just those characteristics which are wholly incompatible with being an intellectual. This is a real internal psychological contradiction. People have to suppress the very questions which reading books raises.

  Mario Savio

  Military, Real, Reading

  "The University Has Become a Factory". Interview with Jack Fincher, Life magazine, February 26, 1965.

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• By the time you’ve had a relationship with a horse for a while, there are characteristics in the way the horse behaves with you and around you and responds to you that are directly (related) to some of your traits as a human being…whether it’s insecurity or aggression or fear or hate.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Hate, Insecurity

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• I doubt if Dickens did, especially his women-his pretty women-Mrs. Dombey, Florence, Dora, Agnes, Ruth Pinch, Kate Nickleby, little Emily-we know them all through Hablot Browne alone-and none of them present any very marked physical characteristics. They are sweet and graceful, neither tall nor short; they have a pretty droop in their shoulders, and are very ladylike; sometimes they wear ringlets, sometimes not, and each would do very easily for the other.

  George du Maurier

  Sweet, Pretty Woman, Doubt

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