Characteristics Quotes - Page 29

• One of the characteristics of love relationships that flower is a relatively high degree of mutual self-disclosure

  Nathaniel Branden

  Flower, Self, Love Relationship

  Nathaniel Branden (2008). “The Psychology of Romantic Love: Romantic Love in an Anti-Romantic Age”, p.134, Penguin

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• Whatever it is that makes a person charming, it needs to remain a mystery .. once the charmer is aware of a mannerism or characteristic that others find charming, it ceases to be a mannerism and becomes an affectation.

  Rex Harrison

  Needs, Mystery, Charming

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• In excess, most endeavors and possessions take on the characteristics of their opposite.

  Tim Ferriss

  Opposites, Excess, Endeavor

  "The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich". Book by Timothy Ferriss, 2007.

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• If you are going to be a big personality, you've got to have some kind of characteristic gimmick.

  Farley Mowat

  Character, Personality, Gimmicks

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• Leaders exhibit two essential characteristics, the willingness to confront adversity and a clearly articulated future preference.

  Martin O'Malley

  Leadership, Adversity, Two

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• The characteristic virtue of Englishmen is power of sustained practical activity and their characteristic vice a reluctance to test the quality of that activity by reference to principles.

  R. H. Tawney

  Quality, Vices, Principles

  'The Acquisitive Society' (1921)

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• The characteristic feature of the loser is to bemoan, in general terms, mankind's flaws, biases, contradictions, and irrationality - without exploiting them for fun and profit

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Fun, Loser, Flaws

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.15, Random House

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• It is curiosity, quite right-a divine curiosity. A characteristic of the gods is curiosity.

  David Attenborough

  Curiosity, Divine

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• Just because someone thinks they remember something in detail, with confidence and with emotion, does not mean that it actually happened, .. False memories have these characteristics too.

  Elizabeth Loftus

  Memories, Mean, Thinking

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• The Anglo-Saxon has established himself in climates totally diverse - Canada, South Africa, and India - and, through several generations, has preserved his essential race characteristics. He is not, of course, superior to climatic influences; but even in warm climates, he is likely to retain his aggressive vigor long enough to supplant races already enfeebled.

  Josiah Strong

  Race, Long, Generations

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• Optimism is a good characteristic, but if carried to an excess, it becomes foolishness. We are prone to speak of the resources of this country as inexhaustible; this is not so.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Optimism, Excess

  Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

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• One of the characteristics of the young is "I want it now."

  Ann Landers

  Maturity, Want, Young

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• Some mechanism in my sub-consciousness took the dominant characteristics of various prize-fighters, gunmen, bootleggers, oil field bullies, gamblers, and honest workmen I had come in contact with, and combining them all, produced the amalgamation I call Conan the Cimmerian.

  Robert E. Howard

  Oil, Bully, Fields

  Letter to Clark Ashton Smith, July 23, 1935.

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• The American child is a highly intelligent human being - characteristically sensitive, humorous, open-minded, eager to learn, and has a strong sense of excitement, energy, and healthy curiosity about the world in which he lives. Lucky indeed is the grown-up who manages to carry these same characteristics into adult life. It usually makes for a happy and successful individual.

  Walt Disney

  Dream, Strong, Children

  "Deeds Rather Than Words". Essay by Walt Disney, 1963.

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• Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the place of pleasures, profits and all other private gratifications.

  Richard Steele

  Men, Gentleman, Honor

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• More truly characteristic of dissent is a dignity, an elevation, of mood and thought and phrase. Deep conviction and warm feeling are saying their last say with knowledge that the cause is lost. The voice of the majority may be that of force triumphant, content with the plaudits of the hour, and recking little of the morrow. The dissenter speaks to the future, and his voice is pitched to a key that will carry through the years.

  Benjamin Cardozo

  Years, Law, Voice

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• The native Jewish families in Jerusalem, as well as those in other parts of Palestine, present a marked difference to the Jews of Europe and America. They possess the same physical characteristics - the dark, oblong eye, the prominent nose, the strongly-marked cheek and jaw - but in the latter, these traits have become harsh and coarse.

  Bayard Taylor

  Eye, Dark, Differences

  Bayard Taylor (2015). “The Lands of the Saracen: Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain”, p.64, The Floating Press

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• The one characteristic more essential than any other is foresight... It should be the growing nation with a future which takes the long look ahead.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Long, Essentials, Looks

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.73, Cornell University Press

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• We must distinguish between genes that cause physical characteristics, like the color of your eyes or hair, over which you have no control, and what we could call 'behavioral dispositions'. We are responsible for our behavior, no matter what those dispositions are.

  Erwin W. Lutzer

  Eye, Color, Hair

  Source: www1.cbn.com

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• Even one word, or certainly one sentence, should be able to describe the basic characteristic that the scene has, or the character has, or the story has. And then you begin to detail that one spine, and you have offshoots from that spine, and it becomes more and more complex, but all of it stems from that one-word, one-line theme, which can give the character, the scene, or the play its uniqueness.

  William Shatner

  Character, Play, Giving

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If you're familiar enough with my body of work, my voice is a familiar totem, in a sense. I guess I have something characteristic in the way that I sing, although I'm not very personally self-conscious about it, so I don't think about it that much. But when I hear the record I can tell it's me.

  Todd Rundgren

  Thinking, Self, Voice

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There's five factors or characteristics of places where kids from poor backgrounds don't do very well. And those are places that have more economic and racial segregation, places with more income inequality.

  Gwen Ifill

  Kids, Income, Segregation

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I do not pose my sitters. I do not deliberate and then concoct... Before painting, when I talk to the person, they unconsciously assume their most characteristic pose, which in a way involves all their character and social standing - what the world has done to them and their retaliation.

  Alice Neel

  Character, Done, World

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• Monopolies, oligarchy, the striving for domination and not for freedom, the exploitation of an increasing number of small or weak nations by a handful of the richest or most powerful nations -- all these have given birth to those distinctive characteristics of imperialism which compel us to define it as parasitic or decaying capitalism.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Powerful, Numbers, Oligarchy

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• Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking ... Institutions of learning should be devoted to the cultivation of curiosity, and the less they are deflected by the consideration of immediacy of application, the more likely they are to contribute not only to human welfare, but to the equally important satisfaction of intellectual interest, which may indeed be said to have become the ruling passion of intellectual life in modern times.

  Abraham Flexner

  Passion, Thinking, Curiosity

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