Idiosyncrasies Quotes - Page 2

• I probably get more inspiration for human stories and idiosyncrasies than I do animal stories.

  Jim Davis

  Inspiration, Animal, Stories

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• Do you know, I think that of all your idiosyncrasies that choke you give, when you are determined not to laugh, is the one that most enchants me.

  Georgette Heyer

  Thinking, Giving, Laughing

  Georgette Heyer (1963). “The Nonesuch”

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• To overcome adverse circumstances, you have to learn to overcome your own hang-ups, values, and idiosyncrasies in order to value other people, cultures, and ideas.

  Anne F. Beiler

  Order, Ideas, People

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• No one is black and white or good or bad or happy or sad or what have you. [All have] particular idiosyncrasies that make them fascinating and that's how I tend to approach a character.

  Cary Elwes

  Character, Black And White, Approach

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• It's always amazing to me the idiosyncrasies people end up disliking others for.

  George Hamilton

  People, Ends

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?

  Henry James

  Art, Congratulations, Literature

  Henry James (1996). “Complete Stories, 1892-1898”, p.496, Library of America

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• To be human is to be a human, a specific person with a life history and idiosyncrasy and point of view; artificial intelligence suggests that the line between intelligent machines and people blurs most when a puree is made of that identity.

  Brian Christian

  Intelligent, Views, People

  "The Most Human Human: What Artificial Intelligence Teaches Us About Being Alive". Book by Brian Christian, 2011.

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• Love is always in the mood of believing in miracles.

  John Cowper Powys

  Love, Believe, Miracle

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• while it is certainly the biographer's business to describe the foibles, passions and idiosyncrasies which make his subject a person, his work will be very meagre if these individual traits are not also seen as part of a universal drama - for each man's life is also the story of Everyman.

  Iris Origo

  Drama, Passion, Men

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• With theory, we can separate fundamental characteristics from fascinating idiosyncrasies and incidental features. Theory supplies landmarks and guideposts, and we begin to know what to observe and where to act.

  John Henry Holland

  Fundamentals, Landmarks, Theory

  John Henry Holland (1995). “Hidden order: how adaptation builds complexity”, Addison-Wesley Longman

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• Directing is more like you're being a psychologist and you're kind of analyzing the situation and evaluating each person for their idiosyncrasies.

  Clint Eastwood

  Analyzing, Kind, Like You

  "Clint Eastwood Describes His Near-Death Experience, Says 'American Sniper' Is Anti-War (Exclusive)". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 16, 2015.

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• There is indeed something deeply wrong with a person who lacks principles, who has no moral core. There are, likewise, certainly values that brook no compromise, and I would count among them integrity, fairness, and the avoidance of cruelty. But I have never accepted the argument that principle is compromised by judging each situation on its own merits, with due appreciation of the idiosyncrasy of human motivation and fallibility.

  Sonia

  Appreciation, Motivation, Integrity

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• Any attempt to speak without speaking any particular language is not more hopeless than the attempt to have a religion that shall be no religion in particular.... Every living and healthy religion has a marked idiosyncrasy. Its power consists in its special and surprising message and the bias which that revelation gives to life.

  George Santayana

  Giving, Healthy, Special

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• Schoolchildren make up their own rules and enforce their own conformities. They feel safest when leisure time is rationed and dosed. They like to wear uniforms, and they frown on personal idiosyncrasies. Deviance is the mark of an outsider.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Children, Individuality, Deviance

  Louise J. Kaplan (1995). “Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood”, Touchstone Books

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• The understanding also hath its idiosyncrasies as well as other faculties.

  Joseph Glanvill

  Understanding, Faculty, Wells

  Joseph Glanvill (1885). “Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science ; in an Essay of the Vanity of Dogmatizing and Confident Opinion”

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• How subtle is the relationship between the traveler and his luggage! He knows, as no one else knows, its idiosyncrasies, its contents ... and always some small nuisance which he wishes he had not brought; had known, indeed, before starting that he would regret it, but brought it all the same.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Travel, Regret, Wish

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• Introspection is self-improvement and therefore introspection is self-centeredness. Awareness is not self-improvement. On the contrary, it is the ending of the self, of the “I,” with all its peculiar idiosyncrasies, memories, demands, and pursuits. In introspection there is identification and condemnation. In awareness there is no condemnation or identification; therefore, there is no self-improvement. There is a vast difference between the two.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Memories, Self, Two

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• The key is working with great directors. A film is so many different people and all their talents, but particularly the directors, because of the idiosyncrasies of that person.

  Felicity Jones

  Keys, People, Directors

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

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• Books have their idiosyncrasies as well as people, and will not show me their full beauties unless the place and time in which they are read suits them.

  Elizabeth von Arnim

  Book, People, Suits

  Elizabeth von Arnim (2016). “The Solitary Summer”, p.14, Elizabeth von Arnim

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• Still others make gardens because it is part of a full life. To live happily they must invest their hours and aspirations in the activities of another world. And they draw the interest of delight and refreshment according to the measure of their investment. These are usually quaint folk, other-worldly in their manner, but capable of comprehending the idiosyncrasies of Nature as she displays them in a tree and bush and passing season, across the skyline and in the infinite zenith. These, moreover, are the successful gardeners.

  Richardson Wright

  Life, Nature, Successful

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• And there is a lot of idiosyncrasy. But there are also regularities and phenomena. And what the data is going to be able to do - if there's enough of it - is uncover, in the mess and the noise of the world, some lines of music that actually have harmony. It's there, somewhere.

  Esther Duflo

  Data, World, Lines

  "The Poverty Lab". Interview with Ian Parker, www.newyorker.com. May 17, 2010.

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• White folks have controlled New Orleans with money and guns, black folks have controlled it with magic and music, and although there has been a steady undercurrent of mutual admiration, an intermingling of cultures unheard of in any other American city, South or North; although there has prevailed a most joyous and fascinating interface, black anger and white fear has persisted, providing the ongoing, ostensibly integrated fete champetre with volatile and sometimes violent idiosyncrasies.

  Tom Robbins

  Fear, Gun, Cities

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.360, Bantam

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• I like reflecting the culture I understand best, spotting the idiosyncrasies of British people and revealing them to an audience in a way that amuses is what I find fun.

  Jim Broadbent

  Fun, People, Culture

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• It's not surprising, therefore, that the [Bisy] Backson thinks of progress in terms of fighting and overcoming. One of his little idiosyncrasies, you might say. Of course, real progress involves growing and developing, which involves changing inside, but that's something the inflexible Backson is unwilling to do.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Real, Fighting, Thinking

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• Bestiality is not my thing But it seems to be a harmless foible or idiosyncrasy of some people. So, as long as the animal doesn't mind (and the animal rarely does), I don't mind, and I don't see why anyone else should.

  Frank Kameny

  Animal, Long, People

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