Characteristic Quotes

At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic features.

Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.

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.

Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.

Mr. Truman studiously avoided giving power to his White House staff that has been characteristic of recent administrations. Staff people in the White House, with no responsibility but incredible authority is one of the reasons we're now in so much trouble.

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.

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

It is characteristic of the epistemological tradition to present us with partial scenarios and then to demand whole or categorical answers as it were.

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.

I'm definitely responsible for the image that I put out there. But it does become frustrating, because I don't want 'sexy' to be my defining characteristic. I'd love for my ambition and will and intellect and sense of humour to define me as well.

Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.

I think enough cannot be said for what you can discover through literature. So I think that was probably my most valued characteristic as a teenager.

The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.

The thing that's characteristic of my performance is that I literally do drag the whole studio onto the stage.

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.

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.

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.

The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.

It is characteristic that this should take place just when it is becoming more and more clear to all who think about the matter, that technically and economically we have left the territorial state behind us.

The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.

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.

A characteristic of older folksongs, in most cases, is that we don't know their composers or authors. Older folksongs were written often with no commercial purpose in mind. They were passed down by word of mouth, from generation to generation.

There are many qualities that make a great leader. But having strong beliefs, being able to stick with them through popular and unpopular times, is the most important characteristic of a great leader.

It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.

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

The self has the characteristic that it is an object to itself, and that characteristic distinguishes it from other objects and from the body.

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.

I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it.

We must recognize the chief characteristic of the modern era - a permanent state of what I call violent peace.

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