Characteristic Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

One characteristic of winners is they always look upon themselves as a do it yourself project.

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.

The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.

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.

The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages.

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 seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

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.

The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.

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

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

Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works.

Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force.