Characteristic Quotes

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.

Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents.

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

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.

Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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