Qualities Quotes

When I first started acting, I had all these ideals about the kinds of roles I wanted to play, but the reality is that when you do television - and I do a lot of television - you get cast for qualities that you have as a person. So I look for qualities that I like to portray.

The way a book is read, which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it.

The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.

To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius.

I am less disposed to think of a West Point education as requisite for this business than I was at first. Good sense and energy are the qualities required.

It has to be able to play at the maximum expression and communication in every style, and the only way you can do that is - like Verdi said - working with a file, every day, little by little, until the orchestra's collective qualities emerge.

Resume: a written exaggeration of only the good things a person has done in the past, as well as a wish list of the qualities a person would like to have.

There were two qualities about the mutual funds of the 1920s that made them extremely speculative. One was that they were heavily leveraged. Two, mutual funds were allowed to invest in other mutual funds.

We didn't think he would play on Sunday because he was suspended - that makes me think he has all the qualities to join Arsenal!

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Each game we approach like a final. Today it was the opening game at home, we won and showed outstanding football qualities. We will be preparing for the next game the same way.

Whatever kind of seed is sown in a field, prepared in due season, a plant of that same kind, marked with the peculiar qualities of the seed, springs up in it.

As I get older I realize what qualities are important in love and what suits me. And what I won't settle for.

It is better to believe that a man does possess good qualities than to assert that he does not.

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.

To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

It is generally admitted that the most beautiful qualities of a color are in its transparent state, applied over a white ground with the light shining through the color.

Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

The trend of all knowledge at the present is to specialize, but archaeology has in it all the qualities that call for the wide view of the human race, of its growth from the savage to the civilized, which is seen in all stages of social and religious development.

Catholic school graduates exhibit a wide variety of qualities that will not only help them in their careers but also in their family and community lives.

Even though I love my mother, I didn't want to make an idealized portrait of her. I'm fascinated more by her defects - they are funnier than her other qualities.

The good moral work of art should have all the qualities that a good amoral work of art should have, such as formal unity, balance, contrast, and a sensitivity to the material out of which it is made.

Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry.

A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man.

Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success on the stage.

We fought no better, perhaps, than they. We exhibited, perhaps, no higher individual qualities.

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.

Humans love truth and justice, and rejoice in ceremonies that honor those qualities. For that sentiment we should indeed thank God.

Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolesence.