Characteristics Quotes

• A critical attitude, like activity, is one of the fundamental characteristics of our time. Both are interdependent. If the critical attitude should dwindle, there would be more peace and less intelligence, to the benefit of the essential. Neither criticism nor activity, however, can steer the course in such a direction - this means that higher forces are involved.

  

  Ernst Junger
  • Criticism
  • Intelligence
  • Activity

• And for the sake of humility--a characteristic crucial to sacred questioning we might do well to confess that we're capable at any moment of such bad religion ourselves.

  

  David Dark
  • Moments
  • Humility
  • Sacred

• The qualities which a man seeks in his beloved are those characteristics of his own soul, whether he knows it or not.

  

  Plato
  • Soul
  • Qualities
  • Characteristics

• Moreover, metaphor is typically viewed as characteristic of language alone, a matter of words rather than thought or action. For this reason, most people think they can get along perfectly well without metaphor. We have found, on the contrary, that metaphor is pervasive in everyday life, not just in language but in thought and action. Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we both think and act, is fundamentally metaphorical in nature.

  

  George Lakoff
  • Thinking
  • Action
  • Matter

• The chemists work with inaccurate and poor measuring services, but they employ very good materials. The physicists, on the other hand, use excellent methods and accurate instruments, but they apply these to very inferior materials. The physical chemists combine both these characteristics in that they apply imprecise methods to impure materials.

  

  Wolfgang Ostwald
  • Science
  • Poor
  • Excellent

• There are times when folks will point out certain characteristics I have, like me being an interruptor, and attribute them to my Jewish identity.

  

  Jill Soloway
  • Identity
  • Certain
  • Folks

• We cannot and must not get rid of nor deny our characteristics. But we can give them shape and direction.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Direction
  • Shape
  • Characteristics

• When the church really takes on the humble characteristics of Christ, that's going to lead to revival.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Church
  • Christ
  • Humble

• Darwin repeatedly used the hypothesis of common ancestry as a platform on which to build his various ideas about testing hypotheses concerning natural selection. He also argued that adaptive similarities provide little or no evidence for common ancestry. Although this second claim needs to be fine-tuned, Darwin was right that ample evidence for common ancestry can exist even if none of the characteristics we observe were caused to evolve by natural selection.

  

  Elliott Sober
  • Evidence
  • Build
  • Selection

• Permaculture is a design system for creating sustainable human environments...Permaculture uses the inherent qualities of plants and animals combined with the natural characteristics of landscapes and structures to produce a life supporting system for city and country, using the smallest practical area.

  

  Bill Mollison
  • Country
  • Animals
  • Permaculture

• Good temper and moderation are the characteristics of parliamentary language.

  

  Betty Boothroyd
  • Language
  • Characteristics
  • Moderation

• The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.

  

  Milton Glaser
  • Independent
  • Persistence
  • Designer

• Inexperienced players have a fear of this piece, which seems to them enigmatic, mysterious, and astonishing in its power. We must admit that it has remarkable characteristics which compel respect and occasionally surprise the most wary players.

  

  Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
  • Players
  • Characteristics
  • Enigmatic

• Whatever it is that makes a person charming, it needs to remain a mystery .. once the charmer is aware of a mannerism or characteristic that others find charming, it ceases to be a mannerism and becomes an affectation.

  

  Rex Harrison
  • Persons
  • Mystery
  • Characteristics

• In my opinion, the true pioneers are those artists who make manifest in their works the new content, the determining characteristics of life in our time.

  

  Mikhail Sholokhov
  • Opinion
  • Manifest
  • Pioneers

• Each system has a specific structure made up of certain maintained relationships among its parts, and manifests irreducible characteristics of its own.

  

  Ervin Laszlo
  • Relationships
  • Structure
  • Manifests

• I do believe we all have a responsibility with our lives. It's just an extraordinary miracle that we exist, as a person with our unique characteristics.

  

  Nora Volkow
  • Responsibility
  • Lives
  • Characteristics

• Ernest Bevin had many of the strongest characteristics of the English race. His manliness, his common sense, his rough simplicity, sturdiness and kind heart, easy geniality and generosity, all are qualities which we who live in the southern part of this famous island regard with admiration.

  

  Ernest Bevin
  • English
  • Race
  • Simplicity

• The main thing that's missing in energy is an incentive to create things that are zero-CO2-emitting and that have the right scale and reliability characteristics.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Energy
  • Characteristics
  • CO2-emitting

• In excess, most endeavors and possessions take on the characteristics of their opposite.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Opposite
  • Characteristics
  • Possessions

• I'm the same player, my characteristics don't match what they want and Simeone isn't going to change his ideas for me.

  

  Gelson Martins
  • Change
  • Player
  • Characteristics

• We must distinguish between genes that cause physical characteristics, like the color of your eyes or hair, over which you have no control, and what we could call 'behavioral dispositions'. We are responsible for our behavior, no matter what those dispositions are.

  

  Erwin W. Lutzer
  • Control
  • Behavior
  • Dispositions

• Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics.

  

  Thomas Nagel
  • Interesting
  • Humans
  • Manifestation

• The outside-in discipline requires that you have an explicit customer-based reason for everything you do in the marketplace. Managers need to create what I call "customer pictures," verbal descriptions of customers that highlight the key customer characteristics and make those customers come alive. Although managers never know as much about customers as they want and need to know, the outside-in discipline requires that they construct customer pictures anyway, basing the pictures on whatever hard data they have plus hypotheses and intuition.

  

  Barbara Bund
  • Reason
  • Create
  • Customer

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