Characteristic Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.

Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology.

Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.

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.

Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic.

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 am positive that flexibility is a feminine characteristic.

It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.

I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely a matter of joy as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health.

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

I think the French Open, in many ways, brought out a certain characteristic in me and in my game that was already there. Just the circumstances allowed for it to be able to show.

In order to fully realise our aspirations, we must create in the masses of the people the sense of sacrifice and responsibility that has been the characteristic of the anarchist movement throughout its historic development in Spain.

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

Why are we in this mess, now facing the prospect of economic armageddon? It's because the prevailing characteristic has been greed, and it doesn't matter whether it's individuals living beyond their means or governments living beyond their means or people seeking to get rich quick.

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

We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.

Alfred Nobel's discoveries are characteristic; powerful explosives can help men perform admirable tasks. They are also a means to terrible destruction in the hands of the great criminals who lead peoples to war.

On the contrary, the characteristic element of the present situation is that economic questions have finally and irrevocably invaded the domain of public life and politics.