104 Characteristic Quotes for You to Enjoy

I think that any wealth creates a sense of trusteeship... it is characteristic of the new generation which has created wealth to have some amount of responsibility for it. Azim Premji

Generation Wealth Responsibility Sense Think Characteristic Some New New Generation Any Which Created Creates Amount

Even though China was a very closed country, they thought of themselves as the center of the world. It is an ethnic characteristic. After I went to Japan, I had a totally different view. The Japanese are always talking about what the Western world is doing. There is the anxious feeling of an outsider. Cai Guo-Qiang

World Thought Feeling Country Closed Though Characteristic Totally About Had Outsider Talking Always Doing Western Very Western World Anxious Different After Center China Japan Japanese Themselves Ethnic View Even Different View

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. Christian Lous Lange

A subplot is a distinguishing characteristic of the novel; the short story, for example, does not need subplots. Darin Strauss

Example Characteristic Distinguishing For Example Does Short Short Story Story Novel Need

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

Do-It-Yourself Yourself Project Characteristic Winners Look Always Themselves

The American Civil War produced carnage that has often been thought reserved for the combination of technological proficiency and inhumanity characteristic of a later time. Drew Gilpin Faust

War Time Thought Carnage Later Characteristic Civil Civil War Combination Been American Often Produced Inhumanity Reserved Proficiency Technological

The distinguishing characteristic of the techno-thriller is technical detail. Edward M. Lerner

Characteristic Distinguishing Detail Technical

The ability of humans to read meaning into patterns is the most defining characteristic we have. Eleanor Catton

Defining Characteristic Ability Most Read Patterns Meaning Humans

The chief characteristic of 'The Tribune' under Greeley was an aggressive and even ostentatious purity. 'Immoral and degrading police reports,' and any notices of the existence of the theater, whether in news or advertising, were at first scrupulously excluded. Elmer Davis

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. Eva Mendes

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. Federica Montseny

I have more of a vivid imagination than I have talent. I cook up ideas. It's just a characteristic. Francis Ford Coppola

Imagination Characteristic Vivid More Talent Ideas Up Than Just Cook

The self has the characteristic that it is an object to itself, and that characteristic distinguishes it from other objects and from the body. George Herbert Mead

Other Distinguishes Characteristic Object Objects Self Itself Body

The most important characteristic that has allowed me to succeed is confidence. I have always been comfortable in my own skin, and even when I was just starting out in my career, had the strength and self-assurance to ask tough questions and push for answers. Heather Bresch

Strength Me Confidence Tough Important Own Skin Characteristic Out My Own Push Had Allowed Most Comfortable Always Answers Been Questions Just The Most Important Succeed Ask Even Career Starting

The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim. Henry Fielding

Characteristic Governed Affectation Whim

Although engineers want always to make everything better, they cannot make anything perfect. This basic characteristic flaw of the products of the profession's practitioners is what drives change and makes achievement a process rather than simply a goal. Henry Petroski

Achievement Change Better Everything Characteristic Rather Perfect Drives Simply Make Although Makes Always Goal Than Want Anything Cannot Process Flaw Engineers Products Profession Basic

The great trap for non-American actors trying to play Americans, I think, is to start thinking of American-ness as a characteristic. It isn't. It is no more a character trait than height. It is just a physical fact, and that's all there is to it. Hugh Laurie

Great Character Think Thinking Characteristic Physical More Fact Than Trait Trying American Just Height Trap Actor Play Start

Modernism in other arts brought extreme difficulty. In poetry, the characteristic difficulty imported under the name of modernism was obscurity. But obscurity could just as easily be a quality of metrical as of free verse. James Fenton

Quality Free Difficulty Other Extreme Characteristic Easily Brought Poetry Could Obscurity Free Verse Name Imported Verse Just Arts Modernism

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