Quotes About Characteristic

For beauty was her accident, and while admirable, was not a determining factor.

The connections are very important with the fans, with the journalists, with the people. The Portuguese like to do this - it's a characteristic.

I am positive that flexibility is a feminine characteristic.

I don't think tackling is a quality. It is a recurso, something you have to resort to, not a characteristic of your game.

At Liverpool, I used to read the match day programme, and you'd read an interview with a lad from the youth team. They'd ask age, heroes, strong points, etc. He'd reply, 'Shooting and tackling.' I can't get into my head that football development would educate tackling as a quality, something to learn, to teach, a characteristic of your play.

Alles ist nach seiner Art: an ihr wirst du nichts ändern

Duke, almost the only human characteristic Mike seems to possess is an overwhelming desire to be liked.

It is an inexorable law that no characteristic can be discarded;

The baby-functions of playing with one's own body, another's body and the environment continue throughout life in all animals. This "playfulness" is a marked characteristic of all conspicuously healthy individuals of the sort Maslow calls "self-actualizers.

Chen was pleased. He had twelve separate and singular prints, each showing defined typica. Typica were the characteristic points by which fingerprints could be identified—the loops and swirls and bifurcations that make up a fingerprint.

The most debilitating characteristic of even the most well-behaved psychopath is the inability to form a workable team.

In short, spirit must be viewed as the special characteristic that differentiates man from the animals. It is the only essential difference.

Knowledge, unlike information, is a human characteristic; there can be information no one knows, but there can't be knowledge no one knows.

But it would be absolutely mistaken to regard a wealth of theoretical knowledge as characteristic proof for the qualities and abilities of a leader.

This attitude [the abstract method in mathematics] can be encapsulated in the following slogan: a mathematical object is what it does.

The only Aniimal with 2 ii's!

Sadly enough... it is a characteristic of our age, that if people want any gods at all, they want them to be gods who do not demand much: comfortable, smooth gods.

It was the first and most striking characteristic of Socrates never to become heated in discourse, never to utter an injurious or insulting word - on the contrary, he persistently bore insult from others and thus put an end to the fray.

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

Whether one welcomes or deplores it, nothing is more surely and exactly characteristic of modern times than the irresistible invasion of the human world by technology. Mechanism invading like a tide all the places of the earth and all forms of social activity.

I believe your best preparation is to just get your rest and just go out there and continue to do what you've been doing, not to try to do anything uncharacteristic that you haven't been doing. That's my main thing.

I guess you've got a spice of temper, commented Mr. Harrison, surveying the flushed cheeks and indignant eyes opposite him. It goes with hair like yours, I reckon

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.

The things that make me different are the things that make me.