Quotes About Character

There is so much good in the worst of us, an so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behooves any of us not to talk about the rest of us.

All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

To be without silver is better than to be without honor.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

Lucifer — Pride Mammon — Avarice Asmodeus — Lechery Satan — Anger Beelzebub — Gluttony Leviathan — Envy Belphegor — Sloth

For those protagonists we tend to admire the most, the Inciting Incident arouses not only a conscious desire, but an unconscious one as well. These complex characters suffer intense inner battles because these two desire are in direct conflict with each other. No matter what the character consciously thinks he wants, the audience senses or realizes that deep inside he unconsciously wants the very opposite.

A beautifully told story is a symphonic unity in which structure, setting, character, genre, and idea meld seamlessly. To find their harmony, the writer must study the elements of story as if they were instruments of an orchestra—first separately, then in concert.

The only way to know the truth is to witness him make choices under pressure to take one action or another in the pursuit of his desire.

Second, once inside this alien world, we find ourselves. Deep within these characters and their conflicts we discover our own humanity.

We cannot ask which is more important, structure or character, because structure is character; character is structure.

Values are the soul of storytelling.

Story Event creates meaningful change in the life situation of a character that is expressed and experienced in terms of a value and ACHIEVED THROUGH CONFLICT.

Un ACONTECIMIENTO NARRATIVO crea un cambio en la situación de vida de un personaje, tiene significado y se expresa y experimenta en términos de VALOR.

Sí yo fuera este personaje y en estas circunstancias nuevas, ¿qué haría?". Tras encontrar el camino hasta esa reacción y esa acción, volvemos a salir de ese punto de vista y preguntamos, "¿qué sería lo contrario?

True character is revealed in the choices a human being makes under pressure - the greater the pressure, the deeper the revelation, the truer the choice to the character's essential nature.

The long-established and noble rule of Law, one of the greatest products of the character and tradition of British history, has suffered a deadly blow. Blackmail has become respectable.

It is not being homeless that matters, my rich dad said. It's about who you are. Keep striving and you become somebody. Quit and you also become somebody ... but not the same person.

Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value. — Albert Einstein

4And patience produces character, and character produces hope. 5And this hope will never disappoint us, because God has poured out his love to fill our hearts. He gave us his love

God does not direct us to focus on finding the right person; He calls us to become the right person.

In such a view, time is not emergent. It is, in fact, the only aspect of reality that cannot emerge from a more fundamental background. We register its reality, always and everywhere, by recognizing the differential character of change: some things change relative to other things. However, the kinds of things that there are also change, and so do the ways in which they change. That is what time is: the transformation of transformation.

He [Jesus] had a terrible temper, you know, undoubtedly inherited from His Father.

Be not another if thou canst be thyself.