Characteristics Quotes - Page 3

It is a singular characteristic of love that we cannot hide it where it exists, or pretend it where it does not exist.

In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of more conventional stimuli.

The characteristic of every neurosis is to represent itself as natural.

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.

The characteristic of the present age is craving credulity.

He was endowed with the extraordinary powers of endurance characteristic of madmen and simpletons.

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

Futility is the defining characteristic of life.

An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty.

You don't characterize CEOs as dealmakers or in any one particular area. An important characteristic of a CEO is leader. That's probably the most important characteristic.

This characteristic of Dasein's being this "that it is" is veiled in its "whence" and "whither.

Which is the most universal human characteristic: fear, or laziness?

Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.

I don't think that modesty is the outstanding characteristic of contemporary politics, do you?

Every Englishman is an average Englishman: it is a national characteristic.

It is curiosity, quite right-a divine curiosity. A characteristic of the gods is curiosity.

If an urn lacks the characteristics of an urn, how can we call it an urn?

It would seem evident, therefore, that the secret of the American short story was the treatment of characteristic American life, with absolute knowledge of its peculiarities and sympathy with its method.

Good temper and moderation are the characteristics of parliamentary language.

Exclusiveness is a characteristic of recent riches, high society, and the skunk.

Unteachable from infancy to tomb — There is the first & main characteristic of mankind.

One of the characteristics of kitsch is precisely the neutralization of 'extreme situations', particularly death, by turning them into some sentimental idyll.

Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature.

It is indeed paradoxical that, while the apologists of capitalism usually consider the 'price mechanism' to be the great advantage of the capitalist system, price flexibility proves to be a characteristic feature of the socialist economy.

If there is one characteristic that signals creativity in business, it might be follow-through.