C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Character, I think, is the single most important thing in fiction. You might read a book once for its interesting plot—but not twice.”
“Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.”
“Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.”
Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century
“Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.”
“Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.”
“Character, not circumstances, makes the man.”
“Character, not passion keeps marriages together long enough to do their work of raising children into mature, responsible, productive citizens.”
“Character, self-discipline, determination, attitude and service are the substance of life.”
Source: The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours
“Character, to me, is the life's blood of fiction”
“Character: The ability to carry out a worthy decision after the emotion of making that decision has passed. Character simply stated is doing what you said you were going to do. If you develop a reputation for that, do you have any idea the effect that has on self-perception? Its immense, just immense. The Savior was a man of character. He did everything he said he was going to do.”
“Character: the grandest thing in the world.”
Source: Character: The Grandest Thing in the World (Unabridged): From the Renowned Author of Inspirational Works like How to Get what You Want, Prosperity and How to Get It, The Miracles of Right Thought, Self-Investment and Masterful Personality
“Characterisation is a certain kind of possession, or claim to possession, of that which cannot be possessed. It is the construction of a little abstract effigy, a model as English physicists call it, of a reality which will not lend itself to these tricks, these deceptive pretences, except in the most superficial way. Reality will only play this game with us in so far as we cut ourselves off from it, and consequently are guilty of self-desertion.”
Source: Being and Having
“Characteristically, after an initial viral insult patients have relapsing and remitting mental and physical exhaustion, which is brought on by varying degrees of physical and mental exertion and relieved by rest, the fatigue often being accompanied by consistent associated symptoms. These people cope at a reduced level of activity because of ill health, not fear of ill health.”
“Characteristically skeptical of the idea that living things would faithfully follow mathematical formulas, [Robert Harper] seized upon factors in corn which seemed to blend in the hybrid-rather than be represented by plus or minus signs, and put several seasons into throwing doubt upon the concept of immutable hypothetical units of inheritance concocted to account for selected results.”
“Characteristically, however, the overthrow of the dictator simply means that there will be another dictator. ... the policies they follow will probably not be radically different. If we look around the world, we quickly realize that these policies will not be radically different from those that would be followed by a democracy either.”
Source: Autocracy
“Characteristics cling to families.”
Source: Hereditary Genius: An Inquiry Into Its Laws and Consequences
“Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.”
“Characteristics of CFS/ME include persistent mental and physical fatigue accompanied by a range of neurological, autonomic, neuroendocrine, immune and sleep difficulties (Carruthers et al., 2003). In turn, these manifestations produce a range of functional limitations including severe cognitive impairments (e.g. problems with attention, problem-solving, concentration, memory and verbal communication) and debilitating physical difficulties such as problems with general mobility and self-care, shopping, food-preparation and housekeeping (Taylor & Kielhofner, 2005). These impairments are often acute and enduring, impacting upon an individual’s personal, occupational and social lives.”
“Characteristics of System 1:
• generates impressions, feelings, and inclinations; when endorsed by System 2 these become beliefs, attitudes, and intentions
• operates automatically and quickly, with little or no effort, and no sense of voluntary control
• can be programmed by System 2 to mobilize attention when a particular pattern is detected (search)
• executes skilled responses and generates skilled intuitions, after adequate training
• creates a coherent pattern of activated ideas in associative memory
• links a sense of cognitive ease to illusions of truth, pleasant feelings, and reduced vigilance
• distinguishes the surprising from the normal
• infers and invents causes and intentions
• neglects ambiguity and suppresses doubt
• is biased to believe and confirm
• exaggerates emotional consistency (halo effect)
• focuses on existing evidence and ignores absent evidence (WYSIATI)
• generates a limited set of basic assessments
• represents sets by norms and prototypes, does not integrate
• matches intensities across scales (e.g., size to loudness)
• computes more than intended (mental shotgun)
• sometimes substitutes an easier question for a difficult one (heuristics)
• is more sensitive to changes than to states (prospect theory)*
• overweights low probabilities*
• shows diminishing sensitivity to quantity (psychophysics)*
• responds more strongly to losses than to gains (loss aversion)*
• frames decision problems narrowly, in isolation from one another*”
Source: Thinking, Fast and Slow
“Characteristics which define beauty are wholeness, harmony and radiance.”
“Characterization in a play is like a blank check which the dramatist accords to the actor for him to fill in.”
Source: The Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder, Volume T
“Characterization is an accident that flows out of action and dialogue.”
Source: Trial and Error
“Characterization is integral to the theatrical experience.”
“Characterization is not divorced from plot, not a coat of paint you slap on after the structure of events is already built. Rather characterization is inseparable from plot.”
Source: Dynamic Characters
“Characterization requires a constant back-and-forth between the exterior events of the story and the inner life of the character.”
Source: The Art of Character: Creating Memorable Characters for Fiction, Film, and TV
“Characterization requires self-knowledge, insight into human nature . . . it is more than impersonation.”
“Characterizations are quick but precise; Stevenson's people are sketched but never caricatured. Mood is implied rather than belabored. The narrative is as chopped and lowered as a kid's hot rod.”
Source: Danse Macabre
“Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater.”
“Characters are born from necessity.”
“Characters are not created by writers. They pre-exist and have to be found.”
“Characters are often revealed by the ways they misapprehend others.”
“Characters are story. And any great plot or subplot is driven
by the characters' wants and desires.”
“Characters are the key to a good book. It took me several novels to comprehend that.”
“Characters are the lifeblood of any
good book.”
Source: The Writer's Tune-up Manual: 35 Exercises That Will Scrape the Rust Off Your Writing
“Characters aren't a fling. They aren't a one-night stand. Getting to know them takes time and hard work. It takes excessive free writes and multiple experiments.”
“Characters begin as voices, then gain presence by being viewed in others' eyes. Characters define one another in dramatic contexts. It is often very exciting, when characters meet - out of their encounters, unanticipated stories can spring.”
“Characters begin as your children and become your teachers.”
Source: The Fifty Shades of Grey Phenomena
“Characters can be mysterious and you're not really sure which way they might turn at a given point.”
“Characters can become boring. That's what's tricky about television. It goes on and on - you're playing this same character for five seasons and it gets easy to fall into just walking on the set and assuming you know how to play a scene.”
“Characters carrying the playwright's disapproval is a un-Shakespearian burden.”
Source: The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
“Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.”
“Characters don't belong to anyone, not even the person who plays them.”
“Characters exist in a flat line until we challenge them - sometimes they challenge themselves, sometimes they're challenged by other people, by nature, by robots, or by fungal infections in and around one's nether-country. Stories need conflict across the physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual spectra. Accidents, betrayals, cataclysm, desperation, excess - these are the letters in the alphabet of conflict.”
“Characters for me are born on page one and they die on page 100.”
“Characters I've played, they used to impact my paintings, like 80 percent of the time, and especially when I was doing an action film.”
“Characters in animation do not cheat. They do not let you go for another. Animation is on certain points, very close to the pornography industry. All your physical needs are met. You can watch different animations and find anything you desire.”
“Characters in Hollywood movies encounter a lot of car chases. Characters in novels rarely wash their hands or do their laundry. And in the work of moral psychologists, people deliberate and reflect a lot. They deliberate, one sometimes feels, whenever they perform an action, and certainly whenever they act for good reasons.”
Source: Unprincipled Virtue: An Inquiry Into Moral Agency
“Characters last. Beautiful writing lasts. A compelling narrative lasts. Art survives long after ideas go extinct.”
“Characters more or less present themselves to me. I don't know their origins. I think if I did, if I seemed to myself to fabricate them, I could not induce suspension of disbelief in myself in the way writing fiction requires.”
“Characters must not brood too long. They must not waste time running up and down ladders in their own insides.”
Source: Aspects Of the Novel