T Quotes
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“The character that lasts is an ordinary guy with some extraordinary qualities.”
Source: Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler
“The character, therefore, will depend upon the thoughts. I am what I think. I am what I think even more than what I do, for it is the thought that interprets the action. An act in itself good may become even bad by the thought that inspired it.”
Source: Self-Knowledge And Self-Discipline
“The character thing really is sort of, for me, personally, rather ancient history.”
“The character to follow thru on commitments made to others is built by following thru on commitments made to self.”
“The character traits which you do not appreciate about another person are also the very same tools that person has used to circumnavigate their life. We must not face another individual while bearing criticism for what we don't approve about them, because the traits people develop are their necessary tools applied to their own unique lives. Instead of criticizing, ask yourself, what kind of a life has this other person lived, that require such tools to be necessary. And what tools might you be yielding as a result of your own distinct journey, that others may also not understand?”
“The character truest to itself becomes eccentric rather than immovably centered, as Emerson defined the noble character of the hero. At the edge, the certainty of borders gives way. We are more subject to invasions, less able to mobilize defenses, less sure of who we really are, even as we may be perceived by others as a person of character. The dislocation of self from center to indefinite edge merges us more with the world, so that we can feel blest by everything.”
Source: The Force of Character: And the Lasting Life
“The character was created by you, if you kill yourself you kill the character, it happen because you done it... you don't realise it!”
“The character we exhibit in the latter half of our life need not necessarily be, though it often is, our original character, developed further, dried up, exaggerated, or diminished. It can be its exact opposite, like a suit worn inside out.”
“The character wherewith we sink into the grave at death, is the very character wherewith we shall re-appear on the day of resurrection.”
“The Character which a youth acquires in the early part of his Life is of great importance towards his future prosperity-one false step may prove irretrievable to his future usefulness.”
“The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool.”
“The character who was like me he died at 46, even it was 2008 year so far his name was David Foster Wallace.”
“The character's attitude is more important than plot.”
“The character, as written on the page, is just a blueprint for a human being.”
“The characteristic common to God and man is apparently that: the desire and the ability to make things.”
“The characteristic danger of great nations, like the Romans or the English which have a long history of continuous creation, is that they may at last fail from not comprehending the great institutions which they have created”
Source: The Works and Life of Walter Bagehot
“The characteristic feature of a free society is that it can function in spite of the fact that its members disagree in many judgments of value. Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.”
“The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.”
Source: The Ethics of Ambiguity
“The characteristic feature of capitalism that distinguishes it from pre-capitalist methods of production was its new principle of marketing. Capitalism is not simply mass production, but mass production to satisfy the needs of the masses.”
“The characteristic feature of militarism is not the fact that a nation has a powerful army or navy. It is the paramount role assigned to the army within the political structure. Even in peacetime the army is supreme; it is the predominant factor in political life. The subjects must obey the government as soldiers must obey their superiors. Within a militarist community there is no freedom; there are only obedience and discipline.”
Source: Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War
“The characteristic feature of modern capitalism is mass production of goods destined for consumption by the masses. The result is a tendency towards a continuous improvement in the average standard of living, a progressing enrichment of the many.”
“The characteristic feature of the loser is to bemoan, in general terms, mankind's flaws, biases, contradictions, and irrationality - without exploiting them for fun and profit”
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
“The characteristic feature of the ‘planned economy’ in the traditional model was that economic activity proceeded in accordance with instructions from above.”
Source: Socialist Planning
“The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare.”
Source: The Lost World
“The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. Other animals fight for territory or food; but, uniquely in the animal kingdom, human beings fight for their 'beliefs.' The reason is that beliefs guide behavior, which has evolutionary importance among human beings. But at a time when our behavior may well lead us to extinction, I see no reason to assume we have any awareness at all. We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.”
Source: The Lost World
“The characteristic mark of economic history under capitalism is unceasing economic progress, a steady increase in the quantity of capital goods available, and a continuous trend toward an improvement in the general standard of living.”
“The characteristic mark of this age of dictators, wars and revolutions is its anticapitalistic bias. Most governments and political parties were eager to restrict the sphere of private initiative and free enterprise.”
Source: Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist
“The characteristic merit of the English constitutions is, that its dignified parts are very complicated and somewhat imposing, very old and rather venerable, while its efficient part, at least when in great and critical action, is decidedly simple and modern.”
Source: The English Constitution: And Other Political Essays
“The characteristic of a disciple is not that he does good things, but that he is good in his motives, having been made good by the supernatural grace of God.”
Source: My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition
“The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.”
“The characteristic of every neurosis is to represent itself as natural.”
“The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.”
Source: Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)
“The characteristic of great innovators and great companies is they see a space that others do not. They don't just listen to what people tell them; they actually invent something new, something that you didn't know you needed, but the moment you see it, you say, 'I must have it.'”
“The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.”
“The characteristic of the first sort of religion is imitation. It insists on imitation: imitate Buddha, imitate Christ, imitate Mahavir, but imitate. Imitate somebody. Don`t be yourself, be somebody else. And if you are very stubborn you can force yourself to be somebody else. You will never be somebody else. Deep down you cannot be. You will remain yourself, but you can force so much that you almost start looking like somebody else.”
“The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.”
“The characteristic of the new birth is that I yield myself so completely to God that Christ is formed in me.”
Source: My Utmost for His Highest: The Golden Book of Oswald Chambers : Features the Author's Daily Prayers
“The characteristic of the present age is craving credulity.”
“The characteristic place to find Christians is among their enemies. The first place to look for Christ is in Hell.”
Source: A Keeper of the Word: Selected Writings of William Stringfellow
“The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair.”
Source: Selected writings: poetry and criticism
“The characteristic property of hallucinogens, to suspend the boundaries between the experiencing self and the outer world in an ecstatic, emotional experience, makes it posible with their help, and after suitable internal and external perparation, to evoke a mystical experience according to plan, so to speak. I see the true importance of LSD in the possibility of providing material aid to meditation aimed at the mystical experience of a deeper, comprehensive reality. Such a use accords entirely with the essence and working character of LSD as a sacred drug.”
“The characteristic virtue of Englishmen is power of sustained practical activity and their characteristic vice a reluctance to test the quality of that activity by reference to principles.”
“The characteristics of a good musician can be summarized as follows: 1. A well-trained ear. 2. A well-trained intelligence. 3. A well-trained heart. 4. A well-trained hand. All four must develop together, in constant equilibrium. As soon as one lags behind or rushes ahead, there is something wrong. So far most of you have met only the requirement of the fourth point: the training of your fingers has left the rest far behind. You would have achieved the same results more quickly and easily, however, if your training in the other three had kept pace.”
“The characteristics of healthy boundaries include self-respect; non-tolerance of abuse or disrespect; responsibility for exploring and nurturing personal potential; two-way communication of wants, needs, and feelings; expectations of reciprocity; and sharing responsibility and power.”
“The characteristics that I look for when I'm looking for really good entrepreneurs to lead companies are you have to have an inquiring mind, you have to say there must be a better way to do things, and now with technology at a point where everything is possible, how do we turn the possible into the probable? And it all starts with a passion to do something really well, to solve a problem in a way that's never been solved before, and to have just an incredible work ethic, to be persistent.”
“The characterization of entire groups as victims has underwritten the conviction that such groups may never be subjected to criticism of any kind.”
Source: The Tyranny of Virtue: Identity, the Academy, and the Hunt for Political Heresies
“The characters [of The Tempest] have always been favorites of mine. It is one of his meditations on art - what it does.”
“The characters act for reasons that they can’t control and, as readers, we have to believe in their motivations, their sense of choice and in the reality of their suffering, even though, deep down, we know it’s all just puppetry on the part of the writer.”
“The characters are complicated. The people you think are bad, may not be so bad, and the ones you think are good, may not be so good.”
“The characters are great, and this is the first adventure of the brothers Grimm, so there's plenty of potential to make a franchise. We've been quite successful in the past, so anything like that, if it does pay off with hopefully the good movie that I think it will be, it pays off also down the road.”