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“You see, it's really quite simple. A simile is just a mode of comparison employing 'as' and 'like' to reveal the hidden character or essence of whatever we want to describe, and through the use of fancy, association, contrast, extension, or imagination, to enlarge our understanding or perception of human experience and observation.”

Want Humans Character Use Understanding Imagination Simple Perception Essence Observation Fancy Comparison Association Contrast Extensions Human Experience Simile Employing

Author:Norton Juster

“The fighter (like the writer) must stand alone. If he loses he cannot call an executive conference and throw off on a vice president or the assistant sales manager. He is consequently resented by fractional characters who cannot live outside an organization.”

Ifs Character President Loses Organization Vices Fighter Managers Executives Conferences Assistants Vice President Stand Alone

Book:The Sweet Science

Source: The Sweet Science

“In fashion, it’s always better to be an interesting person than a beautiful one. Character is much more fascinating than pure good looks.”

Looks Persons Character Beautiful Interesting Fashion Pure Fascinating Looking Good

Author:Carine Roitfeld

“...there are persons who seem to have overcome obstacles and by character and perseverance to have risen to the top. But we have no record of the numbers of able persons who fall by the wayside, persons who, with enough encouragement and opportunity, might make great contributions.”

Persons Enough Character Seems Might Able Fall Opportunity Numbers Records Overcoming Encouragement Perseverance Obstacles Contribution Teamwork Collaboration Risen

Author:Mary Barnett Gilson

“The right to freedom of expression is justified first of all as the right of an individual purely in his capacity as an individual. It derives from the widely accepted premise of Western thought that the proper end of man is the realization of his character and potentialities as a human being.”

Men Firsts Humans Ends Character Individual Human Beings Acceptance Expression Capacity Western Accepted Civil Rights Realization Justified Premises Freedom Of Expression

Author:Thomas I. Emerson

“Character is the sum of one's good habits (virtues) and bad habits (vices). These habits mark us and affect the ways in which we respond to life's events and challenges. Our character is our profile of habits and dispositions to act in certain ways.”

Way Character Certain Challenges Virtue Events Habit Mark Vices Disposition Profile Bad Habits Good Habits

Author:Thomas Lickona

“Character consists of the moral awareness and strength to know the good, love the good and do the good.”

Knows Character Moral Awareness Good Character Good Love Moral Strength

Author:Thomas Lickona

“Character is developed one positive action at a time. Therefore nothing is actually trivial in our lives. To grow in character development, pay attention to seemingly trivial matters. Someone who grows from each minor life event will eventually reach high levels of character perfection.”

Matter Character Action Grows Levels Pay Attention Our Lives Events Development Perfection Pay Attention Minors High Level Character Development

Author:Zelig Pliskin

“One's character is one's habitual way of behaving. We all have patterns of behavior or habits, and often we are quite unaware of them. When Socrates urged us to Know thyself, he clearly was directing us to come to know our habitual ways of responding to the world around us.”

Knows World Way Character Habit Behavior Patterns Thyself Responding Habitual Know Thyself

Author:Thomas Lickona

“Prayer is not a check request asking for things from God. It is a deposit slip - a way of depositing God's character into our bankrupt souls.”

Way Soul Character Prayer Asking Checks Slips Request Deposits

Author:Dutch Sheets

“There is a beauty bestowed in some degree on all God's saints who pray much which is of the same nature and is the most precious of all answers to prayer. Character flows from the well-spring of prayer.”

Wells Character Prayer Answers Praying Degrees Spring Flow Saint Answers To Prayer

Author:James Stalker

“The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.”

Life Persons Character Success Virtue Media Ethics Philosophical

Author:Aristotle

“Angels can help us understand what intuition means in a personal way. Angels are actually in charge of a large part of our intuitive self. Viewing intuition from the perspective of angel consciousness, we can say that intuition is our way of tapping into a higher power for guidance and awareness.”

Way Mean Self Character Helping Spirituality Consciousness Awareness Perspective Higher Angel Intuition Guidance Intuitive Higher Power Tapping

Author:Terry Taylor

“Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.”

“Great persons are great because of good, strong foundations on which they were able to build a character.”

Persons Character Able Strong Foundation Great Person Strong Foundation

Book:The way to happiness: the eternal quest of mankind

Source: The way to happiness: the eternal quest of mankind

“What would you love to achieve and accomplish? What would you feel great about doing in your life? What meaningful goals would you wish to reach? Imagine achieving and accomplishing everything that you would wish [dream] for. Picture yourself reaching your highest aspirations and your most meaningful goals. Visualize yourself speaking and acting the way you would wish with the highest and best character traits.”

Way Feels Character Dream Wish Goal Acting Imagine Achieve Highest Accomplish Meaningful Aspiration Reaching Traits Anticipation Most Meaningful Character Trait Best Character

Author:Zelig Pliskin

“All too much of the wage structure has been based on the time workers put in, rather than upon the product put out. The consumer dollar has no interest in how much time it buys-only in the character and quality of the product itself.”

Has Beens Character Interest Business Quality Too Much Products Structure Dollars Workers Consumers

Author:Wheeler McMillen

“The place to begin building any relationship is inside ourselves, inside our circle of influence, our own character.”

Character Relationship Influence Building Circles Circle Of Influence

Book:Principle Centered Leadership

Source: Principle Centered Leadership

“Avoid trivial pursuits. You are a child of God, destined for glory, and called to do great things in His Name. Do not waste your life on hobbies, sports, and other recreational pursuits. Do not throw away the precious moments of your life on entertainment, movies, and video games. Though some of these things can properly have a 'small place' in the Christian's life, we must be careful not to give undue attention to temporal and fruitless activities. Do not waste your life. Employ the time of your youth in developing the character and skills necessary to be a useful servant of God.”

“A Man who is Shy and Modest, is An Amazing Character, but a Women who is Shy and Modest is Beyond Amazing.”

Men Character Islamic Shy Modest Muslim Shyness

Author:Abu Bakr

“Leadership is not about personality, possessions, or charisma, but all about who you are as a person. I used to believe that leadership was about style but now I know that leadership is about substance, namely character.”

Knows Believe Persons Character Used Style Personality Who You Are Possession Substance Charisma

Book:The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership

Source: The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership

“You can do what you want to do. You can be what you want to be.”

Want Life Inspirational Character Can Do What You Want

Author:Dave Thomas

“We hardly know an instance of the strength and weakness of human nature so striking and so grotesque as the character of this haughty, vigilant, resolute, sagacious blue-stocking, half Mithridates and half Trissotin, bearing up against a world in arms, with an ounce of poison in one pocket and a quire of bad verses in the other.”

Knows World Humans Character Nature Half Strength Human Nature Arms Weakness Blue Instance Poison Pockets Verses Grotesque Vigilant Resolute Strength And Weakness Stockings Haughty

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“Put it out of the power of truth to give you an ill character. If anybody reports you not to be an honest man let your practice give him the lie.”

Ifs Men Giving Character Lying Practice Honest Ill Reports Deceit Dishonesty Honest Man

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“Good character consists of knowing the good, desiring the good, and doing the good habits of the mind, habits of the heart, and habits of action.”

Mind Heart Character Action Desire Knowing Psychology Habit Integrity Mindset Good Character Good Habits

Book:Educating for Character: How Our Schools Can Teach Respect and Responsibility

Source: Educating for Character: How Our Schools Can Teach Respect and Responsibility

“All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.”

People Character Virtue Vices Fairness

Book:Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics

Source: Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics

“Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.”

“You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.”

Source: The Nemesis of Faith

“New pressures are causing ever more people to find their main satisfaction in their consumptive role rather than in their productive role. And these pressures are bringing forward such traits as pleasure-mindedness, self-indulgence, materialism, and passivity as conspicuous elements of the American character.”

People Self Character Pleasure Roles Elements Pressure Satisfaction Productive Materialism Traits Consumerism Indulgence Overconsumption Passivity Self Indulgence American Character

Author:Vance Packard

“The answers to the human problems of ecology are to be found in economy. And the answers to the problems of economy are to be found in culture and character. To fail to see this is to go on dividing the world falsely between guilty producers and innocent consumers.”

World Humans Character Problem Culture Found Answers Economy Failing Goes On Innocent Producers Guilty Consumers Consumerism Ecology Overconsumption Dividing Human Problems

Book:What Are People For?: Essays

Source: What Are People For?: Essays

“Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is...opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation.”

Ifs May Character Doors Example Benefits Highest Importance Worthy Opening Instruction Imitation Courtesy Enabling

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. The size of the project means little in art, beyond the money matter. It is the quality of the character that really counts.”

Mean Littles Art Matter Character House Quality Advice Projects Art Is Regard Size Chickens Desirable Cathedrals Money Matters

Book:Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1930-1932

Source: Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1930-1932

“How fleeting are the wishes and efforts of man! how short his time! and consequently how poor will his products be, compared with those accumulated by nature during whole geological periods. Can we wonder, then, that nature's productions should be far 'truer' in character than man's productions; that they should be infinitely better adapted to the most complex conditions of life, and should plainly bear the stamp of far higher workmanship?”

Source: The origin of species (low cost). Limited edition

“GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These, by some occult process of nature, are penetrated and suffused with various degrees of the bird's intellectual energies and emotional character, so that when inked and drawn mechanically across paper by a person called an "author," there results a very fair and accurate transcript of the fowl's thought and feeling. The difference in geese, as discovered by this ingenious method, is considerable: many are found to have only trivial and insignificant powers, but some are seen to be very great geese indeed.”

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

“A prolonged war in which a nation takes part is bound to impoverish the breed, since the character of the breed depends on the men who are left.”

Men War Character Science Left Nations He Man Depends Bounds

Author:J. Arthur Thomson

“Is it more important to make sure that you have another Clinton or a woman in the White House than it is to have somebody who is a morally sound character and judgment?”

Important Character House Sound White Judgment Clinton White House

Author:Kimberly Guilfoyle

“You have to stay in character in between takes.”

Character

Author:Ben Stiller

“Tim [Omundson] is just so wonderfully delicious. He has the sexiest beard on television. He's such a fabulous actor, and a great character.”

Character Actors Television Fabulous Delicious Beard Great Character Sexiest

Author:J. Robbins

“Years of live storytelling and character acting have helped me with building vivid locations and scenes.”

Years Character Acting Building Scene Storytelling Location Vivid

Author:David Crabb

“My strength is character. I'm pretty good at building walking-talking humans with brains like beehives.”

Humans Character Brain Talking Building Walking Beehives

Author:Christopher Bollen

“You know, it's hard as a writer to lose characters (and actors) you like. You really don't want them to die because you're not going to get to see them anymore.”

Knows Want Hard Character Dies Actors Loses Like You

Author:Michael Loceff

“The beauty of the world of Unbreakable is that you're playing it for reality. It should never feel like a comic book movie. It feels like a straight-up drama. It's real. You're confronting the possibility that comic book characters were based on people that were real.”

“A TV show where all of the characters are trying to figure out what's going on, and the suspense of that, fits my [voice] really well. You feel their frustration, anger and fear, and then, when the reveal happens, their sense of dread or horror, or whatever it is, and I like to paint with those colors.”

Feels Trying Wells Character Shows Happens Voice Figures Color Tvs Fit Horror Paint Suspense Frustration Dread Tv Shows Anger And Fear

Author:M. Night Shyamalan

“I always love costume, and I'm always heavily involved in how things should look. Or how they should feel really, because that's part of the way I suppose I get into character in some ways. It's a lot about costume.”

Way Feels Should Looks Character Involved Costumes

Author:Kit Harington

“I love playing confused, broken characters.”

Character Broken Confused

Author:Nina Dobrev

“I think most people don't really understand all that it takes to stand on your toes, and to be able to jump and land without any noise, or for a male dancer to be able to lift a girl. All of these things look so effortless, but there's an attention to detail and years of training, as well as being able to transform into a character and being able to meld all of those things together.”

People Thinking Years Wells Looks Character Able Together Girl Attention Land Training Males Details Noise Lifts Dancer Toes Effortless Attention To Detail

Author:Misty Copeland

“I don't think a lot of people really understand the commitment it takes to being a character that an actor in Hollywood would take to approaching a role that they're doing.”

People Thinking Character Actors Roles Commitment Hollywood

Author:Misty Copeland

“You really have to be a character to serve it properly. Obviously, you're acting, but you have to have those things in yourself, whether it's the experience or the same qualities.”

Character Acting Quality

Author:Greg Bryk

“Playing characters that speak a very violent language was my livelihood.”

Character Speak Language Violent Livelihood

Author:Greg Bryk

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