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“The Indian economy grew at 5.5 percent, but if you look at the last 30 years - for example, 1960 to 1985 - the progress made by East Asian countries was phenomenal. In a single generation they had been able to transform the character of their economy. They were able to get rid of chronic poverty.”

Ifs Years Looks Made Country Character Able Lasts Poverty Economy Progress Generations Example Grew Percent East Indian Asian 1960s Phenomenal Asian Countries

Author:Manmohan Singh

“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

“ZANY, n. A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the _buffone_, or clown, and was therefore the ape of an ape; for the clown himself imitated the serious characters of the play. The zany was progenitor to the specialist in humor, as we to-day have the unhappiness to know him. In the zany we see an example of creation; in the humorist, of transmission. Another excellent specimen of the modern zany is the curate, who apes the rector, who apes the bishop, who apes the archbishop, who apes the devil.”

Knows Play Character Modern Example Creation Serious Devil Excellent Unhappiness Italian Clown Apes Bishops Incompetence Specialists Humorists Transmission

Book:The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

“A mother's example sketches the outline of her child's character.”

Children Character Mother Example Outlines

Author:Tim Howard

“More than all, and above all, [George] Washington was master of himself. If there be one quality more than another in his character which may exercise a useful control over the men of the present hour, it is the total disregard of self when in the most elevated positions for influence and example.”

Ifs Men May Self Character Hours Quality Influence Example Position He Man Masters Exercise Disregard

Author:Charles Francis Adams, Sr.

“Imitation is for the most part so unconscious that its effects are almost unheeded, but its influence is not the less permanent on that account. It is only when an impressive nature is placed in contact with an impressionable one that the alteration in the character becomes recognizable. Yet even the weakest natures exercise some influence upon those about them. The approximation of feeling, thought, and habit is constant, and the action of example unceasing.”

Character Feelings Action Influence Effects Example Habit Exercise Accounts Constant Contact Permanent Unconscious Imitation Impressive Alterations Approximation Impressionable

Book:Happy Homes and the Hearts that Make Them. Or Thrifty People and why They Thrive

Source: Happy Homes and the Hearts that Make Them. Or Thrifty People and why They Thrive

“Many are the lives of men unwritten, which have nevertheless as powerfully influenced civilization and progress as the more fortunate Great whose names are recorded in biography. Even the humblest person, who sets before his fellows an example of industry, sobriety, and upright honesty of purpose in life, has a present as well as a future influence upon the well-being of his country; for his life and character pass unconsciously into the lives of others, and propagate good example for all time to come.”

Source: Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct

“To a female superhero her sexiness is not the most important thing about her, it's her mind, her spirit, and when I look at that character that to me is an example of characters that I like to play and I think it does a great thing for women.”

Thinking Mind Looks Doe Important Play Character Spirit Example Female Important Things Great Things Superhero Sexiness

Author:Jessica Chastain

“Postal will be so politically incorrect and harsh, it's like a mirror to American society, and I don't think the movie will be well received by everybody. For example, Osama Bin Laden will be one of the lead characters - I think that shows the mood of the movie.”

Thinking Wells Character Shows Example Mirrors Mood Harsh Bin Laden Osama Bin Laden American Society Lead Characters

Author:Uwe Boll

“The government has, in all countries, a vast influence, in determining the character of the national consumption; not only because it absolutely directs the consumption of the state itself, but because a great proportion of the consumption of individuals is gained by its will and example.”

Country States Character Government Individual Influence Example Proportion Consumption

Book:History of Economic Theory: The Selected Writings of Adam Smith, Jean-Baptiste Say, and J.R. McCulloch

Source: History of Economic Theory: The Selected Writings of Adam Smith, Jean-Baptiste Say, and J.R. McCulloch

“Aristotle writes that persuasion is based on three things: the ethos, or personal character of the speaker; the pathos, or getting the audience into the right kind of emotional receptivity; and the logos, or the argument itself, carried out by abbreviated syllogisms, or something like deductive syllogisms, and by the use of example.”

Writing Kind Character Use Three Audience Example Emotional Argument Speakers Persuasion Three Things Ethos Logos Pathos Receptivity Personal Character

Book:Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion - Second Edition

Source: Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion - Second Edition

“For example, the character of Claire in In Dreams wasn't imagined enough by me. Annette Bening is a great actress, and she gave a great performance, but because I hadn't fully written it essentially the character wasn't finished.”

Enough Character Dream Written Example Performances Finished Actresses Claire Great Performance

Author:Neil Jordan

“An earthly immortality belongs to a great and good character. History embalms it; it lives in its moral influence, in its authority, in its example, in the memory of the words and deeds in which it was manifested; and as every age adds to the illustrations of its efficacy, it may chance to be the best understood by a remote posterity.”

Source: Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions

“Poetry is related to philosophy as experience is related to empirical science. Experience makes us acquainted with the phenomenon in the particular and by means of examples, science embraces the whole of phenomena by means of general conceptions. So poetry seeks to make us acquainted with the Platonic Ideas through the particular and by means of examples. Philosophy aims at teaching, as a whole and in general, the inner nature of things which expresses itself in these. One sees even here that poetry bears more the character of youth, philosophy that of old age.”

Mean Ideas Philosophy Whole Character Age Teaching Example Youth Particular Bears Aim Embrace Old Age Related Poetry Is Phenomenon Conception Platonic

Book:The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 3 of 3)

Source: The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 3 of 3)

“Example teaches better than precept. It is the best modeler of the character of men and women. To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind him.”

Men Character Behinds Teach Example Men And Women Lofty Character Of A Man

Book:Duty, with Illustrations of Courage, Patience, and Endurance

Source: Duty, with Illustrations of Courage, Patience, and Endurance

“It is a good plan, with a young person of a character to be much affected by ludicrous and absurd representations, to show him plainly by examples that there is nothing which may not be thus represented. He will hardly need to be told that everything is not a mere joke.”

Needs May Persons Character Shows Young Plans Example Jokes Mere Absurd Affected Representation Ridicule

Book:Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley

Source: Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley

“The way you speak of the characters in your story shows what you think of the values of conservatives‚ or evolution, for example. It shows where your moral center is. So you are in the message business whether you like it or not.”

Thinking Way Character Stories Shows Values Speak Moral Example Evolution Messages You Like It

Author:Philip Pullman

“The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature, as from habit, custom, and education.”

Character Seems Differences Common Streets Example Habit Philosopher Arise Customs Wealth Of Nations Division Of Labor

Book:An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations With a Life of the Author: Also a View of the Doctrine of Smith, Compared with that of the French Economists, with a Method of Facilitating the Study of His Works, from the French of M. Jariner

Source: An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations With a Life of the Author: Also a View of the Doctrine of Smith, Compared with that of the French Economists, with a Method of Facilitating the Study of His Works, from the French of M. Jariner

“I think a shot can actually influence a scene in a huge way. For example, comedy is always better in a two-shot. What's between the characters is what's funny. So you learn about these things as you go along.”

Thinking Way Two Character Comedy Influence Example Huge Scene Shots

Author:Emily Blunt

“You have the hilarity and the great production. These films are distinctive because they are not just topical, they tell good stories and they let scenes play out physically. Apart from the dialogue, the characters also have a non-verbal existence, for example with Scrat.”

Play Character Stories Film Existence Example Scene Productions Dialogue Good Story Distinctive Hilarity

Author:John Leguizamo

“Jesus stands absolutely alone in history; in teaching, in example, in character, an exception, a marvel, and He is Himself the evidence of Christianity.”

Character Jesus Christianity Teaching Example Evidence Exception

Book:Many Infallible Proofs: A Series of Chapters on the Evidences of Christianity, Or, The Written and Living Word of God

Source: Many Infallible Proofs: A Series of Chapters on the Evidences of Christianity, Or, The Written and Living Word of God

“Be what you wish your children to be. Parents have perpetuated by precept and example their own stamp of character to their posterity.”

Children Character Wish Parent Example Our Children Your Children Stamps Posterity

Book:Signs of the Times Articles - Book III of III

Source: Signs of the Times Articles - Book III of III

“One of the tricks is to have the exposition conveyed in a scene of conflict, so that a character is forced to say things you want the audience to know - as, for example, if he is defending himself against somebody's attack, his words of defense seem Justified even though his words are actually expository words. Something appears to be happening, so the audience believes it is witnessing a scene (which it is), not listening to expository speeches. Humor is another way of getting exposition across.”

Ifs Knows Way Want Believe Character Seems Audience Example Listening Scene Conflict Speech Happenings Defense Tricks Justified Another Way

Author:Ernest Lehman

“He [Wilhelm Reich] believed that the individual's walk, stance, and breath patterns revealed a specific character type. Reich thought chronic muscular tension indicated repression and blocked the expression of affect. An example is the tight holding of the chest area as a sign of repressed feelings of need and longing.”

Needs Character Feelings Individual Walks Example Expression Type Areas Breaths Longing Patterns Tension Chests Repression Stance Blocked Repressed

Author:Judith Lynne Hanna

“I remember when I read Walter, for example, six years ago now, I said, "This is the role for me." I said that to my family. There was something there that I knew was absolutely right, and that was just based on the character. That's when gut instinct comes into play. I know there are certain things I won't do.”

Knows Years Said Play Character Remember Certain Roles Example Six Years Ago My Family Instinct Guts Remember When Gut Instinct

Author:John Noble

“There are so many examples of talented actors working today, no matter how they live their private lives. I'm lucky that people believe me when I'm in character.”

People Believe Matter Character Today Actors Example Lucky Believe In Me Private Life

Author:Neil Patrick Harris

“Not to say that the process assumes anything of "greater" or "lesser" importance, though: it's just more graphic information. Take the surrealists, for example, or a work by Cage. For me, there's a great value in doing this with literature. There's a certain form of dependence; process and product inform each other, depend on each other. I consider myself a writer who doesn't write with a style, almost. I begin with tension, with a vibe, a character.”

Writing Character Form Certain Values Literature Process Greater Style Information Example Products Depends Importance Assuming Tension Dependence Cages Graphic Great Value Surrealist

Author:Sergio Chejfec

“Every once in a while a messy character who manifests a REAL body emerges, for instance, Lisbeth Salander - and certainly commercial genre fiction is full of examples of real bodied sexual encounters or violence encounters - but for the most part, and particularly if you are a woman or minority author, your characters' bodies have to fit a kind of norm inside a narrow set of narrative pre-ordained and sanctioned scripts.”

Ifs Kind Real Character Body Fiction Violence Example Fit Scripts Instance Narrative Genre Encounters Minorities Norm Messy Lisbeth Salander

Author:Lidia Yuknavitch

“I try to think as little as possible, at least while working. I look at some of my early stories and can see the machination behind them, like a gear slowly moving. For example, sticking a dead father into the story to explain a character's sadness and bad decisions, or trying to impress myself with my own cleverness.”

Thinking Trying Looks Littles Character Stories Moving Father My Own Decision Behinds Sadness Example Impress Gears Cleverness Bad Decision Dead Father

Author:Mary J. Miller

“The obvious example would be Jesus. Jesus is an object of fascination for me. He's an interesting historical character because we don't know much about him. He seems to be a guy who was in touch with something deeper than most people around him were and someone who was very concerned with trying to communicate that.”

People Knows Trying Character Seems Would Be Guy Jesus Interesting Example Objects Concerned Historical Obvious Communicate Deeper Fascination

Author:Brad Warner

“I was then and am now very much a happy warrior, very much joyful. Not engaging in character attacks myself, just putting out, "Here are the facts, here are the evidence."And I noted, for example, that both of them [Marco Rubio and Donald Trump] were relying on fabrications.”

Character Facts Example Trump Evidence Warrior Joyful Engaging Marcos Fabrication

Author:Ted Cruz

“I decided to do philosophy at university, with a view to becoming a professional philosopher. Being a rather unstable character, at some points I had doubts about becoming a professional philosopher, but the example of two of my teachers, Ezequiel de Olaso and Juan Rodriguez Larreta, made me confirm my original decision.”

Made Two Philosophy Character Decision Views Doubt Teacher Example Becoming Decided Originals University Philosopher Unstable Juan

Author:Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

“In a story, for example, you'll start off with a character who is a little bit of a cartoon. That's not satisfying and you start revising. And as you revise you always are making it better by being specific and by observing more closely, which actually is really the same as saying you love your characters. The close observation equals love of them.”

Littles Character Stories Bits Love You Example Little Bit Observation Satisfying Cartoon Observing Revising

Author:George Saunders

“The problem I have these days is that women are often cast in a role - as a police officer, for example - and then are invariably perceived by the other characters as succeeding in a man's job, as if they're doing it in spite of being women.”

Ifs Men Character Problem Jobs Roles Example Succeed Police Casts These Days Spite Officers Being A Woman Police Officer

Author:Kathy Bates