Quotes with characteristics

  • Two important characteristics of maps should be noticed. A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness.
  • The trading characteristics of a security become more important than its underlying economics. The virtual economics began to drive the physical economy rather than the other way around.

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  • James Weldon Johnson It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.
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  • Helen Rowland A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little ''personal characteristics.''
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Leonard Cohen Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.
    Leonard Cohen
    Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer (1934 - 2016)
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  • Brad Feld As a company grows from 25 to 50 to 100 to 200 to 500 to 1000 people, the characteristics of who is the very best talent in leadership roles will change. It's rarely the case that your leadership team at 1000 people is the same leadership team you had a 25 people.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Ben Shapiro Capitalism requires individual responsibility and accountability. People are seen as atomized units in a capitalist system - they are either useful, or they are not. They are not seen racially or ethnically or religiously. They consume and they produce, and those are their only relevant characteristics.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Cassandra Clare Creating characters is like throwing together ingredients for a recipe. I take characteristics I like and dislike in real people I know, or know of, and use them to embellish and define characters.
    Cassandra Clare
    American author of young adult fiction (1973 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Samuel Johnson Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Harry Emerson Fosdick He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.
    Harry Emerson Fosdick
    American minister (1878 - 1969)
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  • Arianna Huffington It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force them to suppress their specifically female characteristics and abilities by keeping up the pretense that there are no differences between the sexes.
    Arianna Huffington
    Greek-American author, syndicated columnist, and businesswoman (1950 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin Mars is much closer to the characteristics of Earth. It has a fall, winter, summer and spring. North Pole, South Pole, mountains and lots of ice. No one is going to live on Venus; no one is going to live on Jupiter.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • J. S. Habgood Movements born in hatred very quickly take on the characteristics of the thing they oppose.
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  • Saskya Pandita Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.
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  • Felix Frankfurter Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
    Felix Frankfurter
    Austrian-American lawyer, professor, and jurist (1882 - 1965)
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  • Jean Cocteau One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Brad Feld One of the consistent characteristics of the tech industry is an endless labelling of technology and approaches.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • John W. Foster One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.
    John W. Foster
    American diplomat and military (1836 - 1917)
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  • Barry Sternlicht Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.
    Barry Sternlicht
    billionaire and the (1960 - )
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  • Alex Haley Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.
    Alex Haley
    American writer (1921 - 1992)
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  • Ben Horowitz Shareholder activism works when activists understand something about the characteristics of the business that the board doesn't.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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