One of the fundamental characteristics of striated muscle, and the one involving the greatest difficulty in investigation, is the great rapidity with which changes take place in it.
I'd say that, to be a good deal maker, you have to have 3 basic characteristics - timing, timing, and timing.
The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from beasts.
Loyalty is a characteristic trait. Those who has it, gives it free of charge.
Most characteristics associated with leaders are masculine: dominance, authority, assertiveness, and so forth.
Religion divides us, while it is our human characteristics that bind us to each other.
I look for these qualities and characteristics in people. Honesty is number one, respect, and absolutely the third would have to be loyalty.
It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.
Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.
Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology.
As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'
The art of utterance persuades initially by its music and its rhythm, before semiotic or personal characteristics come into play.
To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.
Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press.
The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.
As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.
The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
I steal things from people, characteristics, and I just stock them in my head like a library to use for characters in the future.
On the contrary, the characteristic element of the present situation is that economic questions have finally and irrevocably invaded the domain of public life and politics.
Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics.
