Quotes about character
character rude awakening
True character stands the test of emergencies. Do not be mistaken, it is weakness from which the awakening is rude. Napoleon Bonaparte
character passion ambition
Great ambition is the passion of a great character.
character age habit
Age, habits of business and experience have modified many characters.
character men history
It is in times of difficulty that great nations like great men display the whole energy of their character and become an object of admiration to posterity.
character men rogues
Put a rogue in the limelight and he will act like an honest man.
character men misfortunes
To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.
character self over-you
Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it. Og Mandino
character strategy ifs
Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can't have both, opt for character. Norman Schwarzkopf
character ninety-nine percent
Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
character men judging
I admire men of character and I judge character not by how men deal with their superiors, but mostly how they deal with their subordinates. And that, to me, is where you find out what the character of a man is.
character black-and-white opposites
Characters tend to be either for or against the quest. If they assist it, they are idealized as simply gallant or pure; if they obstruct it, they are characterized as simply villainous or cowardly. Hence every typical character...tends to have his moral opposite confronting him, like black and white pieces in a chess game. Northrop Frye
character being-positive atheism
Whatever may be his true and final destination, there is a spirit within him at enmity with nothingness and dissolution. This is the character of all life and being. Percy Bysshe Shelley
character writing doe
I realise that it is fashionable now to dismiss the traditional novel as something of an anachronism, but to me it is still a vital form. Not only does it allow for the kind of full-blown, richly detailed writing that I love . . . but it permits me to operate on many levels and to explore both the inner state of my characters as well as the worlds beyond them. Paule Marshall
character acting way
In many ways, acting is really like a science to me to figure out the human behavior of any character that I'm playing. Pauley Perrette
character play effort
I love working with new directors. There's so much drive and effort. It still comes down to the character for me, but if it's a character I really want to play, I would never not do the project because of a new director.
character something-new knows
With each new character, I find something new about myself that I didn't know before. Paul Wesley
character writing worry
When I'm writing a script, I don't worry about plot as much as I do about people. I get to know the main characters - what they need, what they want, what they should do. That's what gets the story going. You can't just have action, you've got to find out what the characters want. And then they must grow, they must go somewhere. Mel Brooks
character writing names
Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.
character worry shining
The end of life has its own nature, also worth our attention. I don't say this without reckoning in the sorrow, the worry, the many diminishments. But surely it is then that a person's character shines or glooms. Mary Oliver
character light heaven
Eclipse of the light of heaven, eclipse of God - such indeed is the character of the historic hour through which the world is now passing Martin Buber
character writing paper
The process of writing a novel begins with a pang, a moment of recognition, and a situation, a character, or something you read in a paper, that seems to go off, like a solar flare inside your head. Martin Amis
character mind pages
When we read, we are doing more than delectating words on a page stories, characters, images, notions. We are communing with the mind of the author.
character profound tasks
You have before you the task of seeking new ways to announce Christ in situations of rapid and often profound transformation, and of emphasizing the missionary character of all pastoral activity. Pope Benedict XVI
character technology discovery
Certain elements of today's ecological crisis reveal its moral character. First among these is the indiscriminate application of advances in science and technology. Many recent discoveries have brought undeniable benefits to humanity. Indeed, they demonstrate the nobility of the human vocation to participate responsibly in God's creative action in the world. Unfortunately, it is now clear that the application of these discoveries in the fields of industry and agriculture have produced harmful long-term effects. Pope John Paul II
character color light
It seemed to me that it was possible to translate light, forms, and character using nothing but color, without recourse to values. Pierre Bonnard
character voice silence
[Revealing character] can't be done by pushing the person into position or arranging his head at a certain angle. It must be accomplished by provoking the victim, amusing him with jokes, lulling him with silence, or asking impertinent questions which his best friend would be afraid to voice. Philippe Halsman
character intelligent men
I try to photograph her beauty; with a man I try to show his character. Once I photographed a man with a big nose, and emphasized his nose, and he was very pleased with the picture. That could not happen with a woman. The most intelligent woman will reject a portrait if it doesn't flatter her. Only once in my whole career did it happen that a blonde asked me, 'Please make me look intelligent.' Unfortunately it was impossible.
character night play
One particular night I was at the theater. I was not scouting for a project, but I was touched by this play by Évelyne de la Chenelière. I was touched by the character. I thought it was a rich character that could be rich enough for a movie. Philippe Falardeau
character thinking sound
It used to be embarrassing. In the beginning, because you listen to yourself so much, you think, I must look like an asshole right now - or sound like an asshole. And then, you just get to that point where you've done so many ridiculous, ridiculous things in the booth from screaming, to having orgasms, to whatever your director is asking you to do for this character, you just lose your inhibitions. Rachael MacFarlane
character opportunity night
As the actors on the show we rarely get an opportunity to, as I said we get the scripts the night before but we have great producers on this show, so every once and a while matt or mike will say "I want to take the character in a different direction this season, what do you think about this?" and we do sort of get to add to it and feed it.
character ideas scripts
In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to break down a script and work on the character. Rachael Harris
character careers agents
I told my agent which women I aspire to have a career like: Frances McDormand, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney and Emma Thompson - character actresses who have something to say. I also said that I loved Madeline Kahn and Jessica Lange.
character two people
You know, we have to take these characters - who, granted, have their separate personalities but, on a lot of levels, are pretty two-dimensional - and make them into people with flaws, with insecurities. Rachael Leigh Cook