Quotes about character
character people vices
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. Aristotle
character passion learning
A young man is not a proper hearer of lectures on political science; for he is inexperienced in the actions that occur in life, but its discussions start from these and are about these; and, further, since he tends to follow his passions, his study will be vain and unprofitable, because the end that is aimed at is not knowledge but action. And it makes no difference whether he is young in years or youthful in character.
character self support
Good moral character is not something that we can achieve on our own. We need a culture that supports the conditions under which self-love and friendship flourish.
character sea earth
We can do noble acts without ruling the earth and sea.
character giving quality
Character gives us qualities, but it is in actions - what we do - that we are happy or the reverse. ... All human happiness and misery take the form of action.
character people action
It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse.
character soul theatre
Music has the power of producing a certain effect on the moral character of the soul, and if it has the power to do this, it is clear that the young must be directed to music and must be educated in it.
character young should
Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.
character
We are what we frequently do.
character men class
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids.
character plot action
PLOT is CHARACTER revealed by ACTION.
character anxiety political
What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
character meditation mind
Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their character, and have only a moderate share of external goods, than among those who possess external goods to a useless extent but are deficient in higher qualities.
character choices opinion
Character is determined by choice, not opinion.
character men trying
The trick is to try and justify every word on the page and make sure my character is the man who would say that. Ben Kingsley
character play trying
I always try to find something I admire about every character I play.
character roots behaviour
All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.
character squad people
It seemed to me... that the only valid people to deal with crime were cops, and I would like to make the lead character, rather than a single person, a squad of cops. Ed McBain
character roots balance
I know that all cops are not sterling characters. But you have to have someone to root for. I balance it with rotten cops who will take a bribe, who will beat somebody up.
character views numbers
In the theater the audience is generally riveted to a single angle of observation. The movie director, though, can rapidly shift from objective to subjective--and to any number of subjective points of view--and in so doing seem to pull the audience directly inside the frame of his picture, giving the spectator the sense of experiencing an action from the viewpoint of a participant. Identification of the viewer with the film character, then, can be much more intimate than the analogous situation in the theater. Ed Murray
character mean cities
Whether on the floor of Congress or in the boardrooms of corporate America or in the corridors of a big city hospital, there is no body of professional expertise and no anthology of case studies which can supplant the force of character which provides both a sense of direction and a means of fulfillment. It asks, not what you want to be, but who you want to be. Elizabeth Dole
character passion history
As a novelist, I cannot occupy myself with "characters," or at any rate central ones, who lack panache, in one or another sense, who would be incapable of a major action or a major passion, or who have not a touch of the ambiguity, the ultimate unaccountability, the enlarging mistiness of persons "in history." History, as more austerely I now know it, is not romantic. But I am. Elizabeth Bowen
character plot should
Characters should on the whole, be under rather than over articulate. What they intend to say should be more evident, more striking (because of its greater inner importance to the plot) than what they arrive at saying.
character half firsts
Roughly, the action of a character should be unpredictable before it has been shown, inevitable when it has been shown. In the first half of a novel, the unpredictability should be the more striking. In the second half, the inevitability should be the more striking.
character meetings
Meetings that do not come off keep a character of their own. They stay as they were projected.
character found
Characters are not created by writers. They pre-exist and have to be found.
character people growth
Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.
character self add
Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one's self- sovereignty. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
character forgiving looks
No matter what he does, one always forgives him. It does not depend upon looks, either – although this actual person is abominably good-looking – it does not depend upon intelligence or character or – anything – as you say, it is just it. Elinor Glyn
character intimate-conversation interesting
The intimate conversations have its moments, because you have to sell the characters, because there is so much going on. It's so easy to get lost in the special effects and forget about the performances. The dialogue scenes have been great. It's been great working with Bryan and the writers to find where we're going and what's the story. Yeah, it's been really, really interesting. Eleanor Tomlinson
character dollars stories
Always, your work is the same: You have to tell a story, you have to make a character. It doesn't matter if there are thousands of dollars, millions behind it, or if there is nothing. Elena Anaya
character unique play
How many times can you play an action character, or a quirky romantic? Every actor has to find his own way to make each character unique. Edward Herrmann
character mean guy
I had to audition for the part of Jnior, and I wanted the role terribly because I knew it was a great character. This guy is a wonderful, funny, mean old guy. Dominic Chianese