Quotes about character
character humble self
To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together... humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self. William Wordsworth
character guests firsts
When I did the film Generations, in which the character died, I felt like a guest for the first time. That made me very sad. William Shatner
character giving almighty
Avarice is the most oppose of all characters to that of God Almighty, whose alone it is to give and not receive. William Shenstone
character action importance
Trifles discover a character, more than actions of importance.
character play giving
Even one word, or certainly one sentence, should be able to describe the basic characteristic that the scene has, or the character has, or the story has. And then you begin to detail that one spine, and you have offshoots from that spine, and it becomes more and more complex, but all of it stems from that one-word, one-line theme, which can give the character, the scene, or the play its uniqueness.
character proud kirk
All in all, Kirk's character is something I am very proud of.
character awe-and-wonder spine
I always thought that the spine of a character was awe and wonder.
character meat bones
I love to evoke the bones and meat and thoughts of characters.
character ethical-standards essentials
I ask that all Americans demonstrate in their personal and public lives... the high ethical standards that are essential to good character and to the continued success of our Nation. William J. Clinton
character mean successful
We, the lineal representatives of the successful enactors of one scene of slaughter after another, must, whatever more pacific virtues we may also possess, still carry about with us, ready at any moment to burst into flame, the smoldering and sinister traits of character by means of which they lived through so many massacres, harming others, but themselves unharmed. William James
character fate evil
We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its ever so little scar...Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out.
character mean organization
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
character men thinking
Compared with men, it is probable that brutes neither attend to abstract characters, nor have associations by similarity. Their thoughts probably pass from one concrete object to its habitual concrete successor far more uniformly than is the case with us. In other words, their associations of ideas are almost exclusively by contiguity. So far, however, as any brute might think by abstract characters instead of by association of con cretes, he would have to be admitted to be a reasoner in the true human sense. How far this may take place is quite uncertain.
character mind world
Intellectualism' is the belief that our mind comes upon a world complete in itself, and has the duty of ascertaining its contents; but has no power of re-determining its character, for that is already given.
character sea feelings
Every time a resolve or a fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing practical fruit is worse than a chance lost; it works to hinder future resolutions and emotions from taking the normal path of discharge. There is no more contemptible type of human character than that of the nerveless sentimentalist and dreamer, who spends his life in a weltering sea of sensibility and emotion, but who never does a manly concrete deed.
character doe circumstances
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
character roots excellence
The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgment, character, and will... An education which should improve this faculty would be the education par excellence.
character criticism respect-me
I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure. William Gilmore Simms
character technique stories
Technique is of less interest than character and story. William Friedkin
character giving decision
Part of the core of my system, is a way of trying to give the characters more control. If I'm practicing making up what the characters will do, it's never good. In fact, when I catch myself doing that, I try to get rid of that section, and try and let them start making the decisions. William Gibson
character names way
I very seldom compose anything in my head which later finds its way into text, except character names sometimes - I'm often very much inspired by things that I misunderstand.
character thinking special
A lot of directors are great and they are fine but you know I think that Harry really takes a special point to really engage the actors and really make it feel like a safe place for them to explore whatever it is they want to explore in whatever scene with their character. Will Estes
character situation
I like doing character movies. I like doing movies about personal situations; that's what I love about dealing with things. Will Gluck
character want props
I don't like having characters as props. I never want a character to be a prop.
character play kind
I'd like to do voiceovers my whole life. I get to kind of create a character and go in and play. Will Friedle
character play people
Getting to meet people that I've admired my entire life, and getting to meet them in such a way where they're coming in to play completely different characters than I had ever seen them do is just wonderful.
character too-much comedy
When you're doing an out-and-out comedy, the notion of preparing for a character - I hope I don't reveal too much of myself here - but, uh, no, I'm not doing anything. Will Ferrell
character intellectual inseparable
I have always believed the thesis that one's politics and the character of one's intellectual work are inseparable. Whitfield Diffie
character interesting people
The interesting thing about fiction from a writer's standpoint is that the characters come to life within you. And yet who are they and where are they? They seem to have as much or more vitality and complexity as the people around you. Whitley Strieber
character important doe
The truth is, everything ultimately comes down to the relationship between the reader and the writer and the characters. Does or does not a character address moral being in a universal and important way? If it does, then it's literature.
character pressure handle
Pressure builds character and allows to handle what else is coming. Sarah Palin
character helping excitement
But to be part of helping create a character and be a part of something from the beginning - the excitement of it - it doesn't get any better. Sarah Chalke
character thinking different
I would like to think that Im more different from my character than I am.