Quotes about character
character men long
Each man's life is a kind of campaign, and a long and complicated one at that. You have to maintain the character of a soldier, and do each separate act at the bidding of the General. Epictetus
character men lovers
To adorn our characters by the charm of an amiable nature shows at once a lover of beauty and a lover of man.
character role-models way
One of the best ways to elevate your character is to emulate worthy role models
character personality handiwork
As if they were our own handiwork we place a high value on our characters. Epicurus
character pay-the-price volunteer
Give yourself fully to your endeavors. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price of a worthy goal. The trials you encounter will introduce you to your strengths.
character role-models follow-your-heart
Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
character effort theft
We can't control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
character space comfortable
I like exploring, especially being and getting more comfortable with a character and in the space a character is always in. Emily Bett Rickards
character thinking two
I think a shot can actually influence a scene in a huge way. For example, comedy is always better in a two-shot. What's between the characters is what's funny. So you learn about these things as you go along. Emily Blunt
character thinking way
I think I'm drawn to characters with complexity or who are under duress in some way and have some conflict going on.
character people different
If you're very open to watching the world go by, with people's different tics, you absorb it all without realizing it and find ways to put something into your character. I'm not sure I'm always aware I'm mimicking someone.
character roles looks
I love character roles. I'm happier in them. I look for roles that have some kind of complexity.
character thinking interesting
I always think that the most interesting characters are those that are trying to cover something or those that have some sense of bravado or composure.
character writing long
Writing a teen character is something I wanted to try again for a long time! Emily Giffin
character trying opinion
I try to be true to the characters that I've created and sometimes I disagree with them, but their opinions about the story and the characters really matter to me.
character law division-of-labor
At this point, an urgent question arises: ... Is it our duty to seek to become a thorough and complete human being, one quite sufficient unto himself; or, on the contrary, to be only a part of a whole, the organ of an organism? Briefly, is the division of labor, at the same time that it is a law of nature, also a moral rule of human conduct; and, if it has this latter character, why and in what degree? Emile Durkheim
character names historical
There is no sociology worthy of the name which does not possess a historical character.
character auditions scene
My characters have to talk, or they're out. They audition in early scenes. If they can't talk, they're given less to do, or thrown out. Elmore Leonard
character writing thinking
I've quit writing screenplay [adaptations]. It's too much work. I don't look at writing a novel as work, because I only have to please myself. I have a good time sitting here by myself, thinking up situations and characters, getting them to talk - it's so satisfying. But screenwriting's different. You might think you're writing for yourself, but there are too many other people to please.
character writing verbs
The line of dialogue belongs to the character; the verb is the writer sticking his nose in.
character writing easy
If you once understand an author's character, the comprehension of his writings becomes easy. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
character perfection simplicity
Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
character personality literature
Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
character paper sitting
Nobody can put a character on paper without - at any rate in part and at times - sitting as a model for it himself. Henrik Ibsen
character writing wrinkles
Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
character order risk
A rapid rendering of a landscape represents only one moment of its existence. I prefer, by insisting upon its essential character, to risk losing charm in order to gain greater stability. Henri Matisse
character artist expression
An artist who wants to transpose a composition onto a larger canvas must conceive it over again in order to preserve its expression; he must alter its character and not just fill in the squares into which he has divided his canvas.
character young claws
A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you.
character safety shy
Even when I became the typical shy adolescent, I never minded performing. I felt there was a kind of safety, a protection about being on stage, about losing myself in another character. Hayley Mills
character space broken
When I saw this Broken Kilometer, it reminded me of these 1,000 Buddhas. That piece is 1,000 one-meter gold rods, and this is 1,000 pieces of gold gilded wooden sculpture. In terms of design, it's up to the space's character. Hiroshi Sugimoto
character people photographer
When people call me a photographer, I always feel like something of a charlatan—at least in Japanese. The word shashin, for photograph, combines the characters sha, meaning to reflect or copy, and shin, meaning truth, hence the photographer seems to entertain grand delusions of portraying truth.
character men age
A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which have not been obvious to the superficial observer. Hesketh Pearson
character adversity have-a-great-day
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. Henry Ford