Alan Lightman Quotes, Character Quotes, Writing Quotes

Another strand of my writing is the importance of the idea. If you think about fiction writing as a spectrum, where at one end of the spectrum in the infrared, are the story tellers, and the people for whom creation of wonderful characters and telling a good story is the most important thing.

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The Superior Man is all-embracing and not partial. The inferior man is partial and not all-embracing.

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Tags : Confucius Quotes , Character Quotes , Men Quotes

The competent leader of men cares little for the niceties of other peoples' characters: he cares much--everything--for the exterior uses to which they may be put.... These are men to be moved. How should he move them? He supplies the power; others simply the materials on which that power operates.

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Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Moving Quotes , Character Quotes

... Societies aren t made of sticks and stones, but of men whose individual characters, by turning the scale one way or another, determine the direction of the whole.

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Tags : Plato Quotes , Character Quotes , Men Quotes

Indeed the worthy housewife was of such a capricious nature, that she not only attained a higher pitch of genius than Macbeth, in respect of her ability to be wise, amazed, temperate and furious, loyal and neutral in an instant, but would sometimes ring the changes backwards and forwards on all possible moods and flights in one short quarter of an hour; performing, as it were, a kind of triple bob major on the peal of instruments in the female belfry, with a skilfulness and rapidity of execution that astonished all who heard her.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Wise Quotes , Character Quotes

The nature of our motivation determines the character of our work.

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Motivation Quotes , Character Quotes

It is character that counts in a nation as in a man.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Character Quotes , Men Quotes

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.

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Character Quotes , Being Positive Quotes

Self-command is the main elegance.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Character Quotes , Self Quotes

Up to here, in general, we have mainly stuffed the brain of the young people with a indigestible multitude of varios notions, without thinking about enough of the prime necessity to form their character.

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Tags : African Spir Quotes , Character Quotes , Thinking Quotes

I used to be a lawyer, but now I am a reformed character.

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Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Character Quotes , Lawyer Quotes

Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.

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Tags : Aesop Quotes , Life Quotes , Character Quotes

Watch your character for your character is your destiny.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Character Quotes , Destiny Quotes

The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Passion Quotes , Character Quotes

It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving at the motive, the character, the secret self. We call the tree good from its fruits, and the man, from his works.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Character Quotes , Mean Quotes

There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Inspiration Quotes , Character Quotes

I come from a theater background, so I always like to dissect the scene and try to get some hint about what the author was trying to get at. I still look up the meaning of the name of the character to see if there are any clues in that.

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Tags : Adina Porter Quotes , Character Quotes , Names Quotes

Our characters are the result of our conduct.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Character Quotes , Personality Quotes

No one is ignorant that our character and turn of mind are intimately connected with the water-closet.

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Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Character Quotes , Water Quotes

The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Character Quotes , Foundation Quotes