Distinctive Traits Quotes

I don't think that we really know a whole lot about Barack Obama at all that you would really call distinctive.

Personality is the supreme realization of the innate idiosyncracy of a living being. It is an act of high courage flung in the face of life, the absolute affirmation of all that constitutes the individual, the most successful adaptation to the universal conditions of existence coupled with the greatest possible freedom for self-determination.

You're doing it to make the character as specific as possible, so that it's a specific individual that you're talking about, not that whole class of people.

Each religious sect has its own physiognomy. The Methodists have acquired a face; the Quakers, a face; the nuns, a face. An Englishman will pick out a dissenter by his manners.

Philosophers have often looked for the defining feature of humans — language, rationality, culture, and so on. I'd stick with this: Man is the only animal that likes Tabasco sauce.

I am more proud of what distinguishes man from the animals than of what he has in common with them.

I think in my twenties I tended to think of all people as sort of more or less alike. In now think that people are really different in all these subtle ways that are very important.

Overall, I'm a mix of a lot of different quirks, from my dimples to my eyebrows to my lips, which I've always felt were just one of my signature features.

But the English are different, and they don't know how to be other than different.

The greater a man's talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.

Character shows itself apart from genius as a special thing. The first point of measurement of any man is that of quality.

Marking the differences between them was really important. It just became second nature. When we were choosing pajamas or something, instantly you'd be able to spot: those are [princess] Margaret, those are [princess] Elizabeth. It became this sort of language, really, of the two sisters.

I wear glasses, have a big scar, I sing loud, and I am blond. I'm sorry!

If not just the brain but the quirks that made the individual were composed of recycled matter only, it was hard to be sure where the edges of one such being ended and another person began.

We differ from one another in our individual gifts which, however, belong to our inner nature.

Every top player has his own style, just as every painter has his own personal signature.

You know like it has its own personality, its own character.

Of course the people in the Bullet Club will have similarities and always will, but finding what I can do as Adam Cole to be different is important.

I feel like I'm just built differently.

The personality is defined by its inconsistencies, not its consistencies. It's what makes us unique and who we are.

I believe that there's something interesting about anyone and everyone - you just have to figure out what that something is.

Furthermore, it is significant that the marked characteristics of this race are being here emphasized most.

Every species, human and subhuman, has some distinguishing mark, so that you can tell a man from a beast, or a dog from a cow.

The professionals resemble and recognize each other by virtue of the stigmata that their trade has left upon them. They are like the dog in the fable, whose collar has made an indelible mark around his neck. The amateur is the shaggy wolf whom no dog had better trust too far.