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![[Ella Baker]’s second defining characteristic was her dislike of top-down leadership... ‘She felt leaders were not appointed but the rose up. Someone will rise. Someone will emerge’. It was an attitude Baker shared with some of the older women in the movement Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/817/816860/816860.webp "[Ella Baker]’s second defining characteristic was her dislike of top-down leadership... ‘She felt leaders were not appointed but the rose up. Someone will rise. Someone will emerge’. It was an attitude Baker shared with some of the older women in the movement Picture Quote #1")
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A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and so-called backward peoples (Characteristic Quotes)
I think the French Open, in many ways, brought out a certain characteristic in me and in my game that was already there. Just the circumstances allowed for it to be able to show (Characteristic Quotes)
The most distinctive, and perhaps the most impressive, characteristic of American scenery is its wilderness (Characteristic Quotes)
I think provincialism is an endemic characteristic with mankind, I think everybody everywhere is provincial, but it is particularly striking with Texans, and we tend to be very Texcentric (Characteristic Quotes)
The Americans are extremely gadget minded people and American gadgets have a peculiar characteristic: they work (Characteristic Quotes)
A characteristic of the normal child is he doesn’t act that way very often (Characteristic Quotes)
Scarcely have I ever heard or read the introductory phrase, I may say without vanity, but some striking and characteristic instance of vanity has immediately followed (Characteristic Quotes)
No fact of human nature is more characteristic than its willingness to live on a chance (Characteristic Quotes)
It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment (Characteristic Quotes)
Cubans joke and satirize everything that life gives them, and I think that’s a positive characteristic (Characteristic Quotes)
Fidelity to the subject’s thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation (Characteristic Quotes)
That spirit of mockery characteristic of the guaracha was part of the mambo from the beginning (Characteristic Quotes)
No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance (Characteristic Quotes)
I have one good characteristic: I’m a pessimist, so I always imagine the worst - always. To me, the future is a black hole (Characteristic Quotes)
By the artist’s seizing any one object from nature, that object no longer is part of nature. One can go so far as to say that theartist creates the object in that very moment by emphasizing its significant, characteristic, and interesting aspects or, rather, by adding the higher values (Characteristic Quotes)
The Persians are called the French of the East; we will call the Arabs Oriental Italians. A gifted noble people; a people of wildstrong feelings, and of iron restraint over these: the characteristic of noblemindedness, of genius (Characteristic Quotes)
In England if something goes wrong--say, if one finds a skunk in the garden--he writes to the family solicitor, who proceeds to take the proper measures; whereas in America, you telephone the fire department. Each satisfies a characteristic need; in the English, love of order and legalistic procedure; and here in America, what you like is something vivid, and red, and swift (Characteristic Quotes)
There is not one text reference to characteristic Protestant religious life in these books... The dominant theme is the denial of religion as an actual part of American life (Characteristic Quotes)
If direction is a look, montage is a heartbeat. To foresee is the characteristic of both; but what one seeks to foresee in space, the other seeks in time (Characteristic Quotes)
The most consistent characteristic of awakened teachers and people I have met is a childlike nature. They laugh, cry, twinkle, and joke, all with a spontaneity born of freedom. Their faces are fluid and reflect a timeless sweetness, even into old age (Characteristic Quotes)
[Ella Baker]’s second defining characteristic was her dislike of top-down leadership... ‘She felt leaders were not appointed but the rose up. Someone will rise. Someone will emerge’. It was an attitude Baker shared with some of the older women in the movement (Characteristic Quotes)
The wrecking ball is characteristic of our way with materials. We ‘cannot afford’ to log a forest selectively, to mine without destroying topography, or to farm without catastrophic soil erosion. A production-oriented economy can indeed live in this way, but only so long as production lasts (Characteristic Quotes)
The characteristic feature of modern capitalism is mass production of goods destined for consumption by the masses. The result is a tendency towards a continuous improvement in the average standard of living, a progressing enrichment of the many (Characteristic Quotes)
The ability to change one’s mind is probably a key characteristic of the successful investor. Dogmatic and rigid personalities rarely, if ever, succeed in the markets. The markets are a dynamic process, and sustained investment success requires the ability to modify and even change strategies as markets evolve (Characteristic Quotes)
Ordinary citizens are so accepting of what is going on, grumbling when their material interests were affected, but seemingly accepting the spiritual poverty so characteristic of today (Characteristic Quotes)
Repentance is a characteristic of the whole life, not the action of a single moment (Characteristic Quotes)
Painter after painter, since the beginning of the century, has tended toward abstraction. First, the Impressionists simplified the landscape in terms of color, and then the Fauves simplified it again by adding distortion, which, for some reason, is a characteristic of our century. (Characteristic Quotes)
Traffic growled and snarled, rising at times to a machine-gun rata-tat-tat, while pedestrians were scuttling about with that desperate ratlike urgency characteristic of all big American cities, but which reaches its ultimate in New York. (Characteristic Quotes)
The one characteristic of authentic power that most people overlook is humbleness. It is important for many reasons. A humble person walks in a friendly world. He or she sees friends everywhere he or she looks, wherever he or she goes, whomever he or she meets. His or her perception goes beyond the shell of appearance and into essence. (Characteristic Quotes)
Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of religion. Rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of science. In other words, religion has become a matter of the heart and science has become a matter of the mind. This regrettable state of affairs does not reflect the fact that physiologically , one cannot exist without the other. Mind and heart are only different aspects of us. (Characteristic Quotes)