Meritocracy is a good thing. Whenever possibly, people should be judged based on their work and results, not superficial qualities.
I want to see a player on the football field. I want to see what kind of teammate they are, what kind of leadership qualities they have. I want to see how aggressive they are, how much fun they have playing the game.
Looking at where you went to school is a proxy; you assume, because someone went to a good school, therefore they must have the qualities you desire, even though that’s not actually really true.
My own theory about the phlegmatic qualities and properties of the English is the mountain of pure white sugar hydrocarbons they consume every day bloody day of the year – the stiff upper lip is petrified sugar; that’s Bermuda’s revenge, the with death, the rotting future square in the teeth of it.
Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.
I have looked at videos of many great champions like Muhammad Ali, Sugar Ray Robinson, and Joe Frazier, who each had special qualities. I never say one particular fighter is the best ever because each has a special unique style of fighting.
We have beastly qualities within us. If we’re put into certain circumstances, and the walls around us come in tighter and tighter, we all could maybe do dangerous things.
Hewitt is such a fighter on the court; he never gives up. They all have qualities to beat him.
I think people should try to teach young children that these qualities – stubbornness and a capacity to listen – might look like they are opposites, but they are not.
Self-denial and self-discipline, however, will be recognized as the outstanding qualities of a good soldier.
I love everything about football. You can learn so much from it, from leadership qualities to discipline. This sport involves every kind of emotion.
Certainly, the two things Scientology has on its side are money and lawyers, but those qualities won’t save it if it can’t find a way to bring new members into the fold.
I felt connected with Madonna from a very young age. I think I share a lot of qualities from her personality. I really respect her.
You don’t divorce simply because your spouse has a number of qualities you dislike and on occasions makes your life uncomfortable. If you are reasonable, you view divorce as a measure of last resort. There are many steps you can take in the meantime. You might even call in a trained mediator.
Everyone has friends or people they know, while they aren’t definitively sociopaths, they have sociopathic qualities.
The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.
The highest qualities of character… must be earned.
Humor, humility, and, of course, honesty, all are qualities that work in public and cultural diplomacy.
I wanted to be a surgeon, possibly influenced by the qualities of our family doctor who cared for our childhood ailments.
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities… because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
I’ll practice as good as I can, but I know that I play even better, with the qualities I have – leadership, my ability to make something happen in games, winning.
Jonathan David has a lot of qualities, as you can tell in the Belgian league he’s been scoring and assisting.
What I look for in a project or partner is integrity and character; I love the concept of family entertainment and crosses over the generations, where you can sit kids with their grandparents and everyone has a good time. Those are the qualities that I want to bring to viewers.
That which comes and goes, rises and sets, is born and dies is the ego. That which always abides, never changes, and is devoid of qualities is the Self.
People have more freedom to bring more of their personal qualities into the role they play once they have established themselves and their competence is no longer in question. But this is always within limits.
At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures – be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.
What used to drive me was the fact that I wanted to be better than everybody at something. One of my best qualities is that I used whatever other people found to be an adverse thing to be a positive thing for myself.
It’s far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.
As I get older I realize what qualities are important in love and what suits me. And what I won’t settle for.
The qualities involved with having to manage are exactly the same as it would be for a men’s team. We are talking about human beings.
When you are not winning games in a row, you don’t have confidence, and it is difficult to show all the qualities that you have.
The vampire movies I embraced as a kid used vampirism as a metaphor that expressed deep sadness and a lot of human qualities.
Mumbai and its people are full of warmth and love – it has the best qualities of all the cities in India.
For me, it’s not about price tags. It’s about your individual qualities, how hard you work and it’s important to make full use of the opportunities when they come.
That’s a wonderful thing, because one of the primary qualities of a good performance is honesty.
A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.
I’ve learned that leadership requires a number of qualities. It’s behavioural, tactical, technical, about communication… everyone has these to varying degrees. I try to encourage players to show theirs.
If you want to be an architect of change by raising great kids, God bless. If you want to do it by raising money for your kid’s school, great. If you want to build a garden – whatever it is. Women like myself – they’re complicated, and they have a lot of different interests and qualities within them.
One of the great qualities we have is forgiveness.
There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster can destroy such treasures of the heart.
We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
All leaders, male or female, innately possess feminine qualities like empathy, candor and vulnerability – the difference lies in which leaders choose to suppress those qualities, and which choose to leverage them as strengths.
I consider that part of my job as a pro: to know who you’re up against and how the attacking players play, what kind of characteristics they have, their qualities, how they move, their preferred foot.
My life path number is 7. One of the qualities is leadership. If I’m not being a leader, I’m not doing what I’m supposed to be doing.
I make friends with people really easily – that’s one of my best qualities.
The Great British summer has many qualities, but unfortunately guaranteed warm weather is not one of them.
When I first started acting, I had all these ideals about the kinds of roles I wanted to play, but the reality is that when you do television – and I do a lot of television – you get cast for qualities that you have as a person. So I look for qualities that I like to portray.
We fought no better, perhaps, than they. We exhibited, perhaps, no higher individual qualities.
Women bring some great qualities to work. We bring risk-awareness. We bring a greater focus on relationships. We bring more holistic decision-making than gentlemen do. We bring a more long-term perspective than gentlemen do. We tend to look for meaning and purpose in our jobs to a greater degree than gentlemen do.
I do want to play characters that have redeeming qualities, that are likable, for sure, and I have in the past, and I will again.
When I wanted to become an actor, I was afraid to tell it to my parents. But once, my uncle Chiranjeevi said that I have qualities to become a hero. Then, for the first time, I told him that I wanted to be an actor. He said it to my parents, and everyone is happy about it.
There are two qualities that I’ve noticed in good directors: One is that they have their vision very strongly in place; and two is that they listen to everyone’s opinion and still remember their vision.
Sensitivity and sex appeal are wonderful qualities to have whether you’re cartoon or human.
By a great man, however, we mean a man who, because of his spiritual gifts, his character, and other qualities, deserves to be called great and who as a result earns the power to influence others.
To me, the heart of the ministry lies in being able to help deeply distressed people, not because of your own qualities but because you represent Christ.
Karate probably gave me an incredibly deep awareness of all the parts of me, my flexibility, and the nimble qualities I’m doing, even if they’re unconscious.
The captain at international level has to be someone who is one of the first names on the team sheet, someone who has the respect of the other players and someone who has good leadership qualities.
