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Rich Mullins Musician
Character

"...I think there's only one [thing] that anybody teaches, and this is character. And I think that whether you are teaching history, math, or biology, or music, what you are really doing is, you are helping to shape the character of that person who is your student... Music is such a wonderful teaching tool, because while you are developing musical skills, that student can learn a lot about discipline [and] cooperation."

Character Teaching Math
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Seneca the Younger Philosopher, Statesman
Character

"We must take care to live not merely a long life, but a full one; for living a long life requires only good fortune, but living a full life requires character. Long is the life that is fully lived; it is fulfilled only when the mind supplies its own good qualities and empowers itself from within."

Long Character Empowering
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Richard Bach Author
Character

"When you dream, all the scenery, characters, events, perils, and outcomes are built from your own consciousness, the darks and oppressions as well as the delights. Same with the world awake, though it takes you longer to build it."

Character Dream Events
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Richard Bach Author
Character

"When I'm writing it's as if I'm the observer. It's as if that computer screen there -it used to be the typewriter - just kind of dissolves and there's this whirling tunnel of mist and there's a kind of proscenium arch, and then there are my characters, and they say what they say, and I laugh sometimes in surprise at what they say."

Writing Character Tunnels
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Richard Bach Author
Character

"Whatever happens on the surface, it's leading us in a direction. That beautiful core within us that is our character will make choices that will inevitably leads us to a higher understanding of who we are and why we're here. And it's best to be aware of that while it's happening."

Character Beautiful Choices
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Richard Bach Author
Character

"Reputation is what people think you are. Character is who you really are. Take care of your character and your reputation will take care of itself. The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work."

People Thinking Character
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Shirley Williams Politician
Character

"We have to say now we think the character of the party has changed so far it will take something very exceptional, something really out of the ordinary line to make us be convinced there's a chance of winning back the party."

Character Winning Party
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Simone de Beauvoir Philosopher, Writer
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"The father's life is surrounded by mysterious prestige: the hours he spends in the home, the room where he works, the objects around him, his occupations, his habits, have a sacred character. It is he who feeds the family, is the one in charge and the head. Usually he works outside the home, and it is through him that the household communicates with the rest of the world: he is the embodiment of this adventurous, immense, difficult, and marvelous world; he is transcendence, he is God."

Character Home Father
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Character

"For me, it's a voyage of self-discovery. I'm able to go on a set and to explore situations, personalities, people and characters that are close to me, or maybe not. Through going there and experiencing these different people and their situations, it helps me to get oriented and develop as a human being. So, acting is fundamental to who I am."

Character Self Discovery
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Robert Henri Artist
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"Renoir had not only a great interest in human character, in human feeling, but had also a great love for the people he painted."

People Character Love
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Spike Lee Filmmaker, Actor
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"As a writer I want everybody to get a chance to voice their opinions. If each character thinks that they're telling the truth, then it's valid. Then at the end of the film, I leave it up to the audience to decide who did the right thing."

Thinking Character Voice
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Spike Lee Filmmaker, Actor
Character

"I collect names for characters. Names are valuable; they can be your first source of insight into a character."

Character Firsts Names
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Sri Aurobindo Philosopher, Poet, Politician
Character

"There is the physical mind which is mechanical but the awareness which is the essential character (dharma) of the mind is also to some extent present there."

Mind Character Essentials
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Stephen Covey Author, Speaker
Character

"Effective leadership is the only competitive advantage that will endure. That's because leadership has two sides- what a person is character and what a person does- competence."

Character Basketball Leadership
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