A Quote by George Packer

In the extremity of war, character is revealed.

George Packer

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Character Extremity Revealed War

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George Packer
American - Novelist
Born: August 13, 1960

I don't know if it's a male thing, but I've always been interested in how people respond to the stresses and dangers of war, how they react under fire. In the extremity of war, character is revealed.

George Packer

There was a saying that a man's true character was revealed in defeat. I thought it was also revealed in victory.

Alison Goodman

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine, the highest earthly felicity, was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Catharine Beecher

As the character talks and moves, the world around him is slowly revealed, just like dollying a camera back for a wider look at things. So all my stories start with a character, and that character introduces setting, culture, conflict, government, economy... all of it, through his or her eyes.

Robin Hobb

I think action should be revealed through character, so if you have a plot problem, it's probably a character problem.

Zoe Kazan

Action is only really compelling when it reveals character - character revealed through action, and not action for its own sake.

Paul Greengrass

Character is revealed through action.

Aristotle

PLOT is CHARACTER revealed by ACTION.

Aristotle

The true foundation of theology is to ascertain the character of God. It is by the aid of Statistics that law in the social sphere can be ascertained and codified, and certain aspects of the character of God thereby revealed. The study of statistics is thus a religious service.

Florence Nightingale

The true character of a society is revealed in how it treats its children.

Nelson Mandela

Character is both developed and revealed by tests, and all of life is a test.

Rick Warren

Human character is just endlessly fascinating, and there is no character who is one thing any more than any one person is just one thing. As you work on a character, he/she is revealed more and more. That's what I continue to love about the work.

Sada Thompson

I love being uncomfortable. I love feeling very revealed. And when I watch a piece of work that I've done, I'm actually looking for that. How naked is this character? How truthful is this character? If it's truthful, there's automatically a separation.

Jonathan Majors

Character is both formed and revealed by how one deals with everyday situations as well as extraordinary pressures and temptations. Like a well-made tower, character is built stone by stone, decision by decision.

Michael Josephson

What a person says and does in ordinary moments when when no one is looking reveals more about true character than grand actions taken while in the spotlight. Our true character is revealed by normal, consistent, everyday attitudes and behavior, not by self-conscious words or deeds or rare acts of moral courage.

Michael Josephson

In books and in life, you need to read several pages before someone's true character is revealed.