Views and Personal Qualities
Hallstein was described as quiet, introverted, sober, and rational, and he was sometimes perceived as cold and excessively intellectual. As civil-service head of the foreign office he was described as strict and hard-working, respected rather than liked, but honest, straightforward, and dependable, disciplined, with a keen intellect, excellent command of language, and formidable debating skills. People who knew him, praised his ability to explain things lucidly, in speech and writing. He lived frugally. He was described as being characterized by a sense of duty, circumspection, and dependability. Franz Josef Strauss called him one of the last Prussians (referring to his values of loyalty and duty).
Read more about this topic: Walter Hallstein
Famous quotes containing the words views and, views, personal and/or qualities:
“Parents must begin to discover their children as individuals of developing tastes and views and so help them be, and see, themselves as thinking, feeling people. It is far too easy for a middle-years child to absorb an over-simplified picture of himself as a sloppy, unreliable, careless, irresponsible, lazy creature and not much more—an attitude toward himself he will carry far beyond these years.”
—Dorothy H. Cohen (20th century)
“Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman’s sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and, roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison. Men have various employments and pursuits which engage their attention, and give a character to the opening mind; but women, confined to one, and having their thoughts constantly directed to the most insignificant part of themselves, seldom extend their views beyond the triumph of the hour.”
—Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797)
“It is very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Whatever qualities [Tsar Nicholas I] may have shown in his own kingly profession, it must be admitted that in his dealings with the Russian Muse he was at the worst a vicious bully, at the best a clown.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)