Attributes Quotes - Page 31

• I believe that a smile is the attribute of a positive attitude, both for yourself and the perception of others.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Attitude, Believe, Perception

  Twitter post from Feb 20, 2017

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• Your sexual attributes are simply chemistry and setups within your DNA. They are given by agreement as gifts for you to experience in this life.

  Lee Carroll

  Dna, Agreement, Chemistry

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• I attribute my talent and my success to God, but I believe that the only way you can manifest what He has ordained for you is by being close to Him and by making it happen. But we have to stay close to Him in order to be an image of Him.

  Nia Long

  Believe, Order, Way

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• The jostling of young minds against each other has this wonderful attribute, that one can never foresee the spark, nor predict the flash. What will spring up in a moment? Nobody knows.

  Victor Hugo

  Laughter, Spring, Doors

  "Les misérables".

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• The mere physical man is like the ant crawling on the paper, who observes black lettering and attributes its production to the pen and nothing more.

  Al-Ghazali

  Wisdom, Islamic, Men

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• To me, then, true criticism consists in trying to find out the intrinsic worth of the thing itself, and not in attributing a quality to that thing. You attribute a quality to an environment, to an experience, only when you want to derive something from it, when you want to gain or to have power or happiness. Now this destroys true criticism. Your desire is perverted through attributing values, and therefore you cannot see clearly. Instead of trying to see the flower in its original and entire beauty, you look at it through coloured glasses, and therefore you can never see it as it is.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Truth

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti”, Krishnamurti Foundation of Amer

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• My vision is my best attribute. I can see everything.

  Marshall Faulk

  Football, Nfl, Vision

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• Perfection is the exclusive attribute of God, and it is indescribable, untranslatable. I do believe that it is possible for human beings to become perfect, even as God is perfect. It is necessary for all of us to aspire after that perfection but when that blessed state is attained, it become indescribable, indefinable.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Blessed, Believe, Perfect

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.58, A&C Black

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• All this contains much that is obviously true, and much that is relevant; unfortunately, what is obviously true is not relevant, and what is relevant is not obviously true.

  Winston Churchill

  Relevant

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• Flexible in the face of change, resilient in the face of confusion. All of these attributes are choices, not talents, and all of them are available to you.

  Seth Godin

  Confusion, Choices, Faces

  Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.33, Penguin

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• Ahimsa is an attribute of the brave. Cowardice and ahimsa don't go together any more that water and fire.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fire, Water, Brave

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

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• Most often it happens that one attributes to others only the feelings of which one is capable oneself.

  Andre Gide

  Feelings, Emotion, Happens

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• The arithmetical machine produces effects that approach nearer to thought than all the actions of animals. But it does nothing that would enable us to attribute will to it, as to the animals.

  Blaise Pascal

  Animal, Doe, Machines

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.119, Cosimo, Inc.

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• All attributes ascribed to God are attributes of His acts, and do not imply that God has any qualities.

  Maimonides

  God, Quality

  Moses Maimonides, Aeterna Press (1948). “The Guide for the Perplexed”, p.174, Aeterna Press

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• In remaking the world in the likeness of a steam-heated, air-conditioned metropolis of apartment buildings we have violated one of our essential attributes-our kinship with nature.

  Ross Parmenter

  Air, Essentials, World

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• Critics of American colleges typically attribute the failings of undergraduate education to a tendency on the part of professors to neglect their teaching to concentrate on research. In fact, the evidence does not support this thesis, except perhaps in major research universities.

  Derek Bok

  Teaching, College, Support

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• ... We in the USA have been depending on prayers, pleading, and self-abasement to a deity to bring us magical advantages, and have been encouraged to attribute our prosperity and general success among nations, to that sort of action. In my opinion, hard work and dedication to logic and reason ought to be recognized as the reasons for our achievements, not appeals to a mythical friend-in-the-sky. We got where we are in spite of, not because of, those incantations.

  James Randi

  Prayer, Hard Work, Dedication

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• Unfortunately, the only meaning that society attributes to life today is an opportunity to make money.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Opportunity, Today

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• In small settlements everyone knows your affairs. In the city everyone does not-only those you choose to tell will know about you. This is one of the attributes of cities that is precious to most city people.

  Jane Jacobs

  Cities, People, Doe

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.58, Vintage

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• PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic. The editor of an English magazine having received a letter pointing out the erroneous nature of his views and style, and signed "Perfection," promptly wrote at the foot of the letter: "I don't agree with you," and mailed it to Matthew Arnold.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Views, Editors, Feet

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.180, University of Georgia Press

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• The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.

  Douglas Adams

  Character, Numbers, Common Sense

  Douglas Adams (2009). “Mostly Harmless”, p.17, Pan Macmillan

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• The essence of all beauty, I call love, The attribute, the evidence, and end, The consummation to the inward sense Of beauty apprehended from without, I still call love.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Beauty, Love Is, Essence

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.308, Delphi Classics

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• The greatest attribute of heaven is mercy; And 'tis the crown of justice, and the glory

  John Fletcher

  Justice, Heaven, Crowns

  Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (1812). “Works: With and Introd. and Explanatory Notes By Henry Weber”, p.479

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• The deserving are not always blest. That peculiar attribute known as personality is as potent a factor as genius.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Personality, Peculiar, Genius

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• Six Flags has to be a destination, but it's got to be a place that you want to go to every single summer and you don't want to go just for a roller coaster or a new ride. We have to sell the experience and sell the image: clean, safe, friendly and fun. The parks are not necessarily all of those attributes, but they will be.

  Mark Shapiro

  Summer, Fun, Friendly

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