Attributes Quotes - Page 33

• The highest praise we can attribute to any writer, painter, sculptor, builder, is, that he actually possessed the thought or feeling with which he has inspired us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Art, Feelings

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.23, Harvard University Press

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

  Marshall Faulk

  Football, Nfl, Vision

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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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• It's just easier to talk about product attributes that you can measure with a number. Focus on price, screen size, that's easy. But there's a more difficult path, and that's to make better products, ones where maybe you can't measure their value empirically.

  Jonathan Ive

  Inspirational, Motivational, Numbers

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• Essential truth, the truth of the intellectualists, the truth with no one thinking it, is like the coat that fits tho no one has ever tried it on, like the music that no ear has listened to. It is less real, not more real, than the verified article; and to attribute a superior degree of glory to it seems little more than a piece of perverse abstraction-worship.

  William James

  Truth, Real, Thinking

  William James (2015). “The Meaning of Truth: Human Understanding”, p.78, 谷月社

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• The only universal attribute of scientific statements resides in their potential fallibility. If a claim cannot be disproven, it does not belong to the enterprise of science.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Doe, Claims, Enterprise

  Stephen Jay Gould (2011). “Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms”, p.155, Harvard University Press

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• The unlucky hand dealt to clear and precise writers is that people assume they are superficial and so do not go to any trouble inreading them: and the lucky hand dealt to unclear ones is that the reader does go to some trouble and then attributes the pleasure he experiences in his own zeal to them.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Reading, Hands, People

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• If you feel comfortable, and you feel happy, and successful at your job, then that's success. You define that as success, then that's success. Success is not a general thing. It's a personal thing. It's a personal attribute.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Jobs, Successful, Feels

  "Lupe Fiasco Talks "Lasers" Delay, Japanese Cartoon, and "Food & Liquor II"". Interview with Insanul "Incilin" Ahmed, www.complex.com. September 11, 2010.

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• Nonviolence is an attribute of the Almighty whose ways of fulfilling Himself are inscrutable.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Way, Almighty

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• It is thus that the generality of mankind, whose lot is ignorance, attributes to the Divinity, not only the unusual effects which strike them, but moreover the most simple events, of which the causes are the most simple to understand by whomever is able to study them. In a word, man has always respected unknown causes, surprising effects that his ignorance kept him from unraveling. It was on this debris of nature that man raised the imaginary colossus of the Divinity.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Ignorance, Simple, Men

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2015). “The Necessity of Atheism”, p.7, Booklassic

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• In truth, knowledge is a great and very useful quality; those who despise it give evidence enough of their stupidity. Yet I do not set its value at that extreme measure that some attribute to it.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Giving, Stupidity, Quality

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.319, Stanford University Press

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• Despising cowardice in others, I wished to prove myself no coward. Believing in the good, the gentle, the beautiful things of life, I addressed myself to the sweet duty of keeping these attributes for my children's sake and my own. And in striving to provide a living for them, I found a success beyond my wildest dreams.

  Alice Foote MacDougall

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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• Even though fathers, grandparents, siblings, memories of ancestors are important agents of socialization, our society focuses on the attributes and characteristics of mothers and teachers and gives them the ultimate responsibility for the child's life chances.

  Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

  Education, Mother, Teacher

  Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot (1978). “Worlds apart: relationships between families and schools”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• Those three divine attributes of a perfect woman: goodness, beauty and wealth.

  Arthur Desmond

  Perfect, Three, Wealth

  "Rival Caesars". Book by Desmond Dilg (the joint pseudonym of Arthur Desmond and Will H. Dilg), 1903.

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• God is compassionate and just, loving and holy, wrathful and forgiving. WE can't sideline His more difficult attributes to make room for the palatable ones.

  Francis Chan

  Forgiving, Rooms, Holy

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.237, David C Cook

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• I have a very healthy growth of both head and facial hair. People always want to attribute further superhuman powers to me. It's funny the way the audience really seems to want me, Nick the actor, to exhibit the same machismo as Ron Swanson.

  Nick Offerman

  Hair, People, Healthy

  Interview with Elina Shatkin, www.believermag.com. October 2012.

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• It is one thing to say, "Some men shall rule," quite another to declare, "All men shall rule," and that in virtue of the most primitive, the most rudimentary attribute they possess, that namely of sex.

  Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

  Sex, Men, Male Dominance

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• ... men, accustomed to think of men as possessing sex attributes and other things besides, are accustomed to think of women as having sex, and nothing else.

  Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

  Sex, Men, Thinking

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• It is conceivable that animal life might have the attribute of using the heat of surrounding matter, at its natural temperature, as a source of energy for mechanical effect . . . .The influence of animal or vegetable life on matter is infinitely beyond the range of any scientific enquiry hitherto entered on. Its power of directing the motions of moving particles, in the demonstrated daily miracle of our human free-will, and in the growth of generation after generation of plants from a single seed, are infinitely different from any possible result of the fortuitous concurrence of atoms.

  Lord Kelvin

  Moving, Animal, Vegetables

  "The Life of Lord Kelvin, Volume 2" by Silvanus Phillips, (2005 edition, p. 1093), 1910.

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• Here's the truth: People, even regular people, are never just any one person with one set of attributes. It's not that simple. We're all at the mercy of the limbic system, clouds of electricity drifting through the brain.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Simple, Clouds, People

  "Memento Mori". Book by Jonathan Nolan, www.esquire.com. 2000.

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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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• The man who meets with a failure attributes this failure rather to the ill will of another than to fate.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Failure, Fate, Men

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1909). “The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: The First Complete and Authorized English Translation”

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