Traits Quotes - Page 11

• The partisan strife in which the people of the country are permitted to periodically engage does not tend to the development of ugly traits of character, but merely discloses those that preexist.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Country, Character, People

  Ambrose Bierce, Ernest Jerome Hopkins (1968). “The Ambrose Bierce satanic reader: selections from the invective journalism of the great satirist”

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• The worst enslaving trait of all is greed. I rail against the substitution of money for worth. The idea that the endless accumulation of dead money can furnish a meaningful life to sold-out souls is the supreme lie offered by the system of free enterprise.

  Gerry Spence

  Meaningful, Money, Lying

  Gerry Spence (2002). “Seven Simple Steps to Personal Freedom: An Owner's Manual for Life”, p.111, Macmillan

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• Modern Darwinism makes it abundantly clear that many less ruthless traits, some not always admired by robber barons and Fuhrers - altruism, general intelligence, compassion - may be the key to survival.

  Carl Sagan

  Life, Compassion, Keys

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• In just 200 tweets we can assess and identify 52 different personality traits of a customer. We ran an analysis over 500,000 people and we really nailed this. Think of providing this powerful insight to a retailer. We can see what they value, not just what they are buying. We have found a 40-45% increase in sales when you recommend upsales based on values instead of past buying behavior.

  Sandy Carter

  Powerful, Past, Thinking

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• I think that when you look at the great politicians, the two greatest in my view were George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, they certainly had character traits. You also know Abraham Lincoln overcame severe depression problems that he had when he was younger, which gave him the strength and the character later on.

  John McCain

  Inspirational, Strength, Strong

  "Encore Presentation: Interview With John McCain". "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. November 20, 2005.

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• The single most valuable human trait, the one quality every schoolchild and adult should be taught to nurture, is, quite simply, kindness.

  Derren Brown

  Kindness, Quality, Adults

  "Confessions of a Conjuror". Book by Derren Brown, October 2010.

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• When there are miles to go before we sleep, altered traits are more important than altered states.

  Huston Smith

  Sleep, Important, States

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• The goal of spiritual life is not altered states, but altered traits

  Huston Smith

  Spiritual, Goal, Life Is

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• Even in a jungle, lovely flowers will spring up here and there, such being the fecundity of nature, and however badly our pastors and masters run our society, however much they pull to pieces that which they claim to be keeping intact, nature remains fecund, human beings are born with human traits, sometimes human strength outweighs human weakness, and human grace shows itself amid human ugliness. ‘In the bloodiest times,’ as our play has it, ‘there are kind people.’

  Eric Bentley

  Running, Spring, Flower

  Eric Bentley (2008). “Bentley on Brecht”, p.200, Northwestern University Press

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• Shyness is inherently uncomfortable; introversion is not. The traits do overlap, though psychologists debate to what degree.

  Susan Cain

  Degrees, Debate, Shyness

  "The Power of Introverts: A Manifesto for Quiet Brilliance". Interview with Gareth Cook, www.scientificamerican.com. January 24, 2012.

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• I really like being thrown into the works. Many actors, I have found, have this as a common trait. We had to, as children, adapt to various situations with either a military family or things like that.

  Adelaide Clemens

  Children, Military, Actors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• All personality traits have their good side and their bad side. But for a long time, we've seen introversion only through its negative side and extroversion mostly through its positive side.

  Susan Cain

  Opposites, Long, Personality

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• Well, you know, I don't think anyone who writes a television series has a master plan from the beginning, and knows all the character traits, and everything that's going to happen.

  Charlie Day

  Writing, Character, Thinking

  "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia's Rob McElhenney, Glenn Howerton, and Charlie Day". Interview with Noel Murray, tv.avclub.com. September 16, 2008.

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• My most noticeable physical trait is, hands down, my hair. It's big, unruly and curly, and you can spot it from a mile away... literally.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Hair, Hands, Bigs

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• If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits

  Ruth Benedict

  War, Examination, Bears

  Ruth Benedict (1973). “Patterns of Culture”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Everything comes to us in fifteen-second sound bites and photo opportunities. All possibility for ambiguity - the most precious trait of any adequate analysis - is erased.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Opportunity, Sound, Analysis

  Stephen Jay Gould (1991). “Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• Five common traits of good writers: (1) They have something to say. (2) They read widely and have done so since childhood. (3) They possess what Isaac Asimov calls a "capacity for clear thought," able to go from point to point in an orderly sequence, an A to Z approach. (4) They're geniuses at putting their emotions into words. (5) They possess an insatiable curiosity, constantly asking Why and How.

  James J. Kilpatrick

  Writing, Asking Why, Childhood

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• I never did any training in journalism or in finance, so I really was in the deep end. I got very good at going to press conferences and nodding. I'd figure it out when I got back to the office. Charts and numbers. I've never been great with facts, ever, my whole life. For a journalist, that's not a very good trait.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Numbers, Office, Training

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• People who do not succeed have one distinguishing trait in common. They know all the reasons for failure, and have what they believe to be air-tight alibis to explain away their own lack of achievement.

  Napoleon Hill

  Believe, Air, People

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.216, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• Women should not have to adopt masculine traits in order to succeed. You should be able to stay as a woman, and in tune with your femininity, and still be equal.

  Isla Fisher

  Order, Tunes, Able

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I grew up watching 'Braveheart' and 'Gladiator.' Those are my 'Star Wars.' They have values and traits about them that I wish I had.

  Channing Tatum

  Stars, War, Wish

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• Through microscopic examination one can find in almost every life incidents or traits that can be destructive when they are magnified.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Gossip, Examination, Incidents

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• There are quite a few honest songwriters out there writing about relationships and their own personality traits. But for some reason, once they step out of the bedroom, their honesty doesn't seem to come with them.

  Billy Bragg

  Honesty, Writing, Personality

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• the heart of religion is not altered states but altered traits of character. For me, then, the test of a substance's religious worth or validity is not what kind of far-out experience it can produce, but is the life improved by its use? That's the test. Now, on that score, if you remove the "religious cocoon," the experiences don't seem to have much in the way of discernible, traceable effects.

  Huston Smith

  Religious, Heart, Character

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• And the reward when good people die - her mother paused, swallowed, paused again - the reward when good people die is that they get to help make the people in their families who haven't been born yet. They pick out what kinds of traits they want the new people to have - they give them all the raw material of their souls, like their talents and their brains and their potential. Of course it's up to the new ones, once they're born, what they'll use and what they won't but that's what everyone who dies is doing, I think.

  Dara Horn

  Mother, Thinking, People

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