Traits Quotes - Page 24

• The ability to bounce back after a setback is the single most important trait an entrepreneurial venture can possess.

  Richard Branson

  Important, Venture, Entrepreneurial

  Twitter post from Aug 5, 2010

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• Banning human cloning reflects our humanity. It is the right thing to do. Creating a child through this new method calls into question our most fundamental beliefs. It has the potential to threaten the sacred family bonds at the very core of our ideals and our society. At its worst, it could lead to misguided and malevolent attempts to select certain traits, even to create certain kind of children -- to make our children objects rather than cherished individuals.

  William J. Clinton

  Children, Creating, Humanity

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• The call of God is not a reflection of my nature; my personal desires and temperament are of no consideration. As long as I dwell on my own qualities and traits and think about what I am suited for, I will never hear the call of God.

  Oswald Chambers

  Reflection, Thinking, Long

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.2, Discovery House

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• More than any other personality trait, my mother seemed to be ruled by anger and sadness. She seemed to hate being a mother. Watching her unhappiness as I grew up made me conclude that the answer was to try and be as unemotional as I could, which many therapists have taught me is a bad idea. It also made me want to avoid marriage and having children.

  Merrill Markoe

  Mother, Children, Hate

  Interview with Litsa Dremousis, www.avclub.com. November 1, 2011.

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• Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche. Just as the human body connects us with the mammals and displays numerous relics of earlier evolutionary stages going back to even the reptilian age, so the human psyche is likewise a product of evolution which, when followed up to its origins, show countless archaic traits.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Age, Mammals

  "Modern Man in Search of a Soul". Book by Carl Jung, p. 126, 1933.

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• You must work well with others and be loyal to your team. Disloyalty is the worst of all traits. I seldom use the words "You're fired!" in business, unless somebody is really scum and stole from me.

  Donald Trump

  Inspirational, Team, Use

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• The native Jewish families in Jerusalem, as well as those in other parts of Palestine, present a marked difference to the Jews of Europe and America. They possess the same physical characteristics - the dark, oblong eye, the prominent nose, the strongly-marked cheek and jaw - but in the latter, these traits have become harsh and coarse.

  Bayard Taylor

  Eye, Dark, Differences

  Bayard Taylor (2015). “The Lands of the Saracen: Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain”, p.64, The Floating Press

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• Once again we're talking to Brian Kenny, a man of many traits, a master of nothing.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Motivation, Men, Talking

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• There are certain narrow, umimaginative, and autocratic old people who seem to call out the most mischievous and sometimes the worst traits in children.

  Kate Douglas Wiggin

  Children, People, Sometimes

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• I think probably the one trait that would concern me about brother Bing would be his lack of responsibility.

  Bob Crosby

  Brother, Responsibility, Thinking

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• It is the cult of self that is killing the United States. This cult has within it the classic traits of psychopaths: superficial charm, grandiosity and self-importance ; a need for constant stimulation; a penchant for lying, deception and manipulation; and the incapacity for remorse or guilt.

  Chris Hedges

  Lying, Self, Deception

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• Every image is in some way a “portrait,” not in the way that it would reproduce the traits of a person, but in that it pulls and draws (this is the semantic and etymological sense of the word), in that it extracts something, an intimacy, a force.

  Sally Mann

  Way, Portraits, Photographer

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• I admit it: I am louder than the average human being and have no fear of speaking my mind. These traits don't come from the color of my skin but from an unwavering belief in my own intelligence.

  Michelle Obama

  Speaking My Mind, Average, Color

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• About the book of Job: If it were today, God might be asking "How does DNA carry traits? How are instincts passed on in animals? How does consciousness arise in the human body and brain, and what is consciousness? What is dark matter? How did the big bang happen? Why does the speed of light appear to be absolute? Is cold fusion possible? How do you program a TV remote control?

  Brian D. McLaren

  Jobs, Fun, Book

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• We have reached the end of the road that is built on the set of traits held out for male identity--advance at any cost, pay any price, drive out all competitors, and kill them if necessary.... we have arrived at a point from which we must seek a basis of faith in connection-- and not only faith but recognition that it is a requirement for the existence of human beings.

  Gary Paul Nabhan

  Identity, Males, Connections

  Gary Paul Nabhan (1994). “The Geography of Childhood: Why Children Need Wild Places”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• Bragging is not an attractive trait, but let's be honest. A man who catches a big fish doesn't go home through an alley.

  Ann Landers

  Home, Men, Big Fish

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• In Buddhist Yoga, we refer to our mutlilife karmic traits as samskaras. They are the internal karmic patterns that make each of us who we are.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Yoga, Patterns

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• I am a thing not new, I am as old As human nature. I am that which lurks, Ready to spring whenever a bar is loosed; The ancient trait which fights incessantly Against restraint, balks at the upward climb; The weight forever seeking to obey The law of downward pull; and I am more: The bitter fruit am I of planted seed; The resultant, the inevitable end Of evil forces and the powers of wrong.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Spring, Fighting, Law

  James Weldon Johnson, “Brothers”

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• Women seem to have almost unlimited capacity for forgiveness. (Since it is usually a man who needs forgiveness, this must be a racial survival trait.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Survival, Needs

  "The Cat Who Walks Through Walls". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, chapter 16, p. 200, 1985.

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• Always having to have the last word is a bad trait. Pisses people off.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  People, Lasts, Last Words

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• Goal setting is the most important aspect of all improvement and personal development plans. Confidence is important, determination is vital, certain personality traits contribute to success, but they all come into focus in goal setting.

  Paul J. Meyer

  Determination, Goal, Focus

  Paul J. Meyer (2002). “Unlocking Your Legacy: 25 Keys for Success”, Moody Pub

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• The love of weaponry is often a manifestation of infantile traits in an adult.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Adults, Weaponry, Manifestation

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• Let's admit that feminism came from liberalism and it was very positive. But then it went dark. It went into a bad place. When feminism replaced biology with social construct, they started to say that everything about a human being was created by your environment or by your - by environmental cues as opposed to innate traits... Like you didn't achieve what you could get because it was your fault. They denied traits that are applied across all cultures. And that's where feminism went wrong is it denied biology and makes them look foolish.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Dark, Feminism, Culture

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I am a cautious pilgrim of the night, a tentative wanderer among the stars. My awareness of my home in the universe is fleeting and incomplete. Into the homeless home of the sun-faced buddha I have stepped but briefly. My quest, such as it is, is rewarded with faint lights and scrawny cries, a trait here and trait there, a hint of the infinite and a tingle in the spine. Of "minute particulars" I will make my way.

  Chet Raymo

  Stars, Home, Night

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• The basic formulation, or bare-bones mechanics, of natural selection is a disarmingly simple argument, based on three undeniable facts (overproduction of offspring, variation, and heritability) and one syllogistic inference (natural selection, or the claim that organisms enjoying differential reproductive success will, on average, be those variants that are fortuitously better adapted to changing local environments, and that these variants will then pass their favored traits to offspring by inheritance).

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Simple, Average, Atheism

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