Traits Quotes - Page 27

• The most common trait I have found in all successful people is that they have conquered the temptation to give up.

  Peter Lowe

  Giving Up, Successful, People

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• Early intervention programs enrich adverse family environments. The largest effects of the early intervention programs are on noncognitive traits. Now, what do I mean by that? I mean perseverance, motivation, self-esteem, and hard work.

  James Heckman

  Perseverance, Motivation, Self Esteem

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• Creative people like to think in unconventional ways, dislike rules, are easily bored, are independent, like to experiment, and enjoy being their own bosses. Basically the same traits found in most criminals and sociopaths

  Duncan Long

  Independent, Thinking, People

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• It is as common for tastes to change as it is uncommon for traits of character.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Character, Taste, Common

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• A look of intelligence is what regularity of features is to women: it is a styule of beauty to which the most vain may aspire.
  [Fr., L'air spirituel est dans les hommes ce que la regularite des traits est dans les femmes: c'est le genre de beaute ou les plus vains puissent aspirer.]

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Beauty, Air, Looks

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• There is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity; maybe it's a kind of lack of generosity towards non-Jews. I mean there is always a reason why anti-anything crops up anywhere; even a stinker like Hitler didn't just pick on them for no reason.

  Roald Dahl

  Character, Mean, Generosity

  "New Statesman" Magazine, 1983.

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• I think human beings have a really broad spectrum of traits, and I almost feel implicated when we say, 'Men are like this, women are like this.' Nobody was telling me, 'Don't get dirty, don't play in the mud, girls don't do that.'

  St. Vincent

  Girl, Dirty, Men

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• I am my own worst enemy. This, more than any other trait, proves my fundamental humanity.

  Dean Koontz

  Life, Worst Enemy, Humanity

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Seize the Night: A Novel”, p.35, Bantam

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• Dogs are actually very smart, it's just that they're rather clumsy, but it's this trait that makes humans attracted to them and why I love dogs so much.

  Hiromu Arakawa

  Dog, Smart, Humans

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• In more simple words, we might say everything in the universe is trying to become every other thing; and every condition of everything is trying to become every other condition. A hot iron, for example, will strive to become as cool as its environment, and the cool environment will strive to become as hot as the hot iron. They compromise and find an equilibrium between the two, which is neither the one thing nor the other. This conspicuous fact is one of the most characteristic traits of Nature.

  Walter Russell

  Simple, Breathing, Two

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• No author can create a character out of nothing. He must have a model to give him a starting point; but then his imagination goes to work, he builds him up, adding a trait here, a trait there, which his model did not possess.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Writing, Character, Giving

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• Almost all wild apples are handsome. They cannot be too gnarly and crabbed and rusty to look at. The gnarliest will have some redeeming traits even to the eye.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Eye, Gnarly, Apples

  Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Natural History Essays”, p.202, Gibbs Smith

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• As trait after trait swings into focus and fulfillment, can we write any other name under Isaiah's amazing portrait of the sublime Sufferer in Chapter 53 than Jesus of Nazareth?

  J. Sidlow Baxter

  Jesus, Writing, Swings

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• I love working with customers. Sales has really influenced everything I do. It has instilled in me the important traits of operating with a sense of urgency and listening to people.

  Jeffrey R. Immelt

  People, Listening, Important

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• Other extremely alluring traits in people are simplicity and naturalness. Simplicity and naturalness are never painfully obvious qualities, and yet which I come across them in a person, I get this sense of a firm foundation and of a direct access to truth.

  Wojciech Kurtyka

  Climbing, People, Simplicity

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• If you try to keep your most sacred ambitions off of your weekly calendar and your most genuine traits off of your resume, then you're missing out on the power of real integrity.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Integrity, Real, Ambition

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• The capacity to admire others is not my most fully developed trait.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Admiration, Capacity, Admire

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• Traditional Anglo-Saxon intolerance is a local and temporal culture trait like any other.

  Ruth Benedict

  Culture, Intolerance, Anglo Saxon

  Ruth Benedict (1973). “Patterns of Culture”, p.36, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait.

  Edith Hamilton

  Tendencies, Exaggeration

  Edith Hamilton (2017). “Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes, 75th Anniversary Illustrated Edition”, p.302, Hachette UK

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• The dominant and most deep-dyed trait of the journalist is his timorousness. Where the novelist fearlessly plunges into the water of self-exposure, the journalist stands trembling on the shore in his beach robe. The journalist confines himself to the clean, gentlemanly work of exposing the grieves and shames of others.

  Janet Malcolm

  Beach, Grieving, Self

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• Integrating in the society is a fundamental scriptural Christian trait. This integration is a must - moderate constructive integration. All of us, as Egyptians, have to participate.

  Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria

  Christian, Fundamentals, Integrating

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• I build a wall around myself. I'm hard to get to know. Any trait you have, it gets worse as you go along.

  Diane Keaton

  Wall, Knows, Hard

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

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• Creativity is not a trait that we inherit in our genes or a blessing bestowed by the angels. It's a skill.

  Jonah Lehrer

  Creativity, Angel, Blessing

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• Each race (or variety) is characterized by a more or less distinct combination of inherited morphological, behavioral, physiological traits.

  J. Philippe Rushton

  Race, Combination, Physiological

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• The inability to love and accept yourself and your humanity is at the heart of many illnesses. To be loved and accepted, you must start by loving yourself. If you have traits that you consider unlovable, you must love them anyway... it's a paradox.

  Christiane Northrup

  Healing, Heart, Health

  Christiane Northrup, M.D. (2017). “A Daily Dose of Women's Wisdom”, p.33, Hay House, Inc

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