Traits Quotes - Page 27

• If a person is open to a new world view, it can often mean that he is not firmly rooted in the reality of the old world view; as a lunatic or alienated artist, his own neurotic traits can become magnified as they tremble with the new energy pouring in from the universal source.

  William Irwin Thompson

  Mean, Artist, Reality

  William Irwin Thompson (1990). “At the Edge of History”, SteinerBooks

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• A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree as we do namely, a feeling of almost childish injury and resentment unless the world as a whole recognizes how innocent we are of anything but the most generous and harmless intentions

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Feelings, Degrees, World

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• When we read a book, our most essential trait - imagination - is given the opportunity to soar.

  Saint Augustine

  Book, Opportunity, Imagination

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• Inherited aptitudes and traits of temperament count for quite as much as length of habituation in deciding what range of habits will come to dominate any individual's scheme of life.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Aptitude, Habit, Individual

  Thorstein Veblen (1993). “A Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace, and Capitalism”, p.60, M.E. Sharpe

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• Doggedness depends on emotional traits - enthusiasm and persistence in the face of setbacks - above all else.

  Daniel Goleman

  Persistence, Emotional, Enthusiasm

  Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.135, Bantam

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I think the brain is a dynamic system in which some parts control or suppress other parts. And if perhaps one has damage in one of the controlling or suppressing areas, then you may have the emergence or eruption of something, whether it is a seizure, a criminal trait - - or even a sudden musical passion.

  Oliver Sacks

  Passion, Thinking, Musical

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. Other animals fight for territory or food; but, uniquely in the animal kingdom, human beings fight for their 'beliefs.' The reason is that beliefs guide behavior, which has evolutionary importance among human beings. But at a time when our behavior may well lead us to extinction, I see no reason to assume we have any awareness at all. We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.

  Michael Crichton

  Religious, Fighting, Animal

  Michael Crichton (1996). “The lost world”

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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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• 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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• It is well to be informed about the winds, About the variations in the sky, The native traits and habits of the place, What each locale permits, and what denies.

  Virgil

  Wind, Land, Sky

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• [Norman Mailer] is against masturbation, he's against homosexuality. He believes that murder is essentially sexual. I think he's rather an anthology of all the darkest American traits.

  Gore Vidal

  Believe, Thinking, Murder

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• As actors you have this trait to imitate very easily. I don't want to imitate anything or limit myself of finding this creature, this woman because I'm looking at magazines and I'm reading comics, and I'm asking people that are avid readers of The Guardians.

  Zoe Saldana

  Reading, Avid, People

  "Zoe Saldana Talks Being Green for Four Months, Avoiding the Comics, and More on the Set of GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. July 8, 2014.

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• You never want to play too vampiric or generically evil, so you look for emotions or character traits that you can relate to.

  Joseph Morgan

  Character, Play, Evil

  Source: collider.com

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• Confidence is a life ingredient that is essential to success and wholeness. It is perhaps the single most important trait that enables seemingly average people to do and become all that they can. And the good news is - it can be learned. No one has to suffer a lifetime of low confidence.

  Steve Goodier

  Average, People, Suffering

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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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• Children are marvelously and intuitively correct physiognomists. The youngest of them exhibit this trait.

  C. A. Bartol

  Children, Physiognomy, Exhibits

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• Every American, to the last man, lays claim to a "sense" of humor and guards it as his most significant spiritual trait, yet rejects humor as a contaminating element wherever found. America is a nation of comics and comedians; nevertheless, humor has no stature and is accepted only after the death of the perpetrator.

  E. B. White

  Funny, Spiritual, Men

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• The Woman had once been supreme; in France she still seemed potent, not merely as a sentiment but as a force; why was she unknownin America? for evidently America was ashamed of her, and she was ashamed of herself, otherwise they would not have strewn fig-leaves so profusely all over her. When she was a true force, she was ignorant of fig-leaves, but the monthly-magazine-made American female had not a feature that would have been recognized by Adam. The trait was notorious, and often humorous, but anyone brought up among Puritans knew that sex was sin. In any previous age, sex was strength.

  Henry Adams

  Sex, Women, Humorous

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