Quotes of: Trait Keyword

It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

Thomas Jefferson

Modesty has, and will remain, an alluring trait because where egoism falters, humility conquers.

Andy Paula

There is tremendous life and personality in a name. It should be at least as agonized over as any character trait.

Life

We must promote solid traits such as work ethics, a dignified lifestyle, matching actions to rhetoric, performance rather than grandstanding.

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

The young people working for me are ambitious and hard-working. That work ethic has always been a trait of the British.

Simon Cowell

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

It is a very natural human trait to destroy that which frightens us.

Guilty Pleasures

The theory of founder effects does not explain how novel features like plumage traits arise.

Peter R. Grant

A presidential debate is a job interview. And voters look for certain traits in people applying to be president.

Ron Fournier

The brain is not a bag of traits. It's startlingly complex. There are few or no single genes with a consistent effect on the mind.

Steven Pinker

The most disgusting human trait is bias, because it typically leads to propaganda, hate and violence.

Lori Goodwin

The most disgusting human trait is bias because it ends of leading to propaganda, hate and violence.

Lori Goodwin

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.

Lewis H. Lapham

I think the negative traits are what makes us love other human beings, the foibles and the flaws.

Denise Mina

I don't know what I'll be like when I'm 60. I already have the traits of a retired gentleman.

David Walliams

I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being.

Elizabeth Edwards

What is the thing that Hollywood demands most? Sincerity. No place in the world will pay such a high price for this admirable trait.

Hattie McDaniel

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

Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.

Warren Buffett

When a trait is universal, evolutionary biologists look for a genetic explanation and wonder how that gene or genes might enhance survival or reproductive success.

Robin Marantz Henig