Quotes of: Traits Keyword

To possess a rich life of wholeness that brings happiness into the soul; is to show loving and caring characteristic traits toward others.

Ellen J. Barrier

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

J. Philippe Rushton

Some people thrive on creating chaos and then operating through it, though usually that's presented as a female trait.

John Schneider

(A middle-class child's) parents didn't just give him money. They passed down habits, knowledge, and cognitive traits.

David Brooks

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

Jonah Lehrer

In the forty years of the people's republic, some of the worst historical traits were preserved in our people. These included even the common characteristics developed in the economic reality of the time of partitions in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Andrzej Wajda

Being nice doesn't necessarily mean you're weak. You can be nice and be strong at the same time. That's a character trait that we need more in Washington.

Shelley Moore Capito

Motherhood is more than bearing children, though it is certainly that. It is the essence of who we are as women. It defines our very identity, our divine stature and nature, and the unique traits our Father gave us.

Sheri L. Dew

In the beginning of the human race there was no genetic load which would cause undesirable traits such as appear in offspring of marriages between relatives today.

Walter Lang

Emotional states are fairly quick bursts of neuronal gossip. Traits, on the other hand, are more like the neuronal equivalent of committed relationships.

Yongey Mingyur

The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done - these are traits of the human race at large.

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the a...

Ivan Illich

Oh, here we go, firing questions right and left. I sort of missed that part. [Mina's most endearing trait?]

ashes of autumn

Goodness was not a trait you acquired; it was a value you practiced when you were on the verge of doing evil.

The Autobiography of God

Americans worship technology. It's an inherent trait in the national zeitgeist.

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

I think I've always had that bird's-eye view of myself. I think it's an actor trait... Sometimes it's best just to get lost out there, but other times you have to be aware of where the light's hitting you.

Allison Williams

I’m tired of ignorance held up as inspiration, where vicious anti-intellectualism is considered a positive trait, and where uninformed opinion is displayed as fact.

Phil Plait

The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.

Sigmund Freud

Every year I try to grow as a player and not get stuck in a rut. I try to improve my game in every way possible. But that trait is not something I've worked on, it's part of me.

Lionel Messi

Laws fixed, certain, and uniform, are said to be the distinguishing traits of civilized from savage communities. In these last, seldom are any laws, unless it be the arbitrary and uncertain will of the strongest.

Levi Woodbury

We like to put people on a pedestal, give them one character trait, and if they step outside of that shrinelike area that we blocked out for them, then we will punish them.

Madonna Ciccone