Quotes About Attributing

But such a general yearning could not be explained except by attributing the cause of it to the historical training through which the individual Austrian Germans had passed.

Bland reflected that the local verdict seemed to be the comfortable and probably agelong one of attributing every tragic occurrence to unspecified foreigners.

Whenever explaining an event, we must choose from three competing modes of explanation. These are regularity, chance, and design... To attribute an event to design is to say that it cannot reasonably be referred to either regularity or chance.

Never attribute to malevolence that which can best be explained by incompetence."--Greenfield's First Law of Political Analysis.

I can't take credit for the success of my songs.

I'm not going to take too much credit for what's happened in my life. When we're playing, the things I do are because of my teammates. So I'm not going to take too much credit.

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity, but don't rule out malice.

Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else- unless it is an enemy

By doing certain things certain results will follow. Students are most earnestly warned against attributing objective reality or philosophical validity to any of them.

I don't attribute an actor's great success to their own individual performance when it's something as collaborative as a movie.

The fallacy that Morley in his life of Gladstone asserts to be the greatest affliction of politicians; it is indeed a common plague of humanity. It is: The fallacy of attributing to one cause what is due to many causes.

Just as you can't attribute the spin of a proton to any one of its constituents, you can't attribute an event in time to a single earlier cause. Complex systems have neither a useful notion of individuality nor a proper notion of causality.

However, my argument assumes that there is a relationship between God and God's word; thus, my 'theological solution' to unjust interpretations is to be more scrupulous in aligning our readings of God's word with our conceptions of God so as to avoid attributing injustice to God.

Christine makes it her own in the prologue, where she sits weeping and ashamed, wondering why men "are so unanimous in attributing wickedness to women" and why "we should be worse than men since we were also created by God.

People demonize those they disagree with, attributing differences of opinion to stupidity and dishonesty.

It is very difficult to isolate a single cause when there are plenty around.

Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by incompetence or overwork?

Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it is an enemy.

I think his greatest fault is his failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done. This is a great weakness in any man.

In most negotiations, you can't attribute success or failure in negotiations to one side.

Take pride in refusing to take credit for the achievements of others.

I suppose that people, using themselves and each other so much by words, are at least consistent in attributing wisdom to a still tongue...