Quotes About Attribution

You have to name it to claim it

The clarification of visual forms and their organization in integrated patterns as well as the attribution of such forms to suitable objects is one of the most effective training grounds of the young mind.

The critics often invent authors; they select two dissimilar works - the Tao Te Ching and the 1001 Nights, say - attribute them to the same writer and then determine most scrupulously the psychology of this interesting homme de lettres...

All men who repeat a line from Shakespeare are William Shakespeare.

Ex pede Herculem. "From his foot, [we can measure] Hercules", is a maxim of proportionality inspired by an experiment attributed to Pythagoras. In other words, one can extrapolate the whole from the part. Ex ungue leonem, "from its claw [we can know] the lion," is a similar phrase.

The voting public is not very good at attributing credit and blame to presidents. They get too much credit when things go well and too much blame when things go badly. The same applies to coaches, C.E.O.'s, parents, and anyone else in charge.

No one is accountable anymore for anything. No one did anything wrong. Well, you're to blame. That's to blame. This is to blame.

Success is a collective job, and one can't claim the credit for themselves.

In essence, the optimistic style involves taking credit for successes but little blame for failures.

The search for someone to blame is always successful.

according to your belief is it done unto you.

The anticipation of an authoritative disclosure of meaning is the means by which that authority is attributed and installed: the anticipation conjures its object.

Your mind is ready and even eager to identify agents, assign them personality traits and specific intentions, and view their actions as expressing individual propensities.

Your mind is ready and even eager to identify agents, assign them personality traits and specific intentions, and view their actions as expressing individual propensities. Here

The mere observation that there is usually more than 100% credit to go around is

The James Carville "herd of cows" quote is a fabrication, posted on the website thinkexist.com by someone going by thisoneworks. It has no attribution. Just another conservative propagandistic fabrication as far as I can tell.

If we want to take a bunch of phrases and run them through a Google and say 'Hey, who else has said them,' I can come up with the list in five minutes.

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.

We weten niet wie de evangeliën geschreven hebben. Toen ze voor het eerst opdoken circuleerden ze anoniem, en ze werden pas later toegeschreven aan belangrijke figuren uit de jong christelijke kerken. De auteurs waren joodse christenen.

I've found out why men sign their names to their works- not that they created them but more than the others did not.

This attitude is basic human nature. We'd rather look outward and blame others for ills that befall us than point the finger at ourselves.

Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.

No problem is so big and difficult that it can't be blamed on somebody else.

To attribute to God, and not to self, whatever good one sees in oneself; but to recognize always that the evil is one's own doing, and to impute it on one's self.