Quotes About Attribution

It just gripes me hollow, the way God always sneaks in to take the credit.

People who believe they cause good things tend to like themselves better than people who believe good things come from other people or circumstances.

There was something superficial in attributing anything so awful as the Great Depression to anything so insubstantial as speculation in common stocks.

I prefer to make up my own quotes and attribute them to very smart people, so that I can use them to win arguments

I attributed the incidence to temporary insanity, and in my own defense, I'd like to say I haven't run over anyone since.

Emotional math is really a subset of a larger dynamic. When something goes wrong and I am part of it, I will tend to attribute my actions to the situation; you will tend to attribute my actions to my character.

As "shifters" we tend to see ourselves as innocent victims – when something goes wrong, it's always because of what someone else did. Others of us have the opposite tendency: we are all too aware of the negative consequences of our own actions. In the face of this, others' contributions seem insignificant. An "absorber" tends to feel responsible for everything.

The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.

It's not how you play the game, it's how you place the blame.

Grace knocks us flat, preventing any form of self-congratulation. All the good we achieve is to be attributed to God rather than to ourselves. What makes our lives good is not anything we are ourselves but the presence within us of what we are not, a divine presence never ours by right because never ours by nature. All the glory for the good we exhibit in our lives should therefore be reserved for God.

Homer and Hesiod attributed to the gods everything that is a shame and a reproach among men.

On the other hand, Clairaut reported that Lepaute exhibited an "ardor" that was "surprising"—perhaps surprising to him because Lepaute was a woman; he later removed the acknowledgment of Lepaute's considerable contribution from the published text. (Much of her later work was published without attribution by other people, including her husband, France's royal clockmaker.)

We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.

One of my core values is that credit should be due, wherever it is needed.

I like to take credit for the work that I have done.

I've always maintained that the problem in India is that we only give credit to big contributions.

Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.

Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an o

The right of Enid Blyton to be identified

Those who fail in everyday affairs show a tendency to reach out for the impossible. It is a device to camouflage their shortcomings. For when we fail in attempting the possible, the blame is solely ours; but when we fail in attempting the impossible, we are justified in attributing it to the magnitude of the task. There is less risk in being discredited when trying the impossible than when trying the possible. It is thus that failure in everyday affairs often breeds an extravagant audacity. One

The fundamental attribution error is the tendency to believe that others behave badly because of their personality while we ourselves behave badly because of factors beyond our control. People often jump to blaming others while letting themselves off the hook. Drivers think that someone cutting them off must be a jerk rather than wondering if there's an emergency or some other reason requiring them to drive that way.

Humility is preserved when I give credit where credit is due - to God.

Sometimes people credit me for the Tea Party. It's actually the other way around.

Never attribute to malice, that which can be explained through ignorance.