Quotes About Attribution

The job isn't done until you've blamed someone for the parts that went wrong.

especially the Psalms and their obscure origins and uses. The Psalms have been attributed to a number of different periods in the history of Israel, from the time of King David (eleventh or tenth century BCE) down to the age of the Maccabees (second century BCE).

people readily accept credit when told they have succeeded, attributing it to their ability and effort. Yet they attribute failure to such external factors as bad luck or the problem's "impossibility." When we win at Scrabble, it's because of our verbal dexterity. When we lose, it's because "I was stuck with a Q but no U.

As a rose blooms and grows with thorns as a protective nature; similarly, love navigates with jealousy and selfishness, as a self-protective measure; such attribution exhibits a natural weapon.

The crook and clever people give never credit to a right, ordinary, simple person for his original thoughts or good deeds, but if they are left with no choice then very cunningly they try to play a dirty game to alter somewhat his name in the attribution.

My job involves searching for 'lost' quotations - that is, trying to find out who came up with a quotable saying that lingers in someone's mind and which they wish to use for their own purpose and which they cannot find in conventional dictionaries of quotation.

Germany was the cause of Hitler as much as Chicago is responsible for the Chicago Tribune.

She felt puzzled and ashamed, as always when people attributed to her emotions and motives they possessed and thought she shared.

First click attribution is akin to giving my first girlfriend 100% of the credit for me marrying my wife.

There's an old saying that victory has hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.

There are multiple claims to Mr. Smart.

The two anonymously published epistolary novels Appearance is against Them (1786) and Emily Herbert: or, Perfidy Punished (1786) were later ascribed to the hand of Elizabeth Inchbald, though there is much dispute now whether she actually wrote them.

I rarely find that things put in quotes, attributed to me, are things that I said -certainly in the context in which they are presented.

Most of these quotations on Goodreads are shit I never said. That's because idiots submit them, and Goodreads never checks their authenticity.

Give credit to whom credit due.

Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence.

He who believes in God is in danger of a still greater illusion—that of attributing to grace what is simply an essentially mechanical effect of nature.

People view their own behaviors as originating from situations beyond their control, but they view other people's behaviors as originating from inherent personality traits.

Accuse not nature, she hath done her partDo thou but thine, and be not diffidentOf wisdom, she deserts thee not, if thouDismiss not her, when most thou needest her nigh,By attributing overmuch to thingsLess excellent, as thou thyself perceivest.

We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions.

I ask people to not attribute what I've done - my success and how hard I've worked - to not reduce that or attribute that to someone else.

The contemporary art world is what Tom Wolfe would call a "statusphere." It's structured around nebulous and often contradictory hierarchies of fame, credibility, imagined historical importance, institutional affliction, perceived intelligence, wealth, and attribution such as the size of one's art collection.

The job isn't done until you've blamed someone for the parts that went wrong.

It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a telephone or any other important thing-and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others.