Quotes About Attribution

People's inflated belief in the importance of personality traits and dispositions, together with their failure to recognize the importance of situational factors in affecting behavior, has been termed the "fundamental attribution error

People sometimes attribute my success to my genius; all the genius I know anything about is hard work.

If you saw a better idea or business anywhere in the world, and you could reapply it legally and ethically and with attribution, you were supposed to do that. And I used that learning in building Cold Stone.

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And if those things are textiles, stories about women's lives seem to adhere with special tenacity, even as fabrics, because of their vulnerability to deterioration and frequent lack of attribution to a maker, have been among the last kinds of materials that historians look to in order to understand what has occurred, how, and why.

I'm going to open a new Facebook account named 'Anonymous' so all the cool quotes will be attributed to me!

"Success has many fathers, failure is a mother."

The error lies in our inclination to attribute people's behavior to the way they are rather than to the situation they are in.

Fundamental Attribution Error." The error lies in our inclination to attribute people's behavior to the way they are rather than to the situation they are in.

Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the thing itself, by people.

If Bill Finger created Batman, where is Bill Finger's byline on my strip? It is conspicuous by its absence.

The fundamental attribution error is simply this: human beings tend to falsely attribute the negative behaviors of others to their character (an internal attribution), while they attribute their own negative behaviors to their environment (an external attribution).

Never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity. Don't assign to stupidity what might be due to ignorance. And try not to assume your opponent is the ignorant one — until you can show it isn't you.

Because the will renewed is the Lord's work, it is wrongly attributed to man that he obeys prevenient grace with his will as attendant.

We do an epically bad job of acknowledging one another's work and checking our sources.

Victory has 100 fathers, defeat is an orphan!

It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually.

As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

Just because you find a thought somewhere with somebody's name written after it doesn't mean they really said it.

You must never steal another man's words. Ever.

we never shall discover all the causal chains that operate: the number of such causes is infinitely great, the causes themselves infinitely small; historians select an absurdly small portion of them and attribute everything to this arbitrarily chosen tiny section.

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