Quotes About Traits

A nominal scale has no implied order or magnitude—like gender or location or whether a system has a given feature.

The individual disposition is already a factor in childhood; it is innate, and not acquired in the course of a life.

I suspect that these traits-desire, commitment, and good work habits-are important in all facets of our lives. . .

We will become known for the good traits we consistently exhibit or the bad habits we allow to creep into our life.

Human nature is against it. People just tend to behave in certain ways because they are people. And

They say genes skip generations. Maybe that's why grandparents find their grandchildren so likeable.

Karen Stenner, a behavioral economist who began researching personality traits two decades ago, has argued that about a third of the population in any country has what she calls an authoritarian predisposition, a word that is more useful than personality, because it is less rigid.

Over hundreds of thousands of years, extraverts and introverts have not differed in their average reproductive output (although they might have differed at any one time or place in our evolutionary history). We can conclude that, while there are personality differences, there is no one "personality" that is inherently more adaptively successful than any other.

Action is Character.

Aristocracy's only an admission that certain traits which we call fine - courage and honor and beauty and all that sort of thing - can best be developed in a favorable environment, where you don't have the warpings of ignorance and necessity.

Amory Blaine inherited from his mother every trait, except the stray inexpressible few, that made him worth while.

Thomas had inherited his father's reason without his ruthlessness and his mother's love of good without her tendency to pursue it. His plan for all practical action was to wait and see what developed.

The world's religions have certain traits in common, but until the gospel of Jesus Christ burst upon the Mediterranean world, no one in the history of human imagination had conceived of such a thing as the worship of a crucified man.

Typically kids with dark-colored hair mature faster than those with light-colored hair.

My father's a character.

I don't dislike any of my features - they're what make me me, and I'm confident in who I am. I see my mum in my lips and I've got my dad's eyes.

You'll always end up filling out a character. It might be with aspects of yourself.

Girls especially are fond of exchanging confidences with those whom they think they can trust; it is one of the most charming traits of a simple, earnest-hearted girlhood, and they are the happiest women who never lose it entirely.

Overtime, hatchery fish tend to show signs of domestication and these traits adapted to the hatchery environment can make it more difficult to survive in the wild.

In the wild, those traits that are adaptive for survival and reproductive advantage are brought out through natural selection. So cats that were fierce, furtive hunters, alert to the snapping of every twig, with coats that gave them good camouflage, would have been favored by evolution.

Ten bajillion product ads notwithstanding, your looks are another thing that's basically genetic.

I take after my mother more than my father in terms of personality. My mother's a worrier, and I'm a worrier. Both were very good with numbers and mathematics, so I kind of got that from both of them.

So no, it's not all in the genes, but what isn't in the genes isn't in the family environment either. It can't be explained in terms of the overall personalities or the child-rearing practices of parents.

Sooner or later, animals will let loose a human trait, as men sometimes behave like a beast.