Quotes About Traits

In summary, parents matter, schools matter and life experiences matter, but they don't make a difference in shaping who we are. DNA is the only thing that makes a substantial systematic difference, accounting for 50 per cent of the variance in psychological traits. The rest comes down to chance environmental experiences that do not have long-term effects.

The patient is encouraged to behave in constructive ways that directly challenge the voice. These actions help the patient to separate from the negative traits and qualities in the parents or family.

The idea is that human culture as broadly defined--art, politics, technology, religion, and so on--evolves in much the way biological species evolve: new cultural traits arise and may flourish or perish, and as a result whole institutions can belief systems form and change.

As a rule, two extremely different alternative traits will not both be preserved by natural selection. One or the other is usually at least slightly more conducive to genetic proliferation. However marginal its edge, it should win out, given enough time.

my spirit had become so fragile, I was so devoid of the curiosity that, in former times, had been one of my most salient traits.

All women alive today are the genetic descendants of the more cautious of female ancestors, not their more reckless contemporaries. Men, on the other hand, are genetically programmed to be urgent and single-minded about one-off sex. In past generations, men who were not urgent and persuasive were less successful reproductively than those who were. All men alive today are the genetic descendants of the more urgent of male ancestors, not their more complacent contemporaries.

E' dalle piccolezze che si vede il carattere delle persone.

And Maud's face brightened: for destructiveness is one of the earliest traits of childhood, and ripping was Maud's delight.

No human being us responsible for his genes or his upbringing, yet we have every reason to believe that these factors determine his character.

No human being is responsible for his genes or his upbringing, yet we have every reason to believe that these factors determine his character.

Longevity, like intelligence and good looks and health and strength of character, is largely a matter of genetic heritage. Choose your parents with care.

I stress character, character, character.

Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.

All these people who say success changes people; well, no, it just magnifies what's there.

Success does not implant bad characteristics in people. It merely steps up the growth rate of the bad characteristics they already had.

At bottom the character of M. Bonacieux was one of profound selfishness mixed with sordid avarice, the whole seasoned with extreme cowardice.

In the tradition we are dealing with, it was considered obstinacy and was therefore frowned upon to have a will and mind of one's own. It is easy to understand that an intelligent child would want to escape punishments devised for those possessing these traits and that he or she could do so without any difficulty. What the child didn't realize was that escape came at a high price.

Greedy as a duck, brave as a pigeon, loyal as a cuckoo." "I always modelled myself on the nobler birds.

I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I've got a lot of that in me as well.

Which is the most universal human characteristic: fear, or laziness?

Tibby, for all his defects, had a genuine personality.

Monday's child is fair of face,Tuesday's child is full of grace,Wednesday's child is full of woe,Thursday's child has far to go,Friday's child is loving and giving,Saturday's child has to work for its living,But a child that's born on the Sabbath dayIs fair and wise and good and gay.

I really do believe there are things passed down. Behaviour, not just DNA. Psychological make-up. You can see it in dogs. If you want to breed a calm dog, don't get two fighters.

There are many factors that make a serial hit or flop, but what is important is the character.