Quotes About Traits

I get most of my athleticism from my mom. I know my dad cringes every single time I say that, but my competitive nature was always fueled by my dad.

I think my characters are all fairly fundamentally decent, even if they have negative characteristics.

still wanted those genetic characteristics carried by the Atreides.

He was probably a Sagittarius, like Rosalie herself, born with a quiver of arrows, and a license to be an asshole.

Everyone has something that defines them, whether they're wildly intelligent or whether they have really big feet.

One of the most notable traits of the Mexican's character is his willingness to contemplate horror: he is even familiar and complacent in his dealings with it.

Interestingly enough, I'm an earth sign, and my personality is pretty much in keeping with that, and Verdine is definitely a fire sign. And even though Ralph is a water sign, he would definitely be the wind side of the equation.

When I get a new player, we do tests about his character and personality because it is very important to find out about the things he loves to do on and off the pitch.

I have my father to thank for my build and height, and my mother to thank for my lips and eyes.

Los rasgos del carácter son "los anhelos apasionados relativamente permanentes".

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.

Next time you write about a hero, put a little spice of human nature in him.

resulting in the appearance in the offspring of a character which is not present in the parents but which is potentially transmissible to its offspring.

Houses, like people, have their own peculiarities.

Character isn't what we think it is or, rather, what we want it to be. It isn't a stable, easily identifiable set of closely related traits, and it only seems that way because of a glitch in the way our brains are organized. Character is more like a bundle of habits and tendencies and interests, loosely bound together and dependent, at certain times, on circumstance and context.

All of us, when it comes to personality, naturally think in terms of absolutes: that a person is a certain way or is not a certain way. But what Zimbardo and Hartshorne and May are suggesting is that this is a mistake, that when we think only in terms of inherent traits and forget the role of situations, we're deceiving ourselves about the real causes of human behavior.

What Hartshorne and May concluded, then, is that something like honesty isn't a fundamental trait, or what they called a unified trait. A trait like honesty, they concluded, is considerably influenced by the situation.

Whatever mechanism passes on speech patterns probably passes on behavioral and emotional patterns as well.

Your character is a blueprint of who you are. People access and determine your pre-qualifications, assents and mode of thinking through the character you cough out.

Our children are not us: they carry throwback genes and recessive traits and are subject right from the start to environmental stimuli beyond our control.

Every one has his peculiarities and cannot get rid of them; and yet many a one is destroyed by his peculiarities, and those too of the most innocent kind.

My aunty says I'm the double of my father. He was a workaholic, which I've definitely inherited. And like me, he could be the life and soul of the party, but also quite withdrawn.

ADHD" is a term that describes a way of being in the world. It is neither entirely a disorder nor entirely an asset. It is an array of traits specific to a unique kind of mind. It can become a distinct advantage or an abiding curse, depending on how a person manages it.

primary mental abilities and perceptual and motor skills are the most influenced by heredity, while personality traits are the least influenced. If