Quotes About Traits

I think both running and science reflect certain character traits. I have endurance, patience, and ambition. I'm willing to work hard toward a goal, to push myself and overcome limits. Running and science both let me express these traits.

Insanity is hereditary. You get it from your children.

It is practically an axiom in psychiatry that precocious intellect combined with physical weakness can give rise to many unpleasant character traits - avarice, delusions of grandeur , and obsessive masturbation, to name just a few.

It is one of the best traits of good people that they love where they pity. And this is truer of women than of men.

No Squares in Common Marriages with one square in common work the easiest because of the common traits they share.

But it seems clear to me that on some level, spirits choose their parents, because these potential parents possess certain traits and values that the soon-to-be child needs to assimilate during his or her lifetime.

Her virtues were too numerous to describe, and not sufficiently interesting to deserve description.

He was not witty, nor did he deal in anecdotes.

Es un error confundir lo extraordinario con lo misterioso. El más vulgar de los crímenes es, con frecuencia, el más misterioso porque no ofrece rasgos especiales de los que puedan hacerse deducciones.

A more perfect compound of the bully, coward, and sneak than Master Silas Brown I have seldom met with," remarked Holmes as we trudged along together.

The further points, that he is middle-aged, that his hair is grizzled

There are nearly always residual phenomena, a partial hanging-back. When an open-handed Maecenas surprises us by some isolated trait of miserliness, or when a person who is consistently over-kind suddenly indulges in a hostile action, such 'residual phenomena' are invaluable for genetic research. They show us that these praise-worthy and precious qualities are based on compensation and overcompensation which, as was to have been expected, have not been absolutely and fully successful.

[T]he first transactions of a nation, like those of an individual upon his first entrance into life make the deepest impression, and are to form the leading traits in its character.

Imitate the traits of your creator

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.

The reason I use the word reflex to describe these traits of selfishness is that there is zero premeditation before they happen. When these responses happen, they are coming from my fallen nature, not from reflection and resolution. I don't sin out of duty. I sin spontaneously. They are the reflexes of my original, unmortified sinfulness.

But if Nasser's gift to the Egyptians was their sense of pride, Mubarak's curse is to have created a cultural climate where the only rewarded character traits are shameless opportunism and lack of dignity.

I have a hundred times heard him say, that all ages and nations have represented their gods as wicked, in a constantly increasing progression; that mankind have gone on adding trait after trait till they reached the most perfect conception of wickedness which the human mind could devise, and have called this God, and prostrated themselves before it.

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.

Primitive peoples did not inspire Rudge, who saw in them the worst aspects of human nature, reminding him that superstition, ignorance, violence, and cruelty were inherent human traits, first impulses, and that civilization was a cheap coat of paint over a rotten edifice.

The grace of Christ in the soul is developing traits of character that are the opposite of selfishness—traits that will refine, ennoble, and enrich the life.

Am observat ca acei-sau acele- care se intereseaza cat de cat de ceea ce scriu au o trasatura comuna:neurastenia(ca sa simplificam). Nimeni sa nu deschida aceasta cartr daca n-a fost bantuit de anxietate-iata ce ar trebui sa scrie pe banderola fiecareia dintre cartile mele.

All women become like their mothers.

Maybe you picked up stuff from your mom without even knowing it.