Quotes About Traits

Most characteristics associated with leaders are masculine: dominance, authority, assertiveness, and so forth.

You can never completely escape your DNA.

My younger brother's a redhead!

I think the whole under-eye-bag thing is hereditary, and I just got lucky.

Rafa is hilarious. He's my fun one. Leo is my real sensitive one; he's so sensitive and so sweet and wants to take care of everybody. Romeo is Mr. Independent - he's so independent. He looks the most like me, I think, because he's got my coloring and, I think, my features a little bit more.

As for Amitabh Bachchan, I worked with him in 'Reshma Aur Shera' where he played a mute character. While shooting I noticed that he expresses a lot through his eyes. Around the same time he did a commentary for 'Bhuvan Shome.' I felt this boy was amazing. He has got both the traits required for being a good actor: voice and expression.

I am 100 per cent Virgo, stubborn, over-organised, slightly abstracted from the rest of the world.

There are two kinds of people in the world: the kind who alphabetize their record collections, and the kind who don't.

Age has a way of exagerrating the physical traits of those who live to feel its strains; the round tend to grow rounder, and the slim tend to waste away.

Age has a way of exaggerating the physical traits of those who live to feel its strains; the

You don't have to agree with me, but I think the heart of who we are stays pretty much the same," Hope said, "What changes is how those core traits manifest themselves over time.

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.

If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat

There is something about boys," she said, "that makes them think it is unmanly to show any feelings other than scorn and irritation or any enthusiasm for anything. It is a very unattractive trait.

These traits strike her as unusual

Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.

It often runs in families," she remarked: "just as a love for pastry does.

There's one thing this Matt Ridley bloke hasn't factored in," I said. Will looked up from his computer screen. "Oh yes?" "What if the genetically superior male is actually a bit of a dickhead?

I cherish the predictability of these creatures, their sociability, their contented acceptance of life. I wish I possessed even one of those traits. I'm working on it.

At the end of our conversation she (Martha Stout) turned to address you, the reader. She said if you're beginning to feel worried that you may be a psychopath, if you recognize some of those traits in yourself, if you're feeling a creeping anxiety about it, that means you are not one.

I didn't want to make the classic mistake of amateur evolutionary theorists, which is to pick a trait and then ask: "Can I think of a story about how this trait might once have been adaptive?" The answer to that question is almost always yes because reasoning can take you wherever you want to go.

Picture a litter of kittens. One is more curious than the next. One is more aggressive than the next. One is a leader, and another is a follower. The first is not potentially curious; she is already curious. The second is not potentially aggressive; he is already aggressive. The third and the fourth are not potentially leaders and followers; they are already that. In exactly the same way a human infant is not potentially smart; he is already smart.

I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.