Quotes About Traits

the technology of personality transfer is imperfect--sometimes bits get left behind: memories, abilities, traits, that might be useful. A full succession of bodies can mean successive senility.

It's hard to accept that the genetic lottery gives us strengths, maybe even a superpower or two, but that it also gives us vulnerabilities.

Intuition adds value even in the justly derided selection interview, but only after a disciplined collection of objective information and disciplined scoring of separate traits.

The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number.

And, like every other trait, it's distributed in different proportions among the population, just like height. Some people have a lot of this tendency, and some just a little. It helps the tribe to have some of both types of people—aggressive warriors who have so little fear that they will go out and bring home a mastodon for lunch, and cautious members who won't have any part of that, but will also live long enough to raise a new generation, and feed it by growing corn.

If art is made by ordinary people, then you'd have to allow that the ideal artist would be an ordinary person too, with the whole usual mixed bag of traits that real human beings possess.

Yo tengo la intuición de que los humanos somos sencillamente grandes simios con unos cuantos interruptores genéticos exclusivos -y especiales-.

O. T. Avery was carrying out experiments at the Rockefeller Institute in New York which showed that hereditary traits could be transmitted from one bacterial cell to another by purified DNA molecules.

I am a vague, conjectural personality, more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.

In the age-old debate about whether leadership traits are innate or developed, memory—the ease and capacity with which the mind stores information—is generally considered an inborn trait.

he was also a direct male-line descendant of Genghis Khan, though intervening generations and racial mixing had so juggled his genes that he had no discernible Mongoloid characteristics, and the only vestiges left in Mr. L. Prosser of his mighty ancestry were a pronounced stoutness about the tum and a predilection for little fur hats.

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

The psychology of character is interesting,

Good genes—that's what people have always said about me. They're talking about the fact that I am tall and thin, that I have a nearly symmetrical face. What they are not talking about are the other genes I've inherited.

Had I not had the childhood I did, would these traits not be so at the forefront of my personality? Who knows? All I know is that I am the product of all the experiences I have had, good and bad, and if I am in a happy place in my life (as I truly am), then I can have no regrets about any of the combination of events and circumstances that have led me to the here and now.

Early experiences convinced me that animals can and do have quite distinct personalities.

Horses are like people - they have different personalities. They can be nice, friendly and hard-working, or awkward, difficult and lazy. If horses were people, some would be on the dole, and others would be entrepreneurs.

Characters in a book are very much like personalities divvied up within a family. In the end, it all averages out to a sort of overall averageness.

I hate when people say models don't have personalities; what does that even mean? Everyone has a personality.

It's hysterical how kids have their own personalities, even at like 3 or 4. And, it's funny what they tend to like.

I have to say that my dad's face is very malleable. He's barely got any cartilage in his face. I think I maybe inherited that Play-Doh-like physicality from him.

Well, I think that in every character there are little bits and pieces of yourself.

I'm Pisces with Leo rising. The Pisces part is the dreamer. The Leo says, 'Let's execute.'

As everyone, you do end up becoming your mother, but also as you're acting, I find out you become every member of your family, bits come out without you really wanting them to come out.