Quotes About Traits

I'm very loyal. Sociable to a certain extent. Neurotic, too.

There are some people who're all doctors. Is it genetic?

There are some things that are in you because of your DNA and some things that are a product of your environment and what you've been around.

What is striking about them is that the father-leaning disorders tend to produce autistic symptoms. The mother-leaning disorders tend to produce schizophrenic ones.

If you find yourself considering who to take for a lover because of his ability to defend you, you're getting pretty close to selecting a mate because you think he has desirable traits to pass along to future generations.

I've come to learn that there is a real difference between men and women. It's genetic.

Yes, we do mimic our parents in a lot of ways.

A professor of creative studies at the University of Georgia, Bonnie Cramond, compared the traits of creative people with the warning signs of ADHD and found that, except for the terms used (positive for creative people, negative for people diagnosed as ADHD), they were practically identical.

People rate themselves more favorably on amorphous traits like sensitivity and idealism (at the 73rd percentile, on average) than on relatively straightforward traits like thriftiness and being well-read (48th percentile).

Art, in its will to live and progress, puts on the mask of these dull-hearted personal traits in order to manifest, objectivize, and fulfill itself in them.

was also witty and likable, intelligent

Character isn't built, it's bred.

I pick up Dylan. He certainly takes after his father: about three-quarters of his body weight seems to be head, and three-quarters of that is ears.

Women still have an uneasy relationship with power and the traits necessary to be a leader. There is this internalized fear that if we are really powerful, we are going to be considered ruthless or pushy or strident—all those epithets that strike right at our femininity.

Our individual capacity for happiness is partly inherited. It is part of our biological makeup.

Character": Eccentric, impractical. A pronounced drunk.

you do instead? It contended that the traits that define great work are rare and valuable. If you want these traits in your own life, you need rare and valuable skills to offer in return. I called these rare and valuable skills career capital, and noted that the foundation of constructing work you love is acquiring a large store of this capital.

If your goal is to love what you do, I discovered, "follow you passion" can be bad advice. It's more important to become good at something rare and valuable, and then invest the career capital this generates into the type of traits that make a job great. The traits of control and mission are two good places to start.

Everyone has in him something of the criminal, the genius, and the saint.

so intimate is the intermingling of bodily and psychic traits" wrote Carl Jung "that not only can we draw far-reaching inferences as to the constitution of the psyche from the constitution of the body, but we can also infer from psychic peculiarities the corresponding bodily characteristics.

Thus, all ads effectively have two audiences: potential product buyers, and potential product viewers who will credit the product owners with various desirable traits.

The problem with Conlan was that he had his father's unshakeable confidence and his mother's mouth.

She possesses what someone once described to me as all the unlovable virtues.

Vârsta în sine nu îi face pe oameni mai buni sau mai înÈ›elepÈ›i, ci doar înt?reÈ™te tr?s?turile pe care aceÈ™tia le-au avut dintotdeauna.