Quotes About Traits

Probably the single most important evolutionary trait dogs developed was right there at the outset, illuminated by the campfire. It is in those eyebrows and in the way dogs have of tilting their heads. They are warm packages of emotions.

If you have a personality, you're a person.

There's a lot of heredity in that family.

But I knew a lot more than that; I knew exactly what sort of man he was in his old age, so it wasn't hard to guess what he must have been like as a young man--for a man's character doesn't change after he's thirty. It only becomes more firmly set, and is more deeply marked in his features.

Sooner of later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.

Although the Singularity has many faces, its most important implication is this: our technology will match and then vastly exceed the refinement and suppleness of what we regard as the best of human traits.

I have no butt, none of the men in my family do.

I'm a Capricorn, actually.

It's funny, I see my dad in myself when I say certain things or I do certain things. I'll say, 'That was my dad right there.'

Geminis are aggressive, changeable, intense.

I'm very Aries - every characteristic, good and the bad.

I'm actually a very shy person. You'd be surprised how many leaders are shy. They're not all extroverts by nature.

You can make some inferences about a man's character if you know something about the conditions in which he has survived and prospered.

Genes affect proteins, and proteins affect X which affects Y which affects Z which . . . affects the phenotypic character of interest.

Just as every gene is the centre of a radiating field of influence on the world, so every phenotypic character is the centre of converging influences from many genes, both within and outside the body of the individual organism.

The second point of this present chapter is that the genes that bear upon any given extended phenotypic trait may be in conflict rather than in concert with one another.

Tell me, do you get the ape in you from your mother's or your father's side of the family? - Cat

People did not change their basic, core personalities. Their values tended to stay the same.

People did not change their basic, core personalities.

He was his mother's son, kind and gentle. She was her father's daughter, quick of mind, fascinated by intrigue and all that went with it. But

...congenital killers and criminals are possessed of not one but two Y chromosomes, bearing a double dose, as it were, of genetically undesirable maleness.

No man is born without faults.

As Vivacity is the Gift of Women, Gravity is that of Men.

It is profound philosophy to sound the depths of feeling and distinguish traits of character. Men must be studied as deeply as books.