Quotes About Traits

His vanity stands alone, sky-piercing, as sharp of outline as an Egyptian monolith. It is the only unpleasant feature in him that is not modified, softened, compensated by some converse characteristic.

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

Aries are just drunk Capricorns.

Libra — flirty, sociable, indecisive, appeasing, hopelessly romantic… did I mention indecisive?

Man is the most alive of living things. In him the traits which distinguish the animate from the inanimate become most pronounced. This is particularly true of his creativeness, which is essentially life giving. It introduces order into the randomness of nature... and is actuated not only by the present environment but by memories and goals.

Insanity is hereditary. You can get it from your children.

The choleric drinks, the melancholic eats, the phlegmatic sleeps.

Here I am trying to breed things out of my bloodline and ye neglect to tell me that, in marrying ye, I could be breeding other odd traits right back in? Did ye nay consider what sort of children two people such as we are might breed?" "Nay, I didnae, but now that ye mention it, 'tis an intriguing thought. Mayhap a lad who can tear his enemy's throat out then lick himself clean afterward." Bridget

A Leo Moon cannot be dominated. No matter how cogenial, generous, and loving other traits may be, even the shiest personality will have a surprisingly strong inner core of independence.

A Leo Moon cannot be dominated. No matter how congenial, generous, and loving other traits may be, even the shiest personality will have a surprisingly strong inner core of independence.

Group membership never disappears, but an organism will try to pass as something it's not, if enough of its traits transform. We are nucleate, heterotrophic, vertebral, brainy, bony fish. We are fish.

But he might have in every quality something of what made him what he was that was something she subconsciously searched for in a man.

People's inflated belief in the importance of personality traits and dispositions, together with their failure to recognize the importance of situational factors in affecting behavior, has been termed the "fundamental attribution error

It was another thing you didn't learn at a top-drawer school. Bickering is like baldness or lousy gifts. It runs in families.

The significance of LBJ's personal traits accounted for the growing belief, especially by anti-war activists, that Vietnam was Johnson's War. His critics are correct in pointing to the role of these traits and in arguing that Johnson, commander-in-chief until 1969, possessed the ultimate power to stem the tide of escalation. He was the last, best, and only chance for the United States to pull itself out of the quagmire.

Unlike many of its European neighbors, Britain shares many of America's financial traits.

If someone's liver doesn't work, we blame it on the genes; if someone's brain doesn't work properly, we blame the school. It's actually more humane to think of the condition as genetic. For instance, you don't want to say that someone is born unpleasant, but sometimes that might be true.

There were two sides to David Lean: on the one side, he was kind of a rather stiff, disciplined Englishman. And then he had this kind of romantic side to him. I think being true to both sides of your nature is important.

My dad is a very quick-witted, sarcastic, dry, humorous guy, whereas my mom's very silly, and that side of the family is very musical.

Qué caracteriza a un buen jefe?

The systematic use of nicknames such as "Lyin' Ted" and "Crooked Hillary" displaced certain character traits that might more appropriately have been affixed to the president himself.

If you know a person's personality type their behavior begins to make sense.

All personalities can be measured according to two or three basic biologically determined dimensions.

was obviously in debt to Carl Jung's distinction between introverts and extraverts, he