Quotes About Traits

physically agile, quick, nimble, and superior hunters, but the Darwinists did not look for these traits because they were blinded by their evolution glasses (Johnston 1902; 1902a; Lloyd 1899). Modern study has shown the Pygmies in a far more accurate light that demonstrates the absurdity of the 1900s evolution worldview (Turnbull

Most of our default settings are inherited from our own parents. They are ingrained and programmed into us like a motherboard on a computer. They are the factory settings we return to when we are at our wit's end and not thinking and they have been installed into us from our upbringing.

I'm an Aries. Most of the time, whether I want to admit it or not, it describes me. I don't check my horoscope too often, but most of the time, yes, I'm fiery and stubborn.

Passion and courtesy are two polar opposite traits that serve to balance each other into a full-blooded whole. Without socialization, passion is a crude barbarian, and without passion, the elegant and polite are dead. Allow both passion and courtesy into your life in equal measure, and be complete.

A person's way of performing can be slightly modified, but it is unlikely to be completely changed—and certainly not easily. Just as people achieve results by doing what they are good at, they also achieve results by working in ways that they best perform. A few common personality traits usually determine how a person performs.

Character Profile: MOE DRABOWSKY

Cultural traits, however, are a more general category than memes, because they also include quantitative (smoothly-varying) characteristics that cannot be easily represented as discrete alternatives: for example, the inclination to trust strangers. (More on that below.)

All men come to resemble their fathers. That isn't a tragedy, but you need a hell of a sense of humour to handle it.

In an interview recorded by Mark Edmundson in Trotsky Without Orchids, Bloom described faculty politics as Stalinism without Stalin. . . . All of the traits of the Stalinists in the 1930s and 19408 are being repeated . . . in the universities in the 1990s.

People high in mate value, those who possess desirable characteristics, are in great demand. Appreciating their traits is not enough for successful mating, however, just as spying a ripe berry bush down a steep and treacherous ravine is not enough for successful eating. The next step in mating is to compete successfully for a desirable mate.

As one researcher noted, "it seems likely that males suffer higher mortality than do females because in the past they have enjoyed higher potential reproductive success, and this has selected for traits that are positively associated with high reproductive success but at a cost of decreased survival" (Trivers, 1985, p. 314).

Competition among men and selection by women of men high in status and resources are ultimately responsible for the evolution in males of risk-taking traits that lead to successful mating at the expense of a long life.

They always say that people should give relationships time to develop. That sooner or later a person's real traits will be exposed. I should have listened to they.

Things like that gave me the first glimmering of the universal female gospel that all good traits and leanings come from the mother's side.

It is somewhat remarkable that Balzac, dealing as he did with traits of character and the minute and daily circumstances of life, has never been accused of representing actual persons in the two or three thousand portraits which he painted of human nature.

Why resort to welfare cuts when you could aim more accurately at what you claim to be the real problem: intelligence itself? Why not improve education? Indeed, why aim your policy at increasing intelligence at all? There are many other desirable human traits. Why not reduce gullibility, aggressiveness, or greed?

Men's natures are alike, it is their habits that carry them far apart.

It is one of your most annoying traits." He opened his eyes, and the weight of them lay upon me like darkness. "Please

My dog is half pit-bull, half poodle. Not much of a watchdog, but a vicious gossip!

The names we use to describe personality traits - such as extrovert, high achiever, or paranoid - refer to the specific patterns people have used to structure their attantion. At the same party, the extrovert will seek out and enjoy interactions with others, the high achiever will look for useful business conacts, and the paranoid will be on guard for signs of danger he must avoid. Attention can be invested in innumerable ways, ways that can make life eihther rich or miserable.

You can never tell how genes ricochet.

By definition, love made you better than good enough; it redefined perfection to include your traits, instead of excluding them.

I love all your beautiful and unique flaws and traits because only you have them and they are amazing to me.

People talk about curing autism. But if you got rid of all those traits, who's going to make the next computer?