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Quotes About Traits

The reader brings to the work personality traits, memories of past events, present needs and preoccupations, a particular mood of the moment and a particular physical condition. These and many other elements in a never-to-be-duplicated combination determine his response to the text.
~ Louise Rosenblatt
In my mind, Asperger's isn't a label to describe the traits Jacob has, but rather the ones he lost.
~ Jodi Picoult
Antony was also obsessive, judgmental, and paranoid.
~ Jodi Picoult
By definition, love made you better than good enough; it redefined perfection to include your traits, instead of excluding them. All
~ Jodi Picoult
Good manners were a part of his inheritance, like left-handedness or hemophilia.
~ John Banville
I grew up to have my father's looks- my father's speech patterns-my father's posture- my father's opinions and my mother's contempt for my father
~ Unknown
There is something frightful in the way in which not only characteristic qualities, but particular manifestations of them, are repeated from generation to generation.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
You are the friend of all because of your merits. A good person embellished with good thoughts becomes the friend or benefactor of all. Such a person influences others, because of his positive personality traits and attracts them and as a result, he befriends all.
~ Rig Veda
Much of the character of everyman may be read in his house.
~ John Ruskin
Me and my dad have exactly the same head and nose.
~ Shaun Ryder
My father had the curved feet, my mother the legs, so I am a bit of both.
~ Sylvie Guillem
Work on your character and a good life will come to you.
~ Donald Miller
Have you heard that modesty is an attractive traits? Only to ugly people
~ Unknown
Insanity is hereditary—you get it from your kids. ~Sam Levenson
~ Jack Canfield
Indeed, I have found that confidence is one of the most consistent traits exhibited by the successful traders I have interviewed.
~ Jack D. Schwager
The believers have four signs: good humor, tactfulness, kind heartedness and openhandedness.
~ Unknown
Like father like son, like mother like daughter!
~ Jamaica Kincaid
Men and women have been hardwired with distinctive gender traits that, when working together, serve the human race and display the glory of God.
~ Unknown
The influence of individual character extends from generation to generation.
~ Unknown
Aren't eccentricities fairly common among overachievers.
~ John Irving
A slew of cognitive traits predisposes us to faith.
~ Pascal Boyer
The common signs do not bestow the driving power of the cardinal types or the inflexibility of the fixed signs. There is likely to be less high ambition or intensive continuity.
~ Unknown
After a certain age, and even if we develop in quite different ways, the more we become ourselves, the more our family traits are accentuated.
~ Marcel Proust
Two traits of Albertine's character came back to me at that moment, one to comfort and the other to appall me, for we can find everything in our memory: it is a kind of pharmacy or chemical laboratory, where one's hand may fall at any moment on a sedative drug or a dangerous poison.
~ Marcel Proust