Quotes About Traits

But that was Evelyn's weakness. She was too kind, and too truthful. Both, I have found, are inconvenient character traits.

the problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure there going to have some pretty annoying virtues

That wasn't your mom in you—that was your dad.

Elder Bruce R. McConkie (1915–1985), of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, explained: When we pass from preexistence to mortality, we bring with us the traits and talents there developed.

Every man has three characters — that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.

Luke was a wizard and a warrior. Not—ever—a ladies' man

Sometimes our greatest strengths are also our greatest weaknesses.

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

There are two possibilities: Either the kiss is a human universal, one of the constellation of innate traits, including language and laughter, that unites us as a species, or it is an invention, like fire or wearing clothes, an idea so good that it was bound to metastasize across the globe.

Maxwell is serious, dedicated, awkward, forgetful, pompous to a certain degree, sentimental.

You can't expect a poodle to guard your house the way a Doberman pinscher does, and you can't expect a Doberman pinscher to jump in your lap the way a poodle does. Some people are just animals of a certain nature, and they are always going to have certain impulses that motivate them.

My father was very bright. My mother had enormous drive. Put that together, and that's my gene pool.

Throughout my life, I've had consistent DNA.

Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families.

It's part of our pop culture to give animals human personalities and talents.

I suspect that among parents or siblings of a person with autism there are higher rates of talents in systemizing.

Rachel was a girl who depended on small, recurrent rituals - that was one of the things he'd come to know about her, and his very ability to identify so specific a trait made him proud of his own capacity for tenderness.

Not at all. I'm saying there's a fire in you that drives everything you do, that makes you need to better the world and those you love. To stand up for those you can't. It's one of the wonderful things about you.'' ''Only one, huh?'' I spoke lightly, but his words had thrilled me. He'd meant what he said about thinking those were wonderful traits, and feeling his pride in me meant more than anything just then.

Power corrupts—that has been said and written so often that it has become a cliché. But what is never said, but is just as true, is that power reveals. When a man is climbing, trying to persuade others to give him power, he must conceal those traits that might make others reluctant to give it to him, that might even make them refuse to give it to him. Once the man has power, it is no longer necessary for him to hide those traits. In

Many of the profound and persistent problems we face stem more from a lack of skill (which in turn stems from a lack of deliberate practice) than from a genetic curse, a lack of courage, or a character flaw. Self-discipline, long viewed as a character trait, and elite performance, similarly linked to genetic gifts, stem from the ability to engage in guided practice of clearly defined skills.

we all began female, and always had both sexual hormones in us. We always had masculine and feminine behavioral traits, which we had to train into gender-appropriate behaviors, even though they were traits that everyone has. We selectively encouraged or repressed traits, so for most of our history we have reinforced gender. But in our deepest selves we were always both.

First of all, I'm not narcissistic....I know Narkissos of Thespiae--while we might share traits, I came first, so he's Lothairistic, not the other way around-- Lothaire

Narkissos of Thespiae—while we might share traits, I came first, so he's Lothairistic, not the other way around.

The traits I respect are erudition and the courage to stand up when half-men are afraid for their reputation. Any idiot can be intelligent.