Quotes About Traits

Meryl Sawyer, Half Moon Bay

A dreamer: it's the last thing I want to be called, in China or in America. No doubt when my friend in Beijing used the term, she was thinking of traits like persistence, single-mindedness, willfulness, and—particularly—impracticality, which she must have seen plenty of in me. Still, that one possesses a dreamer's personality and that one has dreams do not guarantee that one knows how to dream.

Confidence, resilience, grit, mind-set, personality traits, social skills, and motivation have been found to be at least as important as cognitive skills in the workplace.

The feminine genes that made it to the next generation belonged to women who were submissive caretakers. Women who spent to much time fighting for power did not leave any of those powerful genes for future generations.

Most of the women get their beautiful looks from the Mom, unless the Dad happens to be a Plastic Surgeon.

Seven "C"s that constitute your Character, IMHO, are: Confidence, Compassion, Courage, Clarity, Calmness, Consistency, and Commitment.

There are things about us that make us who we are, personality traits, or capacities that we have, or knowledge we possess or that we don't possess, habits we have that are good or bad.

I'm a vague conjunctured personality more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character.

We very often confuse personality with leadership.

1 Timothy 3 lists only one gift, teaching, then follows w a list of character traits.

For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.

L'hérédité a ses lois, comme la pesanteur.

most traits that play a role in expert performance can be modified by the right sort of practice,

The Carnegie Institution funded a Long Island laboratory in 1904 that began keeping tabs on the physical traits of half a million American citizens

What we found was that the greater proportion of process praise, the more likely the child was to have a mindset five years later that welcomed challenges and that represented traits as malleable, not a label you were stuck with.

I am all-giving like my mother and practical like my father.

People with conservative temperaments don't become fighter pilots or presidential candidates - they're all that way to some extent.

I'm a Taurus. To the bone.

It's a myth that money changes you; money simply exaggerates your traits. Money will always and only make you more of what you already are.

Learn from your mentors, own the traits of the greats but acknowledge your own unique abilities.

good-looking people are aware that other people's positive evaluations of them are not based on their actual traits and abilities but are often caused by an attractiveness "halo

The trouble with having a stubbornness contest with your kids is that they have your stubbornness gene.

You will think in terms of opposites—when people overtly display some trait, such as confidence or hypermasculinity, they are most often concealing the contrary reality.