Top 422 Trait Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on December 4, 2024.
Australians, we've got a very healthy sense of humor in us. God forbid we take ourselves too seriously so it's kind of a cultural trait.
Rooney has those things that you cannot teach players - the positions he takes up just behind the front men is a European trait.
Look, there's no proof that athletes like us who may have higher testosterone levels are benefiting from this natural human body trait.
Portugal was born in the shadow of the Catholic Church and religion, from the beginning it was the formative element of the soul of the nation and the dominant trait of character of the Portuguese people.
To find everything profound - that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished.
I was an observer. I liked to listen rather than openly express myself. This trait is something that I've retained over the years.
Almost every sinful action ever committed can be traced back to a selfish motive. It is a trait we hate in other people but justify in ourselves.
[On gay ban in the military:] Heroism, I believe, is a trait that does not know race, color, creed, sex, or sexual orientation.
I really am not overly comfortable with attention to be honest. Paradoxically I've noticed this is a pretty common trait amongst actors. You like to let the work speak for you, I think.
Narcissism is a trait universally unappreciated by human beings, and NFL players fall into this human bucket.
They say multitasking is a female trait, but it's not about gender; it's about personality type.
Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping.
I'm not sensitive about my lisp, but a lot of people are, and it's not the type of trait people should mock.
After all the fears, the warnings, after all, a woman's mistakes are different from a girl's. They are written by fire on stone. They are a trait and not an error.
People who do not succeed have one distinguishing trait in common. They know all the reasons for failure, and have what they believe to be air-tight alibis to explain away their own lack of achievement.
I didn't bother to explain about the glitter in my hair. I figured they could think it was a family trait. We all glittered, just like the Cullens in Twilight.
Self-deceit is a most damaging trait. The remedy, for an artist, is to paint a self-portrait!
Stubborness we deprecate,
Firmness we condone,
The former is our neighbors trait,
The latter is our own.
I watch action movies, and you don't remember when Jason Statham does a kick or punch. It's character trait stuff you remember.
My most noticeable physical trait is, hands down, my hair. It's big, unruly and curly, and you can spot it from a mile away... literally.
The single most outwardly identifiable trait demonstrated by a winning human being is that of positive self-expectation- which is pure and simple optimism.
Indeed, the best way to think of willpower is not as some shapeless behavioral trait but as a sort of psychic muscle, one that can atrophy or grow stronger depending on how it's used.
No one's supposed to be the president. This is not England. And it's not just the Bush family, all families designate each child as having some particular trait.
My experience is that aggression is a universal trait in human beings - girls feel it in any sort of environment, same-sex or co-ed.
One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and decay.
What is the thing that Hollywood demands most? Sincerity. No place in the world will pay such a high price for this admirable trait.
When a trait is universal, evolutionary biologists look for a genetic explanation and wonder how that gene or genes might enhance survival or reproductive success.
When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant.
The single most valuable human trait, the one quality every schoolchild and adult should be taught to nurture, is, quite simply, kindness.
Obama is capable - as evidenced by his first-term success with health care reform. But mandate-building requires humility, a trait not easily associated with him.
It's a personality trait: from the very beginning, I knew what I was concentrating on. I'm only doing the kernel - I always found everything around it to be completely boring.
Just about ANY personality trait or skill can be learned: simply find it in someone you know and copy it. Then watch what happens.
No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.
Integrity is the distinctive Santoni trait. Their attention for the longevity of good product matches the widely-felt need for fashion that's less superficial and volatile.
Introversion - along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness - is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology.
Understanding someone, and loving him despite that understanding, is a trait more often found in angels than in mankind.
When my husband tells our daughter, 'You get that trait from Mom,' she lights up with pride. We all know who he's talking about. And it's not me. I'm fine with this.
The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare.
I - and there are hundreds of thousands of Irishmen who felt on this subject as I do - have always liked my Celtic countrymen and disliked the English nation; it is a national trait of character, and I cannot help it.
When I'm upset, everyone knows about it, and it's a selfish trait because everyone suffers.
The gift of language is the single human trait that marks us all genetically, setting us apart from the rest of life.
There's really no way to be perfect. Perfectionism is a silly trait to have, so in a lot of ways that inspired the world of 'Divergent,' in which everyone is striving toward that ideal and falling short of it.
The young people working for me are ambitious and hard-working. That work ethic has always been a trait of the British.
I build a wall around myself. I'm hard to get to know. Any trait you have, it gets worse as you go along.
An ability to embrace new ideas, routinely challenge old ones, and live with paradox will be the effective leader's premier trait.
The denial of death is openly acknowledged as a significant trait of our culture. The tears of the bereaved have become comparable to the excretions of the diseased
I've been fascinated by mysteries for as long as I can remember. Real, fictional, solved, unsolved, I don't care; they all fascinate me. I think that's a core human trait.
Comedy is a very big part of the English culture, the sense of humor; it's a very dominant trait.
I think probably the one trait that would concern me about brother Bing would be his lack of responsibility.
I think the most important trait for an entrepreneur is persistence. When you try to do something new and difficult, you are more likely to fail than to succeed.
I don't know how smart I am. I just try to be what I am. I hope I'm modest. I think that's a desirable trait.
I love the Chrisleys and Todd is hilarious in many ways and I love that. I think it's an important trait.
The special trait making me an anarch is that I live in a world which I ‘ultimately’ do not take seriously. This increases my freedom; I serve as a temporary volunteer
Human paleontology shares a peculiar trait with such disparate subjects as theology and extraterrestrial biology: it contains more practitioners than objects for study.
The music in my family has always been there; it's been quite an obvious trait that seems to have trickled down the bloodline.
The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.
I have sporadic OCD cleaning moments around the house. But then I get lazy and I'm cured. It's a very inconsistent personality trait.
The common trait of all evil is nothing other than egoism... Basically all human evil comes from what we call the selfishness.
I'm tired of ignorance held up as inspiration, where vicious anti-intellectualism is considered a positive trait, and where uninformed opinion is displayed as fact.
Everything comes to us in fifteen-second sound bites and photo opportunities. All possibility for ambiguity - the most precious trait of any adequate analysis - is erased.
