Don't just praise a guy's achievements. Praise the personality traits that made them possible. — Matthew Hussey Copy Share Image
Even the most sensitive person can get used to even the most insensitive thing. Cruelty isn’t a personality trait. Cruelty is a… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
My not-so-fun traits are that I get very impatient and I can be really stubborn. — Bitsie Tulloch Copy Share Image
It is bad enough that our geniuses cannot do anything useful, but it is worse that no man is fit for society… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is only one trait that makes the writer. He is always watching. — Morley Callaghan Copy Share Image
I have a hundred times heard him say, that all ages and nations have represented their gods as wicked, in a constantly… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I never really understood that massive collaboration involving hundreds of people is what makes movies possible, and it's also why I would… — John Green Copy Share Image
If only I had discipline, but alas, it is only an obsessive-compulsive trait and the beauty of habit that causes me to… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
At the beginning of a novel, a writer needs confidence, but after that what's required is persistence. These traits sound similar. They… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Children are marvelously and intuitively correct physiognomists. The youngest of them exhibit this trait. — C. A. Bartol Copy Share Image
It is a common trait of primates to become submissive and even worshipful toward one who has the power to kill them. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Traditional Anglo-Saxon intolerance is a local and temporal culture trait like any other. — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
In the beginning, there were bacteria.... [A] nearly universal assumption is that all subsequent life descended from the original life form through… — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
Those who become hyperpolyglots are those who meet two criteria. One, they are exposed to language material. Two, they undertake learning languages… — Michael Erard Copy Share Image
I was diagnosed a number of years ago with obsessive-compulsive disorder - which everyone has, to some degree - and I have… — Paula Poundstone Copy Share Image
Selfishness, if but reasonably tempered with wisdom, is not such an evil trait. — Giovanni Ruffini Copy Share Image
A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal traits in the author. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
There's something I have about being Canadian - there's a distance it gives you when you live in the States and operate… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
Never yet could I find that a black had uttered a thought above the level of plain narration; never saw even an… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A lot of the problems of parenthood are universal. Yes, it's harder being younger and growing up yourself, but all those anxieties… — Aisling Loftus Copy Share Image
Human learning is a very aggressive style in its native state. I am not sure why, though it is a very useful… — John Medina Copy Share Image
The crazy thing about television is that you are rarely allowed to grow. You are molded into a character based on some… — Kendra Wilkinson Copy Share Image
If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
One of history's secrets is that the revolutionaries appeal in the eyes of posterity owes much to the traits they share with… — Christopher Caldwell Copy Share Image
I grew up playing football and hunting; and went to military school and then into the Marine Corps. Kindness is not a… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
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