Trait Quotes
213 quotes by 196 authors
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Creativity is not a trait that we inherit in our genes or a blessing bestowed by the angels. It's a skill.
— Jonah Lehrer
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One trait of addictive families is that we never recognize our own addictions.
— Lorna Luft
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I think I've always had that bird's-eye view of myself. I think it's an actor trait... Sometimes it's best just to get lost out there,…
— Allison Williams
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I don't believe in regretting - one should try to move on. My mum was good at that. She was deeply in love with my…
— Robert Winston
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A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait.
— Edith Hamilton
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The dominant and most deep-dyed trait of the journalist is his timorousness. Where the novelist fearlessly plunges into the water of self-exposure, the journalist stands…
— Janet Malcolm
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I never did any training in journalism or in finance, so I really was in the deep end. I got very good at going to…
— Sophie Kinsella
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Presidents with strong nerves are decisive. They don't balk at unpopular decisions. They are willing to make people angry. Bush had strong nerves. Clinton, who…
— Fred Barnes
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I really like being thrown into the works. Many actors, I have found, have this as a common trait. We had to, as children, adapt…
— Adelaide Clemens
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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.
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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Everything comes to us in fifteen-second sound bites and photo opportunities. All possibility for ambiguity - the most precious trait of any adequate analysis -…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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It really is a fact that liberals are much higher than conservatives on a major personality trait called 'openness to experience.' People who are high…
— Jonathan Haidt
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Integrating in the society is a fundamental scriptural Christian trait. This integration is a must - moderate constructive integration. All of us, as Egyptians, have…
— Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria
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I build a wall around myself. I'm hard to get to know. Any trait you have, it gets worse as you go along.
— Diane Keaton
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Males shouldnt be jealous. Thats a female trait.
— Jay-Z
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Among the droves of men with political ambitions in the United States, I found very few with that virile candor, that manly independence of thought,…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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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…
— Veronica Roth
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Tis a human trait to hate one you have wronged
— Seneca the Younger
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When we read a book, our most essential trait - imagination - is given the opportunity to soar.
— Saint Augustine
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Remarkable trait in the American Character is the union, not very infrequent, of Yankee cleverness with spiritualism.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who Wrote These Trait Quotes
196 authors contributed a total of 213 Trait Quotes, led by these top contributors: