Traits Quotes

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I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so-called,) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I… — Mark Twain
Our novice runs the risk of failure without additional traits: a strong inclination toward originality, a taste for research, and a desire to experience the… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal
Human beings never think for themselves... For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told-and become upset if they are… — Michael Crichton
Curiosity has ... proven to be a great ingredient in resilience, a trait particularly valuable in an extended economic downturn. Resilient people aren't made of… — Chip Conley
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… — Philippe Aries
If successful people have one common trait, it's an utter lack of cynicism. The world owes them nothing. They go out and find what they… — Mike Zimmer
If A denotes one of the two constant traits, for example, the dominating one, a the recessive, and the Aa the hybrid form in which… — Gregor Mendel
In this generation, along with the dominating traits, the recessive ones also reappear, their individuality fully revealed, and they do so in the decisively expressed… — Gregor Mendel
My experiments with single traits all lead to the same result: that from the seeds of hybrids, plants are obtained half of which in turn… — Gregor Mendel
When two plants, constantly different in one or several traits, are crossed, the traits they have in common are transmitted unchanged to the hybrids and… — Gregor Mendel
It is hard to hide our genes completely. However devoted someone may be to the privacy of his genotype, others with enough curiosity and knowledge… — Philip Kitcher
If there is a trait which does characterize leaders it is opportunism. Successful people are very often those who steadfastly refuse to be daunted by… — John Viney
A man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe. — Euripides
None in this age will amass wealth except those having five traits ofcharacter. High hopes; abnormal greediness; excessive miserliness, lack of fearing Allaah; and forgetfulness… — Sufyan al-Thawri
The fact that we are born with the potential to go from simple survival to God-consciousness is the remarkable trait that sets our nervous systems… — Deepak Chopra
You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it.… — Octavia Butler
The most Indian thing about the Indian is surely not his moccasins or his calumet, his wampum or his stone hatched, but traits of character… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
... the friendship of worthless people has a bad effect (because they take part, unstable as they are, in worthless pursuits, and actually become bad… — Aristotle
Integrity is not a character trait that one possesses more or less of but a sophisticated state of processing experience in the world one enters… — David A. Kolb
Today [the voice of women] is being heard loud and clear. But I do not read the welcome triumph of feminism, social, economic, and creative,… — E. O. Wilson

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