3.
A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal traits in the author.
Hosea Ballou
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We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
V. S. Naipaul
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Humility is not a trait I often associate with America.
Mira Nair
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Why is it that, among men, physical courage is a trait so plenteous yet moral courage is a trait so rare?
Mark Twain
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Jealousy is the worst trait in any person.
Adam DeVine
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Each character represented a trait that resides in me.
Chuck Jones
10.
Character is more important than any other leadership trait.
John Wooden
11.
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
12.
A slew of cognitive traits predisposes us to faith.
Pascal Boyer
13.
There is only one trait that makes the writer. He is always watching.
Morley Callaghan
15.
Although self-control is inheritable and does run in families and has a genetic component, it's more like height than anything else. Height is one of the most strongly inherited traits that human beings have and yet when we improve the nutrition of the population everybody gets taller. So you can shift the entire population by an effective intervention.
Terrie Moffitt
16.
One trait of addictive families is that we never recognize our own addictions.
Lorna Luft
17.
The brain, Schopenhauer says, is the 'one great tool' that has enabled a creature endowed with neither sharp teeth nor claws to survive in a competitive environment. Moreover simplification of data, and indeed judicious falsification, are adaptive traits.
Julian Young
19.
Pride is about the ugliest trait somebody can have.
Paul Henderson
21.
Selfishness, if but reasonably tempered with wisdom, is not such an evil trait.
Giovanni Ruffini
22.
I definitely did not play myself. As the writer of the script, I have traits of all the characters. I can relate to all of the characters.
Cherien Dabis