Attribute Quotes

I think it's ill-advised to attribute pathologies to healthy people. It doesn't help normal, healthy, thriving children to be viewed as pitiable and fragile.

The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts.

I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.

People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.

Never attribute to malice, that which can be reasonably explained by stupidity.

If you can attribute your success entirely to your own mental effort, to your own attitude, to some spiritual essence that you have that is better than other people's, then that must feel pretty good.

But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world.

As a person who is not confrontational by disposition I tend to see that the quality of being confrontational is a positive attribute.

Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years!

I attribute my entire football career, as far as getting me started, getting me interested, keeping me that way was my father. He went to every game even though he was crippled and wasn't real healthy.

Every form is a base for colour, every colour is the attribute of a form.

When I meet successful people I ask 100 questions as to what they attribute their success to. It is usually the same: persistence, hard work and hiring good people.

I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.

When you see people who are really good at game shows, the one common attribute is a cool head under pressure: an ability to perform as well in the studio, surrounded by lights and noise, as you do on your couch.

Living in a tower, however secure it may feel, is hardly a social attribute.

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.

There's a tendency in politics to attribute bad motivation much too quickly, and the sooner you attribute bad motivation to someone you disagree with, the harder it is to find some common ground to make some progress that would give people confidence that you got it more right than wrong.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions.

In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin.

Modesty used to be considered a natural female attribute. No more.

I am selfish, but that's an attribute that all artists possess.

We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.

Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.

There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.

We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.

Probably the geekiest attribute that I have of them all is that I've always had a hard time meeting friends. Like no matter where I grew up and I moved around, I always had a hard time.