Attribute Quotes

My best attribute is knowing when not to answer stupid questions.

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

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

The object of man's worship, whatever it be, will naturally be his standard of perfection. He clothes it with every attribute, belonging, in his view, to a perfect character; and this character he himself endeavors to attain.

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.

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

The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings.

When I started writing a business column 15 years ago, I knew I'd found the perfect job for myself. As a columnist I could pick my own topic, do my own analysis, say what I wanted to say and attribute it to myself. Best of all, I could write in my own voice.

I think that my biggest attribute to any success that I have had is hard work. There really is no substitute for working hard.

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

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.

I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.

The essential attribute of a new sense is, not the perception of external objects or influences which ordinarily do not act upon the senses, but that external causes should excite in it a new and peculiar kind of sensation different from all the sensations of our five senses.

Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they do not understand enough the scope of the justification.

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.

The Times has much less power than you think. I believe we attribute power to the media generally that it simply doesn't have. It's very convenient to blame the media, the same way we blame television for everything that's going wrong in society.

Of course, I also attribute some of my hearing loss to being in the infantry in World War II. It's probably a combination of heredity and noise exposure.

I attribute my success to my mental approach to the game. I have always been a serious student of umpiring. I enjoy studying rules, situations, and positioning.

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

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.

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

Most of the good executives do pretty well. Because to be a good executive you have to be strong, and you have to have a simple attribute that people have forgotten about - courage.

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

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

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.

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

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

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

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.