#attribute

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. ↗

— Ken Jennings

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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. ↗

— John Searle

#adding #analogy #attribute #cars #cognitive

A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind. ↗

— William Shenstone

#generally #good #ill #man #mankind

It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#attributes #exhausted #get #one thing #profession

A woman being never at a loss... the devil always sticks by them. ↗

— George Gordon Byron

#lord-byron #misattributed #misattributed-to-poe #woman #devil

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

— Katharine Graham

#considered #fact #in fact #masculine #once

Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art. They seem to be the purpose of God for his whole creation. ↗

— Richard Holloway

#art #attributes #clarity #creation #give

There is no beauty without some strangeness ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#misattributed-to-poe #misquote #beauty

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#conflict #fighting #peace #revenge #trial

Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world. ↗

— Bette Midler

#right