#traits

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #traits




People should be judged on the basis of their performance, not nationality, personality, education, or personal traits and skills.


Marvin Bower


#education #judged #nationality #people #performance

I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness.


Georg Brandes


#baseness #brutality #comrades #encountered #frankness

Oh, you ask me, what is the greatest torture of a person who does portraits for a living? I could fill several volumes with nice nasty stories. I don't know.


Imogen Cunningham


#could #does #fill #greatest #i

When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.


Imogen Cunningham


#money #portraits #professionally #you

I collect old portraits. They're all just interesting pictures of people, and you just kind of wonder who they were and what they were. There's a guy - I don't know who he is, but he's wearing a suit. He's got his arms folded, and he looks like he sold insurance or something. I'm just wondering why someone painted him.


Ellen DeGeneres


#collect #folded #got #guy #him

I don't know what I'll be like when I'm 60. I already have the traits of a retired gentleman.


David Walliams


#gentleman #i #know #like #retired

The three traits speculators must learn to manage within themselves are confidence, fear, and aggressiveness.


Larry Williams


#confidence #fear #learn #manage #must

I was a bartender for a long time, so I know how to make drinks, but I'm more likely to offer them than to have them. I think this is one of the reasons why I get to live longer than my great-grandmother did, and why I get to produce more writing than she did, and why my marriage isn't in dire straits.


Elizabeth Gilbert


#did #dire #drinks #get #how

I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits.


Fay Godwin


#i #interested #literary #loved #many

The theory of founder effects does not explain how novel features like plumage traits arise.


Peter R. Grant


#does #effects #explain #features #founder