75 Attribute Quotes for You to Enjoy

I once drove a pair of horses from New York to Vicksburg, and to this day I can almost map out that country as I saw it then, with its hills and valleys, villages and rivers. Yes, I naturally attribute something of my success in railroad building to the interest I take in such things. Collis Potter Huntington

Success Day Country Building Once Saw Valleys Out Something Horses Take Rivers Almost Drove New Hills Attribute Yes York New York Interest Then Naturally Such Things Map Pair Villages Railroad Things

Except for some effects that I attribute mostly to age, my intuitive thinking is just as prone to overconfidence, extreme predictions, and the planning fallacy as it was before I made a study of these issues. Daniel Kahneman

Age Made Before Thinking Extreme Intuitive Prone Some Except Study Mostly Attribute Fallacy Issues Effects Just Predictions Planning

I've always lived by this philosophy, when it comes to conspiracies, never to attribute to deviousness that which can be explained by incompetence. Dean Devlin

Incompetence Philosophy Conspiracies Never Attribute Always Which Explained Lived

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. Desmond Tutu

While it would be as wrong of me to attribute these traits to women at the exclusion of men as it would be for a man to do the reverse, I think women can often be very strong team players and good communicators and collaborators. Diane Nelson

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

Living Secure Feel Tower Attribute However May Social Hardly

I purely attribute my 'hamming it up' quality to growing up with three older brothers and just being like a tomboy my whole life. Literally, my mother had to be like, 'Honey, there's a certain point where you have to start wearing a shirt.' You know, I would run around with the boys and play tag football and climb trees. Eliza Dushku

Life You Quality Mother Three Older Trees Honey Run Would Wearing Purely Brothers Tag Point Had Football Like Know Attribute Around Boy Climb Up Shirt Just Being Where Literally Certain Certain Point Whole Older Brothers Growing Growing Up Tomboy Play Start

Political ignorance helps explain Americans' perpetual disappointment with politicians generally, and presidents especially, to whom voters unrealistically attribute abilities to control events. George Will

Ignorance Disappointment Events Political Control Politicians Presidents Ability Generally Voters Attribute Perpetual American Explain Helps Whom

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

Best Stupid Knowing Stupid Questions Attribute Answer Questions

The implementation of autonomous driving needs a whole new rethinking. To really make it an attribute for society, we really need to think differently about where and when and how we implement this. Henrik Fisker

Needs Think Society About Driving Implement Implementation New Make Attribute How Where Autonomous Really Whole Differently Need

Motherhood has helped me to stop overanalyzing things. It's been liberating because I used to be somewhat neurotic. I attribute that to having something bigger than myself. Idina Menzel

Myself Me Motherhood Liberating Something Having Somewhat Neurotic Attribute Because Been Than Stop Bigger Used Helped Things

Some scholars attribute the decline in nicknaming to the evolutionary process that turned folk heroes into entrepreneurs. The truth is: George Herman Ruth, the namely-est guy ever, exhausted our supply of hyperbole. Jane Leavy

The passion to explore and not be afraid to fail - that's something I will always attribute to the Groundlings. Jim Rash

Passion Will Something Fail Attribute Always Afraid Explore

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. Johannes P. Muller

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

Happy People Virtue Attribute Makes Always Them Fortunate Who Position

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. John Milius

Good You Courage People Strong Simple Be Strong Pretty About Most Executive Well Executives Attribute Because Forgotten

I've been accused of being old before my time more than once. It's true that I've always felt an affinity for, and been comfortable around, older people. I attribute this to a childhood spent around my grandparents - and even a great-grandparent or two. I wouldn't trade those experiences for anything. Jon Meacham

Time People Old Before Older Once Spent Those More My Time True Attribute Comfortable Around Felt Trade Always Been Affinity Than Accused Childhood Being Experiences Anything Grandparents Even Older People Two

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

Sex Power Once Considered Fact Masculine Attribute In Fact

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