Top 95 Attribute Quotes

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

I’m grateful for every day I’m still alive. Everything is still working. I attribute it to eating a lot of processed foods. I think it’s the preservatives that keep me going. That, and I eat as much chocolate as I can get my hands on.

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

A decent man who doesn’t consider himself a bigot can indeed be trained to behave like a bigot if he welcomes feedback exclusively from those who consider bigotry no big deal or, indeed, an attribute to be admired.

I have never been depressed or thrown a plate, which I attribute to the cathartic effects of writing books about people whose lives are more grueling than mine.

Since all political parties blame the others for the economic mess, it is unfair to attribute unemployment to individual behaviour.

I would largely attribute my identity – as it relates to music labels and corporate music giants – to Dave Chappelle and his relationship to and firm standing in Hollywood.

Being nimble and ready to change our minds if need be is an attribute that is crucial to live and thrive in a society that is powered by science and technology, both as an individual and as an engaged citizen.

There are times when I’m kind of anti-social, I’m just really shy, and I don’t feel like I fit in, and I then attribute that to some emotional state that’s crippling me.

Before I was hired by Obama’s team as the CTO for his 2012 re-election campaign, I had certainly never been involved with anything of that nature before. Yet, I somehow knew I could do the job. I attribute that confidence to my experience as a hacker and the subsequent willingness to take risks.

I guess people have this image of women being more compassionate, being the mother, being caring, but I don’t know if that’s true. I think it’s an image we’ve all carried over the years. I never want to attribute certain qualities to gender.

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

I don’t think one should attribute the success and failure of a film to a single actor. When you decide to do a film, you weigh the pros and cons before taking a call. Only when you run out of patience, get insecure, and feel your career is heading nowhere do you sign anything that comes your way.

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.

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.

Women attribute their success to working hard, luck, and help from other people. Men will attribute that – whatever success they have, that same success – to their own core skills.

The Simpsons has shaped my psychology to a degree one would usually attribute to a parent, or a particularly devout upbringing. I am a zealot.

What makes the EpiPen unique is its delivery vehicle – an auto-injector that’s packaged in a convenient, pen-like device. The product’s key attribute is its ability to reliably deliver accurate doses of the essential medicine.

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

When I was a kid, I would impersonate anything that I would hear. It’s – actually, I attribute that more to why I actually was able to become a musician and a singer.

One of the hardest things for me to do is watch myself. The first time I see it, I am obsessed with my left ear or my right ear or some other physical attribute, or the fact that I’m 60 or whatever shallow ego thought is running through my head. I’m just destroyed that I’m not Cary Grant or whatever.

I attribute my lean physique to the regime I’ve been following thanks to my brother Rahul who made sure fitness was of prime importance in my life.

It strikes me as pretty interesting and cool how girls support each other in this business. I’ve never felt so much support in my life than from my fellow female comedians. I attribute much of my success to some of them.

Tennis is a tough sport – a long year, a lot of matches, a lot of travelling. It’s not easy so being mentally tough is a big attribute. It doesn’t come easy, you have to work on it.

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

Confidence isn’t optimism or pessimism, and it’s not a character attribute. It’s the expectation of a positive outcome.

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 don’t attribute an actor’s great success to their own individual performance when it’s something as collaborative as a movie.

If you look around, there are very few really super quarterbacks. There are just very few. If you’re lucky enough to have one, lucky enough that one of these Andrew Lucks is available when you have the top pick, then that’s just a matter of luck. You can’t attribute that to anything else.

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.

I suppose my best attribute, if you want to call it that, is sincerity. I can sell sincerity because that’s the way I am.

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.

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

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

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 have a thing for clean lines and beautiful form that I attribute to my four years in Tokyo and Kyoto. I also appreciate traditional architecture and a warm palette that I think my Midwest upbringing has something to do with.

Virtue is akin to holiness, an attribute of godliness.

A curious mind is the most important attribute any man or woman can possess.

What little success I may have won in life I attribute to the loyalty I had for a dear old friend who was my first steel master, whom you perhaps have never heard of: Captain Bill Jones.

To me, it’s a heroic attribute to be so committed to a principle that you apply it, not when it’s easy, not when it supports your position, not when it protects people you like, but when it defends and protects people that you hate.

I would not attribute any strategic thinking to Trump.

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.

When I’m writing good music and I’m caffeinated, I attribute all my success to the coffee, get really sentimental about the EDM scene and tweet a lot.

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.

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

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

I definitely consider myself a songwriter first because that’s my best attribute.

People are wiser than we are willing to attribute to them.

Why does it appear that interested readers so often attribute flaws to ‘the press’ rather than taking particular issue with particular reports?

Self-respect is the more important attribute than money and hence I am walking out of my debut Bollywood directorial venture ‘Laxmmi Bomb.’

If I could wish to steal anyone’s attributes whose would it be? Good question. Maybe not a specific attribute, but if I could replicate the longevity of Buffon’s career I’d be a happy man.

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.

In most negotiations, you can’t attribute success or failure in negotiations to one side.

An intelligence analyst may attribute an attack to al Qaeda, whereas a policy maker could opt for the more general ‘extremist.’

In a country like India, with an ever-changing demography, adaptability is the most important attribute to survive in the industry.

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.