Attributes Quotations

The beauty of a finely worked object points to the beauty of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the craftsmanship points to the beauty of the name which was the source of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the name of the craftsman's art points to the beauty of the craftsman's attributes manifested in that art.

We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.

I'm Irish and always will be, but America has taught me so much. Maybe it's here in the U.S. that we find a healing, for in the broader melting pot we get to look at some of these self-destructive attributes that we bring to bear upon our own quarrels and begin to solve them in ways other than just splitting apart.

I argued that I didn't have any of the attributes to pose for cheesecake. I said I would have to make good on my acting ability, which was the only attribute I could offer.

My doctor found a spot on my lung. He told me it looked like adenocarcinoma, a cancer he attributes to smoking. He didn't need to biopsy it.

I wasn't young, I wasn't pretty, and I was a black woman looking for success in a business where those attributes were certainly not in demand in the 1960s.

Physical attributes can make you appealing, but to keep the appeal going, one has to draw from within. You have to be a real person. Your fans and the people you associate with have to be able to see beyond your looks. You have to be a good friend, dutiful son and a good family man.

The attributes of God tell us what He is and who He is.

No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness.

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

That doesn't mean you have to have the lowest costs in the industry to succeed. But you need to make sure the activities and product attributes that increase your costs above the other guy bring in at least that much more in revenue, and hopefully more.

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

If any performer has quality in his voice he can almost always be helped to develop all the other necessary attributes.

I like stories that have a social impact and social attributes to them. That's the whole reason we make films: to broaden our limited view of things and to see how life is evolving elsewhere.

My Calvinism persuades me that we are open to God, in the sense that we are not delimited, not organisms with fixed attributes in the manner of the other creatures, but are instead participants in a reality that utterly exceeds our powers of description.

Moping is an unattractive attribute in a man.

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

Rationality is not one of this industry's attributes.

I never met a person as determined as my mother. From working hard for six kids to just trying to keep the household down or maintain my father's discipline, my dad, I'm so much like my father too. My father was so introverted, quiet, shy, nice. I got attributes from my father and mother.

I think the key attributes for a good speaker are someone that's articulate and someone that puts a fair amount of humour into what they do.

By the life we live through the grace of Christ, the character is formed. The original loveliness begins to be restored to the soul. The attributes of the character of Christ are imparted, and the image of the Divine begins to shine forth.

Often times I have been asked about the attributes for success, and I have said that you need two attributes for succeeding as an entrepreneur: one, courage, second, luck.

I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.

When the sacredness of one's word is matched in the attributes of his character throughout, all that constitutes a man, then we find that there is something in a man's life greater than his occupation or his achievements; grander than acquisition or wealth; higher than genius; more enduring than fame.

We writers of series fiction tend to idealize ourselves in our characters, giving them attributes we wish we possessed and ever more interesting lives.

We've tried to raise the bar in our ability to analyze marketing investment and understand the attributes of leaders.

If we take away any of the attributes of God, we do not weaken God but we weaken our concept of God.

Fear is not one of my attributes.

Christlike attributes come into our lives as we exercise our agenncy righteously.

Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence

The principle of love within us is an attribute of the Deity, and it is placed within us to be dispensed independently according to our own will.

[Y]ou possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.

Sense your presence, the naked, unveiled, unclothed beingness. It is untouched by young or old, rich or poor, good or bad, or any other attributes.

God and all attributes of God are eternal.

When I came back I told Sven he was a player to watch out for. He's special. His touch is excellent and he can beat people with pace and technique. He has the attributes necessary in today's football. We wanted to see him in a first team and he's done very well for Southampton. The next thing is to see him in the Premiership. He's perhaps even ready to play in the under-21s.

Let's be honest now, he's a special kind of athlete. He's fast. He's strong. He's intelligent and hungry. And you don't find that all the time in different players. And especially finding all those attributes in one player.

Major Clark is one of the most outstanding officers of his grade in the U.S. Army... an officer of impeccable character with a rare blend of personal qualities and professional attributes which uniquely qualify him as a soldier-scholar.

Magazines and trade shows are important, but information data products continue to show growth. We have a unique opportunity to take the attributes of data products and integrate them more effectively into both our print products and trade shows.

Last year you saw Porter do his thing a little bit. He was the featured guy and he made some big plays for them . . . Though you have to pay attention to Randy because of all the physical attributes he brings to the game, you still have to pay attention to Porter, because the guy can still go up top on you. He is a big guy (6-2, 220) that can run.

Last year you saw Porter do his thing a little bit, ... He was the featured guy and he made some big plays for them . . . Though you have to pay attention to Randy because of all the physical attributes he brings to the game, you still have to pay attention to Porter, because the guy can still go up top on you. He is a big guy (6-2, 220) that can run.

Search streams - the logs in which the contents of users' search requests are recorded - are a wealth of data about what people want and how they express their desires. The owner of such a search stream possesses a powerful asset, once user attributes may be calculated to determine how they relate to the target market.

She has the attributes of a real leader, as a senior, that will come through strongly, ... She will be a leader on and off the court.

Shane is a wonderful cricketer and I'm sure he has all the attributes of a good captain. He has a good cricket mind and he helps Ricky a lot.

Since music is a language with some meaning at least for the immense majority of mankind, although only a tiny minority of people are capable of formulating a meaning in it, and since it is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being at once intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the science of man, a mystery that all the various disciplines come up against and which holds the key to their progress.

Milton was an absolute force for more than two decades in this community, not only because of his musical attributes but because of his commitment to this city and his ability to rally people around the orchestra and civic causes.

One of our goals is really to refresh and contemporize the Delta experience, ... We're bringing the Song attributes into Delta.

Maybe they don't possess the same physical attributes that T.O. brings, but together they're just as good, if not better.

Nissan conducted an Internet survey of 2,000 echo boomers, a majority of which said technology and gaming are among the most important attributes in their first car.

Buoyed by the Nigerian oil sabotage news and a weaker U.S. dollar, gold has reasserted its safe-haven attributes since last Friday.

Chris had a very successful junior and college career. He isn't the biggest guy, but he is an extremely hard worker who has a good touch around the net. I like those attributes and I am looking forward to seeing him in training camp.

I feel like I've gotten a new MBA from the school of hard knocks over the last four years. When you have to go out there and run your own business, there are some other attributes that you may not necessarily know from working in corporate America.

Given the momentum and the attributes that satellite radio has, it's not going to be easy to encroach on XM or Sirius and still be profitable,

He was an extraordinary man of impeccable character, integrity, honesty, compassion and fairness. He had all the attributes you want in a human being. He was a friend of mine for 45 years. He was more like a brother to me than a friend.

He is a player who excites fans and runs at people. He is very pleased. He is a good kid, an honest player and is good to work with, which is one of the main attributes I want as a manager.

He has shown enormous personal attributes and the professional competence which is needed to do the job well, so I think he would be an outstanding choice if they can convince him to do the job. But he either wants to do the job or not and I don't think you can force people to go down that road.

He's a guy that can become an all-American this year based on the fact that he has the physical attributes that you look for in offensive tackles and his feet have improved immensely. He can be a dominant force, a guy that holds the corner for your quarterback.

He's also had a lot of success with special teams particularly last fall where his units accounted for six touchdowns. Justin grew up in a coaching family so he's been around the profession for quite awhile. He just brings a lot of positive attributes to our staff.

We looked at seven or eight different job descriptions and this is a summation of those. This is intended to give us a starting point on what might be the attributes and the duties and responsibilities of the chief.

Guys that play that role, perhaps they have physical limitations - they're not 40-goal scorers, they're not goaltenders - but they at least had the presence of mind to recognize that there's a niche for them and they filled that. But in no way does that diminish any mental attributes or any intellectual, marketable skills they may have at the same time.

Kevin has led the team with passion and professionalism. Each week he gives you everything and he has the ability to be a top player for years to come. One of his main attributes is his ability to score goals on a regular basis. If he continues to progress, he'll go close to earning a seat on the plane to Germany in June.

It is a delicate time, but on the other hand, this is an opportunity for us to reinforce the great attributes of this university.

It is clear that... Viacom's businesses have inherently different growth characteristics and investment attributes that appeal to different types of investors,

It is clear as to the next piece of the evolution of the company is that we do need to get our growth rate accelerated here a little bit. Finding somebody that has the attributes to continue driving productivity but also trying to get a little more acceleration of growth would probably be the right kind of candidate.

It is love that shines brilliantly in every individual. But man, not being able to comprehend the significance of love attributes physical relationship to it. The love of a mother towards her child is affection.

I say he is a future Biletnikoff winner. He is big, strong and fast. He has all the attributes and I think he showed last year just a glimpse of what he's capable of doing. His time is coming.

Our goal is to market the unique quality attributes of Florida honey, ... We want to raise consumer awareness about Florida honey and its value as a distinct product, not simply part of a mix.

Sport implies many positive attributes simultaneously. Along with health, it also shows stamina and fair play.

Stanley's a handy guy to have around and he's very enthusiastic in every position he plays. It's nice to see someone who plays with a smile on his face because it's infectious. I think he's 32 but he's improving all the time. He complements all the other attributes in the team.

I think he attributes it to his teaching as a youth.

I thought he was very, very solid. He did tremendous and to get the goal I hope it's the first of many. He's got all the attributes to be a good centre-half. Since I've been at the club anything we've asked him to do he's coped with very well.

Man is, they say, a monkey that has lost its tail; well, he must lose many more attributes of the monkey before he is entitled to call himself Man. He must dedicate his thought, word and deed to God and surrender to His Will. Then only is this animal entitled to become a Man in whom the Divine is enshrined.

The announcement from Northrop Grumman Corporation is the latest in a growing series of successes for 1394 in some very exciting and valuable applications. Their testing program for the polar orbiting satellite system demonstrates the benefits of 1394. These include very high speed data transport, peer-to-peer connectivity which eliminates the need for a central controlling host, flexible topology which makes it easy to add devices on an as needed basis, and efficient allocation of bandwidth which benefits configurations which include a variety of devices with varying throughput needs. These are the attributes of 1394 that continue to move it into new product groups, and we are very pleased to hear of their application in the fault-tolerant chipset for the satellite program.

I would judge that list of people as overall a very appropriate selection. There is balance in terms of skills and attributes and markets and legal expertise, and it augurs well for the management of the fund.

We realized that mobility was one of the areas where he may not have a dominant trait. But we thought all the other attributes and qualities were so outstanding that he would be a good pro. In making the decision, we weren't necessarily looking for the best quarterback of all time. We were looking for a player who could be successful and we could win with, and the one we thought had the less chance of failing.

We hope he can help us in the big leagues. It's very unconventional, but if you describe all the attributes that successful knuckleballers have up here, R.A. would fit into that. He's a strike-thrower, competitive, no-ego and he's willing to do what it takes.

We know that the cell has possessed these attributes and biological devices and has continued to use them for billions of cell generations and years.

When I rep a celebrity, to me they're a brand, not just a person - and a brand has attributes and things it stands for. I'd say take some of the heat that's on her and turn it to something of value - say Katrina relief or breast-cancer awareness.

When I first got the job I didn't think that we lacked leadership. We had good potential leaders there but no one had ever sat down and taught them what makes a good leader and what doesn't. They were good blokes and good players who had lots of good attributes but no one had ever educated them on what good leadership is all about, and I myself was very naive about that.

Those who had attributes that were closer to being Caucasian were deemed more acceptable.

The attributes of sovereignty are now enjoyed by every state in the Union.

I attribute my success on the battlefield to always being on the spot to see and do everything for myself

Most often it happens that one attributes to others only the feelings of which one is capable oneself.

Self efficacious children tend to attribute their successes to ability, but ability attributions affect performance indirectly through perceived self-efficacy

I've said it before and can only repeat that I owe everything to Boudin and I attribute my success to him. I came to be fascinated by his studies, the products of what I call instantaneity.

Udall has two attributes that we look for when we're thinking about what makes a seat much less competitive: He's a well established incumbent, and he has a strong partisan advantage.

We rotate personnel Tara O'Leary, Mallory Bennett, Erin Whitaker, Kate Wilkerson, Lacy Fontenot and Ali Fontenot. They've all been getting equal minutes. They all have certain attributes which help our team.

Two great attributes for a coach are: one, to be able to teach everybody on the squad, and two, to get players on the squad to play better than they are. Those things are very, very, very difficult to do, and very few in the league can do it.

To strip human nature until its divine attributes are made clear, to inform ordinary activities with spiritual fervor, to give wings of eternity to that which is most ephemeral; to make divine things human and human things divine; such is Bach, the g

There is a lot you can do because an object exists in a directory. In principal, any object in a directory can be given any attributes that you want to give it. Group Policy is taking more advantage of the capabilities that Active Directory has to offer.

The only universal attribute of scientific statements resides in their potential fallibility. If a claim cannot be disproven, it does not belong to the enterprise of science.

This unforeseen resurgence of a category pronounced dead back in 2004 is attributable to several factors, but value and digital media attributes lead the pack.

What does it take to be a great social chronicler? Perhaps one of the key attributes is an understanding of what it feels like to fall from grace.

We are very pleased to have Ellis rejoin the Indians organization. A professional of his caliber represents the values and attributes that the organization is seeking to instill in its young players.

We have experience on offense up front. We have nine starters back on offense and experience all the way through. Running the football will be one of our attributes and our passing game should be improved from a year ago.

At the end of the day, we're looking to find 22 or 23 guys who want a jersey, who want a spot on the team, ... So, whatever their skill sets are, whatever their physical attributes are, whatever they do to be effective hockey players, we recommend them to do that.

Consumers want their content portable, and the 79 percent increase in shipments of mobile disk drives into consumer devices in 2005 over 2004 is evidence of this dynamic. IDC attributes this growth to a combination of innovative disk drive designs and effective integration of HDD technology into consumer devices by companies like Toshiba.

Crystal is a great player, ... She is one of the best shooters in the league. Unfortunately she broke her pink finger and she hasn't been shooting the ball as well since, but you have consider her other attributes just as much, and those are her great defense, her rebounding and just being intelligent on the court. She brings a lot to the table.

Crystal is a great player, ... She is one of the best shooters in the league. Unfortunately she broke her pink finger and she hasn't been shooting the ball as well since, but you have consider her other attributes just as much, and those are her great defense, her rebounding and just being intelligent on the court. She brings a lot to the table.

Dwayne's our general; he makes the entire defense go. He's got all the physical attributes to be successful at the position. More importantly, he's got great instincts, the mental makeup and personality to be our middle linebacker and defensive captain.

Dwayne's our general; he makes the entire defense go, ... He's got all the physical attributes to be successful at the position. More importantly, he's got great instincts, the mental makeup and personality to be our middle linebacker and defensive captain.