Attributes Quotes

• The attributes for entrepreneurs cut both ways. You need the ability to ignore inconvenient facts and see the world as it should be and not as it is. This inspires people to take huge leaps of faith. But this blindness to facts can be a liability, too. The characteristics that help entrepreneurs succeed can also lead to their failure.

  

  Eric Ries
  • Failure
  • Ignore
  • Characteristics

• ...and knowledge is one of the finest attributes of man - though often it is most loudly voiced by those who strive for it the least.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Man
  • Knowledge
  • Strive

• I would sooner look for figs on thistles than for the higher attributes of art from one whose ruling motive... is money.

  

  Asher Brown Durand
  • Art
  • Motive
  • Attributes

• 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.

  

  Fionnula Flanagan
  • Healing
  • Taught
  • Solve

• Vampires have always held a very seductive kind of lore and have always been some variety of attractive, whether it's attractiveness that's born of just the physical attributes that they have - this kind of ethereal beauty or translucent pallor - or whether it is more to do with the way they carry themselves.

  

  Colin Farrell
  • Seductive
  • Vampires
  • Translucent

• There are many names to Allah plus one you don't know. And each name is an attribute that flexes his characteristics: the Benevolent, the Merciful, the All-Knower... And to me, my names be flexin' personalities of myself: Prince Rakeem, Bobby Digital, Bobby Steels, the RZA, the Rzarector... These are personalities of myself.

  

  Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Achozen
  • Personality
  • Digital
  • Characteristics

• War has taught me that each one of us contains every ingredient of the human recipe. By varying measure we are all cowards and brave men, thieves and honest men, selfish and selfless men, malingerers and champions, weasels and lions. The only question is how much of each attribute we allow- or force - to dominate our being.

  

  Eric L. Haney
  • Men
  • War
  • Brave

• If the ox could think, it would attribute oxality to God.

  

  Xenocrates
  • God
  • Thinking
  • Attributes

• Our aim in studying the Godhead must be to know God himself better. Our concern must be to enlarge our acquaintance, not simply with the doctrine of God’s attributes, but with the living God whose attributes they are.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • God
  • Study
  • Doctrine

• The cat has complete emotional honesty - an attribute not often found in humans.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Emotional
  • Cat
  • Honesty

• There are three juridical attributes that inseparably belong to the citizen by right.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Right
  • Citizen
  • Juridical

• There are three juridical attributes that inseparably belong to the citizen by right. These are:

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Right
  • Citizen
  • Juridical

• Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.

  

  William James
  • Feels
  • Alive
  • Particular

• Flexible in the face of change, resilient in the face of confusion. All of these attributes are choices, not talents, and all of them are available to you.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Choices
  • Talent
  • Faces

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

  

  William Ames
  • Attributes

• Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they do not understand enough the scope of the justification.

  

  Michael Servetus
  • Argument
  • Justification
  • Contests

• God and all attributes of God are eternal.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • God
  • Eternal
  • Attributes

• Nothing of this world is not in God. Substance is not the despised materiality of bodies that must be separated from God; it is God, God under the attribute of extension or materiality. Descartes is thus mistaken, according to Spinoza, in defining matter as extension, for matter must necessarily have a conceptual equivalent, an idea, not in opposition to extension but as one of the attributes of substance.

  

  Elizabeth Grosz
  • God
  • Idea
  • Mistaken

• Accepting that your imperfections and so-called negative attributes are part of what makes you unique will help you to stop continually trying to be someone or something that you are not.

  

  Beverly Engel
  • Help
  • Attributes
  • Imperfections

• I think that Ingersoll had all the attributes of a perfect man, and, in my opinion, no finer personality ever existed. Judging from the past, I cannot help thinking that the intention of the Supreme Intelligence that rules the world is to ultimately make such a type of man universal.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Man
  • Perfect
  • Ingersoll

• Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Power
  • Society
  • Attributes

• I no longer merely confess that I am the righteousness of Christ. I realize that with His DNA in me through His blood, I could be nothing else. I realize the attributes of His DNA reside in me - whether dormant or active.

  

  Che Ahn
  • Christ
  • Blood
  • Active

• True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Speech
  • Attributes
  • True And False

• God is compassionate and just, loving and holy, wrathful and forgiving. WE can't sideline His more difficult attributes to make room for the palatable ones.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Difficult
  • Rooms
  • Forgiving

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