Attribute Quotes

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

Success, Failure, Others

If you can attribute your success entirely to your own mental effort, to your own attitude, to some spiritual essence that you have that is better than other people's, then that must feel pretty good.
Barbara Ehrenreich

Success, Good, Attitude

Everybody comments that I'm white. I'm surprised I haven't gotten more criticism for it. I'm always expecting any day now it's gonna come. I guess I just attribute the lack of hate to people hearing the music and hearing how much I genuinely love it.
Mayer Hawthorne

Love, Music, Hate

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.
Michael Pollan

Power, Society, Blame

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

Used, Stop, Motherhood

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

Best, Stupid, Knowing

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.
Olivia Munn

Time, Hard, Friends

I attribute my success to my mental approach to the game. I have always been a serious student of umpiring. I enjoy studying rules, situations, and positioning.
Jim Evans

Success, Game, Enjoy

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

Used, Natural, Modesty

The only concept or experience or core belief that I can attribute my other-ness to is that I just started out a weirdo and I stayed a weirdo. And it took me a long time to embrace my outsidership and see it as a strength rather than a weakness.
Aisha Tyler

Time, Strength, Experience

When you see people who are really good at game shows, the one common attribute is a cool head under pressure: an ability to perform as well in the studio, surrounded by lights and noise, as you do on your couch.
Ken Jennings

Good, Cool, Game

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.
Emma Donoghue

Writing, Lives, Books

There is something essentially sanguine about me, which I am inclined to attribute to the fact that I was born by caesarean section. It must affect you.
Simon Callow

Fact, Born, Section

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

May, Living, Social

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.
Peter Welch

Politics, Bad, Someone

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, Courage, Strong

I attribute a lot of the success to Live 105, of course, because it's something they've nurtured and grown.
Davey Havok

Success, Live, Grown

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

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.
Major Taylor

Success, Youth, Mine

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

Best, Consider, Definitely

The object of man's worship, whatever it be, will naturally be his standard of perfection. He clothes it with every attribute, belonging, in his view, to a perfect character; and this character he himself endeavors to attain.
Simon Greenleaf

Character, Perfect, Whatever

It's my view that human dignity - an attribute which for years has been taken by the Left in British politics - resides in fact in Tory values of independence, individuality and self determination.
Maurice Saatchi

Politics, Human, Self

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

Mistakes, Understand, Enough

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

May, General, Policy

I think it's ill-advised to attribute pathologies to healthy people. It doesn't help normal, healthy, thriving children to be viewed as pitiable and fragile.
Christina Hoff Sommers

Children, Help, Healthy

It's very hard for me to think about my songs and attribute some significance to them.
Jimmy Webb

But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.
Ralph A. Cram

Freedom, May, Liberty

We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions.
John Searle

Nothing, Often, Cars

When I started writing a business column 15 years ago, I knew I'd found the perfect job for myself. As a columnist I could pick my own topic, do my own analysis, say what I wanted to say and attribute it to myself. Best of all, I could write in my own voice.
Allan Sloan

Best, Business, Job

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

Different, Sense, Act

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