Dispositional Attribution Quotes & Sayings

And this spreading usurpation of the world was so dexterously performed - a proteus - hundreds of banks, companies, syndicates, masked the Council's operations - that it was already far advanced before common men suspected the tyranny that had come. The — H.G.Wells

I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, novelist. — Leslie Fiedler

Because that was the thing about tragedies; they don't give you a second chance. — Alexandria Rhodes

It's not enough to step in front of people's bullets; you have to be bulletproof too. You have to be harder than anything anyone else can throw at you, and sometimes you risk losing yourself just trying to save yourself. — Anthony Breznican

Poetry is very similar to music, only less notes and more words. — Eddie Izzard

Cooks must feed their egos as well as their customers ... — M.F.K. Fisher

If Bear Grylls bred with Chuck Norris, I would be their love child. That's how skilled I am." Lucy's face remained carefully blank. "Thank you for that disturbing imagery. But we both know Chuck Norris needs no one. He creates children from thought alone." "Agree — Jaymin Eve

I have not placed reading before praying because I regard it more important, but because, in order to pray aright, we must understand what we are praying for. — Angelina Grimke

If I gun down my boss in the carpark after work then he won't be able to terrorise all his other employees and the greater good will have been served. — Rushworth M Kidder

With wings like clear ice, the purple-black fairy flew down and pressed her tiny lips to Ilyenna's. Suddenly, the cold embraced her like an old friend. She felt as if winter's secrets were hidden somewhere deep inside her, waiting to be discovered. — Amber Argyle

People who suffer from depression have better memory than people who don't, because part of our ability to survive and not to be depressed is to forget a lot of stuff. — Anthony Greenwald

When confronted with their fruitless ways, binge writers often proffer a self-defeating dispositional attribution: "I'm just not the kind of person who's good at making a schedule and sticking to it." This is nonsense, of course. People like dispositional explanations when they don't want to change [...] — Paul J. Silvia

I think actually the marketing community is approaching a crisis: There are just too many messages competing for too little attention. That is the fundamental problem. — Malcolm Gladwell

Henry, this isn't about us. I mean it is, but they don't define you by the button you wear. They define you by what you do, by what your actions say about you. And coming here, despite your parents, says a lot to them- and me. And they're Americans first. They don't see you as the enemy. They see you as a person. — Jamie Ford

Water never stops moving. Rain falls, and runs down a mountain into a river. The river finds its way to the ocean. It evaporates, like a soul, into the clouds. And then, like everything else, it starts all over again. — Jodi Picoult