Quotes About Conscientiousness

#1. Some aim to be deft, others to be laboriously careful. Neither dexterity nor conscientiousness is enough.

Chai Lu

#2. They focused on the so-called Big Five traits: Introversion-Extroversion; Agreeableness; Openness to Experience; Conscientiousness; and Emotional Stability.

Susan Cain

#3. Newspapers ... give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with the conscientiousness of the illiterate give us accurate and prosaic details ...

Oscar Wilde

#4. Also, as I discovered when I took the Newcastle Personality Assessor, which measures personality according to the Big Five model (openness to experience, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism, or OCEAN),

Gretchen Rubin

#5. Industriousness and conscientiousness are often at odds, because industriousness wants to pick the still sour fruit from the tree,while conscientiousness lets it hang there too long, until it falls and bruises.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#6. At first, we should read with a blitheness practically bordering on superficiality; later on, with a conscientiousness close to distrust.

Kato Lomb

#7. Honesty, transparency, conscientiousness, and fair dealing should be bedrock corporate principles.

Dan Ariely

#8. Conscientiousness comprises industriousness, self-control, stick-to-itiveness, and a desire for order.

Daniel J. Levitin

#9. In Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness, industrious nature and conscientiousness of the Japanese people.

J. Paul Getty

#10. With perfect and unyielding faith,
With steadfastness, respect, and courtesy,
With modesty and conscientiousness,
Work calmly for the happiness of others.

Santideva

#11. agreeableness, extraversion, neuroticism, openness to experience, and conscientiousness. And

Paul Tough

#12. Safe popular freedom consists of four things, the diffusion of liberty, of intelligence, of property, and of conscientiousness, and cannot be compounded of any three out of the four.

Joseph Cook

#13. Extroversion: response to reward Neuroticism: response to threat Conscientiousness: response to inhibition (self-control, planning) Agreeableness: regard for others Openness to experience: breadth of mental associations

Gretchen Rubin

#14. Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

Erich Maria Remarque

#15. We attract to our lives what we desire most and our intent enhances our ability to ascend or may serve as a one-way-ticket to the lowest levels of conscientiousness where many enter and few to none come out.

Seraphine Abrams

#16. In the case of personality, most psychologists agree that there are five traits that are essential in how people look at us: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and emotional stability.

Seth Godin

#17. Not curiosity, not vanity, not the consideration of expediency, not duty and conscientiousness, but an unquenchable, unhappy thirst that brooks no compromise leads us to truth.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#18. People high in conscientiousness get better grades in high school and college; they commit fewer crimes; and they stay married longer.

Paul Tough

#19. Sincerity is the indispensable ground of all conscientiousness, and by consequence of all heartfelt religion.

Immanuel Kant

#20. The results have consistently suggested that introversion and extroversion, like other major personality traits such as agreeableness and conscientiousness, are about 40 to 50 percent heritable.

Susan Cain

#21. The so-called conscientiousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring.

Eugene Delacroix

#22. I'll never forget you. I'll never forget your voice or your face or your dumb jokes. And i'll never forget your love.

Jeri Smith-Ready

#23. We don't make mistakes, we just have happy accidents.

Bob Ross

#24. If God didn't prefer for us to drink at night, he wouldn't have made neon!

Tom Robbins

#25. That's what makes life so hard for women, that instead of thinking that this is the way things are, we always think it's the way we are.

Anna Quindlen

#26. Music is like the genius of humankind, universal ... People who have never really taken the time to get into music, their lives are a lot smaller. Kids deserve the richness and dimension of it in their lives.

Flea

#27. There's not much you can do about the bias of the media other than try to counteract it by putting the truth out best you can, and the Internet has been a great weapon for holding the media accountable.

Ron Paul

#28. As long as other people's opinions matter more than your own, you're owned by them. You're not even free.

Oprah Winfrey

#29. Some people spell "good" with two o's and some people spell it with one ... and there shouldn't be a contradiction between that.

Assata Shakur