Margaret Millar Quotes

We are such a product of our upbringing and environment.

Training- training is everything; training is all there is to a person. We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as nature; what we call by that misleading name is merely heredity and training. We have no thoughts of our own, no opinions of our own; they are transmitted to us, trained into us.

A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

Habit is ten times nature.

Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select – doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief and, yes, even beggar-man and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors.

Why am I who I am? It's the way I was raised.

I'm a product of my environment.

Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is 'ten times nature'.

... character reigns preeminent in determining potential.

We all know the leopard can't change his stripes.

Actually, no one is born honest or corrupt.

I don't know if people are born with a worldview or if their thinking is a product of their environment.

A man shows his character just in the way in which he deals with trifles, for then he is off his guard.

Every man is like the company he wont to keep.

It's not what you like but what you are like that's important.

Animals can learn, but it is not by learning that they become dogs, cats, or horses. Only man has to learn to become what he is supposed to be.

Brains and character rule the world. The most distinguished Frenchman of the last century said: Men succeed less by their talents than their character. There were scores of men a hundred years ago who had more intellect than Washington. He outlives and overrides them all by the influence of his character.

Character isn't inherited.

Sow a character, you reap your destiny.

I think we all are people that are the product of our backgrounds. It's wrong to think that you're not.

Yes, you will. And I will warn you now that not their blood but your suspicion might build evil in them. They will be what you expect of them…I think when a man finds good or bad in his children he is seeing only what he planted in them after they cleared the womb." "You can’t make a race horse of a pig." "No," said Samuel, "but you can make a very fast pig.

But you've changed,' I whisper. 'Haven't you?' It is the scorpian's nature to sting. Just because he has no opportunity doesn't mean that he cannot.

Propriety's never been Adrian's strong suit.

A leapord never changes his stripes.