Tendencies Quotes · Page 38

I have a lot of pot tendencies. I'm always late, I laugh for no reason, I watch Jeopardy! with the sound off…

— Dave Attell

Well the open-outcry auction is just made to turn the brain into mush: you've got social proof, the other guy is bidding,…

— Charlie Munger

[The proposed establishment] will have a . . . tendency to banish our Citizens. . . . To superadd a fresh motive…

— James Madison

[Alex] Haley had a tendency to write even more frequently and voluminously to his agents and his editors than he did putting…

— Manning Marable

The vulgar charge that the tendency of democracies is to leveling, meaning to drag all down to the level of the lowest,…

— James F. Cooper

From it (the Rosary) the young will draw fresh energy with which to control the rebellious tendencies to evil and to preserve…

— Pope Pius XI

I have a tendency to be lucky and make the right choices based on limited information.

— Paul D. Boyer

These days the nights and mornings have a tendency to bleed into one another.

— David Nicholls

In this country protection has always, to some extent, existed; but at some times it has been efficient, and at others not;…

— Henry Charles Carey

Liberty, understood by materialists as the right to do or not to do anything not directly injurious to others, we understand as…

— Giuseppe Mazzini

There is a tendency around the world today to copy TV culture. And that is not always a virtue.

— Francis Arinze

If one's interest is not in some global question about the possibility of knowledge, but about some particular mechanism or inferential tendency,…

— Hilary Kornblith

I use [Heraclitus' discovery of] enantiodromia for the emergence of the unconscious opposite in the course of time. This characteristic phenomenon practically…

— Carl Jung

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and…

— Lord Acton

I deplore the tendency, in some institutions, to go directly toward training for a trade or profession or something and ignoring the…

— Ronald Reagan

We could decide simply to remain absorbed in the mysterious, unformed, free-play of reality. This would be the choice of the mystic…

— Stephen Batchelor

I don't like the tendency on the part of so many people today to think that those who don't agree with them…

— Marianne Williamson

Embedded in every technology there is a powerful idea, sometimes two or three powerful ideas. Like language itself, a technology predisposes us…

— Neil Postman

There's a tendency for people who believe passionately in something to be so convinced of their rightness that if they just repeat…

— Duncan Green

Human decision-making is complex. On our own, our tendency to yield to short-term temptations, and even to addictions, may be too strong…

— Peter Singer

My tendency towards bareness and simplification has been practiced in three fields: modeling, colors, and the figuration of the personages.

— Joan Miro

The other thing that happened was that we have a tendency to project our own weaknesses onto another woman. I don't think…

— Madeleine Albright

The only thing I might have noticed [and this is pretty anecdotal] is that there is some tendency to need to be…

— George Saunders

Three elements go to make up an idea. The first is its intrinsic quality as a feeling. The second is the energy…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

Focus on something that has high value to someone else, be really rigorous in making that assessment, because natural human tendency is…

— Elon Musk