Be an earnest student of yourself. Study your leading desires and tendencies. — Grenville Kleiser Copy Share Image
He said you were on the scene when that Laurel Canyon homicide went down.” “I’m lucky that way,” I said. “So are… — Josh Lanyon Copy Share Image
When things aren't working out, we have a tendency to say, 'Go do other things,' but you shouldn't do other things. You… — Jacques Audiard Copy Share Image
If you're in a subordinate position of some sort and pretty much all of us are at some point in our lives,… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
...after a certain point, material objects have a tendency to crowd out the emotional needs they are meant to support. — Graham Hill Copy Share Image
The readiness to blame a dead pilot for an accident is nauseating, but it has been the tendency ever since I can… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
In the complex course of its evolution, life exhibits a remarkable contrast to the tendency expressed in the Second Law to Thermodynamics.… — J. H. Rush Copy Share Image
Of course, no lyrics are ever unintentional, but I think bands like Wolf Parade and the Arcade Fire have a tendency to… — Dan Bejar Copy Share Image
Many of us have a tendency to deny any negative feelings. We judge them as "bad" or "unenlightened" when, in fact, they… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
There is an universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to every object, those qualities, with… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The thing I've discovered that is a help is that there isn't a simple virtue or a simple vice. They're always connected.… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
We have to claim anarchy and realize that systems have a life of their own that is anti-humanist. There is definitely an… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
There is a tendency among some businesses to criticize and belittle their competitors. This is a bad procedure. Praise them. Learn from… — George Matthew Adams Copy Share Image
The earlier, more analytic impulse was to use very rational but kind of absurd techniques or tendencies—mapping, charting, and architecture—to try and… — Julie Mehretu Copy Share Image
Musick is certainly a very agreeable Entertainment, but if it would take the entire Possession of our Ears, if it would make… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The relief of enemies has a tendency to unite mankind in fraternal affection. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Now since man is naturally inclined to avoid pain - and since labor is pain in itself - it follows that men… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
In the larger companies, you have this tendency to get top-down direction. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The tendency everywhere in America to concentrate power and responsibility in one man is unmistakable. — James Bryce Copy Share Image
Our Exhibitions [The Royal Academy] have... a mischievous tendency, by seducing the Painter to an ambition of pleasing indiscriminately the mixed multitude… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
Kat laughed. 'Who wants to live forever?' Kish put his hand up. 'For the record, I do.' Sin scowled at him. 'Then… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex matters. From… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
When something goes wrong, the natural tendency is to say, "By God, we need to pass a law and do something." — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The tendency of modern American women to exclaim 'Hiiiiiiiiiiii!' in soprano octaves and hug each other upon sight can be disconcerting to… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
I think all senior politicians tend to be rather more subtle then the commentators would have it. It is a natural tendency… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
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