The tendency in today's culture is to want to be a 'star', but I want to be a servant. — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
I've yet to meet a writer who could change water into wine, and we have a tendency to treat them like that. — Michael Tolkin Copy Share Image
There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I have a tendency to be lucky and make the right choices based on limited information. — Paul D. Boyer Copy Share Image
The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Doubt is an element of criticism, and the tendency of criticism is necessarily skeptical. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
I have a tendency when I feel myself getting stuck, my impulse is to go to my cupboard and find chips to… — Sara Bareilles Copy Share Image
I have a tendency, not that anyone I've ever dated I thought wasn't a good person, but sometimes you're not always a… — Sara Quin Copy Share Image
The tone and tendency of liberalism...is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
People in life, when they have a tendency to exaggerate or lie or whatever, you always sort of notice that their voice… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, we are finding the bureaucratic inefficiencies and red tape have a tendency to slow the efforts of individuals and communities working… — Bobby Jindal Copy Share Image
Sometimes, people have a tendency not to notice someone who's always there, even if that person's the best thing for them. — Brenda Jackson Copy Share Image
It's as if tendencies that seem most deeply rooted in our minds, most private and singular, have come in as spores on… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
If the authorities constrain banks and are aware of the activities of fringe banks and other financial institutions, they are in a… — Hyman Minsky Copy Share Image
People who only listen to preachers have a tendency to put them on a pedestal, but those who live with preachers recognize… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
One of the disadwantages of school and learning, he thought dreamily, was that the mind seemed to have the tendency too see… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Some children are born from heaven and others are born from hell, because each human being has his inherent tendencies, and these… — Paracelsus Copy Share Image
This is one of the things I don't like so much about French cinema - we have tendency to concentrate on actors… — Jean-Pierre Jeunet Copy Share Image
A being connected with other beings cannot perform his own activities without taking the activities of others into account. For they are… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The fiction writer has a lot of balls to juggle. Setting, pacing, dialogue, and so on. And let's not forget: plot. That… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
There is a tendency sometimes within the Shambhala community to make it just about meditating and, so, less about compassion. Shambhala is… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
Anyone too undisciplined, too self-righteous or too self-centered to live in the world as it is has a tendency to idealize a… — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
Conservatism, though a necessary element in any stable society, is not a social program; in its paternalistic, nationalistic and power adoring tendencies… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Embedded in every technology there is a powerful idea, sometimes two or three powerful ideas. Like language itself, a technology predisposes us… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Even a fellow with a camera has his favourite subjects, as we can see looking through the Kodak-albums of our friends. One… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
If you're up there [on stage] thinking about what you're doing, you're just not there and it's not going to happen.So trying… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
What it felt to me was like the dissolution of my idea of myself. I felt like separateness evaporated. I felt this… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
Focus on something that has high value to someone else, be really rigorous in making that assessment, because natural human tendency is… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
Some sort of belief in all-powerful supernatural beings is common, if not universal. A tendency to obey authority, perhaps especially in children,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Hostility towards Microsoft is not difficult to find on the Net, and it blends two strains: resentful people who feel Microsoft is… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men. — Demosthenes Copy Share Image
“When it’s not enough to veto your children’s tendencies, you must in vitro them.” — Bauvard Copy Share Image
Abused And neglected children have paid the price for liberalism's tendency to sentimentalize the poor. — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
I have this tendency to take a little bit of questionable knowledge and riff on it. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I have a tendency, especially when I'm playing with great players, to try and get them the ball. — Steve Nash Copy Share Image
I have a tendency to pick up my own challenges. The more difficult something it is, the more I want to try… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
While the tendency to generate ideas is rather natural, the path to making them happen is tumultuous. — Scott Belsky Copy Share Image
Human psychology has a near universal tendency to let belief be coloured by desire. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image