Smoking too much makes me nervous. Must lasso my natural tendency to acquire such habits. Holding heavy cigar constantly in my mouth… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
One of the most insidious and nefarious properties of scientific models is their tendency to take over, and sometimes supplant, reality. — Erwin Chargaff Copy Share Image
And knowing what happens on average is a good place to start. By so doing, we insulate ourselves from the tendency to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My natural tendency is to complicate everything--and then to spray words and ideas onto everything afterwards. I've had to develop the habit… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
For chemistry is no science form'd à priori; 'tis no production of the human mind, framed by reasoning and deduction: it took… — Herman Boerhaave Copy Share Image
Democracies are notorious for a tendency to obey the feelings rather than the mind; thus the nature of democracies often makes itdifficult… — Amos Elon Copy Share Image
As elite attitudes towards public education over time illustrate, simple formulas are far from adequate. There are conflicting tendencies. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Everybody talks about the entitlement generation. There is no time I'd rather live in than now, and there is no generation I… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
God desires to change us from the inside out. Renewing our minds, starving our self-destructive tendencies, and teaching us to form new… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
Kids absolutely not reading. I think it's because they're so screen-oriented [TVs, computers, smartphones]. They do read - girls in particular read… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Water indeed will flow indifferently to the east or west, but will it flow indifferently up or down? The tendency of our… — Mencius Copy Share Image
Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void — Hervey Allen Copy Share Image
There's a normal tendency in the campaign, during a crisis, for the country to rally around the White House. vThat may help… — David Gergen Copy Share Image
Worrying won't prevent the worst outcome. I've learned to live in the moment, which is not my natural tendency. I've always thought… — Tracy Pollan Copy Share Image
The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Governments can be useful to the governed only so long as inherent tendencies toward tyranny are restrained. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
When it is about technology, there is this tendency to just reject all criticism as being anti-technological and anti-modern. I think this… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
Like the Governor-General, when asked what you enjoy most about the job my tendency is to say "today", because of the insights… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
The notorious tendency of conservative apologists and New Age paperback writers alike is to leap from mere possibility to the right to… — Robert M. Price 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 mean people are really crazy about minor decrements down. And then, if you act on them, then you get into reciprocation… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I have this odd tendency to be really sarcastic when I'm uncomfortable and I don't really know why but it just comes… — Mila Kunis Copy Share Image
Through constant familiarity, we can definitely establish new behavior patterns, using our tendency to form habits to our advantage. If we make… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
It may be observed in general that the future is purchased by the present. It is not possible to secure distant or… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
