Tendencies Quotes
892 quotes by 716 authors
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I have a tendency to trust translators, mainly because nobody does it for the money.
— Juan Gabriel
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Resilience is a precious skill. People who have it tend to also have three underlying advantages: a believe that they can influence life events; a…
— Amanda Ripley
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"Best in the world," "lowest price in existence, " etc are at best claiming the expected. But superlative of that sort are usually damaging. They…
— Claude C. Hopkins
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Integrity is unity of the personality; it implies being brutally honest with ourselves about our intentionality. Since intentionality is inextricably bound up with the daimonic,…
— Stephen A. Diamond
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A lot of (Kyle's) stories when he was back home in Texas, a lot of his own personal opinions about what he was doing in…
— Unknown Author
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The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men, a pledge of sanity, and a protection from those perverse tendencies and…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Too much faith in personality has a tendency to produce weakness and idolatry, but intense love for the Guru makes rapid growth possible.
— Swami Vivekananda
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Unfortunately, we are finding the bureaucratic inefficiencies and red tape have a tendency to slow the efforts of individuals and communities working to rebuild.
— Bobby Jindal
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All you need to do is recognize your true position as the witness. You only have to do this for some time, until the spell…
— Mooji
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On our track to success, we have to fight the tendency to look at others and see how far they've come. The only thing that…
— Denis Waitley
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True motherhood is the noblest call of the world, and we look with sorrow upon the practice here in our own United States of limiting…
— David O. McKay
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The religion of Jesus Christ aims at nothing less than the utter overthrow of all other systems of religion in the world; denouncing them as…
— Simon Greenleaf
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When faced with structural injustice, especially in the form of oppressive military occupations, I have a tendency get a little worked up. So I was…
— Adam Beach
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Self-awareness is our capacity to stand apart from ourselves and examine our thinking, our motives, our history, our scripts, our actions, and our habits and…
— Stephen Covey
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The pro-psychedelic plant position is clearly an antidrugs position. Drug dependencies are the result of habitual, unexamined, and obsessive behavior; these are precisely the tendencies…
— Terence McKenna
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We live in an age rather skeptical of truth, of its existence." There is a "tendency to believe that nothing is definitive, and think that…
— Pope Francis
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Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous; but the tendency was to do away with special privileges and legal…
— Albert Bushnell Hart
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The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material, so rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the…
— Alan Dean Foster
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There is an inherent tendency in all governmental power to recognize no restraints on its operation and to extend the sphere of its dominion as…
— Ludwig von Mises
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