Tendencies Quotes

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As human beings we suffer from an innate tendency to jump to conclusions; to judge people too quickly and to pronounce them failures or heroes… — Prince
Marriage provides an ideal setting for overcoming any tendency to be selfish or self-centered. I think one of the reasons that we are counseled to… — Richard G. Scott
Hostility towards Microsoft is not difficult to find on the Net, and it blends two strains: resentful people who feel Microsoft is too powerful, and… — Neal Stephenson
I have devoted 30 years of research to how creative people live and work, to make more understandable the mysterious process by which they come… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The earlier, more analytic impulse was to use very rational but kind of absurd techniques or tendenciesâ€”mapping, charting, and architectureâ€”to try and make sense of… — Julie Mehretu
The moral duty to be expected in different ages is not a unity of standard, or of acts, but a unity of tendency ... At… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky
Weight-bearing exercise builds bone density, builds your muscular strength so that you can hold your body up where those bones have a tendency to get… — Ann Richards
I think I am doing my works to link myself, my family, with society â€” with the cosmos. To link me with my family to… — Kenzaburo Oe
One of my favorite patterns is the tendency for the markets to move from relative lows to relative highs and vice versa every two to… — Jack D. Schwager
I think there is a tendency for people to get rigid and caught up in their beliefs of what is right and wrong, and they… — Matisyahu
I guess my tendency is to think essentially that the new wrinkles won't do the job if the old major idea didn't, and so you… — Robert Nozick
Human life is full of the play of samskaras - tendencies developed by repeated actions. — Vinoba Bhave
The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex matters. From a pulpit or… — Aldous Huxley
Our minds have a tendency to wander. To duck and feint and keep us at a slight remove from the moment at hand. — Dani Shapiro
In play, the child is always behaving beyond his age, above his usual everyday behaviour; in play he is, as it were, a head above… — Lev S. Vygotsky
When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven's name to what? — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Bush is quite vulnerable if the Democrats pick the right issues. So far, though, they've shown their usual tendency to go for the capillary. — Glenn Reynolds
The tendency of liberals is to create bodies of men and women-of all classes-detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion-mob rule.… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The tendency of the UN and its major supporters is to think good intentions and mild to rampant corruption are as good as actual results. — John Hamill
And so the liberal tendency became a habit with Stepan Arkadyich, and he liked his newspaper, as he liked a cigar after dinner, for the… — Leo Tolstoy

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