Tendency Quotes

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There's a tendency for adults to label the math that they can do (such as identifying patterns, choosing between competing offers in a supermarket, and… — Robert Eastaway
Runners in the western world have a tendency to create psychological barriers for themselves, but Morceli runs at will, with no inhibitions. — Eamonn Coghlan
...I do like the low frequencies. It's from years and years of observing audiences when they hear a lower frequency coming from an instrument it… — Bennie Maupin
I think people have a tendency to read into more than there is. — Donald Pleasence
Through the practice of devotion to God, I was coming to learn that preserving loving relations in this world required much forgiveness, tolerance, patience, gratitude,… — Radhanath Swami
You know, I am against lynching and lynching is a tendency of the people. — Jacques Verges
To reject practice by saying, 'it is conceptual!' is the path of fools. A tendency of the inexperienced and something to be avoided. — Longchenpa
Never, in all my early childhood, did anyone address to me the affecting preamble: 'Once upon a time!' ... I can but think that my… — Edmund Gosse
There is a tendency for humans to consciously see what they wish to see. They literally have difficulty seeing things with negative connotations while seeing… — Lionel Tiger
As human beings we have a tendency when we like something to tie it up and make sure it's there for a long time. I've… — Ricky Williams
Such is the grasping tendency of the human heart, that it must have a something to lay hold ofâ€”and which, if wrested away without the… — Thomas Chalmers
So much of America's tragic and costly failure to care for all its children stems from our tendency to distinguish between our own children and… — Marian Wright Edelman
I'm going to be looking forward, asked to be judged on my record, not taken back as has been the - in a sense, the… — Peter Hain
Despite the large number of mergers, and the growth in the absolute size of many corporations, the dominant tendency in the American economy at the… — Gabriel Kolko
The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners. — Thomas B. Macaulay
Of all the weaknesses little men rail against, there is none that they are more apt to ridicule than the tendency to believe. And of… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Become more accepting. With every interaction, surrender any tendency to judge another person. Pray for a more accepting heart. — Marianne Williamson
It is in the nature of political bodies always to see the evil in the opposite group, just as the individual has an ineradicable tendency… — Carl Jung
... there is an irrational, cultish tendency in many intellectual movements, and Objectivism, alas, is no exception. Ayn Rand's personal obsession with loyalty did little… — Nathaniel Branden
This tendency to make laws that are convenient or advantageous rather than right has mushroomed. — John Howard Griffin

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