Tendency Quotes

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Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree,… — John Stuart Mill
I guess I realize that I don't want to die. I don't want to live either, but-there really isn't anything in-between. Depression is about as… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
At its best, the US Open demands straight drives, crisp iron shots, brilliant chipping and putting, and strategic position play. Plus the patience of St.… — Thomas Boswell
Like most professional golfers, I have a tendency to remember my poor shots a shade more vividly than the good ones. — Ben Hogan
In all this process of acquiring conceptions, a certain instinctive order is followed. There is a native tendency to assimilate certain kinds of conception at… — William James
When covering the man with the ball, the defense should be able to touch the ball with his hand. He should assume this touching position… — Ralph Miller
In each succeeding war there is a tendency to proclaim as something new the principles under which it is conducted. Not only those who have… — John J. Pershing
Dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify. — Gerard K. O'Neill
The view that women are infantile and emotional creatures, and as such, incapable of responsibility and independence is the work of the masculine tendency to… — Karen Horney
Keep in mind that the tendency to be judgmental - toward yourself or another person - is a good barometer of how anxious or stressed… — Harriet Lerner
There is a common tendency to ignore the poor or to develop some rationalisation for the good fortune of the fortunate. — John Kenneth Galbraith
Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions. — Warren G. Bennis
[T]hat the opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction; that to suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his… — Thomas Jefferson
The greatest obstacle to progress is not man's inherited pugnacity, but his incorrigible tendency to parasitism. — William Ralph Inge
Among many other weighty objections to the Measure, it has been suggested, that it has a tendency to introduce religious disputes into the Army, which… — George Washington
We were born with a natural tendency to focus on love. Our imaginations were creative and flourishing, and we knew how to use them. We… — Marianne Williamson
This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness — Charles R. Swindoll
Warm water rebirthing has a tendency to regress people to birth memories and prenatal states of consciousness. — Leonard Orr
People have a natural tendency to flee to the mountains when things get tough. — Stuart Briscoe
I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental… — Brian Eno

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