Tendency Quotes

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I think the tendency to over-explain and over describe is one of the most common failings in fantasy. It's an unfortunate piece of Tolkien's legacy.… — Patrick Rothfuss
I seem to have a natural tendency to want to share my own observations and feelings with other people, and writing seems to be the… — Jerry Spinelli
I've been misquoted a lot, and there's this tendency for people to put on to you how they think you should be or what they… — Maura Tierney
Now Speaker Gingrich says interesting and insightful things. He can explain them well. On many occasions he also says outrageous things that come from nowhere… — Jim Talent
There is a tendency to try to dumb everything down and turn everything into a one-paragraph press release or even less, just a slogan. — Malcolm Turnbull
On the stage . . . masks are assumed with some regard to procedure; in everyday life, the participants act their parts without consideration either… — Anthony Powell
My tendency is to be very experimental. — Sean Lennon
I love working with male actors, and I think there's a tendency to write really interesting characters that would work solely alongside men where they… — Elisabeth Moss
When we think of war, the tendency is to picture young soldiers only in their military roles. To a large extent this dehumanizes the soldiers… — Walter Dean Myers
I learned how to be a learner. When you get in a job, the tendency is to say, 'I've got to know it. I've got… — Anne M. Mulcahy
There's a tendency in politics to attribute bad motivation much too quickly, and the sooner you attribute bad motivation to someone you disagree with, the… — Peter Welch
I think I have a tendency to look at things subjectively rather than objectively when I reflect on my experience. — Ricky Williams
Above all, it behooves us to repress, and if possible to extinguish once and for all, our inveterate tendency to judge others by the extent… — George F. Kennan
When you have kids, there's a tendency to put the marriage stew on the back burner and give it a quick stir now and then.… — Allison Pearson
A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait. — Edith Hamilton
Critics of American colleges typically attribute the failings of undergraduate education to a tendency on the part of professors to neglect their teaching to concentrate… — Derek Bok
Some people have a tendency to get knocked down in this business and sulk and whine, and they just create a rod for their back,… — Pierce Brosnan
The historical religions have the tendency to become ends in themselves, and, as it were, to put themselves in God's place, and, in fact, there… — Martin Buber
A premature attempt to explain something that thrills you will destroy your perceptivity rather than increase it, because your tendency will be to explain away… — Edwin Land
[The proposed establishment] will have a . . . tendency to banish our Citizens. . . . To superadd a fresh motive to emigration by… — James Madison

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