Tendency Quotes

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The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he… — Arthur Young
There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants. — Mao Zedong
Our human tendency is to be impatient with the person who cannot see the truth that is so plain to us. We must be careful… — Henry B. Eyring
When it is about technology, there is this tendency to just reject all criticism as being anti-technological and anti-modern. I think this is very unhealthy. — Evgeny Morozov
I have a tendency toward being a micromanager. — Christine Quinn
I have a tendency toward being a micromanager. Which, the bigger the project you're involved in, the harder that becomes. — Christine Quinn
The tendency has always been strong to believe that whatever received a name must be an entity or being, having an independent existence of its… — John Stuart Mill
What did Nabokov and Joyce have in common, apart from the poor teeth and the great prose? Exile, and decades of near pauperism. A compulsive… — Martin Amis
Anyone too undisciplined, too self-righteous or too self-centered to live in the world as it is has a tendency to idealize a world which ought… — David James Duncan
We could decide simply to remain absorbed in the mysterious, unformed, free-play of reality. This would be the choice of the mystic who seeks to… — Stephen Batchelor
Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather than what is… — M. Scott Peck
What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
My friends tell me that I have a tendency to point out problems without offering solutions, but they never tell me what I should do… — Daniel Gilbert
When there is a tendency to compartmentalize the spiritual and make it resident in a certain type of life only, the spiritual is apt gradually… — Flannery O'Connor
We always have a tendency to see those things that do not exist and to be blind to the great lessons that are right there… — Paulo Coelho
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and… — Hunter S. Thompson
What the semicolon's anxious supporters fret about is the tendency of contemporary writers to use a dash instead of a semicolon and thus precipitate the… — Lynne Truss
When persons manifest the least kindness and love to me, O what power it has over my mind, while the opposite course has a tendency… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome." "And… — Jane Austen
I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a… — Elizabeth Gilbert

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