Tendency Quotes

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The greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved, but only outgrown. This 'outgrowing',… — Carl Jung
A second characteristic of the process which for me is the good life, is that it involves an increasingly tendency to live fully in each… — Carl Rogers
The organism has one basic tendency and striving - to actualize, maintain, and enhance the experiencing organism — Carl Rogers
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, an poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a… — Abraham Maslow
I have an immature, Homer Simpson-like tendency to giggle when I say the words 'seminal fluids' in public. — Stephenie Meyer
In considering any new subject, there is frequently a tendency, first, to overrate what we find to be already interesting or remarkable; and, secondly, by… — Ada Lovelace
The American Beauty Rose can be produced in the splendor and fragrance which bring cheer to its beholder only by sacrificing the early buds which… — John D. Rockefeller
A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him… — William Graham Sumner
ALL IMPULSES OF THOUGHT HAVE A TENDENCY TO CLOTHE THEMSELVES IN THEIR PHYSICAL EQUIVALENT. — Napoleon Hill
Do not EXPECT troubles as they have a tendency not to disappoint. — Napoleon Hill
I just want to say this. I want to say it gently but I want to say it firmly: There is a tendency for the… — Tony Blair
One of the problems I have with a lot of movies these days is that everything is too well lit. In the world of digital… — Bill Sienkiewicz
Today the primary threat to the liberties of the American people comes not from communism, foreign tyrants or dictators. It comes from the tendency on… — George Allen
Discreetly keep most of your radical opinions to yourself. When with people be a listener a large part of the time. Be considerate in every… — Grenville Kleiser
Politics - I don't know why, but they seem to have a tendency to separate us, to keep us from one another, while nature is… — Sean O'Casey
Once started, religious strife has a tendency to go on and on - to become permanent feuds. Today we see such intractable inter-religious wars in… — Mahathir Mohamad
How then can we deal with our tendency toward worldliness? It is not by determining that we will not be worldly, but by committing ourselves… — Jerry Bridges
Exercise is a pastime only for those who are already slender and physically fit. It just isn't so much fun when you have a marked… — Christopher Hitchens
Probably the most dangerous thing about college education, at least in my own case, is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get… — David Foster Wallace
There's a tendency to fall into certain habits, but if you tell yourself not to do that and if you don't stay there too long… — Josh Duhamel

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