We Tend Quotes
342 quotes by 291 authors
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Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties,…
— Ethel Barrymore
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The problem with politicians getting to know the issues in indigenous townships is that we tend to suffer from what Aboriginal people call the 'seagull…
— Tony Abbott
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On paper, being good sounds great but a lot depends on the atmosphere of the workplace or community we live in. We tend to become…
— Alain de Botton
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Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror.
— William S. Burroughs
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I don't think people really do listen. We plug into music, and we have short attention spans. We tend to download individual tracks from iTunes…
— Ian Anderson
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We all know we are unique individuals, but we tend to see others as representatives of groups.
— Deborah Tannen
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We tend to think of meditation in only one way. But life itself is a meditation.
— Raul Julia
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Somehow, in the process of trying to deny that things are always changing, we lose our sense of the sacredness of life. We tend to…
— Pema Chodron
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However much we guard against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us.
— Eric Hoffer
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Kant, discussing the various modes of perception by which the human mind apprehends nature, concluded that it is specially prone to see nature through mathematical…
— James Jeans
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Most people use two totally different sets of criteria for judging themselves versus others. We tend to judge others according to their actions. It's very…
— John C. Maxwell
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When two people meet and fall in love, there's a sudden rush of magic. Magic is just naturally present then. We tend to feed on…
— Tom Robbins
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In our appetite for gossip, we tend to gobble down everything before us, only to find, too late, that it is our ideals we have…
— Pico Iyer
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Although we tend to think of the brain as a discrete organ - a lump of squidgy tissue - it is better to think of…
— Tim Birkhead
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Daily fervent prayers seeking forgiveness and special help and direction are essential to our lives and the nourishment of our testimonies. When we become hurried,…
— Donald L. Staheli
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Fair play with others is primarily the practice of not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us. We tend to rub our guilty…
— Eric Hoffer
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No matter how reclusive we tend to be, we picture the after-life as a community of souls. It is one thing to seek privacy in…
— Robert Breault
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When we are very young, we tend to regard the ability to use a colon much as a budding pianist regards the ability to play…
— Eric Partridge
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Time is our most valuable asset, yet we tend to waste it, kill it and spend it rather than invest it.
— Jim Rohn
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When young we have a vivid sense of basic values like trust and warm-heartedness, which we tend to neglect in today's competitive world as we…
— Dalai Lama
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