Tendencies Quotations

There has always been a tendency to classify children almost as a distinct species.

I have a tendency to sabotage relationships; I have a tendency to sabotage everything. Fear of success, fear of failure, fear of being afraid. Useless, good-for-nothing thoughts.

In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.

An inborn tendency toward science turning it into a lifelong commitment.

I have a tendency, more than most other physicists, to try to figure out everything all at once, before I publish. And even to try to figure out everything in my head, without pencil and paper.

There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality.

The press these days should be rather careful about its role. We may have acquired some tendencies about over-involvement that we had better overcome.

We must uphold the fighting of tigers and flies at the same time, resolutely investigating law-breaking cases of leading officials and also earnestly resolving the unhealthy tendencies and corruption problems which happen all around people.

The Miguel Syjuco character is not me. I wanted him to represent my own fears and frustrations and guilt, my own worst tendencies and my optimistic expectations. He's a cautionary tale for me. But he's also an examination of the darkest things that haunt me as a person.

Honestly, I have a tendency to date dorks. Which means that a lot of times, I date guys that no one else would deem to be a hunk.

I think people have a tendency to read into more than there is.

We have the tendency to condemn what we don't understand.

And when I get bored, it's like the worst parts of me come out. I really veer to self-destructive tendencies quickly.

I'm very proud of my records, but my most natural creative tendencies have been in live performing. There's a beautiful element to recording and making records, but I've always felt a little shy with it.

In listing these tendencies making for a new world, we must not forget developments in the religious or spiritual thinking and feeling of mankind, where also we feel a strong unifying trend.

If I'm within reach and can be helpful, I have a tendency to say 'Yes.' It's hard to say 'No.

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

So far I, at least, have no fault to find with implications of Hamilton's Federalism, but unfortunately his policy was in certain other respects tainted with a more doubtful tendency.

During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks.

There is a tendency to want to treat blacks as a monolithic socioeconomic group.

There are contradictory tendencies in American society. There's a huge range of activities that one can engage in that mark it as a quite free society. It's also true to say that the powers that be have so much control over how people think that there are fewer and fewer people who make use of the rights and information available to them.

I'm not the most detailed writer. I have a tendency to be more action-oriented vs. descriptive.

I have a tendency to kick it up. I like to rattle the cage.

Let's cooperate and challenge the administration to cooperate with us because within the administration there are also moderates and people who are not fully comfortable with the tendencies that have prevailed in recent times.

We just kind of relied on written scouting reports through the eighties and even the early nineties. I've really been amazed by some of the data that's out there, especially with regards to tendencies of hitters, and certainly tendencies of pitchers as well. I would have loved to have gotten that data when I played.

I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency.

Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.

I think it's a human tendency that's been around for a while to try to be as good as possible to prove your worth.

I call myself a vegetarian with vegan tendencies.

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.

As women, we have more of a tendency to be people-pleasers, and I know a lot of women who are not vocal about what makes them happy.

I definitely have a tendency to only see the blemishes of things, and see lots of things about my acting that I don't like.

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.

When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.

Let's just say that I have a tendency if I am uncomfortable in a situation to speak my mind.

There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.

In the larger companies, you have this tendency to get top-down direction.

We come to meditation to learn how not to act out the habitual tendencies we generally live by - those actions that create suffering for ourselves and others, and get us into so much trouble.

I think I have a tendency to look at things subjectively rather than objectively when I reflect on my experience.

The educator should do anything but advise the child to do what everybody does. He should rather rejoice when he sees in the child tendencies to deviation.

I've had moments in my life when I've thought if I wasn't acting, if I wasn't doing what I do and I had a career in the private sector and I didn't have a family, that I do have some tendencies where I could really kind of have a monastic existence and be okay with it.

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, really. You have to have broad shoulders and get through it.

My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others' negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts.

Nature is filled with tendencies and obstructions. Extremes beget limitations, even as a river by its own swiftness creates obstructions for itself.

I have a tendency to be awfully big-hearted and it's very hard for me to say no, even when I need to.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Donald Trump and Senator Cruz have occasional Manichean tendencies.

If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.

In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.

I have observed that whenever you try to hit somebody, there is a tendency for them to try to hit you back.

There is a tendency at every important but difficult crossroad to pretend that it's not really there.

Eell there always is a tendency in human nature to deify.

If you're a very unfulfilled person you might have a tendency to turn to crime.

It is not new for the older generation to bewail the indolence of the young, and there is a tendency for the latter to maintain much of the older ethic screened by a new semantics and an altered ideology.

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 rather than seek out.

When something has been perfect, there is a tendency to try hard to repeat it.

My tendency is to be the guy in the back, even though I often end up being the guy in the front.

I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.

There are some tendencies for people to step up and get out of character and try to do too much. I did it a couple of times myself and put myself in a bad situation. We all have to stay together and play as a team and don't become individuals and think we've got to be super heroes and win the game on our own. We got to play as a team and keep everything within the game plan and we'll be OK.

Happiness is really rooted in simplicity. The tendency to excessiveness in thought and action diminishes happiness.

The bull-fighter has merely demonstrated that he is a butcher with balletic tendencies.

Sometimes, people have a tendency not to notice someone who's always there, even if that person's the best thing for them.

The integrative tendencies of the individual are incomparably more dangerous than his self-assertive tendencies.

We've studied the Bowling Green defense of a year ago, and what they did and their tendencies and their patterns. And we've also studied the Clemson defense as to what they did, what he (Lovett) seems to hang his hat on, and that type of thing. So it's been a little more of a difficult preparation for us.

Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.

The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.

I highly recommend getting older! There's less tendency to people-please.

When we skate like that for three periods, we're extremely happy. We had tendencies earlier in the year to slow down or take a period off. (Tuesday) we skated hard all three periods and got all four lines involved. When we're skating (like that) teams don't know our first line from our fourth.

She's a solid player. I don't think she has any glaring weaknesses. She can shoot the three and she can play inside. Our coaches do a good job scouting the teams we play. I always get familiar with the tendencies (of the opponents' best player) on paper.

Most of us still obviously know tendencies of their guys.

One of my tendencies is to let the ball drift too far forward in my stance, and it's something I've been working on with David Leadbetter.

Obviously, John's a big guy, and it's a great opportunity for him. I don't know much about his tendencies because we don't play Tampa Bay very often. But I do know he's an American, and that means he's a competitor.

One of the lessons learned from 22 July is that we have to take seriously all those people who take part in debates on the Internet, expressing extreme views, and then meet them, discuss with them, bring them into the open. We have not used bans or used the laws to try to forbid parties or political tendencies which we don't like.

I don't think it's that simple. But historically, there have been some 'copycat' tendencies in the league.

To eradicate or modify or curb the tendencies which thus survive among civilized men is not a matter of intellectual conviction or training.

What we were doing is really injury prevention and very close attention to how the training is done. I would pick up on having their tendencies to, for example, use one hip more than the other or having a misalignment of one hip or leg.

He showed me how to watch film and what tendencies to look for. What I see on film, I just take it to the football field, because football is a mental game.

We may have moved away from the boom-and-bust tendencies of the past where either it's all gloom and things go down very rapidly or it's all we're booming and things are moving up very fast.

It can always get better. I think we're starting to communicate a lot better, especially this year as opposed to last. But it's a process, and as the season goes on you're going to see it get better and better, just because we're going to learn each other's tendencies more and more, and we're going to understand each other better and better.

I think the girls were nervous in the first game, and we were trying to pick up tendencies on what Eureka was trying to do. They played much better and followed the game plan in games two and three.

I think the more we study and pay attention to what guys are doing, we might be able to pick up tendencies and might be able to do the little things a little bit better.

I think experience helps a lot out here. The greens have a lot of tendencies and subtle breaks. I've been about everywhere on this golf course, both good and bad.

I was very excited, I just played my game. It's a lot faster at the international level. It took me a week in camp to get used to the pace. I know my teammates' tendencies now, so it will be easier to play with them.

The most dangerous error is failure to recognize our own tendency to error.

The extent to which human aggression exemplifies innate tendencies is not clear.

The organism has one basic tendency and striving - to actualize, maintain, and enhance the experiencing organism

Many scholars have complained of our tendency to see history only in conflicts, but I am not convinced they are right. It is in conflict that our values are exposed.

We were very critical of some of the things the players were doing during an hour videotape meeting (on Friday). Then we had an hour and a half of video before the game where we looked at the tendencies of all their servers.

We rebounded well and played their tendencies extremely well. They really could not get shots off because when they tried to run their plays we knew what they were going to do. I think we did a good job of keeping them in check.

There prevails on a free labor market a tendency toward full employment.

Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to rediscover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me (often without my knowing it).

There is a tendency in nature to the continued progression of certain classes of varieties further and further from the original type.

Measures which serve to abridge the free competition of foreign Articles, have a tendency to occasion an enhancement of prices.

The experience at the higher level for pitchers is invaluable. For example, the idea that when he attacks a batter inside with a fastball and then tries to double up with a fastball and the guy hits it. You need to start recognizing and realizing hitters' tendencies as a pitcher, and you need to pitch off your experience.

All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.

The tendency of the world is down - God's path is up.

Because of the disruption phenomenon - technological progress outstripping the ability of customers to utilize it - the general tendency is for the money to migrate toward the subsystems.

It's unfortunate that the entire country is a racist country.We're living in a country that discriminates, and has certain racist tendencies.

We knew we could guard them, if we just worked on their tendencies and made them go to their weaknesses. We know they were scoreless for a while and that was definitely a confidence builder.

We (at Treasury) and the Central Bank are concerned about the strengthening shilling and are holding regular meeting, but an intervention would create speculative tendencies that may prove even more difficult to contain.