Tendencies famous quotes

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

#Action #Tendencies #Cures

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

#People #Tendencies #Unfortunate

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

#Success #Tendencies

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

#People #Getting Older #Tendencies

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).
-- Alberto Giacometti

#Knowing #Facts #Tendencies

One can often recognize herd animals by their tendency to carry bibles.
-- Allen Wheelis

#Animal #Herds #Tendencies

There's a tendency, especially among revolutionaries, to only show the good side of yourself and then when you come to power, the bad side comes out.
-- Ariel Dorfman

#Sides #Revolutionary #Tendencies

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

#Self #Individual #Tendencies

The extent to which human aggression exemplifies innate tendencies is not clear.
-- B. F. Skinner

#Tendencies #Aggression #Clear

That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
-- Baron de Montesquieu

#Peace #Abuse #Tendencies

The tendency of an advanced civilization is in truth monarchy.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Civilization #Tendencies #Monarchy

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.
-- Bernard Beckett

#History #Conflict #Tendencies

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

#Human Nature #Tendencies #Humans

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

#Challenges #Important #Tendencies

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

#People #Sometimes #Tendencies

Almost all unhappiness in life comes from the tendency to blame someone else.
-- Brian Tracy

#Happiness #Blame #Tendencies

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

#Simplicity #Action #Tendencies

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

#Commitment #Tendencies #Lifelong

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

#Strive #Tendencies

We take life too seriously: the office of wit is to correct this tendency.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee

#Office #Tendencies #Wit

I have a tendency toward being a micromanager.
-- Christine Quinn

#Tendencies

I have a tendency toward being a micromanager. Which, the bigger the project you're involved in, the harder that becomes.
-- Christine Quinn

#Projects #Tendencies #Bigger

All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.
-- Clive James

#Intellectual #Corruption #Tendencies

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.
-- David Cone

#Data #Kind #Tendencies

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.
-- David Hare

#Civilization #Tendencies #Barbarism

Anytime you go upside a man's head - or a woman - then they have a tendency to blink they eyes. Or close they eyes.
-- Deacon Jones

#Eye #Men #Tendencies

I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting.
-- Donald A. Norman

#Thinking #Tendencies

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

#Thinking #People #Tendencies

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

#World #Path #Tendencies

A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait.
-- Edith Hamilton

#Tendencies #Exaggeration #Traits

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.
-- Edwin Land

#Science #Tendencies #Increase

I don't have sociopathic tendencies!
-- Emily VanCamp

#Tendencies

The ultimate notion of right is that which tends to the universal good; and when one's acting in a certain manner has this tendency he has a right thus to act.
-- Francis Hutcheson

#Acting #Tendencies #Certain

Humans have a lot of pro-social tendencies.
-- Frans de Waal

#Social #Tendencies #Humans

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.
-- Garrett Hardin

#Generations #Natural #Tendencies

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 to which they contrive to be like ourselves.
-- George F. Kennan

#Judging #Tendencies #Relation

Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invaria.
-- George Orwell

#Elements #Consideration #Tendencies

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.
-- Herbert Croly

#Federalism #Faults #Tendencies

The tendency of humanity is towards the forbidden.
-- Horace

#Humanity #Tendencies #Forbidden

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

#Children #Tendencies #Species

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.
-- Ivanka Trump

#Mean #Guy #Tendencies

I have a tendency to really stuff things. I don't really express, you know? Like, express certain feelings and stuff.
-- Jack Osbourne

#Feelings #Stuff #Tendencies

You know, I am against lynching and lynching is a tendency of the people.
-- Jacques Verges

#Lynching #People #Tendencies

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.
-- James F. Cooper

#Democracy #Mediocrity #Tendencies

When you have a better image of yourself physically, you have a tendency to live your life in a more positive way.
-- Jeff Olson

#Live Your Life #Way #Tendencies

There's a big tendency to gravitate toward a closed and proprietary approach too easily.
-- Jimmy Wales

#Bigs #Tendencies #Approach

I wouldn't tell anyone to study werewolves - I studied wolves, how they moved, their tendencies and sensibilities.
-- Joe Manganiello

#Study #Werewolf #Tendencies

Government has within it a tendency to abuse its powers.
-- John C. Calhoun

#Government #Abuse #Tendencies

This tendency to make laws that are convenient or advantageous rather than right has mushroomed.
-- John Howard Griffin

#Law #Tendencies

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

#Years #Tendencies #Walks

I have a tendency to trust translators, mainly because nobody does it for the money.
-- Juan Gabriel

#Doe #Tendencies #Translators

Morality is the tendency to pour out the baby with the bathwater.
-- Karl Kraus

#Baby #Morality #Tendencies

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.
-- Katherine Heigl

#People #Tendencies #Pleasers

I call myself a vegetarian with vegan tendencies.
-- Leona Lewis

#Vegetarian #Vegan #Tendencies

A tendency to fly too straight at a goal, instead of circling around it, often carries one too far.
-- Lin Yutang

#Goal #Tendencies

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

#Action #Tendencies

I have a tendency to kick it up. I like to rattle the cage.
-- Lisa Marie Presley

#Cages #Tendencies #Kicks

Although mechanical energy is indestructible, there is a universal tendency to its dissipation, which produces throughout the system a gradual augmentation and diffusion of heat, cessation of motion and exhaustion of the potential energy of the material Universe
-- Lord Kelvin

#Energy #Heat #Tendencies

To free desire from the tendency to cling, we have to be willing to stumble over ourselves.
-- Mark Epstein

#Desire #Tendencies #Willing

Yeah, there's a tendency to get pigeonholed in Hollywood.
-- Mark Ruffalo

#Hollywood #Tendencies #Yeah

Set too many goals and keep adding more goals. Goals have a tendency to be realized all at once.
-- Mark Victor Hansen

#Life And Love #Goal #Tendencies

At the moment my art is situated between the pornographic tendency to reveal everything and the erotic inclination to hide what it's all about.
-- Marlene Dumas

#Art #Moments #Tendencies

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

#Helpful #Tendencies

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 think you should feel.
-- Maura Tierney

#Thinking #People #Tendencies

Too many theorists have a tendency to ignore facts that contradict their convictions.
-- Maurice Allais

#Facts #Conviction #Tendencies

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

#Tendencies

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.
-- Michael Buble

#Useless #Fear Of Failure #Tendencies

I see tendencies, I see body language.
-- Michael Chang

#Body #Language #Tendencies

I'm not really a happy person. It's a question of temperament. I have a tendency toward melancholy. You can feel quite happily melancholic.
-- Michael Haneke

#Melancholy #Tendencies #Feels

ALL IMPULSES OF THOUGHT HAVE A TENDENCY TO CLOTHE THEMSELVES IN THEIR PHYSICAL EQUIVALENT.
-- Napoleon Hill

#Tendencies #Impulse

Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent.
-- Napoleon Hill

#Strong #Desire #Tendencies

When you know that someone close to you is going to die, there's a natural tendency to want to spend as much time with them as you can.
-- Nicholas Sparks

#Want #Natural #Tendencies

Women had a tendency to see what they wanted to see i men, at least in the beginning
-- Nicholas Sparks

#Men #Tendencies #Wanted

It is beyond dispute that the state exercises very great power over human life and it always shows a tendency to go beyond the limits laid down for it.
-- Nikolai Berdyaev

#Exercise #Limits #Tendencies

I noticed long ago that Amin has the tendency to concentrate power in his own hands but I did not attach any particular significance to this. However, recently this tendency has become dangerous.
-- Nur Muhammad Taraki

#Hands #Long #Tendencies

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

#Mind #Speak #Tendencies

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

#Tendencies #Depressive

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.
-- Paul Giamatti

#Acting #Tendencies

There is, in any art, a tendency to turn one's own preferences into a monomaniac theory.
-- Pauline Kael

#Art #Tendencies #Theory

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.
-- Pierce Brosnan

#People #Tendencies #Broads

There is the tendency to place ourselves and our ambitions at the center of our lives. This is very human, but it is not Christian.
-- Pope Francis

#Christian #Ambition #Tendencies

The general tendency [is] to be censorious of the vices to which one has not been tempted.
-- Rebecca West

#Vices #Tendencies #Tempted

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

#Thinking #Looks #Tendencies

There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
-- Robert M. Pirsig

#Technology #Evil #Tendencies

Genes are rarely about inevitability, especially when it comes to humans, the brain, or behavior. They're about vulnerability, propensities, tendencies.
-- Robert M. Sapolsky

#Brain #Behavior #Tendencies

Jews have a tendency to become comedians.
-- Sacha Baron Cohen

#Comedian #Tendencies #Jew

You have sexual tendencies that are not normal, and you should be ashamed of them.
-- Scott Dikkers

#Normal #Tendencies #Should

My tendency is to be very experimental.
-- Sean Lennon

#Tendencies

In a healthy state of the organism all wounds have a tendency to heal.
-- Sophie Swetchine

#Healthy #States #Tendencies

I have an immature, Homer Simpson-like tendency to giggle when I say the words 'seminal fluids' in public.
-- Stephenie Meyer

#Immature #Tendencies #Fluid

For some reason, my temper was hardwired to my tear ducts. I usually cried when I was angry, a humiliating tendency.
-- Stephenie Meyer

#Tears #Reason #Tendencies

There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been divinely ordained.
-- Suzanne La Follette

#Peace #Tendencies #Humans

My domineering lover made no apologies for his caveman tendencies.
-- Sylvia Day

#Apology #Lovers #Tendencies

I am, of course, romanticizing; a chronic tendency of mine.
-- Tana French

#Tendencies

I'm a huge 'Futurama' fan, so that's my closest sci-fi tendency.
-- Tatiana Maslany

#Fans #Sci Fi #Tendencies

We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.
-- Thomas B. Macaulay

#Government #Judging #Tendencies

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

#Men #Logic #Tendencies

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

#Reality #Admitting #Tendencies

There is a tendency in our planning to confuse the unfamiliar with the improbable.
-- Thomas Schelling

#Planning #Tendencies

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.
-- Veronica Roth

#Thinking #Trying #Tendencies