Tendencies Quotes

If you do not overcome your tendency to give up easily, your life leads to nothing.

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.

I call myself a vegetarian with vegan tendencies.

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

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

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

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.

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

Government has within it a tendency to abuse its powers.

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.

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.

Good systems tend to violate normal human tendencies.

One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words."

Pettiness is the tendency of people without large purposes.

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).

Our credulity is a part of the imperfection of our natures.
It is inherent in us to desire to generalize,
when we ought,
on the contrary,
to guard ourselves very carefully from this tendency.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Creatures inveterately wrong in their inductions have a pathetic but praise-worthy tendency to die before reproducing their kind.

Governments can be useful to the governed only so long as inherent tendencies toward tyranny are restrained.

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

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.

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

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

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

The tendency of advanced capitalism has been to enlarge the middle class and not to wipe it out, as it once seemed likely to do.

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

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

I see tendencies, I see body language.

Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia.

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

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

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.

The natural tendency of the state is inflation.

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

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.

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

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

There are genocidal tendencies that are at the heart of the human potential, and I think if we don't talk about it, we're not preparing ourselves for a better future.

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

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.

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

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

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.

So, the tendency of our childish nature is to take small things too seriously and get easily offended, whereas when we are confronted with situations which have long-term consequences, we tend to take things less seriously