Tendency Quotes

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It is important to do what you don't know how to do.
It is important to see your skills as keeping you
from learning what is deepest and most mysterious.
If you know how to focus, unfocus.
If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.
- Carlos Castaneda

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

Truth is a tendency.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer
knows the propensity to dream,
the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.
- Tim Berners-Lee

The tendency of old age to the body,
say the physiologists,
is to form bone.
It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old
man whose opinions are not ossified.
- Bob Wells

And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius,
rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.
- Chauncey Wright

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I have a tendency to be lucky and make the right choices
based on limited information.
- Paul D. Boyer

Regrettably, I do sometimes have to fight a tendency to be bitchy.
- Marie Windsor

I love sleep.
My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake,
you know?
- Ernest Hemingway

To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant
modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.
- Walter Pater

I have a tendency to say yes to a script or no to a script.
Not yes based on a rewrite.
- William H. Macy

And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency
to look for people who live by kindness,
tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things.
- Martin Scorsese

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

No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the
desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
- William Howard Taft

The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken
as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects.
- Lord Jeffrey

The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble
upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices,
and then to make it the representative of a whole class.
- Walter Lippmann

I'll miss the relationships I have built with these actors.
I'll miss the devotion we have to this work.
Over this length of time, the tendency is to think it will never end.
- Dennis Franz

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

My mouth has a tendency to get me into trouble,
but because I'm so small and I take on people who are lager than me.
If someone punched me, I'd get my drummer beat them up.
- Brian Molko

There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency,
and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social and cultural utility.
- Karl Lehmann

The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor,
to take from those who do labor the produce of that labor,
and to give it to those who do not labor.
- William Cobbett

Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local;
but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void.
- Hervey Allen

What has destroyed every previous civilization has
been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.
- Henry George

What concerns me, is the general social tendency to enforce a level,
above which nothing rises and stands out.
- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands
makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world.
- Georgia Harkness

The human tendency to regard little things as important
has produced very many great things.
- Georg C. Lichtenberg

Man could not stay there forever.
He was bound to spread to new regions,
partly because of his innate migratory tendency and
partly because of Nature's stern urgency.
- Ellsworth Huntington

The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings.
That's the Japanese character.
They kill their own emotions.
- Ichiro Suzuki

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement,
intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.
- Margaret Fuller

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

I guess when I first started speaking with an American accent,
there's a tendency to create a caricature of the accent
because you just exaggerate the pieces that stand out to you.
- Radha Mitchell

I have a very steadfast tendency to parent myself,
to monitor my development into the person I want to be.
I've tried to keep the corruption minimal.
- Fiona Apple

The tendency is to keep doing things the way you have done them.
- Maurice Strong

We managed to hang in there.
Today when people get married there's a tendency to
run away when things get tough.
There is a lot of strength in hanging together.
- Jerry Stiller

Once the object has been constructed,
I have a tendency to discover in it,
transformed and displaced,
images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me.
- Alberto Giacometti

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

I've yet to meet a writer who could change water into wine,
and we have a tendency to treat them like that.
- Michael Tolkin

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

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

There is a tendency around the world today to copy TV culture.
And that is not always a virtue.
- Francis Arinze

When Reagan was elected, I felt that the Agency had
gone much more into the service of a political tendency
in the country with which I had already felt very strong disagreement.
- Aldrich Ames

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

Because there is very little honor left in American life,
there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.
- Norman Mailer

In the period from 1824 to 1833, the tendency was steadily in the former direction,
but it was only in the latter part of it that it was made really efficient.
- Henry Charles Carey

The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan
value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.
- Reinhold Niebuhr

People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.
- P. J. Harvey

I have a tendency to often share the point of view
of the conspiracy theory.
- Marion Cotillard

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

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

I write funny.
If I can make my wife laugh, I know I'm on the right track.
But yes, I don't like to get Maudlin.
And I have a tendency towards it.
- Gene Wilder

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

It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class,
and to force society into an organization of only two classes,
one at each social extreme.
- William Graham Sumner

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

For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency
is to develop in the form of a sheaf,
creating, by its very growth, divergent directions
among which its impetus is divided.
- Henri Bergson

The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is.
You have to overcome the tendency to relax.
- Tom Osborne

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

I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines
in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts -
the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products.
- Richard Wagner

I think there's a tendency for modern man to become
dominated by gadgets and machines,
taking us further and further away from the things I've been talking about.
- Robin Day

Moreover, we are showing a dismaying tendency to recast God in Man's image.
- James L. Buckley

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
- Jane Addams

The tendency to aggression is an innate,
independent, instinctual disposition in man...
it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.
- Sigmund Freud

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

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision
and strengthens our most fatal tendency -
the belief that the here and now is all there is.
- Allan Bloom

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 creations there is a tendency to show too much.
- Bill Sienkiewicz

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

My tendency is to be very experimental.
- Sean Lennon

Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches,
rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell
a story to the same person,
three or four times.
- Helen Rowland

I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material,
so rewriting is hard for me.
I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new.
- Alan Dean Foster

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

There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils
that man does of his own free will.
- Agatha Christie

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie