Quotes and Sayings About Tendencies
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The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.
-- Alain de Botton -
Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.
-- Alain de Botton -
In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
-- Alan Kay -
I highly recommend getting older! There's less tendency to people-please.
-- Alanis Morissette -
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 -
One can often recognize herd animals by their tendency to carry bibles.
-- Allen Wheelis -
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 -
The integrative tendencies of the individual are incomparably more dangerous than his self-assertive tendencies.
-- Arthur Koestler -
The extent to which human aggression exemplifies innate tendencies is not clear.
-- B. F. Skinner -
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 -
The tendency of an advanced civilization is in truth monarchy.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
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 -
Eell there always is a tendency in human nature to deify.
-- Bill Maher -
There is a tendency at every important but difficult crossroad to pretend that it's not really there.
-- Bill McKibben -
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 -
Almost all unhappiness in life comes from the tendency to blame someone else.
-- Brian Tracy -
Happiness is really rooted in simplicity. The tendency to excessiveness in thought and action diminishes happiness.
-- Brian Weiss -
An inborn tendency toward science turning it into a lifelong commitment.
-- Bruno Rossi -
The organism has one basic tendency and striving - to actualize, maintain, and enhance the experiencing organism
-- Carl Rogers -
We take life too seriously: the office of wit is to correct this tendency.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
I have a tendency toward being a micromanager.
-- Christine Quinn -
I have a tendency toward being a micromanager. Which, the bigger the project you're involved in, the harder that becomes.
-- Christine Quinn -
All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.
-- Clive James -
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 -
The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.
-- David Hare -
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 -
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 -
I think people have a tendency to read into more than there is.
-- Donald Pleasence -
The tendency of the world is down - God's path is up.
-- Dwight L. Moody -
A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait.
-- Edith Hamilton
