Tendencies Quotes

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A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people

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

Jazz is the favorite music [of America]. It is a type of music invented by [American] Blacks to please their primitive tendencies and desire for noise.

It is clear that the main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies.

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.

It's much easier to learn what you should do in trading than to do it. Good systems tend to violate normal human tendencies.

I probably have fundamentally antisocial tendencies. I never took one extracurricular activity. I just failed utterly at that level. Part of me still rebels against that.

Few are ready to recognize that the rise of fascism and Nazism was not a reaction against the socialist trends of the preceding period but a necessary outcome of those tendencies.

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

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.

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.

Government has within it a tendency to abuse its powers.

The short-term international capital market is shrunken and erratic, and cannot be relied upon to cushion the effects of tendencies to disequilibrium in the balance of payments.

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.

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.

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 are three dominant tendencies in a neoliberal society: financialized, privatized, militarized. And when it comes to black poor people, we get all three.

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.

...History shows that ... (people) can be deflected from their natural tendencies by artful propaganda, bogus crises, or other political trickery.

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

I leave to others the decision as to the good or evil tendencies of my character, but such as it is it shines upon my countenance, and there it can easily be detected by any physiognomist.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Temptation can be defined as an inducement to do evil. Three powerful forces work together to ruin a believer's character and witness: Satan, the world system, and our own lustful "flesh" tendencies.

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

Human life is full of the play of samskaras - tendencies developed by repeated actions.

Suicide thwarts the plan of the entity which sends out the personality. Fortunately, the entity is far beyond the reach of man's destructive tendencies.

Neurosis can be understood best as the battle between tendencies within an individual; deep character analysis leads, if successful, to the progressive solution.

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

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

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.

As you sit in this light from week to week, you will transform and grow and develop. It washes away the samskaras, the past-life tendencies. It washes away the karmic tendencies from this life.

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

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.

The 'Hemingway curse' was such a huge, awful thing for me to have to deal with. . . . The reality is, because there are genetic tendencies toward mental illness, you need to be aware of them.

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

I see tendencies, I see body language.

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

Hear good things, see good, do good, think good, then you get the Grace of God, as all the evil tendencies will be uprooted.

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