Tendencies Quotes

Overcoming negative tendencies and enhancing positive potential are the very essence of the spiritual path.

I see tendencies, I see body language.

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

Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

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

Religion acts as a moral gardener, to weed out, or suppress, evil tendencies, which, like weeds and nettles, would shoot up spontaneously in the wonderful compost of the garden, if unwatched.

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.

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.

The natural tendency of the state is inflation.

Except when he has regressive tendencies, the child's nature is to aim directly and energetically at functional independence.

Since the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to allow them liberty, how comes it to pass that the tendencies of organizers are always good?

All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be. This is elementary

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

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

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

The art of governing is a great metier, requiring the whole man, and it is therefore not well for a ruler to have too strong tendencies for other affairs.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Competitiveness is just as much a part of our nature as empathy. The ideal, in my view, is a democratic system with a social market economy, because it takes both tendencies into account.

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

From the time of Cain until the last believer before Christ's return, we are all fundamentally in the same boat. We suffer the same spiritual afflictions and tendencies.

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

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.

Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes.

No doubt, God alone has become all these objects, animate and inanimate, but in the relative world all beings act and suffer according to their past Karma and innate tendencies.

We really need to stop the imperialist tendencies of countries like the United States and Great Britain

The ultimate tendency of liberalism is vegetarianism.

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.

Jews have a tendency to become comedians.

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.

An artist's early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are compatible and some of which are in conflict

And when I get bored, it's like the worst parts of me come out. I really veer to self-destructive tendencies quickly.

There's a tendency, especially among academics, to see politics as deeply dirty and deeply egotistical.

A mighty stream of tendency.

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

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

When a poll is really, really out of whack with what I want to happen, I do have a tendency to disregard it.

Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.

The stream of tendency in which all things seek to fulfill the law of their being.

Nature's government spontaneously brings satisfaction to everyone because it promotes all innumerable, diverse tendencies of life in the evolutionary direction.

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

There prevails on a free labor market a tendency toward full employment.

At our college we were taught a universal approach to find out about a person: what problems the person has, what difficulties, what personal tendencies and likings.

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

The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses.

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

I am incredibly bad at predicting the future; I am only smart enough to observe the present and listen to my intuition about tendencies.