Tendencies Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

A mighty stream of tendency.

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

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

There is the possibility that humankind can outgrow its infantile tendencies, as I suggested in 'Childhood's End.' But it is amazing how childishly gullible humans are.

I'm definitely not very insecure, but I have perfectionist tendencies, and I'll want things to be a certain way.

It's unfortunate that the entire country is a racist country.We're living in a country that discriminates, and has certain racist tendencies.

Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.

It has always been my belief that children inherit the suppressed tendencies of their parents. A clergyman's son frequently shows abnormal tastes for the pleasures that his father denied himself.

The vast majority of our troubles and heartaches would simply vanish from view if only we could remember - before we act - that we are made victims mostly by our own tendencies.

I have a tendency to really stuff things — like, I don't really express certain feelings.

Such words as "society" and "community" are likely to be misleading, for they have a tendency to make us think there is a single thing corresponding to the single word.

There is a certain tendency on the part of some Americans to treat the UN as a multilateralism à la carte where you pick and choose where it suits you and when it doesn't suit you, you pull back.

The part always has a tendency to reunite with its whole in order to escape from its imperfection.

Do not EXPECT troubles as they have a tendency not to disappoint.

Let's just say that I have a tendency if I am uncomfortable in a situation to speak my mind.

There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.

My tendency is to be the guy in the back, even though I often end up being the guy in the front.

The tendency of an advanced civilization is in truth monarchy.

One must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of definition translate tendencies into habits.

The will to power can express itself only against resistances; it seeks that which resists it--this is the native tendency of theamoeba when it extends its pseudopodia and gropes around.

Morality is the tendency to pour out the baby with the bathwater.

Our tendency is to be converted to church and not to Christ.

Success comes only for those groups that overcome the all-too-human behavioral tendencies that corrupt teams and breed dysfunctional politics within them.

The general tendency [is] to be censorious of the vices to which one has not been tempted.

The United States were a 35-year-old man, I think he'd be in a mental institution. Violent tendencies - delusions of grandeur - medicate heavily.

I have a tendency to think of myself as the mutt of the litter. I'm not purebred.

I have a tendency, not that anyone I've ever dated I thought wasn't a good person, but sometimes you're not always a good match.

Self-awareness is our capacity to stand apart from ourselves and examine our thinking, our motives, our history, our scripts, our actions, and our habits and tendencies.

Never even attempt to disturb anyone's tendencies.

Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the United States.

Despite my being an old gypsy there is a tendency to respectability inherent in old age.

Measures which serve to abridge the free competition of foreign Articles, have a tendency to occasion an enhancement of prices.

It's as if tendencies that seem most deeply rooted in our minds, most private and singular, have come in as spores on the prevailing wind, looking for any likely place to land, any welcome.

Great emotion always tends to become rhythmic, and out of that tendency the forms of art have been evolved. Art becomes artificial only when the forms take precedence over the emotion.

I think there's a tendency to over-jack and over-umami food these days.

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.

God desires to change us from the inside out. Renewing our minds, starving our self-destructive tendencies, and teaching us to form new habits.

Eell there always is a tendency in human nature to deify.

If you're a very unfulfilled person you might have a tendency to turn to crime.