Quotes About Predisposition

In the same way, a Mother is just a woman until something happens—a child appears, or a member of the family becomes sick—which triggers the Mother-nurturer predisposition. Although some predispositions—like the two I just mentioned—are typically associated with a particular gender

During college I realized I had a music predisposition and really got involved in it. I started playing bass guitar. That was how I began to fit in.

The stigma of a genetic predisposition to alcoholism remains among Native Americans to this day, despite the fact that it is a claim not rooted in fact.

I'm a very serious guy. I try to counter that predisposition of being a serious person with all this tomfoolery that I love to do so much. I really enjoy it; that's why I do it. I don't like the way I am... perhaps my natural default is to be that way, and I don't like that.

Every man comes into the world with a predisposition to grow along certain lines, and growth is easier for him along those lines than in any other way.

There is strong evidence that there exists a genetic predisposition for aggression. In all species the best hunter, the best fighter, the most aggressive male, survives to pass his biological predispositions on to his descendants. There are also environmental processes that can fully develop this predisposition toward aggression; when we combine this genetic predisposition with environmental development we get a killer.

I felt responsible to use my gifts, but in future churches, that pointed in the direction of children's or music ministry. But, like many women in the church whom I knew, I felt neither a call nor a predisposition to children or song.

I come with bad genetics, personally.

There is bound to be variation in the population of males in their predisposition to be faithful husbands. If females could recognize such qualities in advance, they could benefit themselves by choosing males possessing them. One way for a female to do this is to play hard to get for a long time, to be coy. Any male who is not patient enough to wait until the female eventually consents to copulate is not likely to be a good bet as a faithful husband.

Predisposition is not predestination. We humans are much, much more than our DNA.

Anyway, the point is, I just think we flatter ourselves when we say we can engineer our kids to be this way or that way. It's mostly just hardwired.

Most researchers are quick to point out that the biologically oriented studies suggest that genetics can influence people, and with this Scripture has no dispute. People can be physiologically predisposed to enjoying a particular drug, food, activity, or physical experience, but there is a categorical difference between being influenced by genetics and being determined by it.

You can be predisposed genetically, but it's not a sentence. I'm genetically predisposed, but I manage my weight. The root of obesity, though, is usually emotional. The poor habits are a symptom of a deeper emotional issue.

Murder and suicide aren't genetic ,' Julia said, scoffing sandwiches in the Black Swan in Helmsley after their visit to Rievaulx Terraces. 'Nathan isn't predisposed to tragedy.' Jackson wasn't so sure about that but he kept that thought to himself.

excessive weight in one generation may predispose the next for higher lifetime risk of obesity, apart from genetic inheritance and the tendency of offspring to pick up their parents' lifestyle habits.

Our genes are a predisposition, but our genes are not our fate," I wrote to him. "If they were, then you'd be a victim, but you're not—you're one of the most powerful people on the planet.

I had recourse to magic, that is, to a kind of deliberate predisposition, an intuitive complicity with nature.

I believe people may have a predisposition for artistic creativity. It doesn't mean they're going to make it.

we are predisposed to trust and have an evolutionary need to do so. Therefore, people are motivated to overlook a violation of trust

DNA predisposes a certain behavior, but if your environment doesn't support it, then that behavior won't manifest. When people don't have opportunity, they have to create their own opportunities

There is certainly some predisposition to wellbeing, based on the research I've looked at. There are people who have a lot more natural discipline. But for most of us, it takes a lot more in terms of social expectations, where, say, we tell people we're going to run a 5K.

Tener aventuras es algo natural para algunas personas - dijo Ana serenamente - O se tienen, o no se tienen los dotes para vivirlas. Ana de Avonlea

And so he found himself always in search of the perfect love, always unable to find it or sustain it, and predisposed to reenact his mother's bewildering abandonment of him.

I read somewhere that human beings are genetically predisposed to record history.