Quotes About Predisposition

It's as if Midori popped out of the womb fiddling, Michael Jordan dribbling, and Picasso doodling. This captures the fixed mindset perfectly.

Comedy and tragedy are two sides of the same coin. A talent in one area might also lead to a predisposition in the other.

We each have our own style but yeah, when you boil it down like there are certain things that human beings just are predisposed to laugh at and we're just kind of all putting our own spin on it.

Some are just born bad, and that's all there is to it.

Children's minds need not innately embody language structures, if languages embody the predispositions of children's minds!

I think, unfortunately, some people are just bad, they're just born bad, and I don't know why.

nessuna creatura può imparare ciò che il suo cuore non è predisposto ad imparare

Religious experiences also occur only when emotions run high and only to those who were predisposed to believe.

If someone's liver doesn't work, we blame it on the genes; if someone's brain doesn't work properly, we blame the school. It's actually more humane to think of the condition as genetic. For instance, you don't want to say that someone is born unpleasant, but sometimes that might be true.

I believe the default position in life is liberalism. You have to work at being a Conservative.

others must exercise twice as much just to keep pace. Some people are predisposed

Like all your fellow human beings, you are designed to be incapable of starting with a clean sheet of paper.

I believe that one's basic financial attitudes are - like a tendency toward fat knees - probably formed in utero, or, at the very latest, in cribbo.

almost universally recognized as a developmental disorder, multiply caused: genetic predisposition, pre- or postnatal viral infection, chromosomal damage, biological agents still unknown.

I like worrying. I come from a long line of worriers. It's in my blood.

With most people suicide is like Russian roulette. Only one chamber has a bullet. With the Lisbon girls, the gun was loaded. A bullet for family abuse. A bullet for genetic predisposition. A bullet for historical malaise. A bullet for inevitable momentum. The two other bullets are impossible to name, but that doesn't mean the chambers were empty.

They say tedium is a sickness that afflicts the inert, or only attacks those who have nothing to do. However, this affliction of the soul is subtles than that: it attacks those with a predisposition towards it and is less lenient on those who work or pretend to work (which comes to the same thing anyway) than on the truely inert.

los mejores inspectores de homicidios admitirán que en noventa de cada cien casos lo que salva la investigación es la abrumadora predisposición del asesino a la incompetencia o, cuando menos, al error garrafal.

Some people might be born with a predisposition to better judgment, but the rest of us, I believe, have to grow wiser by hard work.

I don't know if I was born an alcoholic, but I was definitely born anxious.

I think that the enormous emphasis on violence and sex, and in particular violent sex, may not make rapists of us all, but it predisposes us to accept a kind of world in which these things happen.

A slew of cognitive traits predisposes us to faith.

I hate to be fatalistic about it, but alcoholism, it's just in your genes. We had some of it in my family, and it just got me.

But there's a small percentage who are nothing but born predators. And for them, no amount of good parenting, quality schooling, or therapy sessions will ever make a bit of difference.