Quotes About Tendency

Business crises energize me. Personal crises devastate me. The doctors call it an avoidance tendency. (Mirena to Eve)

La razón no es ni la esencia del universo ni mucho menos la esencia de Dios. Muy al contrario, a mí la razón se me antoja sospechosamente la esencia del pensamiento humano; peor aún, es como la esencia de una sola tendencia del pensamiento humano.

This is what Hollywood tends to do. It tends to disregard tradition, history and anything factual, twisting it and turning it and making it all okay regardless of what the English may think of it.

Often, we are quick to find blame with others but yet are unable to give constructive responses. There seems to be a tendency to doubt almost everything. Do we not have faith in our own people's strengths and in our institutions? Can we afford distrust amongst ourselves?

Vivekananda was born on January 12, 1863, in Calcutta. From the beginning he was a precocious boy of exceptional energy. Yet his innate tendency toward meditation showed itself even in his early life. For along with the ordinary childhood games, he would play at meditation.

I am, of course, romanticizing; a chronic tendency of mine.

The tendency towards equilibrium is not a trait peculiar to our universe but inherent in all universes.

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

What is instinct? It is the natural tendency in one when filled with dismay to turn to his wife.

The boring bits gave Daniel some leisure to ponder the quite peculiar family curse he seemed to be living under, namely, this marked tendency to be present at the demise of English Kings.

So lambda's sole job was to oppose gravity within Einstein's model, keeping the universe in balance, resisting the natural tendency for gravity to pull the whole universe into one giant mass.

Men for the most part follow in the footsteps and imitate the actions of others...

Coincidence, said Louis Pasteur, has a tendency to occur only to the mind that is prepared to notice it.

She was part of the machine she tended, and every faculty that was not needed for the machine was doomed to be crushed out of existence.

A MAIN ARGUMENT of this book concerns how so many parts of American life have morphed into forms of entertainment. From 1980 to the end of the century, that tendency reached a tipping point in politics and the political discourse.

so often the appearance of lunacy in sports isn't lunacy at all. As outlandish as sports conduct might seem, it is rooted in basic human psychology, neuroscience, and cognitive tendency.

My natural tendency is to complicate everything--and then to spray words and ideas onto everything afterwards. I've had to develop the habit of keeping things simple.

Since the tendency to create an image of God seems to exist within young children whether or not they have religious influences in their home, I would say that this tendency is a creation gift from the Creator God.

Whenever one does extraordinary things, someone is bound to try to repeat them for themselves. It's the way of the world.

He didn't protest much. Evidently he had a penchant for surrender.

A predilection for wrong is not characteristic of our nature, it is a characteristic of the nature of life itself.

Guard against this tendency of adjectives to march in pairs. They love to do it but it destroys all finer cadences.

It has been traditional for guys to think and to say, Many guys are slaves because one is an oppressor; let us hate the oppressor. Now, but, there may be amongst an growing few a tendency to opposite this judgment, and to mention, One man is an oppressor due to the fact many are slaves; let us despise the slaves.

But that battered word, truth, having made its appearance here, confronts one immediately with a series of riddles and has, moreover, since so many gospels are preached, the unfortunate tendency to make one belligerent.