Tendencies Quotes

It's much easier to learn what you should do in trading than to do it. Good systems tend to violate normal human tendencies. — William Eckhardt

I get along with Democrats really well, and I think that's something that's unreported. I think it's partly my libertarian tendencies. — Raul Labrador

We all have these tendencies in us that could go this way or that. I think that's the real key in writing. To look at a character without judgment. — Paul Haggis

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

Take this Hercules -this hero! Hero, indeed! What was he but a large muscular creature of low intelligence and criminal tendencies! — Agatha Christie

I was completely obsessed with her. Addicted wasn't a strong enough word. She had surpassed my addictive tendencies, and I was full-blown obsessed. — Abbi Glines

Morality is the tendency to pour out the baby with the bathwater. — Karl Kraus

Sometimes, people have a tendency not to notice someone who's always there, even if that person's the best thing for them. — Brenda Jackson

One of my tendencies is to let the ball drift too far forward in my stance, and it's something I've been working on with David Leadbetter. — Ernie Els

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

It was a family joke that Lydia's domestic tendencies were somehow misplaced when she was created. — Lawana Blackwell

The tendency of the world is down - God's path is up. — Dwight L. Moody

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. — Bridget Riley

People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters. — Cassandra Clare

I have a tendency when I feel myself getting stuck, my impulse is to go to my cupboard and find chips to eat. — Sara Bareilles

I describe my personal style as 'mythic space horse with chocolate box tendencies.' — Gwendoline Christie

Humans have a lot of pro-social tendencies. — Frans De Waal

Human life is full of the play of samskaras - tendencies developed by repeated actions. — Vinoba Bhave

Unfortunately, all gatherings convened for the betterment of the human lot show a tendency to gas themselves, and not with laughing-gas either. — Rebecca West

In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing. — Alan Kay

Beautiful, brave and possessed of violent tendencies. I like her. — Dianne Duvall

The tendency when you dictate is to overwrite, because you're not counting pages, you don't really know what the hell the page count is. — Rod Serling

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

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

If I had shown half as many dangerous tendencies when I was a boy, my father would have apprenticed me to a greengrocer, of that I'm very sure, — Samuel Butler

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

I have a lot of pot tendencies. I'm always late, I laugh for no reason, I watch Jeopardy! with the sound off and make up my own questions. — Dave Attell

If you do not overcome your tendency to give up easily, your life leads to nothing. — Mas Oyama

It's a natural tendency of mine to not even listen to lyrics. — Zach Condon

If you have tendencies you've got to have scope — Lawrence Durrell

You have sexual tendencies that are not normal, and you should be ashamed of them. — Scott Dikkers

There is, in any art, a tendency to turn one's own preferences into a monomaniac theory. — Pauline Kael

A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people — Al-Ghazali

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

We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents. — Thomas B. Macaulay

The press these days should be rather careful about its role. We may have acquired some tendencies about over-involvement that we had better overcome. — Katharine Graham

The tendency of humanity is towards the forbidden. — Horace

Government has within it a tendency to abuse its powers. — John C. Calhoun

Plan your day with an eye to your tendency to procrastinate, and put in safeguards to keep it to a minimum. — John Perry

Tendencies. Yougottendencies. Soevenifyoudideverythingoveragain, yourwholelife, yougottendenciestodojustwhatyoudid, alloveragain. -The Sheep Man. — Haruki Murakami

Thought for the Day: I have to make the choice every day to interrupt my fleshly tendencies of yelling and getting angry over minor things. — Lysa TerKeurst

It is a human tendency "to measure truth and error by our capacity." — Michel De Montaigne

When it's not enough to veto your children's tendencies, you must in vitro them. — Bauvard

Comedians have a tendency to have a limited range, they tend to do one thing and do it very well, but it's limited. — Woody Allen

The tendency of advanced capitalism has been to enlarge the middle class and not to wipe it out, as it once seemed likely to do. — George Orwell

There is a tendency in our planning to confuse the unfamiliar with the improbable. — Thomas Schelling

There is the tendency to place ourselves and our ambitions at the center of our lives. This is very human, but it is not Christian. — Pope Francis

Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia. — Aristotle.

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

Never even attempt to disturb anyone's tendencies. — Swami Vivekananda

I had reclusive tendencies for a reason, I couldn't be trusted to live in the world and make decisions on my own. — Penny Reid

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. — Rick Mercer

The opposing tendencies of concentration and spread are of little consequence in the liberal model of political economy. — Robert Gilpin

Hillary Clinton was saying Bill Clinton has tendencies toward being sexist. — Donald Trump

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

The tendency of welfare spending in the United States has been to increase at an exponential rate. — Henry Hazlitt

I've always been more visual-based. I've kept my musical tendencies kind of in the closet. — Grant Evans

A mighty stream of tendency. — William Hazlitt

I can just imagine the recruiting poster. 'Ghost whisperers wanted: no experience necessary. Death wish and masochistic tendencies a must. — Mary Lindsey

Since to avoid the painful and aim at the pleasurable is one of the most obvious tendencies of human nature. — Aristotle.

I don't have sociopathic tendencies! — Emily VanCamp

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

Too many theorists have a tendency to ignore facts that contradict their convictions. — Maurice Allais

There prevails on a free labor market a tendency toward full employment. — Ludwig Von Mises

Anytime you go upside a man's head - or a woman - then they have a tendency to blink they eyes. Or close they eyes. — Deacon Jones

Humans are naturally social; civilization causes us to be antisocial.
From my next book: The Five Forgotten Truths — Kirk D. Sinclair

Dictatorial tendencies rarely contain themselves to just one aspect of work. — Eric Schmidt

There is a tendency in nature to the continued progression of certain classes of varieties further and further from the original type. — Alfred Russel Wallace

The ultimate tendency of liberalism is vegetarianism. — Norman Mailer

For science, God is simply the stream of tendency by which all things seek to fulfill the law of their being. — Matthew Arnold

I'm not really a happy person. It's a question of temperament. I have a tendency toward melancholy. You can feel quite happily melancholic. — Michael Haneke

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. — Sara Quin

I do have a tendency to invest inanimate objects with human qualities. — Matthea Harvey

It seems whether we have a tendency towards being flexible or structured affects how we create, how we parent, how we work. — Philippa Perry

Creatures inveterately wrong in their inductions have a pathetic but praise-worthy tendency to die before reproducing their kind. — Willard Van Orman Quine

The organism has one basic tendency and striving - to actualize, maintain, and enhance the experiencing organism — Carl Rogers

The bull-fighter has merely demonstrated that he is a butcher with balletic tendencies. — Brigid Brophy

Abused And neglected children have paid the price for liberalism's tendency to sentimentalize the poor. — Mona Charen

Be an earnest student of yourself. Study your leading desires and tendencies. — Grenville Kleiser

That it ought to be known I was born this way,
With indiscriminate tendencies. — Jill Alexander Essbaum

That which intoxicates, the sensually ecstatic, the sudden surprise, the urge to be profoundly stirred at any price
dreadful tendencies! — Friedrich Nietzsche

When we are aware of our weaknesses or negative tendencies, we open the opportunity to work on them. — Allan Lokos

I had severe control freak tendencies, and when I had no control - I freaked out. — H.M. Ward

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. — Nicholas Sparks

Most ideas never happen. It's an uphill battle against the status quo and our own tendencies. — Scott Belsky

The fire of revival supernaturally destroys all the destructive tendencies in the country — Sunday Adelaja

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

The tendency of an advanced civilization is in truth monarchy. — Benjamin Disraeli

I can manifest my neurotical emotions, emancipate an epicureal instinct, and elaborate on my heterosexual tendencies. — Joyce Carol Oates

That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow. — Baron De Montesquieu

They had the same fears that you have, the same aggressive tendencies and the same attachments, but they were freed in time because they believed. — Frederick Lenz

Hear good things, see good, do good, think good, then you get the Grace of God, as all the evil tendencies will be uprooted. — Sathya Sai Baba

The most dangerous error is failure to recognize our own tendency to error. — B.H. Liddell Hart

Set too many goals and keep adding more goals. Goals have a tendency to be realized all at once. — Mark Victor Hansen

Innate human tendencies were meant to help us survive the wilderness, not make investment decisions. — Coreen T. Sol

Ego-tendencies. Like a magnet, the new centre [i.e., self] attracts to itself that which is proper to it.80 As a — C. G. Jung

I feel like nowadays everybody I know has a smidge of geek in them. In other words, they have some odd niche or some obsessive tendencies. — Josh Zuckerman

No matter what you experience in life, it incorporates political tendencies, and in so many ways. — John Lydon

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

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