Tend Quotes

I have a tendency to hire people who tend to be unattractive to the studios. Maybe this is a bad idea.

I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.

If we cling to the institution of Islam, then we tend to defend it against whatever we see as a danger to it, so because of this we see now that many people are defending states, defending territories, defending everything institutional in the belief that they defend Islam.

I believe that science fiction is as profound as you want it to be or it can be very simple entertainment, and I'm all for very simple entertainment. Every now and then we all need to come home, veg-out, watch something and not think too deeply about it. It's what you want it to be. We tend to steer clear of being pedantic; it's entertainment first, otherwise we'd be on a lecture circuit.

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

People tend to think of Brisbane as a sleepy, sub-topical place. I don't know. It's like Baltimore or something. I don't know. You would hear the family dramas going on behind closed doors.

So I do tend to do documentaries where I can move in and out of them.

I mean, I tend to do my own thing, and that usually crosses purposes with everyone around me.

We tend to think about fascism in terms of the Second World War.

I tend to project my father figure onto any director that I'm working with, or mother, if I'm working with a female, or it can be confused.

Tolstoy may not be showing that much of Russia at that time even. It's hard to tell. You tend to associate the quality of the period with what's lasted - what's still good. And that quality becomes the whole period.

I've found that when you roll up your sleeves and join people in their daily work, they tend to open up quite a bit and let you know what they really think about the issues facing our country and what kind of job they think the government is doing.

All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.

I like Jailhouse Rock and Love Me Tender. The black-and-white films. With music, I tend more toward the '70s stuff because I was at the shows for those, so they bring back memories.

Musicians tend to get bored playing the same thing over and over, so I think it's natural to experiment.

When you stop playing for a while, people tend to forget about you.

We all know we are unique individuals, but we tend to see others as representatives of groups.

I think it's tragic that we have this human capacity, which appears to be hardwired, or so the evolutionary biologists say, for collective joy. We have these techniques for generating it that go back thousands of years, and yet we tend not to use this.

The economic and social problems would tend to become, like the military situation, more and more difficult as time went on and we became more and more isolated.

We tend to think of politics as bad, full of dirty tricks, negative ads, big campaigns, but I am here to explore the original meaning of politics, which is positive and has to do with balancing competing interests and looking for solutions.

I tend to spiral out of control if I'm not working. I get panicked and don't know what to do with myself.

People tend to work in teams, in a collaborative way, in an informal network. If you create an environment like that, it's much more effective and much more efficient.

I'm very hard on my bags because I tend to carry a lot of stuff with me.

When you're a songwriter and you click with someone, you tend to want to keep writing with that person.

We tend to pay attention to that which is the most current on our radar screen.

The first time I try anything is invariably not very successful. I tend to grow slowly, but solidly.

I do tend to take time off. A year and a half ago I went to film school, and before that I had taken years off at a time to be involved politically or this or that.

My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests.

People think of these eureka moments and my feeling is that they tend to be little things, a little realisation and then a little realisation built on that.

I also think stress is related to control. When you're in charge of your life, you tend to not care about losing control of things that don't really matter like traffic jams.