Tendency Quotes

The tendency of everyone is to evolve.

What concerns me, is the general social tendency to enforce a level, above which nothing rises and stands out.

I have a tendency to evolve into William Shatner, with my big fat face.

If I'm within reach and can be helpful, I have a tendency to say 'Yes.' It's hard to say 'No.'

I think I have a tendency to look at things subjectively rather than objectively when I reflect on my experience.

There has always been a tendency to classify children almost as a distinct species.

The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax.

Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.

The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world.

It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still have a tendency to play it too big.

Experience has taught me to believe that, these human beans are the most insidious enemies man, with a tendency to corpulence in advanced life, can possess, though eminently friendly to youth.

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.

There's a tendency in politics to attribute bad motivation much too quickly, and the sooner you attribute bad motivation to someone you disagree with, the harder it is to find some common ground to make some progress that would give people confidence that you got it more right than wrong.

I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science.

The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.

I have a tendency to sabotage relationships; I have a tendency to sabotage everything. Fear of success, fear of failure, fear of being afraid. Useless, good-for-nothing thoughts.

I learned how to be a learner. When you get in a job, the tendency is to say, 'I've got to know it. I've got to give direction to others. I'm in this job because I'm better and smarter.' I always took a different view, that the key was to identify the people who really knew and learn from them.

The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.

The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.

In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening.

You know, I am against lynching and lynching is a tendency of the people.

Man could not stay there forever. He was bound to spread to new regions, partly because of his innate migratory tendency and partly because of Nature's stern urgency.

There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.

My tendency is to be very experimental.

To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.

Boys have a tendency to jump around a lot more than girls. Boys have that desire to want to dunk way more than girls do. It just never seemed like something we could truly fathom and do.

Moreover, behind this vague tendency to treat religion as a side issue in modern life, there exists a strong body of opinion that is actively hostile to Christianity and that regards the destruction of positive religion as absolutely necessary to the advance of modern culture.

I sometimes have a tendency to walk on the dark side.

I think there's a tendency for modern man to become dominated by gadgets and machines, taking us further and further away from the things I've been talking about.

There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot to explain the genesis of pattern. I believe that all such explanations are inappropriate or wrong.