Tendencies Quotes

• In play, the child is always behaving beyond his age, above his usual everyday behaviour; in play he is, as it were, a head above himself. Play contains in a concentrated form, as in the focus of a magnifying glass, all developmental tendencies; it is as if the child tries to jump above his usual level.

  

  Lev Vygotsky
  • Age
  • Play
  • Focus

• We have the tendency to condemn what we don't understand.

  

  Mercedes Ruehl
  • Understand
  • Tendencies
  • Condemn

• Donald Trump and Senator Cruz have occasional Manichean tendencies.

  

  Cass Sunstein
  • Tendencies
  • Occasional

• [william] Burroughs, incidentally, took up the slogan that we are "Here to go", which contradicts the tendency in Eastern mysticism to advocate staying where you are because there's nowhere to go anyway. I feel conflicted on this one.

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • Up
  • Where You Are
  • Nowhere To Go

• Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.

  

  Demosthenes
  • Great
  • Men
  • Success

• And when I get bored, it's like the worst parts of me come out. I really veer to self-destructive tendencies quickly.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Bored
  • Worst
  • Destructive

• I think there's a danger, for me at least, in retreating and going inward and depression. I have to stay diligent against that tendency.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Thinking
  • Danger
  • Inward

• 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
  • Words
  • Feel
  • Everybody

• Look well to the fire of your souls, for the tendency of fire is to go out.

  

  William Booth
  • Soul
  • Fire
  • Looks

• There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality.

  

  Thomas Nagel
  • Reality
  • Accounts
  • Objectives

• 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
  • Violent
  • Institutions
  • Grandeur

• Embedded in every technology there is a powerful idea, sometimes two or three powerful ideas. Like language itself, a technology predisposes us to favor and value certain perspectives and accomplishments and to subordinate others. Every technology has a philosophy, which is given expression in how the technology makes people use their minds, in how it codifies the world, in which of our senses it amplifies, in which of our emotional and intellectual tendencies it disregards.

  

  Neil Postman
  • Technology
  • Powerful
  • Ideas

• There are many persons of combative tendencies, who read for ammunition, and dig out of the Bible iron for balls. They read, and they find nitre and charcoal and sulphur for powder. They read, and they find cannon. They read, and they make portholes and embrasures. And if a man does not believe as they do, they look upon him as an enemy, and let fly the Bible at him to demolish him. So men turn the word of God into a vast arsenal, filled with all manner of weapons, offensive and defensive.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Bible
  • Persons
  • Iron

• There is no likelihood of our being able to suppress humanity's aggressive tendencies... Complete suppression of man's aggressive tendencies is not an issue; what we may try is to direct it into a channel other than that of warfare.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Tendencies
  • Suppress
  • Humanity's

• A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.

  

  William Graham Sumner
  • Process
  • Decline
  • Usefulness

• There is a tendency to want to treat blacks as a monolithic socioeconomic group.

  

  William Julius Wilson
  • Want
  • Groups
  • Treats

• I think there is a tendency for people to get rigid and caught up in their beliefs of what is right and wrong, and they lose sight of humanity. Being human has to come first before right or wrong.

  

  Matisyahu
  • People
  • Humanity
  • Firsts

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

  

  Aristotle
  • Poetry
  • Politics
  • Philosophy

• Long before the thousand millions are here, the mighty centrifugal tendency, inherent in this stock and strengthened in the United States, will assert itself.

  

  Josiah Strong
  • Long
  • States
  • Pregnancy

• I feel the most vulnerable when I'm in love. When my heart is open, and when life is making me feel like I have to open up myself completely. Love has a tendency to do that.

  

  Naturi Naughton 3LW
  • Heart
  • Feels
  • Vulnerable

• [perfectionism leads to] a tendency to apologize preemptively for one's efforts, knowing from experience that there's sure to be something wrong with them.

  

  William Westney
  • Practice
  • Knowing
  • Apologizing

• There's quite a bit of pressure, but it's a lot of fun, it's enjoyable. I think one of the biggest things is being organised, having things written down. Keep the players aware of the other teams, what the other teams' tendencies are, and just to keep on top of things.

  

  Gerad Adams
  • Pressure
  • Players
  • Teams

• There are so many ways of classifying our tendencies, but I think one of the most telling must be this: there are those of us who do not wrestle very often or for very long with our appetites, who can simply say, Enough, and walk away, and those of us who are constantly at odds with how much we desire and what we actually allow ourselves. The gay between desire and restraint: here rages the river of discontent, one that often threatens to overflow its banks.

  

  Christine Sneed
  • Desire
  • Ways
  • Restraint

• The mind has been likened to a piece of paper that has been folded. Ever afterwards it has a tendency to fold in the same crease-unless we make a new crease or fold, when it will follow the last lines.

  

  William Walker Atkinson
  • Mind
  • Pieces
  • Paper

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