Tendency Quotes

• Truth is a tendency.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Truth
  • Truth Is
  • Tendency

• We have a tendency to want the other person to be a finished product while we give ourselves the grace to evolve.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Person
  • Evolve
  • Tendency

• Learning, to be of much use, must have a tendency to spread itself among the common people.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Learning
  • Spread
  • Itself

• Social interactions have always been a bit of a difficult thing for me. I think I have a natural tendency to make people not 100 percent super comfortable.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • People
  • Comfortable
  • Super

• Let's just say that I have a tendency if I am uncomfortable in a situation to speak my mind.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Speak
  • Situation
  • Uncomfortable

• There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome." "And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is wilfully to misunderstand them.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Believe
  • Tendency
  • Disposition

• Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Character
  • Right
  • Directors

• Never, in all my early childhood, did anyone address to me the affecting preamble: 'Once upon a time!' ... I can but think that my parents were in error thus to exclude the imaginary from my outlook upon facts. They desired to make me truthful; the tendency was to make me positive and sceptical. Had they wrapped me in the soft folds of supernatural fancy, my mind might have been longer content to follow their traditions in an unquestioning spirit.

  

  Edmund Gosse
  • Parents
  • Childhood
  • Spirit

• 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
  • Nature
  • Tendency
  • Progression

• Anything salty and crunch is a world of perfection to me. Put chips in front of me, and I will eat to the bottom of the bag. Because I have the tendency to do this, I found these amazing Eden Brown Rice Chips. They're the perfect amount of salt and crunch, and there's nothing in them.

  

  Tamara Taylor
  • World
  • Perfect
  • Amazing

• I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Having
  • Tendency
  • Vigilant

• Supposing you eliminated suffering, what a dreadful place the world would be! I would almost rather eliminate happiness. The world would be the most ghastly place because everything that corrects the tendency of this unspeakable little creature, man, to feel over-important and over-pleased with himself would disappear. He's bad enough now, but he would be absolutely intolerable if he never suffered.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • World
  • Important
  • Bad

• I'm a huge 'Futurama' fan, so that's my closest sci-fi tendency.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Fan
  • Tendency
  • Sci-Fi

• ALL IMPULSES OF THOUGHT HAVE A TENDENCY TO CLOTHE THEMSELVES IN THEIR PHYSICAL EQUIVALENT.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Tendency
  • Equivalent
  • Impulses

• I refuse to believe that the tendency of human nature is always downward.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Believe
  • Human Nature
  • Tendency

• There is a tendency to consider anything in human behavior that is unusual, not well known, or not well understood, as neurotic, psychopathic, immature, perverse, or the expression of some other sort of psychologic disturbance.

  

  Alfred Kinsey
  • Human Behavior
  • Disturbance
  • Psychopathic

• The tendency of life is not the preservation of the species, but solely the preservation of each individual organism, as long as it is in existence at all, and is able to carry on its life processes.

  

  Boris Sidis
  • Life
  • Existence
  • Organism

• The tendency of our time is wholly oriented toward the secular. The efforts of the mystics will remain episodes. Despite a deepening of our conceptions of life, we will build no cathedrals.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Life
  • Time
  • Efforts

• There's a tendency at the senior and middle-manager level to be too big-picturish and too superficial. There is a phrase, "The devil is in the details." One can formulate brilliant global strategies whose executability is zero. It's only through familiarity with details - the capability of the individuals who have to execute, the marketplace, the timing - that a good strategy emerges. I like to work from details to big pictures.

  

  Andy Grove
  • Good
  • Work
  • Devil

• There's a tendency when you write a book to portray yourself as the hero.

  

  Gillian Gilbert New Order
  • Book
  • Hero
  • Write

• Do not EXPECT troubles as they have a tendency not to disappoint.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Expect
  • Tendency
  • Disappoint

• I have a tendency to talk extremely fast. ... I think the fastness comes from the fact that I get very excited about things and I just want to spit them out.

  

  Shailene Woodley
  • Things
  • Excited
  • Extremely

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

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Wife
  • Natural
  • Instinct

• We often hear the teachers of all creeds lamenting the difficulty of keeping up in the minds of believers a lively apprehension of the truth which they nominally recognize, so that it may penetrate the feelings, and acquire a real mastery over the conduct.... When it has come to be a hereditary creed, and to be received passively, not actively ... there is a progressive tendency to forget all of the belief except the formularies ... until it almost ceases to connect itself at all with the inner life of the human being.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Forget
  • Human being
  • Ceases

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