Tendencies Quotes - Page 11

• The tendency to superstitions should be counteracted from the earliest age; or rather steps should be taken to protect the mind of the child from superstitions imposed upon it by ignorant nurses or silly mothers.

  Arthur Alfred Lynch

  Mother, Children, Silly

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• I was born with the wrong sign
  In the wrong house
  With the wrong ascendancy
  I took the wrong road
  That led to
  The wrong tendencies
  I was in the wrong place
  At the wrong time
  For the wrong reason
  And the wrong rhyme
  On the wrong day
  Of the wrong week
  Used the wrong method
  With the wrong technique
  Wrong
  Wrong.

  Martin Gore

  House, Technique, Week

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• There are the samskaras, the tendencies from your other lifetimes, ways of seeing, habits that are so strong, they affect you now. They are the operative situations in your life that are created by karma.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Strong, Way

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• 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.

  Lisa Leslie

  Girl, Sports, Boys

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• The tendency everywhere in America to concentrate power and responsibility in one man is unmistakable.

  James Bryce

  Wisdom, Responsibility, Men

  James Bryce (1889). “The American Commonwealth”

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• We have a tendency in this country that when we say Black it automatically means Black Americans. But that's a big mistake, and that keeps us divided. There are Blacks all over this entire world-even in Africa.

  Irene Cara

  Country, Mistake, Mean

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• What it felt to me was like the dissolution of my idea of myself. I felt like separateness evaporated. I felt this tremendous sense of oneness. I'm quite an erratic thinker, quite an adrenalized person, but through meditation, I found this beautiful serenity and selfless connection. My tendency towards selfishness, I felt that kind of exposed as a superficial and pointless perspective to have. I felt very relaxed, a sense of oneness. I felt love.

  Russell Brand

  Beautiful, Ideas, Oneness

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• It is false to speak of realization. What is there to realize? The real is as it is always. We are not creating anything new or achieving something which we did not have before. The illustration given in books is this. We dig a well and create a huge pit. The space in the pit or well has not been created by us. We have just removed the earth which was filling the space there. The space was there then and is also there now. Similarly we have simply to throw out all the age-long sanskaras [innate tendencies] which are inside us. When all of them have been given up, the Self will shine alone.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Real, Book, Creating

  "Abide as the Self: The Essential Teachings of Ramana Maharshi". Documentary, January 1, 1998.

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• Only people willing to work to the point of discomfort on a regular basis using effective means to produce that discomfort will actually look like they have been other-than-comf ortable most of the time. You can thank the muscle magazines for these persistent misconceptions, along with the natural tendency of all normal humans to seek reasons to avoid hard physical exertion.

  Mark Rippetoe

  Mean, People, Looks

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• 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

  Giving, Grace, Want

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• Marriage provides an ideal setting for overcoming any tendency to be selfish or self-centered. I think one of the reasons that we are counseled to get married early in life is to avoid developing inappropriate character traits that are hard to change.

  Richard G. Scott

  Selfish, Character, Thinking

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• I'm not the most detailed writer. I have a tendency to be more action-oriented vs. descriptive.

  Lisa Gardner

  Action

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

  Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

  Levels, Standing Out, Social

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• Well, I think the worst part about tribalism is its tendency to fundamentalize, and if I can fight fundamentalism in any of its forms I'm happy.

  Sherman Alexie

  Fighting, Thinking, Form

  "Redeemers". Interview with Matt Dellinger, www.newyorker.com. April 21, 2003.

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• It's funny, because in deference to conventional wisdom, I spent my struggling writer years trying to suppress my naturally baroque literary voice and write clean, spare prose. I finally gave up and embraced my baroque tendencies when I wrote the Kushiel series.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Wisdom, Struggle, Writing

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• I have a tendency to be lucky and make the right choices based on limited information.

  Paul D. Boyer

  Choices, Lucky, Information

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• Ironically, tendency to ignore inconvenient facts and unwelcome evidence is actually President Reagan's true legacy, as I noted in 'The Nation' back in 2000, before the current right-wing mania for President Reagan gained its full force.

  Eric Alterman

  Wings, President, Facts

  "Think Again: Conservatives Prefer Reagan Fantasies to Reality (And So Did Reagan)" by Eric Alterman, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2012.

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• Jews have a tendency to become comedians.

  Sacha Baron Cohen

  Comedian, Jew

  "'I dressed as Borat and Ali G fans had no idea it was me': Sacha Baron Cohen on enjoying his anonymity" by Rob Bleaney, www.mirror.co.uk. May 18, 2012.

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• Your tendency to be inward-directed or outward-directed is huge; it governs every part of the way you live and work and love.

  Susan Cain

  And Love, Inward, Way

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• I'm a quasi-only child. With my brother and sister, I've more of a tendency to be semi-maternal. So, yes, I spent a lot of time talking to myself - I had this big dressing-up box and would just dress up as lots of characters and talk back to myself... Verging on schizophrenia, I suppose, if you analyse it carefully.

  Natalie Dormer

  Brother, Children, Character

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• You know, I read the papers and I watch the news a lot. I watch 'Dateline' and '48 Hours'. And I think we have a tendency to become terrified of one another, thinking that there is a serial killer that is on either side of you.

  Johnny Galecki

  Thinking, Serial Killer, Killers

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• I think there's a tendency for actors like myself, and I don't mean to generalize myself, but I've played 'men's men,' if you will, characters that are simmering rage and calculated. There's a trend not to play anything that is opposed to that.

  Idris Elba

  Character, Mean, Men

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Fall, Character, Trying

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Evil tendency, strong like Miles Davis heroin dependency.

  Chino XL

  Strong, Evil, Musical

  Song: Deliver

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• We have a tendency to make assumptions about everything! The problem with making assumptions is that we believe they are truth. We could swear they are real. We make assumptions about what others are doing or thinking-we take it personally-then we blame them and react by sending emotional poison in our word. That is why whenever we make assumptions, we're asking for problems. We make assumptions, we misunderstand, we take it personally, and we end up creating a whole big drama for nothing.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Spiritual, Real, Drama

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