Tendencies Quotes - Page 28

• Slow growth and inflation have a tendency to accompany large deficits and increasing debt as a percentage of GDP.

  Bill Gross

  Gdp, Growth, Debt

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• I liked the more sophisticated urban style of blues like Ray Charles and B. B. King, Bobby Blue Bland, Lou Rawls; people like that with more of a tendency toward jazz.

  Edgar Winter

  Kings, Blue, People

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• If you are a bad putter, you will not make a putt. If you have a tendency to chili-dip wedges, you'll be chili-dipping them all over the place for sure. Whatever your weakness, it will come up in spades during the Ryder Cup.

  Johnny Miller

  Weakness, Cups, Dip

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• My mouth has a tendency to get me into trouble, but because I'm so small and I take on people who are lager than me. If someone punched me, I'd get my drummer beat them up.

  Brian Molko

  People, Mouths, Trouble

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• A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Men, Want, Way

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• Conversations are efforts toward good relations. They are an elementary form of reciprocity. They are the exercise of our love for each other. They are the enemies of our loneliness, our doubt, our anxiety, our tendencies to abdicate. To continue to be in good conversation over our enormous and terrifying problems is to be calling out to each other in the night. If we attend with imagination and devotion to our conversations, we will find what we need; and someone among us will act—it does not matter whom—and we will survive.

  Barry Lopez

  Loneliness, Exercise, Night

  FaceBook post by Barry Lopez from Jul 30, 2014

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• The source of my difficulties has always been the same: an inability to accept what to others seems natural, and an irresistible tendency to voice opinions no one wants to hear . . .

  Isabel Allende

  Voice, Inability, Want

  Isabel Allende (2003). “My invented country: a memoir”, HarperPerennial

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• I laughed. It was just like Owen to make excuses for someone else’s shortcomings. Even fictional characters. Owen found my tendency to speak my mind “refreshingly honest,” and hailed Marc’s temper as “a deep protective instinct.” He said Ethan “thoroughly enjoyed life,” and that Parker “really knew how to have a good time.” According to Owen, we were all doing just fine, and all was right with the world.

  Rachel Vincent

  Character, Mind, World

  Rachel Vincent (2016). “Rogue”, p.230, MIRA

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• Samsara - our conditioned existence in the perpetual cycle of habitual tendencies and nirvana - genuine freedom from such an existence- are nothing but different manifestations of a basic continuum. So this continuity of consciousness us always present. This is the meaning of tantra.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Different, Consciousness

  "Dzogchen: Heart Essence of the Great Perfection" by Dalai Lama, Snow Lion Publications, 2004.

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• So, the tendency of our childish nature is to take small things too seriously and get easily offended, whereas when we are confronted with situations which have long-term consequences, we tend to take things less seriously

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Long, Easily Offended

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• In any dark time, there is a tendency to veer toward fainting over how much is wrong or unmended in the world. Do not focus on that. Do not make yourself ill with overwhelm. There is a tendency to fall into being weakened by perseverating on what is outside your reach, by what cannot yet be. Do not focus there. That is spending the wind without raising the sails.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Attitude, Fall, Positive Thinking

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• The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.

  Mencius

  Water, Flow, Human Nature

  Mencius, James Legge (1875). “The Life and Works of Mencius: With Essays and Notes”, p.58

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• The tendency of taxation is, to create a class of persons, who do not labour: to take from those who do labour the produce of that labour, and to give it to those who do not labour.

  William Cobbett

  Class, Giving, Liberty

  "Paper Against Gold and Glory Against Prosperity. Or, an Account of the Rise, Progress, Extent and Present State of the Funds and of the Papermoney of Great-Britain Etc".

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• 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

  Thinking, Errors, Parent

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• When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would benefit from a certain cool distance to certain tendencies I had been observing for several years with increasing disquiet.

  Brian Ferneyhough

  Teacher, Distance, Years

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• There is a tendency for humans to consciously see what they wish to see. They literally have difficulty seeing things with negative connotations while seeing with increasing ease items that are positive. For example, words that evoke anxiety, either because of an individuals personal history or because of experimental manipulation, require greater illumination before first being perceived.

  Lionel Tiger

  Illumination, Anxiety, Wish

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• 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

  Men, Thinking, Years

  "This Hour Has 22 Minutes". Comedy, (1992– ).

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• Genes are rarely about inevitability, especially when it comes to humans, the brain, or behavior. They're about vulnerability, propensities, tendencies.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Brain, Behavior, Genes

  Robert M. Sapolsky (2004). “Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: The Acclaimed Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping - Now Revised and Updated”, p.293, Macmillan

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• As human beings we have a tendency when we like something to tie it up and make sure it's there for a long time. I've been working on being able to let things go. I don't think I ever want to buy property again.

  Ricky Williams

  Thinking, Ties, Long

  "NFL dropout Ricky Williams chilling in Sierra / He's been found studying the healing arts" by Tom FitzGerald, www.sfgate.com. November 21, 2004.

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• Such is the grasping tendency of the human heart, that it must have a something to lay hold of - and which, if wrested away without the substitution of another something in its place, would leave a void and a vacancy as painful to the mind, as hunger is to the natural system.... The heart must have something to cling to.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Heart, Mind, Vacancy

  Thomas Chalmers (1855). “Sermons: Select Works”, p.250

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• So much of America's tragic and costly failure to care for all its children stems from our tendency to distinguish between our own children and other people's children--as if justice were divisible.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Children, America, People

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• I'm going to be looking forward, asked to be judged on my record, not taken back as has been the - in a sense, the tendency throughout politics in Northern Ireland, is to always look back, always look at what was said a long time ago, instead of looking forward.

  Peter Hain

  Taken, Long, Looks

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• Despite the large number of mergers, and the growth in the absolute size of many corporations, the dominant tendency in the American economy at the beginning of [the 20th] century was toward growing competition. Competition was unacceptable...it was not the existence of monopoly that caused the federal government to intervene in the economy, but the lack of it.

  Gabriel Kolko

  Government, Numbers, Competition

  "Triumph of Conservatism". Book by Gabriel Kolko, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1963.

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

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Men, Logic, Theory

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• Of all the weaknesses little men rail against, there is none that they are more apt to ridicule than the tendency to believe. And of all the signs of a corrupt heart and a feeble head, the tendency of incredulity is the surest. Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Philosophy, Real, Believe

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