Tendencies Quotes - Page 5

• I've been misquoted a lot, and there's this tendency for people to put on to you how they think you should be or what they think you should feel.

  Maura Tierney

  Thinking, People, Should

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

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• There is a tendency to try to dumb everything down and turn everything into a one-paragraph press release or even less, just a slogan.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Dumb, Trying, Down And

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't have sociopathic tendencies!

  Emily VanCamp

  "Revenge is Beautiful! Emily VanCamp Talks Boys and (Easy) Beauty". Interview with Holly Siegel, www.glamour.com. January 4, 2012.

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• On the stage . . . masks are assumed with some regard to procedure; in everyday life, the participants act their parts without consideration either for suitability of scene or for the words spoken by the rest of the cast: the result is a general tendency for things to be brought to the level of farce even when the theme is serious enough.

  Anthony Powell

  Life, Everyday, Farce

  Anthony Powell (2010). “A Question of Upbringing: Book 1 of A Dance to the Music of Time”, p.51, University of Chicago Press

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• My tendency is to be very experimental.

  Sean Lennon

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I wouldn't tell anyone to study werewolves - I studied wolves, how they moved, their tendencies and sensibilities.

  Joe Manganiello

  Study, Werewolf, Moved

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• When we think of war, the tendency is to picture young soldiers only in their military roles. To a large extent this dehumanizes the soldiers and makes it easier for society to commit them to combat.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Military, War, Thinking

  "An Interview With Walter Dean Myers About The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins". Interview with Richard F. Abrahamson and Linda M. Pavonetti, www.scholastic.com.

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• Problems are hidden opportunities and constraints can actually boost creativity. If you have some crazy ideas in your mind, and that people tell you that it's impossible to make, well, that's an even better reason to want to do it, because people have a tendency to see the problems rather than the final result, whereas if you start to deal with problems as being your allies rather than your opponents, life will start to dance with you in the most amazing way.

  Martin Villeneuve

  Crazy, Creativity, Opportunity

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• The other matter to which we beg leave to refer in candor has been the anxiety shown for the Constitution and civil liber­ties because of alleged dictatorial, impatient and vindictive tendencies on our part. This concern is without basis in fact.

  Diosdado Macapagal

  Ties, Anxiety, Matter

  Diosdado Macapagal (1964). “New Hope for the Common Man: Speeches and Statements of President Diosado Macapagal”

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• I think it's a human tendency that's been around for a while to try to be as good as possible to prove your worth.

  Veronica Roth

  Thinking, Trying, Prove

  "'Divergent' Author Veronica Roth Turns Goodness Into Dystopia" by Sabrina Weiss, www.mtv.com. May 03, 2011.

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• There is the natural tendency that all of us are vulnerable to, to deny unpleasant realities and to look for any excuse to push them away and resolve to think about them another day long in the future.

  Al Gore

  Thinking, Reality, Long

  "Al Gore's views on climate change, extreme weather and Keystone XL" by Suzanne Goldenberg, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2012.

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• When you have a better image of yourself physically, you have a tendency to live your life in a more positive way.

  Jeff Olson

  Live Your Life, Way

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• I have a tendency to run after people who are completely unattainable and uninterested and make a complete fool of myself.

  Martha Wainwright

  Running, People, Unattainable

  "Formerly Known as What's-His-Name's Sister" by Daphne Merkin, www.elle.com. April 20, 2011.

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• There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social and cultural utility.

  Karl Lehmann

  Agency, Church, Yardsticks

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• Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species.

  J. Philippe Rushton

  Race, People, Common

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• The United States cannot reshape other countries in its own image and that, with a few exceptions, its efforts to police the world are neither in its interests nor within the scope of its resources. This whole tendency to see ourselves as the center of political enlightenment and as teachers to a great part of the rest of the world strikes me as unthought-through, vainglorious and undesirable.

  George F. Kennan

  Country, Teacher, America

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• GRAVITATION, n. The tendency of all bodies to approach one another with a strength proportioned to the quantity of matter they contain-the quantity of matter they contain being ascertained by the strength of their tendency to approach one another. This is a lovely and edifying illustration of how science, having made A the proof of B, makes B the proof of A.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Science, Illustration, Lovely

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.100, University of Georgia Press

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• In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.

  Alan Kay

  Success

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

  Octavia Spencer

  Mind, Speak, Situation

  "Interview with Octavia Spencer of The Help". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. August 9, 2011.

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• the self-assertive tendency is the dynamic expression of the holon's wholeness, the integrative tendency, the dynamic expression of its partness.

  Arthur Koestler

  Self, Expression, Society

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• The tendency of party spirit has ever been to disguise and propagate and support error.

  Richard Whately

  Party, Errors, Support

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.95

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• I deplore the tendency, in some institutions, to go directly toward training for a trade or profession or something and ignoring the liberal arts. It is the foundation of education.

  Ronald Reagan

  Art, Training, Foundation

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1988). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Over time, this growing tendency of like marrying like will only reinforce clustering and geographic sorting along class lines, giving the emerging map of social, economic, and cultural segregation even greater permanence.

  Richard Florida

  Class, Giving, Maps

  Richard Florida (2009). “Who's Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life”, p.272, Basic Books

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• Self-preservation has a tendency to lead to poverty.

  Jim Rohn

  Self, Insecurity, Poverty

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• Mind can come. All this world is minds. But something is not concerned with the calculating, interpreting tendency of the mind.

  Mooji

  Mind, World, Spirituality

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