Tendencies Quotes - Page 6

• One trouble with a kind of falsely therapeutic and always reassuring attitude that it is easy to fall into with old people, is the tendency to be satisfied with too little.

  Kenneth Koch

  Attitude, Fall, Maturity

  Kenneth Koch (1978). “I Never Told Anybody: Teaching Poetry Writing in a Nursing Home”, Random House Incorporated

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• That's the fun part of it all. You get creative when you're in Little League. You're creative when you're in middle school. You're creative in high school and college. And then when you get to the league, this position, the more mobile quarterbacks, we have a tendency to want to become traditional and nervous and panicky in how we want to call plays and put guys in position to make plays.

  Kordell Stewart

  Fun, Creativity, School

  6 Copy quote

• For science, God is simply the stream of tendency by which all things seek to fulfill the law of their being.

  Matthew Arnold

  God, Science, Law

  Matthew Arnold (1970). “Literature and dogma”, Continuum

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called ''weasel words.'' When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a ''weasel word'' after another there is nothing left of the other.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Eggs, Meat, Use

  Speech, St. Louis, Mo., 31 May 1916. The Oxford English Dictionary documents usage of the term weasel word as early as 1900.

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• Selflessness implies fun. Its fun to be free. Freedom is inner stillness and not being haunted by your desires, your fears, your aggressive tendencies ... it's being cool.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Fun, Yoga

  4 Copy quote

• We all have a tendency to use research as a drunkard uses a lamppost – for support, not for illumination.

  David Ogilvy

  Illumination, Support, Use

  "The Unpublished David Ogilvy".

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  22 Copy quote

• All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.

  Frank Herbert

  Government, People, Drunk

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.60, Penguin

  42 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  65 Copy quote

• Women have a natural tendency to want to nurture and take care of men. You always think that the guy is going to end up coming around and that you’re going to be the one that saves him - like the Oasis song.

  Emma Watson

  Song, Men, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Emma Watson from Oct 10, 2012

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  7 Copy quote

• My tendency as an actor is, when there's a certain energy, I feel a challenge to match it, to come up to that plate and play on the same level.

  Carla Gugino

  Play, Challenges, Energy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• My tendency to idealize Western civilization arises from my nationalistic desire to use the West in order to reform China. But this has led me to overlook the flaws of Western culture.

  Liu Xiaobo

  Order, Civilization, Desire

  19 Copy quote

• I have a tendency as an actress in general to ground my characters. Even when doing outlandish characters, that's my instinct.

  Kate Burton

  Character, Actresses, Instinct

  5 Copy quote

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

  Paul D. Boyer

  Choices, Lucky, Information

  7 Copy quote

• I started doing radio pieces with no clear, preconceived idea, except that I have a tendency to be theatrical.

  Ricky Jay

  Ideas, Pieces, Radio

  Interview with Geoff Nicholson, www.sfgate.com. May 21, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• There's a tendency, especially among revolutionaries, to only show the good side of yourself and then when you come to power, the bad side comes out.

  Ariel Dorfman

  Sides, Revolutionary, Shows

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• Children are a house's enemy. They don't mean to be - they just can't help it. It's their enthusiasm, their energy, their naturally destructive tendencies.

  Delia Ephron

  Children, Mean, House

  "The Quotable Mom". Book edited by Kate Rowinski, 2004.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offence to keep arms, and by substituting a regular army in the stead of a resort to the militia. The friends of a free government cannot be too watchful, to overcome the dangerous tendency of the public mind to sacrifice, for the sake of mere private convenience, this powerful check upon the designs of ambitious men.

  Joseph Story

  Powerful, Army, Sacrifice

  Joseph Story (1842). “A Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States”, p.264

  37 Copy quote

  Show source

• Evil tendency, strong like Miles Davis heroin dependency.

  Chino XL

  Strong, Evil, Musical

  Song: Deliver

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We just kind of relied on written scouting reports through the eighties and even the early nineties. I've really been amazed by some of the data that's out there, especially with regards to tendencies of hitters, and certainly tendencies of pitchers as well. I would have loved to have gotten that data when I played.

  David Cone

  Data, Kind, Pitcher

  4 Copy quote

• Obviously, in journalism, you're confined to what happens. And the tendency to embellish, to mythologize, it's in us. It makes things more interesting, a closer call. But journalism taught me how to write a sentence that would make someone want to read the next one.

  Amy Hempel

  Writing, Interesting, Want

  5 Copy quote