Tendencies Quotes - Page 7

• As a result of changes which, over the last century, have modified our empirically based pictures of the world and hence the moral value of many of its elements, the "human religious ideal" inclines to stress certain tendencies and to express itself in terms which seem, at first sight, no longer to coincide with the "christian religious ideal".

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Christian, Religious, Stress

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (2015). “The Divine Milieu”, p.3, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Cultivate your own garden and let go of your tendency to examine and judge how others cultivate theirs. Catch yourself in moments of gossip about how others ought to be living and rid yourself of thoughts about how they should be doing it this way, or how they have no right to live and think as they do. Stay busy and involved in your own projects and pursuits.

  Wayne Dyer

  Motivational, Letting Go, Garden

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Jun 27, 2013

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• 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

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• All Fords are exactly alike, but no two men are just alike. Every new life is a new thing under the sun; there has never been anything just like it before, never will be again. A young man ought to get that idea about himself; he should look for the single spark of individuality that makes him different from other folks, and develop that for all he is worth. Society and schools may try to iron it out of him; their tendency is to put it all in the same mold, but I say don't let that spark be lost; it is your only real claim to importance.

  Henry Ford

  Motivational, Real, School

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• How will we experience the world a month, a year, or five years from now? Will we be even angrier, more grasping and fearful, or will some shift have occurred? This depends entirely on the tendencies we reinforce today.

  Pema Chodron

  Motivational, Years, World

  Pema Chodron (2007). “No Time to Lose: A Timely Guide to the Way of the Bodhisattva”, p.41, Shambhala Publications

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• Anything has a rhythm to it, comedy or drama. There has to be a musicality to it. And everybody can't play the same instrument, ideally. But I think that we all have the same comedic tendencies, and that's why it works. We all sort of agree with what's funny.

  Bradley Cooper

  Drama, Thinking, Play

  "Bradley Cooper Talks THE HANGOVER PART III, Character Relationships, Concluding the Trilogy, Going Back to Vegas, Oscar Buzz & More from Our Set Visit". Interview with Dave Trumbore, collider.com. April 17, 2013.

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• People have a tendency to cast me more as lawyers and doctors and just rich guys, rich assholes basically, a lot of rich assholes. That's what I'm normally seen as, you know.

  Barry Bostwick

  Doctors, People, Guy

  "Barry Bostwick on Rocky Horror, Spin City, and playing rich assholes". Interview with Joel Keller, www.avclub.com. June 6, 2015.

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• I often have said to people that there are really two cities in the country where the outlook is always forward-looking - there is never really a backward-looking tendency. My banking work has taken me out to Palo Alto, what is commonly called Silicon Valley. And you sense out there is always a forward-looking outlook. And New York City.

  Harold Ford, Jr.

  Country, New York, Taken

  Interview with Michael Barbaro, www.nytimes.com. January 12, 2010.

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• Government, in its very essence, is opposed to all increase in knowledge. Its tendency is always towards permanence and against change...[T]he progress of humanity, far from being the result of government, has been made entirely without its aid and in the face if its constant and bitter opposition.

  H. L. Mencken

  Government, Essence, Humanity

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• Behind the epistemological scholasticism of empirio-criticism one must not fail to see the struggle of parties in philosophy, a struggle which in the last analysis reflects the tendencies and ideology of the antagonistic classes in modern society.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Philosophy, Party, Struggle

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• The functionaries of our political organizations and trade unions are corrupted - or rather tend to be corrupted - by the conditions of capitalism and betray a tendency to become bureaucrats, i.e., privileged persons divorced from the people and standing above the people.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Organization, People, Political

  "The State and Revolution". Book by Vladimir Lenin. Chapter 6, www.marxists.org. 1917.

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• Smoking too much makes me nervous. Must lasso my natural tendency to acquire such habits. Holding heavy cigar constantly in my mouth has deformed my upper lip, it has a sort of Havana curl.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Smoking, Curls, Mouths

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• If a betting game among a certain number of participants I played long enough, eventually one player will have all the money. If there is any skill involved, it will accelerate the process of concentrating all the stakes in a few hands. Something like this happens in the market. There is a persistent overall tendency for equity to flow from the many to the few. In the long run, the majority loses. The implication for the trader is that to win you have to act like the minority. If you bring normal human habits and tendencies to trading, you'll gravitate toward the majority and inevitably lose.

  William Eckhardt

  Running, Winning, Player

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• It's much easier to learn what you should do in trading than to do it. Good systems tend to violate normal human tendencies.

  William Eckhardt

  Normal, Easier, Should

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• Good systems tend to violate normal human tendencies.

  William Eckhardt

  Normal, Humans

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• We have a tendency to obscure the forest of simple joys with the trees of problems.

  Christiane Collange

  Simple, Tree, Joy

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• Parenting is the hardest thing I have ever done. I tried to find the balance between the strict, traditional Chinese way I was raised, which I think can be too harsh, and what I see as a tendency in the West to be too permissive and indulgent. If I could do it all again, I would, with some adjustments.

  Amy Chua

  Thinking, Chinese, Balance

  "Is strict parenting better for children?". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2011.

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• The scientific method is designed to help investigators overcome the most entrenched human cognitive habit: the confirmation bias, the tendency to notice and remember evidence that confirms our beliefs or decisions, and to ignore, dismiss, or forget evidence that is discrepant. That's why we are all inclined to stick to a hypothesis we believe in. Science is one way of forcing us, kicking and screaming if necessary, to modify our views.

  Carol Tavris

  Believe, Views, Decision

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• It is beyond dispute that the state exercises very great power over human life and it always shows a tendency to go beyond the limits laid down for it.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Exercise, Limits, Disputes

  "Slavery and Freedom". Book by Nikolai Berdyaev, 1939.

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• Liberty, understood by materialists as the right to do or not to do anything not directly injurious to others, we understand as the faculty of choosing, among the various modes of fulfilling duty, those most in harmony with our own tendencies.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Respect, Freedom, Liberty

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• Genius, when employed in works whose tendency it is to demoralize and to degrade us, should be contemplated with abhorrence rather than with admiration; such a monument of its power, may indeed be stamped with immortality, but like the Coliseum at Rome, we deplore its magnificence because we detest the purposes for which it was designed.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Rome, Purpose, Genius

  Charles Caleb Colton (1821). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.239

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• I've long believed alas, that in highly organized industrial societies, capitalist or socialist, the stronger tendency is to converge - that if steel or automobiles are wanted and must be made on a large scale, the process will stamp its imprint on the society, whether that me be Magnitogorsk or Gary, Indiana.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Long, Stronger, Steel

  "The Age of Uncertainty". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith. Chapter 2, p. 84, 1977.

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• A mighty stream of tendency.

  William Hazlitt

  Evolution, Streams

  William Hazlitt (1848). “The Miscellaneous Works”, p.86

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• A common obstruction to a vital intimate relationship is what I call the assumption of clairvoyance. You imagine, perhaps unconsciously, that your partner or friend is somehow magically psychic when it comes to you -\-\ so much so that he or she should unfailingly intuit exactly what you need, even if you don't ask for it.
  This fantasy may seem romantic, but it can undermine the most promising alliances.
  To counteract any tendencies you might have to indulge in the assumption of clairvoyance, practice stating your desires aloud.

  Rob Brezsny

  Intimate Relationships, Psychics, Practice

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• No revolution can ever succeed as a factor of liberation unless the MEANS used to further it be identical in spirit and tendency with the PURPOSES to be achieved. Revolution is the negation of the existing, a violent protest against man's inhumanity to man with all the thousand and one slaveries it involves. It is the destroyer of dominant values upon which a complex system of injustice, oppression, and wrong has been built up by ignorance and brutality. It is the herald of NEW VALUES, ushering in a transformation of the basic relations of man to man, and of man to society.

  Emma Goldman

  Ignorance, Mean, Men

  "My Disillusionment in Russia". Book by Emma Goldman, 1925.

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