Tendencies Quotes - Page 7

• Women have been brought up to be passive, accepting, not come forward and play a major role in life. And with age, there's a tendency to revert to that - to pull back, recede. I don't think it's advisable or admirable.

  Katherine Helmond

  Thinking, Play, Age

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• There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.

  Abdallah II

  Kings, Responsibility, People

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• This formula of Love is universal; all the laws of Nature are its servitors. Thus, gravitation, chemical affinity, electrical potential, and the rest - and these are alike mere aspects of the general law - are so many differently-observed statements of the unique tendency.

  Aleister Crowley

  Love, Unique, Law

  Aleister Crowley (1991). “Little Essays Toward Truth”

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• A long time ago, I became aware that many of us have a tendency to lump nature into simplistic categories, such as what we consider beautiful or ugly, important or unimportant. As human a thing as that is to do, I think it often leads us to misunderstand the respective roles of life forms and their interconnectedness.

  Gary Larson

  Beautiful, Thinking, Long

  "Gary Larson returns with 'A Worm's Story'" by Jamie Allen, www.cnn.com. July 10, 1998.

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• From the Olympian heights of an executive suite, in an atmosphere where your success is judged by the extent to which you can maximise profits, the overwhelming tendency must be to see people as units of production, as indices in your accountants' books.

  Jimmy Reid

  Book, People, Atmosphere

  "Still irresistible, a working-class hero's finest speech". www.independent.co.uk. August 12, 2010.

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• We have the tendency to condemn what we don't understand.

  Mercedes Ruehl

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• In fighting a bull you're always aware of a paradox concerning your perceptions of the bull. On the one hand it's your perceptions of the bull that give you the upper hand. You read the bull, you learn to read the bull more and more accurately, and this reading of the bull is how you deploy your intelligence against the bull's intelligence. Your accuracy in reading the bull is a weapon, maybe your most important weapon, against all the bull's weapons. On the other hand, you're human, you have the human tendency to read into the bull things which may not actually be there.

  Bette Ford

  Reading, Fighting, Hands

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Probably my mother's life was prolonged beyond that of a long-lived family by her coming to Australia in middle life; and if I ever had any tendency to consumption, the climate must have helped me.

  Catherine Helen Spence

  Mother, Australia, Long

  Catherine Helen Spence “An Autobiography”, Library of Alexandria

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• I think the tendency to over-explain and over describe is one of the most common failings in fantasy. It's an unfortunate piece of Tolkien's legacy. Don't get me wrong, Tolkien was a great worldbuilder, but he got a little caught up describing his world at times, at the expense of the overall story.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Writing, Thinking, Legacy

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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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• I understand your higher and lower tendencies. There is something beyond all of this nonsense. There is a wonderful glitter that you can follow in life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Glitter

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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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• 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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• There's a tendency in politics to attribute bad motivation much too quickly, and the sooner you attribute bad motivation to someone you disagree with, the harder it is to find some common ground to make some progress that would give people confidence that you got it more right than wrong.

  Peter Welch

  Motivation, People, Giving

  "Peter Welch rises as liberal voice of reason". www.politico.com.

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• I think I have a tendency to look at things subjectively rather than objectively when I reflect on my experience.

  Ricky Williams

  Thinking, Looks

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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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• I've found that if I tell somebody 'Eat this and don't do that,' it's not only not helpful, it's counterproductive because even more than being healthy, we want to feel free and in control, and as soon as somebody tells us to do something, there's a tendency to do just the opposite.

  Dean Ornish

  Opposites, Healthy, Want

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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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• The theistic philosopher has a tendency to devalue insufficient worldviews, ideologies, and quite often common sense for the greater good, and in such cases, one should not be discouraged when seen as a bad guy. If he stresses over man's perception of a righteous heart, then he has given his heart to man.

  Criss Jami

  Stress, Heart, Men

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.103, Criss Jami

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• Be reflective...and stay away from the theater as much as you can. Stay out of the theatrical world, out of its petty interests, its inbreeding tendencies, its stifling atmosphere, its corroding influence. Once become

  Minnie Maddern Fiske

  Atmosphere, World, Inbreeding

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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 is a tendency around the world today to copy TV culture. And that is not always a virtue.

  Francis Arinze

  Culture, World, Today

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• There has always been a tendency to classify children almost as a distinct species.

  Hugh Lofting

  Children, Species

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