Tendencies Quotes - Page 11

• I may be biased, but I tend to find a much lower tendency among female programmers to be dishonest about their skills, and thus do not say they know C++ when they are smart enough to realize that that would be a lie for all but perhaps 5 people on this planet.

  Erik Naggum

  Smart, Lying, Skills

  Re: In praise of Java (Usenet article), groups.google.com. December 1, 2001.

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• With pencil there is a tendency to be timid, either using very faint lines or erasing bad lines... Line sketching tends to emphasize the structure of a drawing rather than the nuances of media.

  Paul Laseau

  Media, Drawing, Sketching

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• I'm a vegetarian now, but I'm willing to make an exception in the event I'm presented with people. Because I've always been fairly standoffish; I have this tendency not to get to know people very well. And I don't think there is any better way to get to know humanity than to ingest it.

  John S. Hall

  Thinking, People, Humanity

  "Song: "Eating People" ("The Psychopathology of Everyday Life")". January 21, 2003.

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• There is a tendency to throw computers at third world problems, which I think is often a distraction. Putting computers in the schools is great, but it may be more important to put teachers in the schools.

  Terry Winograd

  Teacher, School, Thinking

  "An Interview with Terry Winograd: Convergence, Ambient Technology, and Success in Innovation". ubiquity.acm.org. October 2008.

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• Pain and illness, the deaths of those one loves, and discomforts and disappointments mar the happy norm, but they do not alter the fact that happiness is the norm, nor affect the tendency of the continuum to restore it, to heal it, after any disturbance.

  Jean Liedloff

  Happiness, Pain, Disappointment

  Jean Liedloff (1975). “The continuum concept”, Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd

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• Many scholars have complained of our tendency to see history only in conflicts, but I am not convinced they are right. It is in conflict that our values are exposed.

  Bernard Beckett

  History, Conflict, Scholar

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• At any one time there is a natural tendency among physicists to believe that we already know the essential ingredients of a comprehensive theory . But each time a new frontier of observation is broached we inevitably discover new phenomena which force us to modify substantially our previous conceptions. I believe this process to be unending, that the delights and challenges of unexpected discovery will continue always.

  Val Logsdon Fitch

  Believe, Discovery, Challenges

  "Les Prix Nobel" ("The Nobel Prizes 1980") edited by Wilhelm Odelberg, Nobel Foundation, Stockholm, www.nobelprize.org. 1981.

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• If the goal is to realize the Supreme Being, you should become egoless. That requires self-effort. The sadhak should work hard. He should pray sincerely for the removal of the negative tendencies. This prayer is not to achieve anything or to fulfill any desires. It is to go beyond all achievements. It is to transcend all desires.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Prayer, Hard Work, Self

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• The prevailing tendency to regard all the marked distinctions of human character as innate, and in the main indelible, and to ignore the irresistible proofs that by far the greater part of those differences, whether between individuals, races, or sexes are such as not only might but naturally would be produced by differences in circumstances, is one of the chief hinderances to the rational treatment of great social questions, and one of the greatest stumbling blocks to human improvement.

  John Stuart Mill

  Sex, Block, Character

  John Stuart Mill (2009). “Autobiography of John Stuart Mill”, p.270, The Floating Press

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• We have the tendency to judge others by their surface appearance, and to find only their negative qualities. But if we search beneath the surface we discover that a myriad of strains mix together to create a particular person's nature. The faults we perceive are likely to be the effect of circumstances, the psychological response to trauma, abuse, rejection, heartbreak, insecurity, pain, confusion, or disease.

  Radhanath Swami

  Pain, Confusion, Judging

  "The Journey Home: Autobiography of an American Swami". Book by Radhanath Swami, 2009.

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• Interactivity has the virtue of democracy, conferring upon everyone with access to a computer the right and opportunity to be heard, but it's also saddled with democracy's vice - a tendency to assume that everyone who has a right to be heard has something to say that's worth hearing.

  Wendy Kaminer

  Opportunity, Democracy, Vices

  Wendy Kaminer (2000). “Sleeping with Extra-terrestrials: The Rise of Irrationalism and Perils of Piety”, Vintage

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• When speaking of a "body of knowledge" or of "the results of research," e.g., we tacitly assign the same cognitive status to inherited knowledge and to independently acquired knowledge. To counteract this tendency a special effort is required to transform inherited knowledge into genuine knowledge by revitalizing its original discovery, and to discriminate between the genuine and the spurious elements of what claims to be inherited knowledge.

  Leo Strauss

  Discovery, Effort, Special

  Leo Strauss (1959). “What is Political Philosophy? And Other Studies”, p.77, University of Chicago Press

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• The opposing tendencies of concentration and spread are of little consequence in the liberal model of political economy.

  Robert Gilpin

  Political, Littles, Economy

  Robert Gilpin (2016). “The Political Economy of International Relations”, p.94, Princeton University Press

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• You can inherit male-pattern baldness from your mother's father, but not a tendency to fight in the First World War.

  Jeremy Hardy

  Mother, War, Father

  "The News Quiz". BBC Radio 4, October 1998.

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• The significance of God, cause, number, substance or soul consists, as James asserts, in nothing but the tendency of the given concept to make us act or think. If the world should reach a point at which it ceases to care not only about such metaphysical entities but also about murders perpetrated behind closed frontiers or simply in the dark, one would have to conclude that the concepts of such murders have no meaning, that they represent no 'distinct ideas' or truths, since they do not make any 'sensible difference to anybody.

  Max Horkheimer

  Dark, Thinking, Ideas

  Max Horkheimer (2013). “Eclipse of Reason”, p.31, A&C Black

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• The behavior of the Taliban as well as their extremist attitudes do not correspond in any way with a tolerant Islam. We have always been opposed to extremist tendencies of Islam and we still are. We have not stopped insisting on defending an Islam of tolerance which would be profitable to every Muslim, in Afghanistan and in the whole world, and we will always defend it.

  Ahmad Shah Massoud

  Attitude, Tolerance, Islam

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• Watch every tendency towards militarism, for we know that preparation for war leads to war.

  William Mulock

  War, Preparation, Watches

  Said at the opening of the Canadian National Exhibition. The Globe, p. 1, August 29, 1906.

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• The tendency to superstitions should be counteracted from the earliest age; or rather steps should be taken to protect the mind of the child from superstitions imposed upon it by ignorant nurses or silly mothers.

  Arthur Alfred Lynch

  Mother, Children, Silly

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• Why has a religious turn of mind always a tendency to narrow and harden the heart?

  Robert Burns

  Religious, Heart, Mind

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• Life has a tendency to obfuscate and bewilder,
  Such as fating us to spend the first part of our lives
  being embarrassed by our parents and the last part
  being embarrassed by our children.

  Ogden Nash

  Children, Parent, Lasts

  "What I Know About Life". "Versus". Book by Ogden Nash, 1949.

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• There are the samskaras, the tendencies from your other lifetimes, ways of seeing, habits that are so strong, they affect you now. They are the operative situations in your life that are created by karma.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Strong, Way

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• As you sit in this light from week to week, you will transform and grow and develop. It washes away the samskaras, the past-life tendencies. It washes away the karmic tendencies from this life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Past, Light

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• Equilibrium is the profoundest tendency of all human activity.

  Jean Piaget

  Art, Philosophy, History

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• Boys have a tendency to jump around a lot more than girls. Boys have that desire to want to dunk way more than girls do. It just never seemed like something we could truly fathom and do.

  Lisa Leslie

  Girl, Sports, Boys

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• The tendency everywhere in America to concentrate power and responsibility in one man is unmistakable.

  James Bryce

  Wisdom, Responsibility, Men

  James Bryce (1889). “The American Commonwealth”

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