Tendencies Quotes - Page 24

• Where race is involved, there is a pronounced and proven tendency in the United States for the majority culture to willfully misremember the history and turn it upside down.

  Taylor Branch

  Race, Majority, United States

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There's a natural tendency to sanitize and polish any historical icon whether it be George Washington chopping down the cherry tree or Martin Luther King saying, "I have a dream."

  Taylor Branch

  Dream, Kings, Icons

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I have a big mouth, and over the years, as the eldest of five, I have had a tendency to speak when no one really cared.

  Terry McMillan

  Years, Mouths, Speak

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The phenomenon of the woman who's asked what movie she wants to see, and she says, "I don't know. What do you want to see?" It's a tiny version of a big tendency. Women need to say, "This is what I want."

  Gloria Steinem

  Needs, Want, Tiny

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Competitiveness is just as much a part of our nature as empathy. The ideal, in my view, is a democratic system with a social market economy, because it takes both tendencies into account.

  Frans de Waal

  Views, Empathy, Economy

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• I love comedies and I like sometimes comedies have a tendency to get a bit lazy. ‘The Other Guys’ was not lazy.

  Louis Leterrier

  Guy, Lazy, Comedy

  "Exclusive: Louis Leterrier Reveals His Favorite Films, TV Shows, Comics & More Of 2010". Interview with Kevin Jagernauth, www.indiewire.com. December 8, 2010.

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• Success comes only for those groups that overcome the all-too-human behavioral tendencies that corrupt teams and breed dysfunctional politics within them.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Team, Overcoming, Groups

  Patrick M. Lencioni (2010). “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Enhanced Edition: A Leadership Fable”, p.9, John Wiley & Sons

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• Overcoming negative tendencies and enhancing positive potential are the very essence of the spiritual path.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Essence, Overcoming

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• The soul journey inward is when we are invited to cast aside beliefs and behaviors that no longer serve us and release all tendencies toward victimhood, stagnation, passivity, and self-destruction that keep us disempowered or cause frustration and suffering to ourselves and others. This is no easy task, and one in which we can use all the divine support possible to help us on our way. It is a time to pray.

  Sonia Choquette

  Journey, Frustration, Self

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• I was brought up to express myself only when asked to express myself and then to do so in a way that's pleasing to hear. But I've always had a need to make my presence known. I was just sort of born that way, I guess. It's my natural tendency.

  Patty Griffin

  Needs, Way, Natural

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• Human beings have a tendency to push away unwanted pain, but my experience is that when I give my consent to it, it delivers its gift and moves on.

  Michael Beckwith

  Pain, Moving, Giving

  Interview with Christopher Caplan, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.

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• Losing friends and spouses is an inevitable part of aging, and many people have a tendency to go quietly into semi-isolation. Instead, set your intention on expanding and deepening the love in your life.

  Deepak Chopra

  People, Losing Friends, Aging

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• In the 1930s there was this tendency in Hollywood to portray everyone as rich. Even if they were doing a poor man's dance, they were all so nicely clothed, gowned, coiffured. That's why I decided to wear white socks, loafers, T-shirts, and blue jeans. I had a sociopolitical context in front of me: I was a child of the Depression who danced in a way that would represent the common man.

  Gene Kelly

  Children, Men, Blue

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It is more difficult to research women's lives than it is men's. There has always been a tendency - race notwithstanding - to believe that women's contributions have been less important than men's contributions because women are usually less public people.

  Adele Logan Alexander

  Believe, Men, Race

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• I deal daily with chronic pain and, at times, my pain feels like a lemon that God "squeezes," revealing my sour attitude, peevish spirit, and tendency to complain or grumble. Did not God use my pain to expose my sin, I might - like many of us - not be aware of the sin of which I'm capable.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Pain, Attitude, Complaining

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• The only thing I might have noticed [and this is pretty anecdotal] is that there is some tendency to need to be taught that 'writing is rewriting' - maybe more of a sense than was pervasive 10 years ago that the first or second pass of a story is sufficient. That is an idea that is easily dislodged, but I suspect it might have something to do with the turnaround time re: blogging and so on - this sense that there is some essential truth about a first draft that one runs the risk of "ruining" by coming back to it.

  George Saunders

  Running, Writing, Years

  "George Saunders on Trump, Mystery, and Why He Rejects Social Media". Interview with Catherine Woodiwiss, sojo.net. August 30, 2016.

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• The words "environment," "medium" denote something more than surroundings which encompass an individual. They denote the specific continuity of the surroundings with his own active tendencies.

  John Dewey

  Environment, Individual, Surroundings

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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• A being connected with other beings cannot perform his own activities without taking the activities of others into account. For they are the indispensable conditions of the realization of his tendencies. When he moves he stirs them and reciprocally.

  John Dewey

  Moving, Realization, Indispensable

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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• Such words as "society" and "community" are likely to be misleading, for they have a tendency to make us think there is a single thing corresponding to the single word.

  John Dewey

  Thinking, Community, Single Word

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.25, Courier Corporation

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• Of these three words, direction, control, and guidance, the last best conveys the idea of assisting through cooperation the natural capacities of the individuals guided; control conveys rather the notion of an energy brought to bear from without and meeting some resistance from the one controlled; direction is a more neutral term and suggests the fact that the active tendencies of those directed are led in a certain continuous course, instead of dispersing aimlessly.

  John Dewey

  Ideas, Three, Lasts

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• Each country has its own particular features, its own traditions that find their reflection today and will find it in future. There are such traditions in Russia but it is not a question of a strong figure, although a strong figure is needed in power, it is a question of what is implied by this term. It is one thing if it is a person with dictatorial tendencies. But if it is a fair leader, who acts within the law and in the interests of a vast majority of society, who acts coherently and is guided by principles, it is a completely different matter.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Strong, Reflection

  "Sott Exclusive: Full unedited text of Vladimir Putin's interview with Charlie Rose: What CBS left out". www.sott.net. September 29, 2015.

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• In the early days you have a tendency to intellectualize, but you're really just trying to sound smart and score with the chicks.

  Tom Hanks

  Smart, Trying, Sound

  "Q&A: Clint Eastwood and Tom Hanks pay tribute to a pilot who had to act quickly in 'Sully'". Interview with Rebecca Keegan, newsok.com. September 7, 2016.

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• But we all recognise the primary foible of frail humanity - our propensity for embracing hope and shunning logic, our tendency to believe what we desire rather than what we observe.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Believe, Humanity, Religion

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• The gambling industry has a tendency to find public figures ... and these persons are used for their public image. These people generally come in for a couple of years and then they sell out and it's 100 percent owned by out-of-state interests

  John Warren Kindt

  Couple, Years, Gambling

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• We always come back to the same misunderstanding. The Jews because of their spirit of revolt, their exclusiveness and the Messianic tendencies which animate them are in essence revolutionaries, but they do not realize it and believe that they are working for 'progress.'...but that which they call justice is the triumph of Jewish principles in the world of which the two extremes are plutocracy and socialism. Present day Anti-Semitism is a revolt against the world of today, the product of Judaism.

  Leon V. DePoncins

  Believe, Essence, Two

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