Tendencies Quotes - Page 27

• If I find myself being too earnest and sentimental and hyperbolic and simplistic, which is definitely a tendency I have, then I bring in this perverse henchman.

  George Saunders

  Sentimental, Henchmen, Earnest

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have this tendency to take a little bit of questionable knowledge and riff on it.

  George Saunders

  Littles, Questionable, Bits

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The thing I've discovered that is a help is that there isn't a simple virtue or a simple vice. They're always connected. If you have Tendency A, that you loathe, you can almost be sure that Tendency B, which you love, is somehow connected to it.

  George Saunders

  Simple, Love Is, Vices

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have a natural tendency to feel well about the world, I suppose, one way or another. But then there is the problem of pain. There are things like [Abraham] Lincoln's beloved little boy dying.

  Zadie Smith

  Pain, Boys, Dying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There's a tendency to treat anyone with a physical disability as inspiring. I call it a pedestal of prejudice, in that you're lifting people up to dismiss them. My whole thing is bringing us down to everyone else's level and saying we're all the same. The struggle is the same.

  Zach Anner

  Struggle, People, Prejudice

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• Trump's tendency is to rub shoulders with dictators. We have seen this with his attitude toward Russia and also toward the present dictatorship in Egypt. He might start to cozy up to the Gulf dictators as a way of trying to scare the Iranians. This could lead to a naval confrontation in the Persian Gulf.

  Lawrence Davidson

  Attitude, Russia, Egypt

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Time is a big enemy. Companies have a tendency to drift and to do what was successful yesterday. CEOs need to set a high goal, enforce a time-based output scheme and stay connected all the way down in their organization. They have to do this sincerely every day, everywhere.

  Michael J. Silverstein

  Successful, Organization, Yesterday

  Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. November 28, 2015.

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• It occurs to me that there's been a relatively recent tendency in the media to see prostitutes as victims and johns as exploiters. I don't think most prostitutes see themselves as victims or see their clients as exploiters, but that way of seeing prostitutes and johns is pretty common now outside of sex-work circles, and it's more shameful to be the exploiter than the exploited.

  Chester Brown

  Sex, Thinking, Media

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Children, who have so much to learn in so short a time, had involved the tendency to trust adults to instruct them in the collective knowledge of our species, and this trust confers survival value. But it also makes children vulnerable to being tricked and adults who exploit this vulnerability should be deeply ashamed.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Children, Survival, Adults

  Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (2014). “Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away”, p.211, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• From the time of Cain until the last believer before Christ's return, we are all fundamentally in the same boat. We suffer the same spiritual afflictions and tendencies.

  Mark Dever

  Spiritual, Suffering, Cain

  Source: matthiasmedia.com

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• There is a tendency for people to say evolution is only a theory. That is inappropriate.

  Richard Dawkins

  People, Evolution, Inappropriate

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• To refuse everything, to say, even when there is something which really should be done, "Ah, that's no longer feminist," is a pessimistic, even masochistic tendency in women, the result of having been habituated to inertia, to pessimism.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Feminist, Done, Pessimistic

  Source: www.iaphitalia.org

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• As soon as a woman re- fuses to be perfectly happy doing housework eight hours a day, society has a tendency to want to do a lobotomy on her.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Eight, Want, Lobotomy

  Source: www.iaphitalia.org

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• The renewed use of lobotomy today is particularly applicable to women: Because they do routine things, it is possible to take away their spirit of revolt, of debate, of criticism, and still leave them perfectly capable of making stews or washing dishes. It's terrible, this tendency to consider women something dangerous to society.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Criticism, Routine, Use

  Source: www.iaphitalia.org

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• I think there is a great tendency toward autobiography among women today. It is perhaps facile - and I say that even though I have written one myself.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Thinking, Today, Autobiography

  Source: www.iaphitalia.org

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• [Men's] natural tendencies, natural proclivities, are bad. You gotta rein that in. You gotta dial that back. You need to really raise your conscience level and be aware of how others see you and dial it back, because it's just too predatory, brutish, what have you.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Men, Needs, Levels

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• There is no doubt that this fusion of terrorist and Muslim feeds virulent forms of Islamophobia, which is also encouraged by such incidents as the Westgate Mall massacre in Nairobi and the Anglican Church bombing in Pakistan. 9/11 greatly intensified this tendency toward fusion, but it had also been nurtured by Israeli propaganda that portrayed their Palestinian and Arab adversaries as "terrorists." In fact, the US government approach after 9/11 was modeled in many of its features on Israeli tactics developed during the long occupation of Palestine.

  Richard A. Falk

  Government, Long, Doubt

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Despite the variety my books reflect my, perhaps foolish, tendency to place artistic above financial concerns; of enjoying the more mature themes in whatever creative form; of being on a mission to show that comics are not just for kids; and on a wider level of standing up for individuality against conformity.

  Sean Michael Wilson

  Book, Kids, Creative

  Source: comicsbulletin.com

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• With Islamophobic tendencies in Europe and North America it is quite possible that Islamic leaders could be charged with 'political genocide'. An extremist American pastor in a small Florida church held a trial that convicted the Koran of encouraging the murder of non-Muslims and of being responsible for the 9/11 attacks. It is this sort of outlook that would be encouraged to claim that Islam embodied 'political genocide', a development that would have many negative effects on inter-civilisational relations within and among countries.

  Richard A. Falk

  Country, Islamic, Europe

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select - doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief and, yes, even beggar-man and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors.

  John B. Watson

  Men, Artist, Race

  Source: jaosnuvanitte.wordpress.com

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• As a friend at a major American newspaper said to me when I complained about this tendency in his own paper, "You know how these media narratives are. They're like bamboo." Meaning, once they start growing, you can't kill them.

  George Weigel

  Media, Paper, Growing

  Source: eppc.org

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• I think that education today is a form of child abuse. The natural tendency of children is to solve problems, but we try to indoctrinate them with facts, which they are supposed to feed back, and then we fail them. And that's child abuse. And you should never raise children that way. You should cultivate and encourage their natural tendencies to create solutions to the problems around them.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Children, Thinking, Abuse

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• If we were a culture of high-risk alcoholics, and suddenly we had Jack Daniels piped into our houses, we would be feeding that fire. Social networking, and the internet as a whole, seems to have simply landed in an extremely fertile place in an extremely fertile time in history, when we all have these narcissistic tendencies anyway - you can go further back into the self-esteem movement, and Dr. Spock, and the 'everybody gets a ribbon at the track meet' sort of thing, which preceded the internet - and then you drop the internet into the middle of this, and we've all gone haywire.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Self Esteem, Fire, Track

  Source: www.dinnerpartydownload.org

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• There is a certain tendency on the part of some Americans to treat the UN as a multilateralism à la carte where you pick and choose where it suits you and when it doesn't suit you, you pull back.

  Kofi Annan

  Suits You, Treats, Certain

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• When you're out there in America, meeting with regular people, it's a pretty mellow, relaxed, kind-hearted country. The direction from the top, from the President, is following mean-spirited tendencies: fear and undue caution and distrust of the other, so it's very depressing.

  George Saunders

  Country, Depressing, Mean

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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