Tendencies Quotes - Page 29

• I take up the standpoint that the tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man, and I come back now to the statement that it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

  Sigmund Freud

  Powerful, Independent, Men

  "Civilisation, War and Death".

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• The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.

  Margaret Fuller

  Spiritual, Women, Believe

  Margaret Fuller (2012). “Woman in the Nineteenth Century”, p.78, Courier Corporation

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• I think that the roots of racism have always been economic, and I think people are desperate and scared. And when you're desperate and scared you scapegoat people. It exacerbates latent tendencies toward - well, toward racism or homophobia or anti-Semitism.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Thinking, Roots, Racism

  "Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. March 19, 2008.

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• What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

  Henry George

  Civilization, Distribution Of Wealth, Prosperity

  Louis Freeland Post, Henry George (1899). “The Single Tax: An Explanation, with Colored Charts and Illustrated Notes of the Land, Labor, and Fiscal Reform Advocated by Henry George”

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• The main challenge that television presents is that I have a tendency to say things with a great deal of precision and accuracy. Often a description of that sort, which will work in a book because people can read it slowly - they can turn the pages back and so on - doesn't really work on TV because it interrupts the flow of the moving image.

  Brian Greene

  Moving, Book, People

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• With animation because you can draw anything and do anything and have the characters do whatever you want the tendency is to be very loose with the boundaries and the rules.

  Matt Groening

  Character, Want, Boundaries

  "'Futurama' ends: The Matt Groening interview, Part 2". Interview with Robert Lloyd, articles.latimes.com. July 24, 2013.

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• Usually, people have a tendency to be caught in the worries concerning the future or in the regret concerning the past. There is some kind of energy that is pushing them to run, and they are not able to establish themselves in the present moment.

  Nhat Hanh

  Running, Regret, Past

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• Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.

  Garrett Hardin

  Generations, Natural, Bases

  Garrett James Hardin (1976). “Exploring new ethics for survival: the voyage of the spaceship Beagle”

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• I have a tendency to pick up my own challenges. The more difficult something it is, the more I want to try it.

  Joanne Harris

  Challenges, Trying, Want

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• I think there are universal principles that we should want to understand, but that are not necessarily good for us. We could recognise universal propensities which current cultures can't fully eradicate, which we would want to eradicate if we could. Let's say, a tendency for tribal violence. Or racism.

  Sam Harris

  Thinking, Racism, Principles

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• As women, we have more of a tendency to be people-pleasers, and I know a lot of women who are not vocal about what makes them happy.

  Katherine Heigl

  People, Pleasers, Knows

  "Heigl’s Anatomy". Interview with Leslie Bennetts, www.vanityfair.com. January 2008.

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• There's a tendency to look at investments in isolation. Investors focus on the risk of individual securities.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Focus, Risk, Looks

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• I have a tendency to hire people who tend to be unattractive to the studios. Maybe this is a bad idea.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Ideas, People, Unattractive

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• After the 9/11 apocalypse happened in New York City, people, particularly New Yorkers, who breathed in the ash, or saw the results of that, have a tendency to keep seeing echoes and having flashbacks to it.

  Stephen King

  New York, Echoes, Cities

  "Transcript: Nightline's Interview With Stephen King". Interview With Jake Tapper, abcnews.go.com. November 15, 2007.

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• I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Inspirational, Motivational, Mistake

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• I'm born and raised in the Northeast. My parents are Irish immigrants. So our tendency is to shy away from the big yellow ball that comes up in the sky every once in a while.

  Denis Leary

  Sky, Yellow, Parent

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• Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Dream, Business, Lunch

  Interview with Kris Herbst for Internet World, www.w3.org. June 1994.

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• I call myself a vegetarian with vegan tendencies.

  Leona Lewis

  Vegetarian, Vegan

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When a poll is really, really out of whack with what I want to happen, I do have a tendency to disregard it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Want, Polls, Disregard

  "The Emotional Poll Roller Coaster". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. September 24, 2012.

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• The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.

  Walter Lippmann

  Class, Diversity, Support

  Walter Lippmann (2012). “Public Opinion”, p.83, Courier Corporation

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• Matching your hat to your shoe to your bag, or your necklace to your earrings, has a tendency to look dated. Mixing up your accessories adds interest to an outfit, and can make you look much more modern and polished.

  Stacy London

  Shoes, Mixing, Add

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• The story being told in 'Star Wars' is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you're in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they're actually not.

  George Lucas

  Stars, War, Thinking

  "George Lucas on 'Star Wars,' 'Fahrenheit 9/11,' and his own legacy". Interview with Steve Silverman, www.wired.com. May 1, 2005.

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• I am told that the clinical definition of insanity is the tendency to do the same thing over and over again and expect different results.

  Stephen F. Lynch

  Insanity, Different, Definitions

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• For me, one of the major reasons to move beyond just the planting of trees was that I have tendency to look at the causes of a problem. We often preoccupy ourselves with the symptoms, whereas if we went to the root cause of the problems, we would be able to overcome the problems once and for all.

  Wangari Maathai

  Moving, Roots, Tree

  "I Will Disappear Into the Forest". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. January 5, 2005.

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• Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.

  Norman Mailer

  Men, Honor, Littles

  Norman Mailer (1968). “The idol and the octopus: political writings, on the Kennedy and Johnson administrations”

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