Top 392 Tendencies Quotes & Sayings

If you look at every star in the game, everyone has tendencies.

For anyone with the traits - of feeling himself victimized, of seeking to be the strongman who resolves everything, yet sees truth only through his own self and negates all other truth outside of it - is bound to become more malignant when he has power. Power then breeds an intensification of all this because the power can never be absolute power - to some extent it's stymied - but the isolation while in power becomes even more dangerous. Think of it as a vicious circle. The power intensifies these tendencies and the tendencies become more dangerous because of the power.

... the cooperative forces are biologically the more important and vital. The balance between the cooperative and altruistic tendencies and those which are disoperative and egoistic is relatively close. Under many conditions the cooperative forces lose, In the long run, however, the group centered, more altruistic drives are slightly stronger. ... human altruistic drives are as firmly based on an animal ancestry as is man himself. Our tendencies toward goodness... are as innate as our tendencies toward intelligence; we could do well with more of both.

I call myself a vegetarian with vegan tendencies.

Certainly here in the U.S., we've had fundamentalist movements that have taken very critical and hostile attitudes toward immigration and the assimilation of immigrants into our society and culture. So these tendencies are fairly universal. The problem is what if they get out of hand and become the dominant factor in a society, which can only lead to the oppression of minorities or even to war with neighboring societies with differing cultures. That's why it seems to me it's important to try to keep these tendencies toward extremism under control.

There is no likelihood of our being able to suppress humanity's aggressive tendencies... Complete suppression of man's aggressive tendencies is not an issue; what we may try is to direct it into a channel other than that of warfare.

Never even attempt to disturb anyone's tendencies.

In the frenzy, roller coaster of the season, you can play up and play down. But if you're strong enough, you can change those habits and tendencies and make them into championship-type habits and tendencies. That doesn't guarantee you that you're going to win, but it gives you the best chance. That's all I can ask for. That's all I want.

I'm definitely not very insecure, but I have perfectionist tendencies, and I'll want things to be a certain way.

Political Islam's parallel societies and radicalizing tendencies have no place in our country.

Trump has a lot of authoritarian tendencies that need to be a serious concern.

The people who, during the election, were so wise, so moral, so perfect, now have no tendencies whatever; or if they have any, they are tendencies that lead downward to degradation. . . . If people are as incapable, as immoral, and as ignorant as the politicians indicate, then why is the right of these same people to vote defended with such passionate insistence?

My domineering lover made no apologies for his caveman tendencies.

Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes.

The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.

No change occurs if we just let our habitual tendencies and automatic patterns of thought perpetuate and even reinforce themselves, thought after thought, day after day, year after year. But those tendencies and patterns can be challenged.

No matter what you experience in life, it incorporates political tendencies, and in so many ways.

Fundamentalist tendencies and movements existed, so far as I know, in all societies and civilizations.

The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them fully developed in someone else.

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.

I hold religious tendencies, but I'm not devout by any means.

We really need to stop the imperialist tendencies of countries like the United States and Great Britain

Some children are born from heaven and others are born from hell, because each human being has his inherent tendencies, and these tendencies belong to his spirit, and indicate the state in which he existed before he was born.

Karma is often wrongly confused with the notion of a fixed destiny. It is more like an accumulation of tendencies that can lock us into particular behavior patterns, which themselves result in further accumulations of tendencies of a similar nature... But is is not necessary to be a prisoner of old karma.

We just kind of relied on written scouting reports through the eighties and even the early nineties. I've really been amazed by some of the data that's out there, especially with regards to tendencies of hitters, and certainly tendencies of pitchers as well. I would have loved to have gotten that data when I played.

Since the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to allow them liberty, how comes it to pass that the tendencies of organizers are always good?

You have sexual tendencies that are not normal, and you should be ashamed of them.

That's what Judith Herman is saying, and she's absolutely right. Power then breeds an intensification of all because the power can never be absolute power - to some extent it's stymied - but the isolation while in power becomes even more dangerous. Think of it as a vicious circle. The power intensifies these tendencies and the tendencies become more dangerous because of the power.

Subatomic particles do not exist but rather show 'tendencies to exist', and atomic events do not occur with certainty at definite times and in definite ways, but rather show 'tendencies to occur'.

Time moves too slowly for me to notice any evolution in my creative tendencies.

We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. This is the divine mystery supreme. A wonderful thing it is and the source of our happiness. We need not wait to see what others do.

I don't have sociopathic tendencies!

The extent to which human aggression exemplifies innate tendencies is not clear.

All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.

I have contrarian tendencies.

If you think the country is a bastion only of nasty tendencies and racism and oppression, that is anti-American.

We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.

Good systems tend to violate normal human tendencies.

Human life is full of the play of samskaras - tendencies developed by repeated actions.

Donald Trump and Senator Cruz have occasional Manichean tendencies.

Except when he has regressive tendencies, the child's nature is to aim directly and energetically at functional independence.

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

I wouldn't tell anyone to study werewolves - I studied wolves, how they moved, their tendencies and sensibilities.

The old wars were decided by their episodes rather than by their tendencies. In this war, the tendencies are far more important than the episodes.

One of the problems with compromise in one area of Scripture is where do you stop compromising? If Christians accept the idea of human evolution, then why not accept the idea that our sinful tendencies are really just evolved tendencies?

If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind?

Big Show has a lot of monster tendencies.

Be an earnest student of yourself. Study your leading desires and tendencies.

Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

A golden chain is as much a chain as an iron one. Shri Ramakrishna used to say that, to pick out one thorn which has stuck into the foot, another thorn is requisitioned, and when the thorn is taken out, both are thrown away. So the bad tendencies are to be counteracted by the good ones, but after that, the good tendencies have also to be conquered.

Governments can be useful to the governed only so long as inherent tendencies toward tyranny are restrained.

I've made my most horrible inhuman tendencies work for me.

Humans have a lot of pro-social tendencies.

I'm a think gamer with twitch tendencies.

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

The integrative tendencies of the individual are incomparably more dangerous than his self-assertive tendencies.

There are always in life countless tendencies for good and for evil, and each succeeding generation sees some of these tendencies strengthened and some weakened; nor is it by any means always, alas! that the tendencies for evil are weakened and those for good strengthened. But during the last few decades there certainly have been some notable changes for good in boy life. The great growth in the love of athletic sports, for instance, while fraught with danger if it becomes one-sided and unhealthy, has beyond all question had an excellent effect in increased manliness.

I've always been more visual-based. I've kept my musical tendencies kind of in the closet.

We are not held accountable for how the economy ravages Congo. Governments aren't held accountable for foreign policies that they exercise there. There are no institutional structures to render justice. The press is very limited. There's very little transparency. You find a symmetry in certain basic human tendencies, and these tendencies are not always noble or beautiful. I think we have an instinct to turn away from that, to not acknowledge it, while it is something that's a part of us. There's a certain tragic and sad side to human nature that, in our quest for beauty, we ignore.

I describe my personal style as 'mythic space horse with chocolate box tendencies.'