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I see tendencies, I see body language. -- Michael Chang
Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience. -- Muhammad Iqbal
The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses. -- John Stuart Mill
At our college we were taught a universal approach to find out about a person: what problems the person has, what difficulties, what personal tendencies and likings. -- Markus Wolf
As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God. -- Swami Vivekananda
I believe that nationalism is a very strong force, but there are other forces operating; there are tendencies pushing towards a larger picture, especially in Europe, I think; but I still think nationalism is real. -- Peter Singer
I leave to others the decision as to the good or evil tendencies of my character, but such as it is it shines upon my countenance, and there it can easily be detected by any physiognomist. -- Giacomo Casanova
None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much. -- Lydia M. Child
Human life is full of the play of samskaras - tendencies developed by repeated actions. -- Vinoba Bhave
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know? -- Ernest Hemingway
Set too many goals and keep adding more goals. Goals have a tendency to be realized all at once. -- Mark Victor Hansen
And when I get bored, it's like the worst parts of me come out. I really veer to self-destructive tendencies quickly. -- Zoe Kazan
When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled. -- Xun Zi
Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another. -- Milton Friedman
I probably have fundamentally antisocial tendencies. I never took one extracurricular activity. I just failed utterly at that level. Part of me still rebels against that. -- Maya Lin
We always have a tendency to see those things that do not exist and to be blind to the great lessons that are right there before our eyes. -- Paulo Coelho
Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms. -- Lord Byron
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society. -- Benjamin Franklin
It is curious that, with my somewhat antinomian tendencies, I should have gone to Trinity Hall - which was, and is, before all a Law College - and should thus have been thrown into close touch with the legal element in life. -- Edward Carpenter
Look to the cross, and hate your sin, for sin nailed your Well Beloved to the tree. Look up to the cross, and you will kill sin, for the strength of Jesus' love will make you strong to put down your tendencies to sin. -- Charles Spurgeon
If friends disappoint you over and over, that's in large part your own fault. Once someone has shown a tendency to be self-centered, you need to recognize that and take care of yourself; people aren't going to change simply because you want them to. -- Oprah Winfrey
People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy. -- Tony Robbins
The key insight of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations is misleadingly simple: if an exchange between two parties is voluntary, it will not take place unless both believe they will benefit from it. Most economic fallacies derive from the neglect of this simple insight, from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another. -- Milton Friedman
I call myself a vegetarian with vegan tendencies. -- Leona Lewis
In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled. -- Xun Zi
I am incredibly bad at predicting the future; I am only smart enough to observe the present and listen to my intuition about tendencies. -- Rem Koolhaas
The press these days should be rather careful about its role. We may have acquired some tendencies about over-involvement that we had better overcome. -- Katharine Graham
In listing these tendencies making for a new world, we must not forget developments in the religious or spiritual thinking and feeling of mankind, where also we feel a strong unifying trend. -- Emily Greene Balch
My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others' negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts. -- Steve Jobs
Let's cooperate and challenge the administration to cooperate with us because within the administration there are also moderates and people who are not fully comfortable with the tendencies that have prevailed in recent times. -- Zbigniew Brzezinski
We come to meditation to learn how not to act out the habitual tendencies we generally live by - those actions that create suffering for ourselves and others, and get us into so much trouble. -- Sharon Salzberg
We must uphold the fighting of tigers and flies at the same time, resolutely investigating law-breaking cases of leading officials and also earnestly resolving the unhealthy tendencies and corruption problems which happen all around people. -- Xi Jinping
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
It's funny, because in deference to conventional wisdom, I spent my struggling writer years trying to suppress my naturally baroque literary voice and write clean, spare prose. I finally gave up and embraced my baroque tendencies when I wrote the Kushiel series. -- Jacqueline Carey
Human nature is not amenable to prediction based on the trends or tendencies prevailing at the time. It is amenable to startling creativity of the kind practiced by great artists, directors, writers, musicians, actors, who know how to touch a chord in humans everywhere. -- Maurice Saatchi
The Miguel Syjuco character is not me. I wanted him to represent my own fears and frustrations and guilt, my own worst tendencies and my optimistic expectations. He's a cautionary tale for me. But he's also an examination of the darkest things that haunt me as a person. -- Miguel Syjuco
Both my parents were agnostic. My mother was kind of a Buddhist. She had some spiritual tendencies, but they were kind of flaky - New Agey, you know? Which is partly why I'm suspicious of that sort of thing. I'm skeptical of any spiritual practice that doesn't involve other people and doesn't involve some sort of consistent tradition. -- Mary Karr
Certainly businesses the world over are facing greater competitive pressure than ever before, and this leads to executive stress which, in turn, tends to bring out authoritarian tendencies in many bosses. To balance this, we now know a lot more about how we can successfully cope with a situation that is not likely to improve in the near future. -- Srikumar Rao
There are contradictory tendencies in American society. There's a huge range of activities that one can engage in that mark it as a quite free society. It's also true to say that the powers that be have so much control over how people think that there are fewer and fewer people who make use of the rights and information available to them. -- Norman Finkelstein
I don't have sociopathic tendencies! -- Emily VanCamp
I see tendencies, I see body language." -- Michael Chang
Humans have a lot of pro-social tendencies. -- Frans de Waal
Never even attempt to disturb anyone's tendencies. -- Swami Vivekananda
Good systems tend to violate normal human tendencies. -- William Eckhardt
Donald Trump and Senator Cruz have occasional Manichean tendencies. -- Cass Sunstein
My domineering lover made no apologies for his caveman tendencies. -- Sylvia Day
All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power. -- Clive James
Hillary Clinton was saying Bill Clinton has tendencies toward being sexist. -- Donald Trump
Be an earnest student of yourself. Study your leading desires and tendencies. -- Grenville Kleiser
The extent to which human aggression exemplifies innate tendencies is not clear. -- B. F. Skinner
The bull-fighter has merely demonstrated that he is a butcher with balletic tendencies. -- Brigid Brophy
Trump has a lot of authoritarian tendencies that need to be a serious concern. -- Jonathan Chait
The integrative tendencies of the individual are incomparably more dangerous than his self-assertive tendencies. -- Arthur Koestler
I describe my personal style as 'mythic space horse with chocolate box tendencies.' -- Gwendoline Christie
Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes. -- David Foster Wallace
Overcoming negative tendencies and enhancing positive potential are the very essence of the spiritual path. -- Dalai Lama
Fundamentalist tendencies and movements existed, so far as I know, in all societies and civilizations. -- Samuel P. Huntington
Self-leadership is about awareness, tolerance , and not letting your own natural tendencies limit your potential. -- Scott Belsky
I've always been more visual-based. I've kept my musical tendencies kind of in the closet. -- Grant Evans
You have sexual tendencies that are not normal, and you should be ashamed of them. -- Scott Dikkers
We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
A black President? Now come on y'all, we got Clinton, that's close. He got negro tendencies. -- Chris Tucker
Most ideas never happen. It's an uphill battle against the status quo and our own tendencies. -- Scott Belsky
The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person. -- Alain de Botton
No matter what you experience in life, it incorporates political tendencies, and in so many ways. -- John Lydon
Sufis are those who have expunged from their minds the human tendencies of envy and enmity. -- Idries Shah
We really need to stop the imperialist tendencies of countries like the United States and Great Britain -- Cindy Sheehan
Governments can be useful to the governed only so long as inherent tendencies toward tyranny are restrained. -- Frank Herbert
A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people -- Al-Ghazali
We really need to stop the imperialist tendencies of countries like the United States and Great Britain. -- Cindy Sheehan
Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia. -- Aristotle
Except when he has regressive tendencies, the child's nature is to aim directly and energetically at functional independence. -- Maria Montessori
The opposing tendencies of concentration and spread are of little consequence in the liberal model of political economy. -- Robert Gilpin
When we are aware of our weaknesses or negative tendencies, we open the opportunity to work on them. -- Allan Lokos
I wouldn't tell anyone to study werewolves - I studied wolves, how they moved, their tendencies and sensibilities. -- Joe Manganiello
If you think the country is a bastion only of nasty tendencies and racism and oppression, that is anti-American. -- Rich Lowry
I'm definitely not very insecure, but I have perfectionist tendencies, and I'll want things to be a certain way. -- Bryce Dallas Howard
As elite attitudes towards public education over time illustrate, simple formulas are far from adequate. There are conflicting tendencies. -- Noam Chomsky
Genes are rarely about inevitability, especially when it comes to humans, the brain, or behavior. They're about vulnerability, propensities, tendencies. -- Robert M. Sapolsky
...History shows that ... (people) can be deflected from their natural tendencies by artful propaganda, bogus crises, or other political trickery. -- Robert Higgs
Nature's government spontaneously brings satisfaction to everyone because it promotes all innumerable, diverse tendencies of life in the evolutionary direction. -- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
That which intoxicates, the sensually ecstatic, the sudden surprise, the urge to be profoundly stirred at any price -- dreadful tendencies!" -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
One must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of definition translate tendencies into habits. -- Fay Weldon
That which intoxicates, the sensually ecstatic, the sudden surprise, the urge to be profoundly stirred at any price -- dreadful tendencies! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Nature is filled with tendencies and obstructions. Extremes beget limitations, even as a river by its own swiftness creates obstructions for itself. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
It's unfortunate that the entire country is a racist country.We're living in a country that discriminates, and has certain racist tendencies. -- Danny DeVito
When well-divided property has disappeared and Capitalism has taken its place, you cannot reverse the process without acting against natural economic tendencies. -- Hilaire Belloc
God desires to change us from the inside out. Renewing our minds, starving our self-destructive tendencies, and teaching us to form new habits. -- Beth Moore
Neurosis can be understood best as the battle between tendencies within an individual; deep character analysis leads, if successful, to the progressive solution. -- Erich Fromm
Third parties in America gravitate not only to the extremes, but to irrelevance. (John Anderson's upcoming presidential campaign will undoubtedly confirm both tendencies.) -- Charles Krauthammer
People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters. -- Cassandra Clare
It's much easier to learn what you should do in trading than to do it. Good systems tend to violate normal human tendencies. -- William Eckhardt
There are three dominant tendencies in a neoliberal society: financialized, privatized, militarized. And when it comes to black poor people, we get all three. -- Cornel West
Suicide thwarts the plan of the entity which sends out the personality. Fortunately, the entity is far beyond the reach of man's destructive tendencies. -- Manly Hall
Hear good things, see good, do good, think good, then you get the Grace of God, as all the evil tendencies will be uprooted. -- Sathya Sai Baba
Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies. -- Dorothy Parker
The United States were a 35-year-old man, I think he'd be in a mental institution. Violent tendencies - delusions of grandeur - medicate heavily. -- Rick Mercer
Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the United States. -- Alan Greenspan
They had the same fears that you have, the same aggressive tendencies and the same attachments, but they were freed in time because they believed. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Children are a house's enemy. They don't mean to be - they just can't help it. It's their enthusiasm, their energy, their naturally destructive tendencies. -- Delia Ephron
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. -- Winston Churchill
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
I understand your higher and lower tendencies. There is something beyond all of this nonsense. There is a wonderful glitter that you can follow in life. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Judaism will be enmeshed in pride and shame for as long as it endures. But to endure as a country, Israel must shun both these tendencies. -- Elizabeth Wurtzel
Self-awareness is our capacity to stand apart from ourselves and examine our thinking, our motives, our history, our scripts, our actions, and our habits and tendencies. -- Stephen Covey
Jazz is the favorite music [of America]. It is a type of music invented by [American] Blacks to please their primitive tendencies and desire for noise. -- Sayyid Qutb
There is the possibility that humankind can outgrow its infantile tendencies, as I suggested in Childhood's End. But it is amazing how childishly gullible humans are. -- Arthur C. Clarke
My father insisted that the boys in my life were directly responsible for my juvenile-delinquent tendencies. My mother, more accurately, assumed that I was the bad influence. -- Lisa Lutz
Selflessness implies fun. Its fun to be free. Freedom is inner stillness and not being haunted by your desires, your fears, your aggressive tendencies ... it's being cool. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
An artist's early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are compatible and some of which are in conflict. -- Bridget Riley
An artist's early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are compatible and some of which are in conflict -- Bridget Riley
The educator should do anything but advise the child to do what everybody does. He should rather rejoice when he sees in the child tendencies to deviation. -- Ellen Key
The short-term international capital market is shrunken and erratic, and cannot be relied upon to cushion the effects of tendencies to disequilibrium in the balance of payments. -- Gunnar Myrdal
I have a lot of pot tendencies. I'm always late, I laugh for no reason, I watch Jeopardy! with the sound off and make up my own questions. -- Dave Attell
The art of governing is a great metier, requiring the whole man, and it is therefore not well for a ruler to have too strong tendencies for other affairs. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In the principle of equality I very clearly discern two tendencies; one leading the mind of every man to untried thoughts, the other prohibiting him from thinking at all. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
We all have these tendencies in us that could go this way or that. I think that's the real key in writing. To look at a character without judgment. -- Paul Haggis
It has always been my belief that children inherit the suppressed tendencies of their parents. A clergyman's son frequently shows abnormal tastes for the pleasures that his father denied himself ... -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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