Quotes of: Tendencies Keyword

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

Jimmy Carter

Our minds have a tendency to wander. To duck and feint and keep us at a slight remove from the moment at hand.

Dani Shapiro

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

David Foster Wallace

One of my tendencies is to let the ball drift too far forward in my stance, and it's something I've been working on with David Leadbetter.

Ernie Els

I know I have a very self-destructive tendency since my mother died, I have got to be honest.

George Michael

Golfers have a tendency to be very masochistic. They like to punish themselves for some reason. A lot of them like tough courses.

Jack Nicklaus

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

I love the camera; there's something very special and sensual about it, and I have a tendency to call it a he, like it was a man. But, unlike a man, a camera is accepting of everything I do.

Lena Olin

Yuri Orlov: The problem with dating dream girls is that they have a tendency to become real.

Lord of War

Unlike us, machines do not have a 'nature' consistent across vast reaches of time. They are, at least to begin with, whatever we set in motion - with an inbuilt tendency towards the exponential.

Tom Chatfield

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

Henry George

I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting.

Donald Norman

In all Games, there is always a tendency, particularly in the lead up to the Games when there isn't much sport to talk about, to write about things that are not sport.

Sebastian Coe

When it is about technology, there is this tendency to just reject all criticism as being anti-technological and anti-modern. I think this is very unhealthy.

Evgeny Morozov

One of the problems I have with a lot of movies these days is that everything is too well lit. In the world of digital creations there is a tendency to show too much.

Bill Sienkiewicz

When Reagan was elected, I felt that the Agency had gone much more into the service of a political tendency in the country with which I had already felt very strong disagreement.

Aldrich Ames

Directors have a tendency to use their hands like orchestra conductors. They don't realize that the actor is looking at their faces, anyway.

Alan J. Pakula

The tendency to turn human judgements into divine commands turns religion into one of the most dangerous forces in the world.

Life

In the larger companies, you have this tendency to get top-down direction.

Vint Cerf

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

Business crises energize me. Personal crises devastate me. The doctors call it an avoidance tendency. (Mirena to Eve)

Glory in Death