Tendency Quotes

American prides itself on being centrist, on not having the European tendency of flirting with extremist groups.

I have a natural tendency to resist conformity.

We are all vulnerable to the tendency to overestimate the likelihood of vivid, cognitively available risks rather than statistically likelier, but less salient, risks.

I have a tendency as an actress in general to ground my characters. Even when doing outlandish characters, that's my instinct.

I don't think that my work is very moralistic - at least, I try to avoid that. I grew up with that sermonising tendency, and I don't think visual work operates like that.

Long before the thousand millions are here, the mighty centrifugal tendency, inherent in this stock and strengthened in the United States, will assert itself.

When you're working in crisis situations, people have a tendency - particularly the media - to stake out your house.

Nonresidents have a tendency to rush their visits to Harlem.

There's a tendency in many politicians to become inward-looking, more protectionist, more nationalistic and more defensive, in the bad sense of the word.

I have a tendency to check out when the stakes are too high in a movie.

Shows have a tendency to end when they're over. 'The Dukes of Hazzard' has not ended for the fans, and it has not ended for the cast or the crew, and I'm very proud to be a part of that.

The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their errors.

If I can't do something and excel at it and do it well, I have a tendency to give up on it really easy.

We all have a tendency to avoid our weaknesses. When we do that, we never progress or get any better.

If one artist sells five million albums, the tendency is for other artists to say, 'Maybe I should do a little of that, too.' That can be tough to resist.

Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war.

I've always had a tendency to associate with women who were dramatically less educated than I.

There's a big tendency to gravitate toward a closed and proprietary approach too easily.

Gamers have this tendency to turn games into mathematical equations, breaking them into lists of components like 'presentation' and 'mechanics' and judging each one on its own merits.

I have a tendency to evolve into William Shatner, with my big fat face.

When it's a rapper's album or a singer's album, there's a tendency to want a text-based or theme-based narrative.

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.

Moreover, we are showing a dismaying tendency to recast God in Man's image.

I have a tendency to really stuff things. I don't really express, you know? Like, express certain feelings and stuff.

You know, I am against lynching and lynching is a tendency of the people.

I have had issues with depression all my life, and it's probably true to say there was a tendency towards it even when I was very young, during my schooldays. There was often - and this is quite common with comics - a sense of not feeling as if I belonged anywhere.

Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.

Honestly, I have a tendency to date dorks. Which means that a lot of times, I date guys that no one else would deem to be a hunk.

Branding music as 'for the youth' is only an escapist tendency. Preference in music is only about restrictions of the mind.