Quotes about Tendency
There has always been a tendency to classify children almost as a distinct species.
Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void.
For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided.
In the period from 1824 to 1833, the tendency was steadily in the former direction, but it was only in the latter part of it that it was made really efficient.
I have a tendency to lean towards a more retro look.
Women have a tendency not to give up realms once they take over new ones. We are still proprietary over the domestic realm even as we take over new professional realms, and that is a real problem.
Campaigns that are steady in the early going have a tendency to remain that way to the end.
I'm not very sympathetic to the tendency to bring art to the people.
There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war.
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.
The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects.
Dodd-Frank is an important statute, but often when the government believes it's handling a particularly important issue, there can be a tendency to overreach.
There's this tendency to think of the individual and the collective are somehow at odds or separate. But I think that's really false. We're all both. And when the individual suffers, the collective suffers, and vice versa.
AV does not bring you greater proportionality - and there is a tendency for parties to gang up on one of the major ones to run an 'anyone but' campaign.
I have a tendency to dip my foot in self-destructive behavior.
What concerns me, is the general social tendency to enforce a level, above which nothing rises and stands out.
I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting.
I think people have a tendency to read into more than there is.
Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.
I avoid clients for whom advertising is only a marginal factor in their marketing mix. They have an awkward tendency to raid their advertising appropriations whenever they need cash for other purposes.
The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.
When you write a roman a clef, there is a tendency on the part of the reader to wonder how much of this is true, how much invented.
We do things like a curry in a pressure cooker in 12 minutes. When you're on a diet you're hungry so you have a tendency to pick. So hopefully, if you can cook a meal quickly, you won't reach for the crisps.
I have a tendency to campaign positively and campaign on issues, not try to tear someone else down.
Ironically, fashion trends, be it denim or polka dots, have a tendency to perpetuate the contrary.
I think there's a danger, for me at least, in retreating and going inward and depression. I have to stay diligent against that tendency.
I try not to have actors in mind when I write because the tendency then is to be influenced by either their last performance or your favourite of their performances.
I have a tendency toward being a micromanager.
In any bureaucracy, there's a natural tendency to let the system become an excuse for inaction.
And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.
