We are traumatized by growing up in a world that doesn’t really accept us. Obviously, we’ve made great leaps and bounds, but I think there’s a tendency to force a narrative onto queer people that once you come out… you have to be really happy and really successful and proud all the time.
Girls have a tendency to take responsibility for romantic misinterpretations, when often it’s men whose perfectly honed emotional inscrutability makes life more complicated than it should be.
Despite our very recent appearance on the planet, humanity combines arrogance with increasing material demands, even as we become more numerous. Our toughness is a delusion. Have we the intelligence and discipline to vigilantly guard against our tendency to grow without limit?
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.
Often, we are quick to find blame with others but yet are unable to give constructive responses. There seems to be a tendency to doubt almost everything. Do we not have faith in our own people’s strengths and in our institutions? Can we afford distrust amongst ourselves?
For me, one of the major reasons to move beyond just the planting of trees was that I have tendency to look at the causes of a problem. We often preoccupy ourselves with the symptoms, whereas if we went to the root cause of the problems, we would be able to overcome the problems once and for all.
I have a tendency to really stuff things. I don’t really express, you know? Like, express certain feelings and stuff.
There seems to be a feeling we need Klaus to be in ‘The Vampire Diaries,’ surely and partially because of the Klaus and Caroline dynamic, but many people love the character. They want to see more of the character, but people really have a tendency to fear the unknown.
Tiger parenting is all about raising independent, creative, courageous kids. In America today, there’s a dangerous tendency to romanticize creativity in a way that may undermine it.
Producers have a tendency to put you in a pigeonhole: ‘What does this white, middle-aged preppy know about 1960s Kingston?’
To discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature. Can we not recognize it already in caveman?
My tendency is to be very experimental.
Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and we must resist it: levelling, and imitation of what others are already doing.
I am a central European with an English education and a deplorable tendency to constant self-analysis. I am irritable and have weak nerves.
Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
When a poll is really, really out of whack with what I want to happen, I do have a tendency to disregard it.
No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
Money has come to play a very bad role in the ANC; people’s votes are bought, and patronage has become the order of the day. All those deviant tendencies need to be curbed.
I have a tendency to be lucky and make the right choices based on limited information.
There’s a tendency to think that young designers only do fantasy fashion, but I’m more interested in making clothes that women can afford.
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 learned how to be a learner. When you get in a job, the tendency is to say, ‘I’ve got to know it. I’ve got to give direction to others. I’m in this job because I’m better and smarter.’ I always took a different view, that the key was to identify the people who really knew and learn from them.
Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void.
I have a tendency to be larger than life.
When I started giving talks about women’s history, one of the things that bothered me was the tendency to say, ‘Well, everybody was totally oppressed and suddenly in 1964 we rose up, got our freedom, and here we are.’ It dismisses the women who fought for rights for several hundred years of our history up to that point.
I absolutely insist upon adequate rehearsal time – particularly for the pieces that orchestras know best. Because there, the tendency is not to take them apart – rediscover them – and you must.
We are for abstinence, not prohibition. Prohibition leads to many socio-legal problems. Wherever liquor has been prohibited, there is a tendency to consume through illegal means.
I think it’s a natural human tendency, when you read something, you tend to read a lot of your prejudices into it. And neuroscience is like a lot of disciplines – it has fashions; things change.
My struggle has been to return painting to the tangible object, which is like returning the personality to touching and feeling the world around it, to offset the tendency to vagueness and abstraction. To remind people of practical activity, to suggest the sense and not to escape from the senses.
Big Show has a lot of monster tendencies.
I look at film, but more than watching individual players, I’m trying to watch a team’s whole offensive scheme. I’m trying to know their tendencies so I can… guess. That’s what it comes down to, really, making the best guess.
No matter what you experience in life, it incorporates political tendencies, and in so many ways.
The tendency of experts is to fiddle around with their expertise rather than trying to find new solutions.
Given the tendency of many to picture God’s realm as somewhere high above Earth – an idea that sounds suspiciously like the Greek stories of deities perched on inaccessible mountain tops – it may seem plausible to assume that astronomers have special insight. Well, of course they don’t.
When you’re working in crisis situations, people have a tendency – particularly the media – to stake out your house.
We have a tendency to sugar coat the Civil Rights movement by showing arm in arm and everyone singing ‘Kumbaya’. We don’t really always show the resistance from the government, the resistance from the status quo, from the majority to silence the movement.
We have a tendency to put ourselves last, we concentrate on everything else; work, friends, family, home issues, but we ignore the deeper stuff until it becomes so compressed that it can explode.
I love period drama as much as the next person, but there’s a tendency to let all of the costume get in the way of the people.
Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.
A tendency could not but arise to reconcile with Christian profession a good many modes of life, enjoyments, occupations, social actions and customs, from which the first Christians had recoiled.
There is a tendency to want to treat blacks as a monolithic socioeconomic group.
Some people would view Jackie Robinson as a very safe African-American, a docile figure who had a tendency to try to get along with everyone, and when you look at his history, you learn that he has this fire that allows him to take this punishment but also figure out savvy ways of giving it back.
To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.
The world is full of people with different characters and temperaments. We all have a dark side, a tendency to manipulate, and aggressive desires. The most dangerous types are those who repress their desires or deny the existence of them, often acting them out in the most underhanded ways.
While nobody has identified any gene for religion, there are certainly some candidate genes that may influence human personality and confer a tendency to religious feelings. Some of the genes likely to be involved are those which control levels of different chemicals called neurotransmitters in the brain.
I’ve made my most horrible inhuman tendencies work for me.
I have a tendency toward being a micromanager.
When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would benefit from a certain cool distance to certain tendencies I had been observing for several years with increasing disquiet.
I have a tendency to become very self-critical.
When you have a film that’s acclaimed, there’s a tendency to go big or get serious or something, but I had an impulse to do the opposite.
Good people cannot fully compensate for bad process, but they can mitigate some of its worst tendencies.
There’s a tendency among some male writers to make the women in their stories weak and needing of rescue so that their hero looks like a manly man.
The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.
And the truth of the matter is sometimes it’s hard to be different from the WWE when you’re trying to gain those same viewers. Sometimes there’s a tendency to sort of follow in the footsteps of the WWE.
