Tendencies Quotes

“Every instinct that is found in any man is in all men. The strength of the emotion may not be so overpowering, the barriers against possession not so insurmountable, the urge to accomplish the desire less keen. With some, inhibitions and urges may be neutralized by other tendencies. But with every being the primal emotions are there. All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike some one they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.”
― Clarence Darrow, The Story of My Life

“All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be. This is elementary”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“Extroverts are more likely to take a quick-and-dirty approach to problem-solving, trading accuracy for speed, making increasing numbers of mistakes as they go, and abandoning ship altogether when the problem seems too difficult or frustrating. Introverts think before they act, digest information thoroughly, stay on task longer, give up less easily, and work more accurately. Introverts and extroverts also direct their attention differently: if you leave them to their own devices, the introverts tend to sit around wondering about things, imagining things, recalling events from their past, and making plans for the future. The extroverts are more likely to focus on what's happening around them. It's as if extroverts are seeing "what is" while their introverted peers are asking "what if.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“Successfully functioning in a society with diverse values, traditions and lifestyles requires us to have a relationship to our own reactions rather than be captive of them. To resist our tendencies to make right or true, that which is nearly familiar, and wrong or false, that which is only strange.”
― Robert Kegan

“Football Coaches do play football matches; their attitudes toward the game in times of tendencies of losing can cause a change in the scores of the games they monitor and mentor!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream

“When the tendencies (vruti) that were wandering around since time immemorial come within & enter into the Self’s (Soul’s) abode; it is known as freedom from all wanderings (nivruti).”
― Dada Bhagwan

“A rise in suicidal tendencies is an expected outcome of a 5G irradiated world.”
― Steven Magee

“Suicidal tendencies are likely to increase during the COVID-19 pandemic.”
― Steven Magee

“This idea of existing on a continuum doesn’t mean, “We are all good,” or “We are all, brothers and sisters, exactly the same,” or “All is forgiven, no matter what you do,” but, rather, something like: “Wherever you are on the human continuum, I can know you, approximately. I’m going to proceed on that basis: whatever tendencies are large in you, must be here somewhere, perhaps smaller and/or nascent, in or me.”
― George Saunders

“All living things are guided by "an inner light" that they "must involuntarily obey". [...]

The tree can no more melt like the icicle than the river can stay rooted in one place. The sun can't shine cold. [...]

[When we accept that humans have certain inborn constitutional leanings and affinities; an inner tendency to be the way they are] we learn to be more tolerant and forgiving.”
― Jason Elias, The Five Elements of Self-Healing: Using Chinese Medicine for Maximum Immunity, Wellness, and Health