#tendencies

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

#destructive #enemy #energy #enthusiasm #help

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. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#benefit #certain #composition #cool #did

We just kind of relied on written scouting reports through the eighties and even the early nineties. I've really been amazed by some of the data that's out there, especially with regards to tendencies of hitters, and certainly tendencies of pitchers as well. I would have loved to have gotten that data when I played. ↗

— David Cone

#been #certainly #data #early #eighties

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

#lifestyles #reactions #society #tendencies #traditions

When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled. ↗

— Xun Zi

#controlled #corrected #lack #lawlessness #moral

I see tendencies, I see body language. ↗

— Michael Chang

#body language #i #i see #language #see

At our college we were taught a universal approach to find out about a person: what problems the person has, what difficulties, what personal tendencies and likings. ↗

— Markus Wolf

#approach #college #difficulties #find #our

Judaism will be enmeshed in pride and shame for as long as it endures. But to endure as a country, Israel must shun both these tendencies. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#country #endure #endures #israel #judaism

Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#ends #exist #experience #form #our

Just when we most need to be clearheaded, in order to face the hard facts before us, there is all too frequently a very real inclination to give way to dangerous tendencies merely as an escape from realities. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

#dangerous #escape #face #facts #frequently