#tendency

Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch. ↗

— Tim Berners-Lee

#anyone #come #computer #dream #dreams

The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#great things #human #important #little #little things

When a poll is really, really out of whack with what I want to happen, I do have a tendency to disregard it. ↗

— Rush Limbaugh

#happen #i #i do #out #poll

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. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#beyond #cause #causes #i #just

There's a tendency in politics to attribute bad motivation much too quickly, and the sooner you attribute bad motivation to someone you disagree with, the harder it is to find some common ground to make some progress that would give people confidence that you got it more right than wrong. ↗

— Peter Welch

#bad #common #common ground #confidence #disagree

I write funny. If I can make my wife laugh, I know I'm on the right track. But yes, I don't like to get Maudlin. And I have a tendency towards it. ↗

— Gene Wilder

#get #i #i can #i write #know

And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization. ↗

— Chauncey Wright

#civilization #combined #energies #genius #individual

Boys have a tendency to jump around a lot more than girls. Boys have that desire to want to dunk way more than girls do. It just never seemed like something we could truly fathom and do. ↗

— Lisa Leslie

#could #desire #dunk #fathom #jump

I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency. ↗

— Patrick Marber

#constantly #depressive #having #i #tendency

There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality. ↗

— Thomas Nagel

#admitting #before #everything #objective #reality