#tendencies

Humans are naturally social; civilization causes us to be antisocial." From my next book: The Five Forgotten Truths ↗

— Kirk D. Sinclair

#human-nature #nature

In listing these tendencies making for a new world, we must not forget developments in the religious or spiritual thinking and feeling of mankind, where also we feel a strong unifying trend. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#developments #feel #feeling #forget #listing

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

Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#intensified #nuclear #nuclear weapons #our #simply

I think that the roots of racism have always been economic, and I think people are desperate and scared. And when you're desperate and scared you scapegoat people. It exacerbates latent tendencies toward - well, toward racism or homophobia or anti-Semitism. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#anti-semitism #been #desperate #economic #i

The press these days should be rather careful about its role. We may have acquired some tendencies about over-involvement that we had better overcome. ↗

— Katherine Graham

#acquired #better #careful #days #had

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

We all have these tendencies in us that could go this way or that. I think that's the real key in writing. To look at a character without judgment. ↗

— Paul Haggis

#could #go #his way #i #i think

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

As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God. ↗

— Swami Vivekananda

#crooked #different #god #having #lead