#tendency

I have a tendency to evolve into William Shatner, with my big fat face. ↗

— Jason Bateman

#evolve #face #fat #i #into

For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#creating #develop #directions #divergent #divided

I do say no to lots of things, actually! I know it doesn't look like it. But I have a tendency to a) be rubbish at saying no, and b) be pushed by some kind of Protestant work ethic. ↗

— Jo Brand

#ethic #i #i do #kind #know

I have a tendency to sabotage relationships; I have a tendency to sabotage everything. Fear of success, fear of failure, fear of being afraid. Useless, good-for-nothing thoughts. ↗

— Michael Buble

#being #being afraid #everything #failure #fear

I think that there's been an unfortunate tendency for right wing think tanks to dominate these discussions. They often produce very shoddy studies and policy recommendations, which are nevertheless taken very seriously. ↗

— Juan Cole

#discussions #dominate #i #i think #nevertheless

I think there's a tendency for modern man to become dominated by gadgets and machines, taking us further and further away from the things I've been talking about. ↗

— Robin Day

#away #become #been #dominated #further

I have a tendency to hire people who tend to be unattractive to the studios. Maybe this is a bad idea. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

#bad idea #hire #i #idea #maybe

I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting. ↗

— Donald Norman

#decide #i #i think #measurable #measure

I guess my tendency is to think essentially that the new wrinkles won't do the job if the old major idea didn't, and so you have to try something different. Then maybe they can all be combined in some coherent piece. ↗

— Robert Nozick

#combined #different #essentially #guess #i

I avoid clients for whom advertising is only a marginal factor in their marketing mix. They have an awkward tendency to raid their advertising appropriations whenever they need cash for other purposes. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#appropriations #avoid #awkward #cash #clients