#tends

Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth. ↗

— Sydney Madwed

#everything #financial #himself #his #intrinsic

A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things. ↗

— Yann Martel

#how #imagined #might #movie #out

The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life. ↗

— Andre Maurois

#exact #great #life #negative #novel

TV tends to look for the living equivalents of squeaky-clean Kens and Barbies, but with my dial I'm more like Ken's dirty old uncle. ↗

— John C. McGinley

#dial #dirty #equivalents #i #ken

It's your life. Live it with people who are alive. It tends to be contagious. ↗

— Peter McWilliams

#contagious #life #live #people #tends

He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man. ↗

— Mencius

#becomes #great #great man #greater #his

Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another. ↗

— Lennart Meri

#between #bit #bond #civilisation #lost

In the comic-book world, there tends to be an overblown sense of tradition. Bad habits die hard. There are ways I think the form could work more effectively if we lost the bad habits that were created before we were born. ↗

— Frank Miller

#bad habits #before #born #could #created

The growth of a company like ours tends to be a relatively steady because, like some of the other successful mixed signal companies, we have a wide range of products servicing a wide range of end applications. ↗

— David Milne

#because #companies #company #end #growth

If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks. ↗

— Maria Montessori

#arbitrary #arrest #avoid #complete #educational