Michelle Obama

The issues a president faces are not black and white, and cannot be boiled down into 140 characters. Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military at your command, you can't make snap decisions. You can't have a thin skin or the tendency to lash out.

American First Lady

Christopher Nolan

I try not to have actors in mind when I write because the tendency then is to be influenced by either their last performance or your favourite of their performances.

British Director

Marilyn Monroe

A man is more frank and sincere with his emotions than a woman. We girls, I'm afraid, have a tendency to hide our feelings.

American Actress

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

To discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature. Can we not recognize it already in caveman?

French Philosopher

Ernest Hemingway

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

American Novelist

P. J. Harvey

People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.

British Musician

Sasha Roiz

I have this tendency to play these horrible, horrible characters.

Israeli Actor

Donald Rumsfeld

Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.

American Politician

John Pinette

I have a tendency to be larger than life.

R. Buckminster Fuller

American Inventor

Used to indicate common patterns in actions or events, rather than specific instances.

General Behavior

'Tendency' suggests a likelihood but not a guarantee that something will happen.

Not Certainty

Often used to describe impersonal or societal trends, not just individual behaviors.

Impersonal Forces

Emphasizes a person's natural or habitual way of behaving or feeling about something.

Personal Inclination

Infers that how a person will likely behave or react in certain circumstances can be anticipated.

Predictable Actions

Can be applied to emotional responses that are frequent or typical for a person.

Emotional Response

 what will you look like, how much hair will you have, who will you be living with. Once we have all the details of that imaginary scenario, suddenly we feel like it might be important to save so that that guy has a little retirement money. But these are tricks around the margins. I think in general you're battling a very fundamental human tendency,

Why we make bad...

 every 30 seconds, somewhere, someone in the world takes their own life because of depression, and it might be two blocks away, it might be two countries away, it might be two continents away, but it's happening, and it's happening every single day. And we have a tendency, as a society,

Why we need to talk...

 But it's a nice tendency. It's as if the world is flattening off, isn't it? These countries are lifting more than the economy, and it will be very interesting to follow this over the year, as I would like you to be able to do with all the publicly funded data. Thank you very much.

Hans Rosling: Debunking...

 Likewise, if you look at the thought of anger, it will vanish like frost under the morning sun. If you do this again and again, the propensity, the tendencies for anger to arise again will be less and less each time you dissolve it. And, at the end, although it may rise,

The habits of happiness...

 may be examples of obsessive or compulsive tendencies that many of us exhibit from time to time. But the actual disorder is far more rare and can be quite debilitating. People affected have little or no control over their obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviors,

Debunking the myths of...

 work on them as an unknown face would be unwise they still have wild tendencies they're not tame or domesticated they're only trained yeah and so you you just have to be able to understand how they think no touch Troy also trains mountain

Film Star Animals PIPE Vets...

 snapped I attacked somebody at the mall uh anything your mom five years I have somewhat antisocial tendencies I tend to keep to myself a lot and that helps keep all the anger and I don't unload on a lot of people so it was more of ice

Quiet Kid Learns to Cope...

 expanded in time so there's a tendency almost complete agreement that we as humans want more time there's never enough time but I don't think it's just time that we want instead we long to lead a full life now what I want to

Time is memory and you...

 the second law of thermodynamics, or the law of entropy. What that says basically is that the general tendency of the universe is to move from order and structure to lack of order, lack of structure -- in fact, to mush.

The history of our world...

 When we raise kids this way, and I'll say we, because Lord knows, in raising my two teenagers, I've had these tendencies myself, our kids end up leading a kind of checklisted childhood.