Tend Quotes

We tend to think of politics as bad, full of dirty tricks, negative ads, big campaigns, but I am here to explore the original meaning of politics, which is positive and has to do with balancing competing interests and looking for solutions.

I tend to spiral out of control if I'm not working. I get panicked and don't know what to do with myself.

People tend to work in teams, in a collaborative way, in an informal network. If you create an environment like that, it's much more effective and much more efficient.

I'm very hard on my bags because I tend to carry a lot of stuff with me.

When you're a songwriter and you click with someone, you tend to want to keep writing with that person.

We tend to pay attention to that which is the most current on our radar screen.

The first time I try anything is invariably not very successful. I tend to grow slowly, but solidly.

I do tend to take time off. A year and a half ago I went to film school, and before that I had taken years off at a time to be involved politically or this or that.

My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests.

Soft men tend to be born from soft countries.

The Body Shop Foundation is run by our staff and supports social activism and environmental activism. We don't tend to support big agencies.

I tend to think you're fearless when you recognize why you should be scared of things, but do them anyway.

I think rock records tend to be very expensive.

Indeed it can be argued that to make a powerful film you must care about the subject, therefore powerful films tend to be both political and partisan in nature.

I tend not to trust people who live in very tidy houses. I know that on the surface there is nothing wrong with a person being well-ordered and disciplined. Nothing, except that it leaves the impression of that person having lived in the confines of a stark institution which, although he or she has long since left, remains within.

'Statistically, people who have been happily married and then widowed tend to remarry.

I'm hard to pin down. I tend to look different in films.

Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.

You tend to think that there is a big gap between F1 and everything else. F1 is where all the fantastic drivers are, so you just don't know how good you are until you get there.

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

I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.

If we cling to the institution of Islam, then we tend to defend it against whatever we see as a danger to it, so because of this we see now that many people are defending states, defending territories, defending everything institutional in the belief that they defend Islam.

I believe that science fiction is as profound as you want it to be or it can be very simple entertainment, and I'm all for very simple entertainment. Every now and then we all need to come home, veg-out, watch something and not think too deeply about it. It's what you want it to be. We tend to steer clear of being pedantic; it's entertainment first, otherwise we'd be on a lecture circuit.

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

People tend to think of Brisbane as a sleepy, sub-topical place. I don't know. It's like Baltimore or something. I don't know. You would hear the family dramas going on behind closed doors.

So I do tend to do documentaries where I can move in and out of them.

I mean, I tend to do my own thing, and that usually crosses purposes with everyone around me.

We tend to think about fascism in terms of the Second World War.

I tend to project my father figure onto any director that I'm working with, or mother, if I'm working with a female, or it can be confused.

Tolstoy may not be showing that much of Russia at that time even. It's hard to tell. You tend to associate the quality of the period with what's lasted - what's still good. And that quality becomes the whole period.