“The eager or dutiful persons who subject themselves to these tidal waves of the classics and the moderns find everything wonderful in an absent-minded way. The wonder washes over them rather than into them, and one of its effects is to make anything shocking or odd suddenly interesting enough to gain a month's celebrity. And so another by-product of our come-one, come-all policy is the tendency to reward cleverness, not art, and to put one more hurdle in the path of the truly original artist.” WayPersonsArtEnoughArtistInterestingWonderPathWonderfulSubjectsEffectsPolicyProductsMonthsGainsOriginalsRewardsWaveTendenciesOddShockingAbsentClevernessHurdleTidal WavesAbsent Minded Author:Jacques Barzun
“The course of a great statesman resembles that of navigable rivers, avoiding immovable obstacles with noble bends of concession, seeking the broad levels of opinion on which men soonest settle and longest dwell, following and marking the almost imperceptible slopes of national tendency, yet always aiming at direct advances, always recruited from sources nearer heaven, and sometimes bursting open paths of progress and fruitful human commerce through what seem the eternal barriers of both.” MenHumansSometimesSeemsCoursesHeavenLevelsOpinionPathProgressSourceEternalRiversDirectSeekingFollowingObstaclesNobleTendenciesSettlingBarriersBroadsCommerceAvoidingStatesmenSlopesBurstingConcessions Book:My Study Windows Source: My Study Windows
“While the tendency to generate ideas is rather natural, the path to making them happen is tumultuous.” IdeasHappensNaturalPathTendencies Book:Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality Source: Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality
“The natural tendency of all human behavior is toward the path of least resistance. When you resist this tendency, you become stronger and more powerful.” HumansNaturalPowerfulPathBehaviorStrongerResistanceTendenciesHuman BehaviorPath Of Least Resistance Author:Brian Tracy
“Overcoming negative tendencies and enhancing positive potential are the very essence of the spiritual path.” SpiritualPathNegativeEssenceOvercomingPositivityTendenciesPositive AttitudePotentialSpiritual WisdomNegativitySpiritual AwakeningWise Man Once SaidSpiritual PathPower Of Positive ThinkingSpiritual TransformationHuman Potential Author:Dalai Lama
“This transmissibility of taboo is a reflection of the tendency, on which we have already remarked, for the unconscious instinct in the neurosis to shift constantly along associative paths on to new objects.” PathObjectsReflectionInstinctTendenciesUnconsciousTabooNeurosis Book:Totem and Taboo Source: Totem and Taboo
“I think there is a tendency for people to become more isolated as they move along a spiritual path. With more development, people get more isolated. Also, as they have more wealth, they get more isolated.” PeopleThinkingSpiritualMovingWealthPathDevelopmentTendenciesIsolatedSpiritual Path Author:Sakyong Mipham