The solution probably doesn't look like the problem. If we have this propensity to worry, to be anxious, to be depressed, to be angry - focusing on the worry, anxiety, depression, and anger? Probably not gonna be the solution.
And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody. " "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is willfully to misunderstand them.
We are not only gregarious animals, liking to be in sight of our fellows, but we have an innate propensity to get ourselves noticed, and noticed favorably, by our kind.
If there was the same propensity in mankind for investigating the motives, as there is for censuring the conduct, of public characters, it would be found that the censure so freely bestowed is oftentimes unmerited and uncharitable.
No quality of human nature is more remarkable, both in itself and in its consequences, than that propensity we have to sympathize with others, and to receive by communication their inclinations and sentiments, however different from, or even contrary to our own.
The propensity to make strong emotional bonds to particular individuals [is] a basic component of human nature
Along with our many human propensities, we evolved a huge cerebral cortex with which we make decisions.
I have a natural propensity to work on big piles of poop.
So strong is this propensity of mankind to fall into mutual animosities, that where no substantial occasion presents itself, the most frivolous and fanciful distinctions have been sufficient to kindle their unfriendly passions and excite their most violent conflicts. But the most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property.
The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery
Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.
If thou wishest to get rid of thy evil propensities, thou must keep far from evil companions.
There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome. " "And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody. " "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is wilfully to misunderstand them.
After all, advocates, including advocates for States, are like managers of pugilistic and election contestants, in that they have a propensity for claiming everything.
Of course, the greater one's need, the greater one's propensity to be mesmerized.
I am more and more convinced, of the propensity in human nature to tyranize over their fellow men.
