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Natural Inclination Quotes

Michel de Montaigne quote: "Natural inclinations are assisted and reinforced by education,..."
Natural inclinations are assisted and reinforced by education, but they are hardly ever altered or overcome. Michel de Montaigne
People have a hard time accepting free-market economics for the same reason they have a hard time accepting evolution: it is counterintuitive. Life looks intelligently designed, so our natural inclination is to infer that there must be an intelligent designer--a God. Similarly, the economy looks designed, so our natural inclination is to infer that we need a designer--a government. In fact, emergence and complexity theory explains how the principles of self-organization and emergence cause... Michael Shermer
Logic was, formerly, the art of drawing inferences; it has now become the art of abstaining from inferences, since it has appeared that the inferences we feel naturally inclined to make are hardly ever valid. Bertrand Russell
The natural inclination of a child is to take pleasure in the use of the mind no less than of the body. The child's primary business is learning. It is also the primary entertainment. To retain that orientation into adulthood, so that consciousness is not a burden but a joy, is the mark of the successfully developed human being. Nathaniel Branden
It only meant that my natural inclination was to draw my "energy" from within instead of seeking it outside myself, plus my mom was an introvcert, and so were a lot of normal people. The problem was I was shy on top of that. And we all know how the world loves a shy introvert. Sue Monk Kidd
If I were to draw, I would apply myself only to studying the form of inanimate objects," I said somewhat imperiously, because I wanted to change the subjects and also because a natural inclination does truly lead me to recognise my moods in the motionless suffering of things. Italo Calvino
David Sylvian quote: "It wasn't my natural inclination to get into writing protest..."
It wasn't my natural inclination to get into writing protest songs. David Sylvian
Barbara Deming quote: "Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not..."
Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us. Barbara Deming
Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire. Pope John Paul II
In my business, if I get too close to you and you die, it hurts me. And so you develop a natural inclination not to be close to the patient, so that if things don't work out ideally, you can still get up the next day and care for the next patient. Mehmet Oz
Bill Owens quote: "As a governor, I am naturally inclined to focus on the..."
As a governor, I am naturally inclined to focus on the domestic side of protecting the United States. Bill Owens
Cole Younger quote: "I occupy much of my time in theological studies for which I..."
I occupy much of my time in theological studies for which I have a natural inclination. Cole Younger
Thomas Chandler Haliburton quote: "Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to..."
Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience. Thomas Chandler Haliburton
I guess my natural inclination is to finish what I started. We have a Conservative government in Nova Scotia. What I want to see is a Conservative government in Ottawa. Peter MacKay
James Levine quote: "At my age, you are naturally inclined towards teaching."
At my age, you are naturally inclined towards teaching. James Levine

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