Dale Carnegie

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

American Writer

Alice Walker

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't.

American Author

Og Mandino

One of the things is we tend to give up too soon. We get knocked down a couple of times, and we stay down. It's so important to get back up again.

Sarah Hay

I tend to be... they say 'workaholic,' which I just find to be 'motivated.

American Actress

Yotam Ottolenghi

I tend to mean what I say: in life, generally; in recipes, certainly.

Israeli Chef

Ron Eldard

I tend toward characters who are more lost than found.

American Actor

Joe Mantello

I tend to go toward things that make me afraid.

Jason Statham

I tend to leave people alone that I admire.

British Actor

Fabio Lanzoni

People tend to complicate things in life.

Italian Actor

Kiesza

Canadian Musician

Use 'tend to' to suggest something usually happens but not always guaranteed.

Probability Implication

'Tend to' can express a lack of commitment to a strong opinion.

No Commitment

'Tend to' is often used when predicting outcomes based on a pattern.

Predictive Context

In this sense, 'tend to' involves personal involvement or action.

Active Care

'Tend to' implies a regular, continuous duty or activity.

Continuous Action

'Tend to' can reflect the act of maintenance or improvement.

Care and Maintenance

Use 'tend to' to show a general direction or trend in behavior or action.

Directional Tendency

'Tend to' suggests something is not absolute or definitive.

Not Absolute

Indicates a characteristic habit or frequent behavior.

Characteristic Habit

Shows a subtle form of predictability in someone's character.

Subtle Predictability

 groups that have a relative advantage tend to grow until that advantage disappears. If people were only fighting and competing throughout human evolution, natural selection would lead to more lefties being the ones that made it until there were so many of them, that it was no longer a rare asset. So in a purely competitive world,

Why are some people...

 that didn't violate the first law of thermodynamics, it still wouldn't work in the real world because of the second law. The second law of thermodynamics tells us that energy tends to spread out through processes like friction. Any real machine would have moving parts or interactions with air or liquid molecules

Why don't perpetual...

 So when we think of nonverbals, we think of how we judge others, how they judge us and what the outcomes are. We tend to forget, though, the other audience that's influenced by our nonverbals, and that's ourselves. We are also influenced by our nonverbals, our thoughts and our feelings and our physiology.

Your body language may...

 can help you do those same actions more accurately. Neuroimaging studies using fMRI, functional magnetic resonance imaging, show us that when we seem someone yawn or even hear their yawn, a specific area of the brain housing these mirror neurons tends to light up,

Why is yawning...

 And he tends to have a little bit more of a feisty character than his brother. He is going to be a challenge, I can see it already. See what I mean about being stroppy? Aren't you? Yeah. That's good, you've got spirit. So, this one we're calling Spot.

Handraising Twin Tiger...

 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, which tend to be time consuming

Debunking the myths of...

 friends to turn to he says he just 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

Quiet Kid Learns to Cope...

 imagination the way the brain is built gives women a tremendous asset in the in the modern business world they tend to have executive social skills they can read posture gesture tone of voice they're intuitive they see into your

Love and hormones PIPE...

 Songs tend to get stuck when we listen to them recently and repeatedly. If repetition is such a trigger, then perhaps we can blame our earworms on modern technology. The last hundred years have seen an incredible proliferation

Earworms: Those songs...

 to financial assets and living arrangements. Cults also demand obedience to human leaders who tend to be highly persuasive people with authoritarian and narcissistic streaks motivated by money, sex, power, or all three.

Tend

Probability Implication

No Commitment

Predictive Context

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