Sentence examples for habitual tendency from inspiring English sources

The second difficulty is the habitual tendency for our minds to go off on tangents.

By becoming more aware of her habitual tendency to need to come out on top no matter what, Sally's compulsion to have the last word or make the winning point began to ease.

The habitual tendency to excise the most tragic elements of history creates a void in our collective understanding of what has happened in the past and, therefore, our understanding of the potential for tragedy in the present.

Through reference to Nietzsche's writings, this essay explores the epistemic implications of 'knowledge as metaphorical' and the habitual tendency of metaphor, through exclusivity, fixation, effacement and 'forgetfulness', to 'harden' into 'propers' or 'truths' particularly of the sort we have come to associate with mainstream dogmatism.

With his habitual tendency to speculate, Einstein has said that his experience has convinced him that all history should be rewritten in order to allow a greater place in the chronicles for "mass psychology" — a sort of unknown X, or aces running wild, in human affairs.

Rather, these associations between perception and thinking are due to the habitual tendency of the mind towards conceptual proliferation, for as the Buddha declares in his discourses, the perceptual experience of ordinary people is replete with mistaken apprehensions.

As internal mental states, sensations are both conditioned by, and conditioning of, the habitual tendencies of past karmic activity.

These are the early signs of developing a degree of freedom from our automatic and habitual tendencies.

Furthermore, altered emotion processing may be reflected in habitual tendencies to suppress emotional expressions together with impaired cognitive elaboration of emotional conflicts ([ 31], see also [ 28, 32– 32]).

Second, depicting the 'response' to habit cues as an impulse allows for the possibility that habitual tendencies may, once activated, be overridden prior to translation into action.

Habitual tendencies are therefore thought to override competing intentions in determining behaviour in associated settings (Gardner, de Bruijn, & Lally, 2011; Triandis, 1977).