I applaud the American Cancer Society for all they do to eradicate smoking. Their local, state and national efforts help to discourage… — Allyson Schwartz Copy Share Image
'The Power of Habit' is the exact kind of non-fiction I love. It's smart and interesting, and it changes your perception how… — Rachel Hollis Copy Share Image
The other day I was down by the Hudson River, and I see two nuns in full habit rollerblading down the street… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
Most of us need the crutch at times; but of course it is idiotic to use the crutch when our own legs… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It is a good habit to thank always the bridge which takes you to the other side or to mention the name… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Inherited aptitudes and traits of temperament count for quite as much as length of habituation in deciding what range of habits will… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
There are betrayals in war that are childlike compared with our human betrayals during peace. The new lovers enter the habits of… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
We can use decision-making to choose the habits we want to form, use willpower to get the habit started, then - and… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
To everything there is a bright side and a dark side; and I hold it to be unwise, unphilosophic, unkind to others,… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
Habit must play a larger place in our religious life. We worship when we feel like it, we pray when we feel… — Ralph Washington Sockman Copy Share Image
We don’t go further than what Marx called the exchange value of the actual object - we don’t think about the relations… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
On the other hand, there are plenty of red flags that link developmental disabilities to things like lead and mercury and pesticides… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
It is because you have the typical American habit of seeing everything as a test. You see the mountain as your enemy… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
“his classic book Holiness, J.C. Ryle says, “Holiness is the habit of being of one mind with God, according as we find… — Ronnie Martin Copy Share Image
There has to be a kind of grassroots push, a movement, as it were, against the inherent isolationism of American capitalism as… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Our duties naturally emerge form such fundamental relations as our families, neighborhoods, workplaces, our state or nation. Make it your regular habit… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
I hate it when people tell me the end of the story because my mother always read the last page of a… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I am less interested in your chain-smoking; I am more interested in your habit. Any habit that becomes a force, a dominating… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The Aristocratic Institutions of England [had] acted much like the Slavery Institutions of America... [in] demoralis[ing] large classes outside their own special… — John Bright Copy Share Image
Allowing an unimportant mistake to pass without a comment is a wonderful social grace ... Children who have the habit of constantly… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
Whether or not we are religious, respecting others should be seen as just as important as looking out for ourselves, yet it… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
As a youth, I hated myself for not being good enough. All my inadequacies and failures, not being kind enough, generous or… — Mira Sorvino Copy Share Image
The habits of feeling, action and judgment that comprise good character depend on personal self-discipline and powerful aspiration to become a good… — Edwin J Delattre Copy Share Image
“Do we not wile away moments of inanity or fatigued waiting by repeating some trivial movement or sound, until the repetition has… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
For now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
Architecture, like dress, is an exercise in good manners, and good manners involve the habit of skillful insincerity - the habit of… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Style begins by looking good naked. It's a discipline. And if you don't dress well every day, you lose the habit. It's… — Oscar de la Renta Copy Share Image
So, make a real effort to avoid getting sucked into all the expensive lifestyle habits of typical Americans. Because if you do… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
I will form good habits and become their slave. And how will I accomplish this difficult feat? Through these scrolls it will… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
I don't analyze what I'm doing. I've read convincing interpretations of my work, and sometimes I've noticed something that I wasn't aware… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
The man who uses intelligence with respect to his diet, his sleeping habits and who exercises properly, is beyond any question of… — Joseph Pilates Copy Share Image
Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it,… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“Consistency is important in keeping a habit going. Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Don’t even let the… — Daria Sockey Copy Share Image
I've just remained open to growing. What I mean by that is, when you're an older athlete you can become set in… — Justin Gatlin Copy Share Image
Democracy is a difficult art of government, demanding of its citizens high ratios of courage and literacy, and at the moment we… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
You'll see in the movie he constantly does that-he only drinks his tea a certain way, brings his own tea bags, the… — Antoine Fuqua Copy Share Image
The evaluative habits developed in sibling interactions undoubtedly affect the salience and choice of comparative referents in self-ability evaluations in later life — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
There's a sense of urgency in understanding that your body is not really your own. We can control it to a certain… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can...in the acquisition of a new… — William James Copy Share Image
Whatsoever stirs the stagnant currents, setting these flowing in wholesome directions, promotes brisk spirits and productive thinking. The less of routine, the… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image