There are the samskaras, the tendencies from your other lifetimes, ways of seeing, habits that are so strong, they affect you now.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties. This exercise must occupy a complete lifetime. One swallow does… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
In America, they have this nauseating habit of calling the conductor 'maestro'. I always slightly gag when the cor anglais player goes,… — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
It is but too easy to establish another durable and harmonious routine. Immediately all parts of nature consent to it. Only make… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I really love routine and so I've never found it a problem. I really enjoy it. I don't mind somebody organising what… — Victoria Pendleton Copy Share Image
I've always noted with some awe the reading habits of the Australian public. Australians read more newspapers and magazines per head of… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
“judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
To be perfectly honest with you, I was partying a lot in school. I didn't have any good study habits from high… — Michael Biehn Copy Share Image
I like to talk about a thing I call a "practiced pause." Just a few moments of pausing allows me to consider… — Mary Anne Radmacher Copy Share Image
Owing to the imperfection of language the offspring is termed a new animal, but it is in truth a branch or elongation… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
In a world which furnishes so many employments which are useful, and so many which are amusing, it is our own fault… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Resistance is a result of our mind being attached to having things a certain way rather than the way they actually are.… — Lee L Jampolsky Copy Share Image
Learning to listen, letting people finish their sentences, and most of all, the habit of noticing the difference between what people say… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
My habit of attacking Huns dangling from their parachutes led to many arguments in the mess. Some officers, of the Eton and… — James Ira Thomas Jones Copy Share Image
There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
I asked the Zebra, are you black with white stripes? Or white with black stripes? And the zebra asked me, Are you… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its character as a law except… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Redemption is as comprehensive as Creation and Fall. God does not save our souls while leaving our minds to function on their… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of mind. Mirth… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
To act without clear understanding, to form habits without investigation, to follow a path all one's life without knowing where it really… — Mencius Copy Share Image
“A strategy that some people use to develop a mindfulness habit is by tying it to an already existing behavior that is… — Shea Matthew Fisher Copy Share Image
The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Even though it's hard to learn how to back your car out the driveway at first, once it becomes a habit, you… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
In high school, I had to hide my comic book side, my nerd side from the civilian world so they wouldn't categorize… — Mark Hamill Copy Share Image
I struggled to kick the habit - I would make a decision to give up smoking, but it was hard. I couldn't… — Mahesh Babu Copy Share Image
Long habit so reconciles us to almost any thing, that the grossest improprieties cease to strike us when they once make a… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
You like more the people that you work with, you believe more in them, you share some fantastic moments and that habit… — Mikel Arteta Copy Share Image
The hostility between India and Pakistan has become a habit to which both the elites have become addicted. Any attempt towards a… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and… — Charles Simmons Copy Share Image
Forcing your spouse to stop doing that bad habit that drives you crazy, or making your kid be better at math or… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
HYENA, n. A beast held in reverence by some oriental nations from its habit of frequenting at night the burial-places of the… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Most of my films deal with people who are stuck in certain routines and habits that don't make them happy. They want… — Wong Kar-wai Copy Share Image
There is a real danger of unintended consequences, of encouraging people to give up. Pessimism, if it becomes a habit, can reinforce… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
I was born because it was a habit in those days, people didn't know anything else ... I was not a Child… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Let my lips avoid vain repetition as I lift my voice in praise, O Lord. Distract me from my distractions, awaken me… — Jack W. Hayford Copy Share Image
When you give people who are being financially responsible money, you are enabling them to continue a bad habit. So you are… — Michelle Singletary Copy Share Image
In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is… — Billie Holiday Copy Share Image
Once one habit peels away the others follow it. You have to hold on, or the next thing you'll find yourself parading… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
Dad made me laugh a lot. He was a real comedian. He had a real sarcastic sense of humour, he could really… — Julian Lennon Copy Share Image
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