John Burroughs has stated that experimental study of animals in captivity is absolutely useless. Their character, their habits, their appetites undergo a… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
I get flack for saying [when I visit a college and give a speech], "This is a nice college, but the really… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Now when naturalists observe a close agreement in numerous small details of habits, tastes and dispositions between two or more domestic races,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The one prudence in life is concentration; the one evil is dissipation: and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The very greatest genius, after all, is not the greatest thing in the world, any more than the greatest city in the… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
There are things about quitting the smoking habit for which nobody prepares you. Did I have any idea that I would indulge… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Habits are powerful, but delicate. They can emerge outside our consciousness, or can be deliberately designed. They often occur without our permission,… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
Hamlet 's character is the prevalence of the abstracting and generalizing habit over the practical. He does not want courage, skill, will,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The priesthood holds consummate power. It can protect you from the plague of pornography-and it is a plague-if you are succumbing to… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
The modern habit of saying "This is my opinion, but I may be wrong" is entirely irrational. If I say that it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The only person over whom you have direct and immediate control is yourself. The most important assets to develop, preserve and enhance,… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the… — William James Copy Share Image
Invariably will you find perseverance exemplified as the radical principle in every truly great character. It facilitates, perfects, and consolidates the execution… — Elias Lyman Magoon Copy Share Image
But you go to a great school, not for knowledge so much as for arts and habits; for the habit of attention,… — William Johnson Cory Copy Share Image
If a hundred or a thousand people, all of the same age, of the same constitution and habits, were suddenly seized by… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
A woman cannot live in the light of intellect. Society forbids it. Those conventional frivolities, which are called her 'duties', forbid it.… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular stereotypes, seeking simplicity doesn't require that you become a monk, a subsistence forager, or a wild-eyed revolutionary. Nor does… — Rolf Potts Copy Share Image
The soul, when accustomed to superfluous things, acquires a strong habit of desiring things which are neither necessary for the preservation of… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Your success in life and work will be determined by the kinds of habits that you develop over time. The habit of… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
“I was so much in the habit of having Albertine with me, and now I suddenly saw a new aspect of Habit.… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Abandon anything about your life and habits that might be holding you back. Learn to create your own opportunities. Know that there… — Sophia Amoruso Copy Share Image
The different political systems, religions and social habits demonstrate that the same brain can be tuned in different manners. But the tuning… — Rodolfo Llinas Copy Share Image
The young man who addresses himself in stern earnest to organizing his life-his habits, his associations, his reading, his study, his work-stands… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you want to lose weight, you have to be obsessed with it. You can't depend upon your dietician, your trainer or… — Kajol Copy Share Image
...smoking is just a habit. 'Tolstoy', she said, mentioning someone I hadn't met, 'says that just as much pleasure can be got… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove. We have two… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of discontented in this world, the discontented that works and the discontented that wrings its hands. The first… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
I learned that unless you start working, if you're frozen out of work, you will never learn the habits, the discipline, the… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
It is not your right—based on YOUR traditions, YOUR customs and YOUR habits—to deny animals THEIR freedom so you can harm them,… — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
To put it simply, we need to keep the arts in education because they instill in students the habits of mind that… — Rod Paige Copy Share Image
As the index tells us the contents of stories and directs to the particular chapter, even so does the outward habit and… — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
Dragons, you know, we have a good deal of biology and zoology about the dragon; we know their habits. The dragon tends… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The 8th Habit, then, is not about adding one more habit to the 7 - one that somehow got forgotten. It's about… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
“By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Yes, God loves you this very day and always. He is not waiting to love you until you have overcome your weaknesses… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
What we know from lab studies is that it's never too late to break a habit. Habits are malleable throughout your entire… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
My healthiest habit is eating a healthy breakfast every morning. I never miss breakfast. As a busy mom, there will be days… — Summer Sanders Copy Share Image
The great intellectual tradition that comes down to us from the past was never interrupted or lost through such trifles as the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A piratical ghost story in thirteen ingenious but potentially disturbing rhyming couplets, originally conceived as a confection both to amuse and to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
![“I get flack for saying [when I visit a college and give a speech], "This is a nice college, but the really great educator is McDonald's." They hate me for saying this and think I'm a slimy creature. But McDonald's hires people with bad work habits, trains them, and teaches them to come to work on…” quote by Charlie Munger](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/5b8/charlie-munger-458_college_i-get-flack-for-saying-when-i-visit-a-co_2991447.jpg)
