Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation. — O. Henry Copy Share Image
It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that whatever you say to them, they always… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
I read God's word when I am not suffering. And then I don't have to all of a sudden establish this habit… — Anne Graham Lotz Copy Share Image
The Golden Rule of Habit Change: You can't extinguish a bad habit, you can only change it. — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
“Make it a habit to get clean clothes to where they belong immediately after everything is dry, rather than leaving things neglected… — Rachel Hoffman Copy Share Image
Habits are critical for players. They cannot think and play well at the same time. — Don Meyer Copy Share Image
the habit of shutting doors behind us is invaluable to happiness; we must learn to shut life's doors to cut out the… — Marjorie Holmes Copy Share Image
Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Affirming others isn't 'flattering' them-it's when you genuinely and consistently acknowledge their efforts and accomplishments, both large and small. Make affirmation a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For many, negative thinking is a habit, which over time, becomes an addiction... A lot of people suffer from this disease because… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
The difference between an amateur and a professional is in their habits. An amateur has amateur habits. A professional has professional habits.… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
You had to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that evey sound you made was… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I feel that between my experience and my mother's, breast cancer is a little bit like someone who lives next door. I… — Cynthia Nixon Copy Share Image
In experimental art, men are given the exact specifications of coming violence to their own psyches from their own counter-irritant or technology...… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
You do have habits and rhythms that you do sort of fall into when you're acting, but if you've got text that… — Radha Mitchell Copy Share Image
Bargaining is a repulsive habit; compromise is one of the highest human virtues - the difference between the two being that the… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
“I learned very early to choose my lines carefully. I still have a terrible habit, when people pause too long between words,… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
Repel the thought, for if you don't, it becomes an idea. So repel the idea, for if you don't it will become… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The motto stated a lie. If this nation has ever trusted in God, that time has gone by; for nearly half a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
the habit of generalizing from one particular, that mainstay of the cheap and obvious essayist, has rooted many fictions in the public… — Kate Douglas Wiggin Copy Share Image
As Latter-day Saints, we need not look like the world. We need not entertain like the world. Our personal habits should be… — Robert D. Hales Copy Share Image
When I was a kid I would much rather have been a good baseball player or a hit with the girls, but… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Now, among the heresies that are spoken in this matter is the habit of calling a grey day a "colourless" day. Grey… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Assuredly it would be a pity if laughter should ever become, like rhetoric and the arts, a habit. — Alice Meynell Copy Share Image
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit” ―Aristotle,” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his errors as his knowledge. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Spurs have fallen into a habit of hiring pragmatic managers when fans want to be entertained. — Chris Sutton Copy Share Image
Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes. — Mary Martin Copy Share Image
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Concentration can be cultivated. One can learn to exercise will power, discipline one's body and train one's mind. — Anil Ambani Copy Share Image
“Death," he had said on another occasion, "seems to be merely a bad habit, which nature is at present powerless to overcome.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge. — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
Are we not like the actor of old times, who wore his mask so long his face took its likeness? — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
People who start a sentence with personally (and they're always women) ought to be thrown to the lions. It's a repulsive habit. — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
The problem with doing commercials is that the only thing good enough for me to sell is myself, and I stopped doing… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is your own habits of thinking which give you mastery in any field of achievement — David Wolfe Copy Share Image
The government is currently experiencing withdrawal symptoms, and we musn't feed the habit by injecting more tax dollars into it. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
