“I don't think it's any help that it's your habit. What would you think of a person who went about sticking pins… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
The usual bad poem in somebody's Collected Works is a learned, mannered, valued habit, a habit a little more careful than, and… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
I know how people are, with their habits of mind. Most will sail through from cradle to grave with a conscience clean… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
If you get up by 6am, exercise, plan your day, and start on your biggest task, then your whole day is different.… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a habit of… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Remember that there was a time when you could live without that thing or that person - nothing is irreplaceable, a habit… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We write in ways that, we generally hope, reflect real life, or at least look familiar to humans. And in life, recurring… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
Conversation is a meeting of minds with different memories and habits. When minds meet, they don't just exchange facts: they transform them,… — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
All the capital employed in paper speculation is barren and useless, producing, like that on a gaming table, no accession to itself,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
From the viewpoint of political power, culture is absolutely vital. So vital, indeed, that power cannot operate without it. It is culture,… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
There are many objects of desire, and therefore many desires. Some are born with us, hunger, yearning, and pride of place, and… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
Certain old men prefer to rise at dawn, taking a cold bath and a long walk with an empty stomach and otherwise… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
There is, however, no advantage in reflections on the past further than may be of service to the present. For the future… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Typically, people who exercise start eating better and becoming more productive at work. They smoke less and show more patience with colleagues… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
“As we leave this chapter, choose a habit you want to form and begin putting these principles into practice. Be patient with… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
Every period of life has its peculiar temptations and dangers. But youth is the time when we are most likely to be… — Josiah Johnson Hawes Copy Share Image
As guilty and fun as it is to go through a drive-thru and get a cheeseburger or whatever, I just feel like… — Julianne Hough Copy Share Image
Very often, human beings are living like on autopilot, reacting automatically with what happens. What interests me about the life of an… — Bertrand Piccard Copy Share Image
He must have known me if he had seen me as he was wont to see me, for he was in the… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
I considered myself liberated long before it became the fashion. First I liberated myself from debilitating habits, and went on to free… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
I can think of no habit, kept up through the years, that binds a married couple more than that of reading good… — Alice Hegan Rice Copy Share Image
What will help you to press forward and continually hold fast to the iron rod? Center your life on the Savior and… — Mary N. Cook Copy Share Image
Think it a vile habit to alter works of good composers, to omit parts of them, or to insert new-fashioned ornaments. This… — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
“There the beloved red sweater, bright tangle of necklace, earrings of amber. Each confirming: I chose these, I. But habit is different:… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Freedom means the power to act by soul guidance, not by the compulsions of desires and habits. Obeying the ego leads to… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Toward the aborigines of the country no one can indulge a more friendly feeling than myself, or would go further in attempting… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
“I have made it a habit,” said Miss Marple. “To be careful?” “I should not put it exactly like that, but I… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Each step may seem to take forever, but no matter how uninspired you feel, continue to follow your practice schedule precisely and… — Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche Copy Share Image
We loosely talk of Self-realization, for lack of a better term. But how can one realize that which alone is real? All… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
HYPOTHESES: Evil is boring. Cynicism is idiotic. Fear is a bad habit. Despair is lazy. Joy is fascinating. Love is an act… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom… — William Dunbar Copy Share Image
It is foolish to try to live on past experience. It is very dangerous, if not a fatal habit, to judge ourselves… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I love sleeping and to inculcate the habit of early rising, my dad forced me to take up a sport. That was… — Mithali Raj Copy Share Image
One of the great things about being involved with comics is that those people are devoted to their characters, writers and artists.… — Charlie Huston Copy Share Image
We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The game is played out of instinct, but everyone on the ice has habits - good and bad. So the key to… — Wayne Gretzky Copy Share Image
I suggest...that you develop early in life the habit of retiring and arising early. You remember the advice of Ben Franklin: "Early… — Sterling W Sill Copy Share Image
Those who live alone slide into the habit of vertical eating: why bother with the niceties when there's no one to share… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
