Observe yourself as you go through a typical day. Stuff happens to you. As it does, you immediately judge it and label… — Srikumar Rao Copy Share Image
Far better, and more cheerfully, I could dispense with some part of the downright necessaries of life, than with certain circumstances of… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
To me Arthur and James Bond aren't the same because they both drink. So I would kind of equate it to that.… — Seth Rogen Copy Share Image
I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident. . . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
People who earn the label "creative" are really just people who come up with more combinations of ideas, find interesting ones faster,… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
Slavery is so intolerable a condition that the slave can hardly escape deluding himself into thinking that he is choosing to obey… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
The truly creative individual stands ready to abandon old habits and to acknowledge that life, particularly his own unique life, is rich… — Frank Baron Copy Share Image
“Cognitive psychologists define habits as, “automatic behaviors triggered by situational cues:” things we do with little or no conscious thought.[5] The products… — Nir Eyal Copy Share Image
It is the property of the religious spirit to be the most refining of all influences. No external advantages, no culture of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The Greeks invented the idea of nemesis to show how any single virtue, stubbornly maintained gradually changes into a destructive vice. Our… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
But it was not the room’s disorder which was frightening; it was the fact that when one began searching for the key… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We feel that to reveal embarrassing or private things, we have given someone something, that, like a primitive person fearing that a… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person. Two people, when they love each other, grow alike in… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
A French observer is surprised to hear how often an English or an American lawyer quotes the opinions of others, and how… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
For my entire career, I wanted to be a director. When I was in the theater, it was very difficult to get… — James Cromwell Copy Share Image
I have often wondered how anyone who does not read, by which I mean daily, having some book going all the time,… — William Brinkley Copy Share Image
It's so important to embrace what you have because if you don't, that can be the root of very self-destructive habits, which… — Jillian Hervey Copy Share Image
Just so [becoming a chef ] that I could support my art habit. You know? I mean, this is - this is… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
A young man ought to cross his own rules, to awake his vigor, and to keep it from growing faint and rusty.… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Kindness does not require us to be blind to facts or to live in fancies, but it does require us to cherish… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
A lie impacts you as much as to those you lie to, especially when you end up living it. Come clean and… — Kemmy Nola Copy Share Image
It is seldom that minds long exercised in business have formed any habits of conversing with themselves, and in the loss of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Habits of thinking need not be forever. One of the most significant findings in psychology in the last twenty years is that… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
Some pianists seem to really remember the keys and not so much the notes they play. They want to learn until it's… — Carlo Grante Copy Share Image
I cannot really recall when I faced stage fear because I started so young. It's my natural habit. But you know, I… — Neha Kakkar Copy Share Image
It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reading is, and what shifts we make to escape thinking. There is no bore… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The change is radical it gives us new natures, it makes us love what we hated and hate what we loved, it… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Passions weaken, but habits strengthen, with age, and it is the great task of youth to set the current of habit and… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
If price spikes don't change eating habits, perhaps the combination of deforestation, pollution, climate change, starvation, heart disease and animal cruelty will… — Mark Bittman Copy Share Image
Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The habit of going to your congressman's town hall and asking questions, that's powerful in a way that shouting slogans or getting… — David Frum Copy Share Image
I knew I needed to workout for my sanity, and I try and make it a daily habit if I can, so… — Lara Trump Copy Share Image
I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The habit of expression leads to the search for something to express. Something remains as a residuum of the commonplace itself, if… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
The problem is with any practice is that it is a practice. That is why people don't win. The reason why people… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the first weeks I had occasionally worn clothes in the morning before the sun began its ascent, but very soon I… — Lucy Irvine Copy Share Image
The reasons and purposes for habits are always lies that are added only after some people begin to attack these habits and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
My game wasn't where it should have been at all at the start of the year. I got into a couple of… — Rory McIlroy Copy Share Image
It's lonely to listen to the pleasure of others, not that I've made a habit of that kind of eavesdropping. There's joy… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
An average person who develops the habit of setting clear priorities and getting important tasks completed quickly will run circles around a… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image