Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. It's a funny thing about life;… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Whether we are aware of it or not, whether we are in control of it or not, there is a first creation… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
I would always be going from L.A. to Miami to New York, to Russia, St-Tropez. Costs about $50,000 for a domestic flight,… — Scott Storch Copy Share Image
Juventus are specialists because they have the habit to win and the habit to put pressure on the referee. It's a club… — Mauricio Pochettino Copy Share Image
The real key is to live in an environment where the mind feels free to choose the right thing instead of being… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing the service… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Never waste time and energy, trying to figure out why some people stick their noses up other peoples business, because you just… — Jummai Abdullahi Copy Share Image
People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person. They didn't… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
A habit for all of us to develop would be to look for something to appreciate in everyone we meet. We can… — Carl Holmes Copy Share Image
Progress never defines its ultimate objective but thrusts its victims at once into an infinite series,' Mr. [John Crowe] Ransom said' 'Industrialism,'… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom. GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ, "Felicity", Leibniz: Political Writings Virtue is harder to be got… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Let the old year be gone and with it your old habit of getting in your own way! This is your year!… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
I have no business being a journalist. I'm the least, I'm the least - I'm the most trusting, I absolutely make a… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Habit is the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. There is no more miserable human being than one in… — William James Copy Share Image
Humanity has made a great error in seizing on a certain moment, no more intrinsically notable than any other moment and has… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
These days, most of my interactions with young people are centered on the poetry or theater classes I teach, so the students… — Renee Watson Copy Share Image
As Bridget writes to her son, in Bridget Jones' Baby - "if you just keep calm and keep your spirits up, things… — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
We have seen from experience that, if we are in the habit of walking regularly on the same road, we are able… — Vinoba Bhave Copy Share Image
All of us have schnozzles... if not in our faces, then in our character, minds or habits. When we admit our schnozzles,… — Jimmy Durante Copy Share Image
Every day, every hour, the parents are either passively or actively forming those habits in their children upon which, more than upon… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
Don't preach too much to your pupils or abound in good talk in the abstract. Lie in wait rather for the practical… — William James Copy Share Image
I think of empathy as a set of cumulative effects, ideally - that it can be a force shaping your habits, shaping… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
Truly wealthy people develop the habit of "getting rich slow" rather than "getting rich quick." To assure this, they have two rules… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits. That's it in a nutshell ... In… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I was almost persuaded to be a Christian. I thought I never again could be thoughtless and worldly. But I soon forgot… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
The world is a multiplicity, a harvest-field, a battle-ground; and thence arises through human contact ways of numbering, or mathematics, ways of… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
As teenagers, Marcus had been the muscle and Jake the brains. Marcus had beat up the kids who'd made fun of skinny… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
The problem with living so long is that we get used to it. We watch the mortals age and wither and die… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
If you want to develop courage, then simply act courageously when it's called for. If you do something over and over again,… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
Working is very important to me. Probably because as a child I was taught that work was good. I don't believe it… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
Much unhappiness comes from walking alone. When there are several, it's somewhat different. I must get into the habit of listening to… — Alfred Doblin Copy Share Image
I had a habit of watching classic wrestling pretty much on repeat in the locker rooms. With the influx of talent at… — Cody Rhodes Copy Share Image
It is evident from the state of the country, from the habits of the people, from the experience we have had on… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
People should not expect the state to protect them from fraudsters. If we do, we get into the habit of neglecting our… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
I have a habit of comparing the phraseology of communiques . . . noting a certain similarity of words, a certain similarity… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Habits of thought persist through the centuries; and while a healthy brain may reject the doctrine it no longer believes, it will… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
Thumbs up or thumbs down on a website is not a conversation. The danger is you get into a habit of mind… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
“Habits are the outward expression of our will. Mindset is the inner state of the self. Habits are visible; mindset is underlying.… — F.C. Quiles Copy Share Image
Women don't realize how much store men set on the regularity of their habits. We absorb their comings and goings into our… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
No contradictions will arise as long as Finite Man does not mistake the infinite for something fixed, as long as he is… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image