My dad taught me that to be a writer is a decision and a habit. It's not anything lofty, and it doesn't… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I find it awfully difficult to determine if the habit of talking about oneself at length runs contrary to the basic rules… — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties,… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
Technological innovation has done great damage ... to eating habits. Food is now available in such unpleasant forms that one frequently finds… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
The game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement; several very valuable qualities of the mind are to be acquired and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
When we want to infuse new ideas, to modify or better the habits and customs of a people, to breathe new vigor… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
In the weeks that followed, we amazed ourselves. Our habits slid apart easily...And our very few intimacies were simply discontinued. Where did… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
I think there has been this really bad habit of environmentalists being insufferably smug, where they are sort of saying, 'This is… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
“When you don’t get rid of things you aren't using, you are blinding yourself to a critical part of the consumer experience:… — Tynan Copy Share Image
The individual (no matter how well-meaning he might be, no matter how much strength he might have, if only he would use… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
It is not the organs-that is, the character and form of the animal's bodily parts-that have given rise to its habits and… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Copy Share Image
Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Consider these people, then, their way of life, their habits, their manners, the very tones of their voice; look at them attentively;… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Western parents try to respect their children’s individuality, encouraging them to pursue their true passions, supporting their choices, and providing positive reinforcement… — Amy Chua Copy Share Image
The very problem of mind and body suggests division; I do not know of anything so disastrously affected by the habit of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
In the end, we must restore a balance within ourselves between who we are and what we are doing. Each of us… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
I give culture this meaning: exercise of thought, acquisition of general ideas, habit of connecting causes and effects ... I believe that… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
When a habit emerges, the brain stops fully participating in decision making. It stops working so hard, or diverts focus to other… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
When you're walking at the airport, you're expected to smile at people because they know you... I find that tough. I'm only… — Katrina Kaif Copy Share Image
It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret. Father said that. That Christ was not crucified: he was worn… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
My best advice: win little battles. Get in the habit of winning, of shipping, of having customers that can't live without you.… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
A habit of basing convictions upon evidence, and of giving to them only that degree or certainty which the evidence warrants, would,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I try not to make a habit of spending the whole year losing in the first rounds of events, but tennis is… — John Isner Copy Share Image
Habit in most cases hardens and encrusts by taking away the keener edge of our sensations: but does it not in others… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Courage, like fear, is a habit. The more you do it, the more you do it, and this habit-of stepping up, of… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
'The Creative Habit' is basically about how you work alone, how you survive as a solitary artist. 'The Collaborative Habit' is obviously… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Unfortunately here in the UK we have got into the habit of being nasty about people in the public eye. It's all… — Dawn O'Porter Copy Share Image
The fact that natural-law theorists derive from the very nature of man a fixed structure of law independent of time and place,… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
I really like the smell of the tennis balls, the new ones. I don't need to do it, but it's just my… — Dominika Cibulkova Copy Share Image
Since the age of six I have had the habit of sketching forms of objects. Although from about fifty I have often… — Hokusai Copy Share Image
I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things, so that all our thoughts… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You can recognize in your own reading habits what writers are doing that works and what doesn't. I'm becoming much more aware… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
I have a habit of constantly dreaming and waking up every once in a while in the night to check out my… — Ram Gopal Varma Copy Share Image
I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck. A good… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“There's so much to learn. So much to enjoy. So terribly much to be curious about. Take your life and run with… — Carew Papritz Copy Share Image
“You’re developing a pattern of wanting me right after I know you’ve been with another. That’s a habit you’re going to need… — K. Bromberg Copy Share Image
My fellow students there were very smart, but the really novel thing was that they actually seemed to put a lot of… — Eric Allin Cornell Copy Share Image
The habit of saving is itself an education; it fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought,… — Thornton T. Munger Copy Share Image
We each have a litany of holiday rituals and everyday habits that we hold on to, and we often greet radical innovation… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
Democratic governments are not suited to the publication of the thunderous revelations I am in the habit of making. The unpublished parts… — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
