ADDER, n. A species of snake. So called from its habit of adding funeral outlays to the other expenses of living. — Ambrose Bierce 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
If the most deeply interconnected individuals can exemplify the behaviors that your official top brass sets out, then the rest of the… — Chris Fussell Copy Share Image
All our behaviours are a result of neurophysiological activity in the brain. There is no reason to believe there is any magic… — Steven Pinker 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
More than ambition, more than ability, it is rules that limit contribution; rules are the lowest common denominator of human behavior. They… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It’s the new technologies that govern production and consumption, that guide people’s behavior and shape their perceptions.” — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“It may, incidentally, be observed that the regularity of a habit is usually in direct proportion to its absurdity.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“But habits emerge without our permission. Studies indicate that families usually don’t intend to eat fast food on a regular basis. What… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
...wordless conditioning is crude and wholesale; cannot bring home the finer distinctions, cannot inculcate the more complex courses of behavior. For that… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would… — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
“So why bother investing in one’s memory in an age of externalized memories? The best answer I can give is the one… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
Indeed, girls can be so in need of social approval that they confuse harassment for acceptance--thinking that any attention is better than… — Leora Tanenbaum Copy Share Image
the most dangerous temptations are not due to the active, sudden flames of desire, 'the lusts of the flesh,' but to the… — Sigrid Undset Copy Share Image
“Infuse oxytocin into the brain of a virgin rat, and she’ll act maternally—retrieving, grooming, and licking pups. Block the actions of oxytocin… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“A personal mission statement is based on Habit Two of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People called “Begin with the End… — Stephen R. Covey 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
My eating habits are so bipolar; like some days I'll eat nothing at all, other days I have about 500 cals, then… — Anonymous 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
I hate repetition. Even when I am home and have to buy milk, I go a different way each time to avoid… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
“Every McDonald’s, for instance, looks the same—the company deliberately tries to standardize stores’ architecture and what employees say to customers, so everything… — Anonymous 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
“I’m hoping my routine will break me out of my rut. If I keep spinning my wheels, I’m bound to become a… — Jarod Kintz 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
Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“This was my sole resource, my only plan: Till that which suits a part infects the whole, And now is almost grown… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding. — Dean Acheson Copy Share Image
“Dark feelings can become a habit. And if they're strong enough, like many strong feelings, they can even be enjoyable.” — Deirdre Madden Copy Share Image
Most people are so constituted that they can only be virtuous in a certain routine; an irregular course of life demoralizes them. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Study the habits of the people you want to be like and then imitate them. If they are succeeding, they must be… — Dave Ramsey Copy Share Image
“Rest isn’t about stepping back; it’s about stepping forward with energy. Build it into your day, one small habit at a time.” — Felecia Etienne Copy Share Image
People are easily shocked when their routine is disrupted and their ease of travel is restricted. We are dealing with a complete… — Ashraf Ghani Copy Share Image
We did have a script, but it didn't consist of the routines and gags. It outlined the basic story idea and just… — Stan Laurel 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
You're right to want to minimize your compulsive physical behavior in the workplace before it bothers your co-workers, but I hope very… — Mallory Ortberg 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
Hi Daniel,What is my goal? To live life as large as psblisoe. This requires a constant assessment of my progress and examining… — Aguz 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
“Maybe this is another way to think about original sin—the ingrained lure of the possibility of going numb, a habit of acquiescence… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
