I was ruined before I got started. I say ruined, but I could say blessed; I was too far gone to believe… — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
“Neuroscientists know now that bad habits have a physical existence in the structure of the brain; they become the default circuits when… — Richard O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Dare to dream. For your dreams become words, your words become actions, your actions become habits, your habits become character, and your… — Hyperion Copy Share Image
The fascinating thing about our best and worst behaviors isn't the behavior itself - the brain tells the muscles to do something… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Understanding and admitting that you have an issue is the first way to change. When you quit a toxic habit, you leave… — Susan Shapiro Copy Share Image
Behavior is like a mirror in which everyone displays his own image...always try to build your respectable image because reflection can't be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, in the north and the south of Ireland, intolerant habits are part of the fabric of emotion, part of the identity… — Tom Paulin Copy Share Image
“The bothersome noise of religious talk grows irksome when laid upon the living score of discordant behavior. Talkative's” — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
When you play, you do not ask yourself how it feels to be on the bench. You have to live it to… — Fernando Torres Copy Share Image
“The fight with my various forms of dissatisfaction tires me; but I know this is not a personal fight. When I talk… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“So long as one remains in the same condition, the inclinations which result from habit and are the least natural to us… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The perception of potential threats to survival may be much more important in determining behavior than the perceptions of potential profits, so… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
A movement starts because of the social habits of friendship and the strong ties between close acquaintances. It grows because of the… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
Our vanity, our passions, our spirit of imitation, our abstract intelligence, our habits have long been at work, and it is the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Sorrow has the fortunate peculiarity that it preys upon itself. It dies of starvation. Since it is essentially an interruption of habits,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Others will always show you exactly where you are stuck. They say or do something and you automatically get hooked into a… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“Sadly, plastering a new coat of ideas on the base of same old weary thoughts and habits is only going to worsen… — Vishal Ostwal Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm conscious of most of the things I've drawn from football, because they're so ingrained in me now... understanding… — Sam Hunt Copy Share Image
“It is only when we are in the habit of recognizing our opinions as a partial experience seen through our stereotypes that… — Walter Lippman Copy Share Image
People expect your behavior to conform to known patterns and conventions. Your task as a strategist is to upset their expectations. — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
The first evil choice or act is linked to the second; and each one to the one that follows, both by the… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
Changing our decision sets up a bad habit. It reinforces decision-making as an expression of bewilderment and ignorance, instead of wisdom and… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
“Less of a love. More of a habit. Remember to separate the two in your mind if you can. Many an unwise… — Karen Harrington Copy Share Image
...long before the child learns to talk properly-and long before it learns to think philosophically-the world will have become a habit. A… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“It is the human habit to think in centuries from a grandparent to a grandchild because it just does take about a… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
I had a wonderful teacher about animal behavior - my dog Rusty. He taught me that animals have personalities, minds, and feelings. — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Looking at voter behavior over the years I'm always interested to see and impressed to see how voters eventually find the key… — Steven J. Law Copy Share Image
The habits that are the most difficult to make are probably the ones that will be the most beneficial to you when… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
I am wary of the whole dreary deadening structured mess that we have built into such a glittering top-heavy structure that there… — John D. MacDonald Copy Share Image
I think if you study people in the street today, you do sometimes feel that they have taken their behavior and their… — Ronald Frame Copy Share Image
“Compulsive behavior occurs when the urge to act out is greater than our will to say no. Recovery then, is the process… — Roger Stark Copy Share Image
[Dinner with Vladimir Putin has] raised a lot of eyebrows among national security officials who looked at [Michael Flynn] and thought these… — John Heilemann Copy Share Image
I aim for weekly routines with clear goals but make sure I do some stuff that I think I'll value in the… — Jose Gonzalez Copy Share Image
“I was craving a chance at the lifelong fantasy, and I had that. That was a one-off thing. I was looking for… — Nikki Sex Copy Share Image
The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The outward is only the outside of that which is within. Men are not concealed under habits, but are revealed by them;… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There can be no life which does not contain something to be grateful for, and the habit of gratitude is one of… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
I got into a bad habit of dropping my elbow and pushing the ball to the plate instead of getting on top… — Matt Cain Copy Share Image
The habit of attending to small things and of appreciating small courtesies is one of the important marks of a good person, — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
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