Each person is made of five different elements, she told me. Too much fire and you had a bad temper. That was… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business (Duhigg, Charles) - Your Highlight on Location 170-171… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Developing good habits and discipline, like constructing the Empire State Building out of Legos, can be a long process and a lot… — Celeste Palermo Copy Share Image
It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It's been my habit of mind, over these years, to understand that every situation in which human beings are involved can be… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“I think the world honestly would be a much healthier place if instead of trying to find rationalizations for our bad behavior… — Colin Quinn Copy Share Image
I make it a habit of never trying to judge what an audience might think, only because all points of view are… — Joe Morton Copy Share Image
“If I'd stopped to think about the strangeness of this, I might have fallen into old habits, old needs to piece together… — Sean Ferrell Copy Share Image
“The kids didn't segregate in their behavior. They played with each other freely at recess. But when asked which color team was… — Newsweek Copy Share Image
C. albus...I think the very loveliest of all the lily family - a spotless soul, plant saint, that every one must love… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Weaken a bad habit by avoiding everything that occasioned it or stimulated it, without concentrating upon it in your zeal to avoid… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
“The apprenticeship to passivity—I know nothing more contrary to our habits. (The modern age begins with two hysterics: Don Quixote and Luther.)… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
We delude ourselves if we believe that skilled behavior is easy, that it can come about without effort. We forget the years… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
When people buy, rescue, or otherwise acquire a dog from unscrupulous breeders or amateur rescue groups, they are making a decision with… — Jon Katz Copy Share Image
“But comes a time for a woman when she stops thinking of herself as a girl, as a person of possibilities. She… — Breena Clarke Copy Share Image
“But you have told me," Elizabeth protested, "time and again, that the hallmark of civilization is routine." Lady D shrugged and made… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
Homosexual behavior is a ground for divorce, an act of sexual misconduct punishable as a crime in Alabama, a crime against nature,… — Roy Moore Copy Share Image
Any education given by a group tends to socialize its members, but the quality and the value of the socialization depends upon… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Our behavior is driven by a fundamental core belief: the desire, and the ability, of an organization to continuously learn from any… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
“For example, consider a stack (which is a first-in, last-out list). You might have a program that requires three different types of… — Herbert Schildt Copy Share Image
Human behavior is subject to the same laws as any other natural phenomenon. Our customs, behaviors, and values are byproducts of our… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
While ignoring your bad habits may help you feel good initially, that avoidance will eventually catch up to you. When you don't… — Amy Morin Copy Share Image
“His morning hours were set apart for the nourishment of his own soul; not, however, with the view of laying up a… — Andrew Bonar Copy Share Image
“He found insanity no excuse, however, for irrational behavior. Some men were blind, others had poor tempers. Still others heard voices. It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The mechanism of primary emotions does not describe the full range of emotional behaviors. They are, to be sure, the basic mechanism.… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
“American society has willfully deleted the fact of homosexual behavior from its mind, laundering things as they come along, in order to… — Vito Russo Copy Share Image
“Caucasian laborers could not compete with the Chinese, could not live upon a handful of rice and work for a pittance, and… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Everyone always says, 'Don't take it for granted.' I don't think we do take it for granted, but sometimes you get caught… — Ryan Zimmerman Copy Share Image
There is a compelling case showing us that we actually change people all the time. And when we fully realize this, we… — Michelle Gielan Copy Share Image
“Fundamental to our analysis is the assumption that the population, as individuals or groups, behaves “rationally,” that it calculates costs and benefits… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
In the Buddhist texts, some of them say, when you die, basically that wild horse gets cut loose, and the mind is… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“In my ten years of teaching I’ve noticed that teachers tend to have a bad habit of talking to themselves. I hypothesize… — P.C. Cast Copy Share Image
“PERHAPS the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring increased happiness to you. As you put into practice the qualities of… — Grenville Kleiser Copy Share Image
“It's hardly ever the destination we've been anticipating, is it? Our hopes may seem unrealized, but we were in all likelihood hoping… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Comedy is grievances. It's a recitation of grievances - whether they're inconsequential, superficial - like "my wife shops too much", or "kids… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“The habits and addictions of the amateur are conscious or unconscious self-inflicted wounds. Their payoff is incapacity. When we take our M1903… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
To be honest.. it doesnt really hurt my heart like I thought it would. Im achieving things I never thought I could.… — Cassidy Correa Copy Share Image
I really related to Ellen more than anybody. I loved the way she had a way of taking small details in life… — Deon Cole Copy Share Image
