Anyone who ever studied mankind by listening to them was self-deluded. The first thing they should have done was to answer the… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
“I shun all activities and you have none. You have freed yourself from all duties which had been forced on you. And… — R.K. Narayan Copy Share Image
The fight against syphilis demands a fight against prostitution, against prejudices, old habits, against previous conceptions, general views among them not least… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“The idea that we must choose between the method of "winning hearts and minds" and the method of shaping behavior presumes that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Bad habits are easy to develop but difficult to live with. Good habits are difficult to develop, but easy to live with.… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
“I want to say my apartment is no paradise for bachelorettes and would be more accurately described by terms like 'pain clinic',… — Merri Lisa Johnson Copy Share Image
Be Silent yourself, that will induce Silence in others. Do not fall into the habit of shouting, talking long and loud. Reduce… — Sri Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
“It’s nothing more than a mental habit to idealize another time, another condition, another reality. It is simply a way to avoid… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“That was the attorney. He said the doctors are very pleased with your father's progress and that his behavior has been exemplary-'… — Laura Wiess Copy Share Image
Strangely enough, the linking of computers has taken place democratically, even anarchically. Its rules and habits are emerging in the open light,… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
The energy you give off based on your beliefs... your emotions... your behavior... the vibrational frequency you give off is what determines… — Darryl Anka Copy Share Image
This is a horrid generalization, so I'll probably get hate mail from stockbrokers. I would have been forced to get back to… — William Mapother Copy Share Image
“Helplessness and anger make for predictable behavior: Children are certain to shove each other and pull hair, teenagers will call each other… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I think that 9/11 is a greater loss if we do not change our behavior in some way. I think that if… — Doug Davidson Copy Share Image
The part that always shocked me was the inter-community violence among the chimps: the patrols and the vicious attacks on strangers that… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Mostly we're motivated to control ourselves in public. Mostly. At home the motivation is much less clear. At home there's a bit… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
I'm focused on the next generation, because I think it's very hard to break the habit of adults who've got salt and… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
“We are all a little schizophrenic. Each of us has three different people living inside us every day—who you were, who you… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
The biggest lesson I've learned from my children is to look in the mirror at myself, not at them. I've realized that… — Jamie Lee Curtis Copy Share Image
There is a difference between legitimate issues of character - someone's behavior - and the issue of whether someone who has done… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
“Their behavior indicated that the stigma of being on welfare, which had been powerful throughout American history—even in the Depression—had lost some… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
Our society tends to regard as a sickness any mode of thought or behavior that is inconvenient for the system and this… — Theodore Kaczynski Copy Share Image
“there are three ingredients required to initiate any and all behaviors: (1) the user must have sufficient motivation; (2) the user must… — Nir Eyal Copy Share Image
“First love is like a revolution; the uniformly regular routine of ordered life is broken down and shattered in one instant; youth… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
“So we got to the show that night, and despite the injuries and setbacks in rehearsal, we kept the showstopper lift in… — Noah Galloway Copy Share Image
Delude not yourself with the notion that you may be untrue and uncertain in trifles and in important things the contrary. Trifles… — Carl Maria von Weber Copy Share Image
Byrnes... was concerned about Russia's postwar behavior. Russian troops had moved into Hungary and Rumania, and Byrnes thought it would be very… — Leo Szilard Copy Share Image
“People like Larraine lived with so many compounded limitations that it was difficult to imagine the amount of good behavior or self-control… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Excuses are the explanations we use for hanging on to behaviors we don't like about ourselves; they are self-defeating behaviors we don't… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
I always say fitness is the first step to greatness. And I try to encourage my fans to be on the same… — Jake Paul Copy Share Image
Bistromathics itself is simply a revolutionary new way of understanding the behavior of numbers. Just as Einstein observed that space was not… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Francesca was a strong believer in fate. She assumed he picked up the habit from her therapist who was constantly preaching that… — Courtney Carola Copy Share Image
We need a better way to talk about eating animals, a way that doesn't ignore, or even just shruggingly accept things like… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I know that for every reader who has lost the habit or can't find the time, there are people who've never enjoyed… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“Our environment has changed so that the correlations we relied upon in the environment of evolutionary adaptation no longer obtain. This makes… — Joseph Heath Copy Share Image
“Changing our behavior purely for the sake of appearances may seem to conflict with the need to be authentic and consistent, but… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
I am afraid that you have been listening to the conversation of someone older than yourself. That is always a dangerous thing… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I did a quick injury check on my organs and bones. The routine was familiar, one I paced my way through every… — Jennifer Lynn Barnes Copy Share Image
“Notice that your everyday, not-so-dire experience and behavior, what we can think of as your mental and physical worldline, unwinds smoothly from… — Thomas W. Clark Copy Share Image
“Apropos of nothing at all except that it has been on my mind and I think I had better say it because… — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
