“He had been educated in no habits of application and concentration. The system which had addressed him in exactly the same manner… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“We fail to take responsibility, to act productively in the interest of ourselves and others. And in our attempts at a better… — Hanzi Freinacht Copy Share Image
“The universe, it appeared, had never been kind to Captain Bortrek, conspiring against him in a fashion that Threepio privately considered unlikely… — Barbara Hambly Copy Share Image
“Prayer of an Anonymous Abbess: Lord, thou knowest better than myself that I am growing older and will soon be old. Keep… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you're looking for like, a pure base for your behavior on stage, maybe it's better to say, "Yeah, you're not obliged… — Richard Maxwell Copy Share Image
“I wasn’t in the habit of spewing out personal facts in a church setting. While I was here, I was bound and… — Wade Kelly Copy Share Image
“Artists have a habit of becoming what they practice on the canvas. Who knows when it began? When he discovered that the… — Megan Rich Copy Share Image
An idea is a light turned on in a man's soul. Comic-strip artists are in the habit of representing it by means… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“In addition to the myth that one day your life will be fundamentally different, you may believe, and hope, that one day… — David Deida Copy Share Image
The vast majority of unfaithful people are experiencing a conflict between their values and their behavior, and that is the mess of… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
“Nearly all American behavioral scientists since about 1920, and frequently much earlier, have adapted their study of human behavior to the "scientific"… — Frank G. Goble Copy Share Image
“Making the right choice, holding to right behaviors, practicing perfect habits, staying consistent, and keeping your momentum is easier said than done,… — Darren Hardy Copy Share Image
“Schwitzgebel even scrounged up the missing-book lists from dozens of libraries and found that academic books on ethics, which are presumably borrowed… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“Problem behaviors potentially are obstacles in both school and labor market, especially for the African American urban disadvantaged. White men, of both… — Karl Alexander Copy Share Image
“Effective discipline is based on loving guidance. It is based on the belief that children are born innately good and that our… — Peggy O'Mara Copy Share Image
“When you start replacing facts with feelings, you disturb the equilibrium between right and wrong, confusing them as one and the same… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
“According to Maximus the Confessor in "One Hundred Chapters of Love", the key to directing and increasing one's desire for God is… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
“There is an increasing (and disturbing) tendency of psychologists, biologists, and philosophers to Darwinize every aspect of human behavior, turning its study… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
“There is a code of behavior which has grown in Western societies which says every available minute must be filled with productive… — BusinessNews Publishing Copy Share Image
“Our self-image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the other. The word “habit” originally… — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
“Do you wonder then that this man’s behaviour used to puzzle me tremendously? He was an ordinary clergyman at that time as… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
If you're losing the battle against a persistent bad habit, an addiction, or a temptation, and you're stuck in a repeating cycle… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
“In behaviorism, an infant's talents and abilities didn't matter because there was no such thing as a talent or an ability. Watson… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Every job in the world has some built-in boredom. No man can stay excited about something every minute he is doing it.… — E. L. Konigsburg Copy Share Image
“Some are filled with a compelling urge, a temptation that recycles in the mind, perhaps to become a habit, then an addiction.… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
I get bored really easily. I get bored with people really easily. I get bored with routine easily. I don’t like things… — Susan Downey Copy Share Image
... a nation to be strong, must be united; to be united, must be equal in condition; to be equal in condition,… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
“The lapse of time during which a given event has not happened, is, in this logic of habit, constantly alleged as a… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
In contrast to our own social environment which brings out different aspects of human nature and often demonstrated that behavior which occurs… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
“For more than forty years, Judith Martin has inspired the world with advice on etiquette excellence, proper behavior, and codes of conduct… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
I catch myself thinking 'Thank God For This' out of habit, and then I understand what he's so concerned about. What if… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“I returned to my pillow and comforter, both of which I loved; they smelled like lavender, and were so cozy, poems should… — Penny Reid Copy Share Image
The important outcomes of schooling include not only the acquisition of new conceptual tools, refined sensibilities, a developed imagination, and new routines… — Elliot W. Eisner Copy Share Image
“there is only this world and that numbing routines and brief squabbles and financial worries are an essential part of it, that… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I grew up writing thank-you notes. Real, honest-to-goodness, pen-and-ink, stamped and posted letters. More than simple habit, it's about what the commitment… — Taylor Mali Copy Share Image
Etiquette is all human social behavior. If you're a hermit on a mountain, you don't have to worry about etiquette; if somebody… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
It's so easy to settle for less than God's best for us because we don't always feel like taking responsibility for our… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
“Jane Austen's narrative style seems to me to show (especially in the later novels) a curiously chameleon-like faculty; it varies in colour… — Mary Lascelles Copy Share Image
“At the beginning of a pestilence and when it ends, there's always a propensity for rhetoric. In the first case, habits have… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
We have the bad habit, some of us, of looking back to a time - almost any time will do - when… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
