For an infrequent action to become a habit, the user must perceive a high degree of utility, either from gaining pleasure or… — Nir Eyal Copy Share Image
Every community is an association of some kind and every community is established with a view to some good; for everyone always… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If it were only a few degrees, that would be serious, but we could adapt to it. But the danger is the… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
A certain degree of physical harmony and comfort is necessary, but above a certain level it becomes a hindrance instead of a… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There is nothing superstitious about forcing bad consequences for the hubris of paternalistic utopianism. Humanity should never be frozen into a vision… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up dignity. In gluttony there must be eating,… — John Selden Copy Share Image
If we can muster up that degree of commitment and get away from the uniquely American perception that if something can't be… — Harry Chapin Copy Share Image
To some degree we all live with uncertainty. We have no control over the future. Yet we carry on, we persevere, because,… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Today the network of relationships linking the human race to itself and to the rest of the biosphere is so complex that… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
Even though I didn't get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics. — Herb Ritts Copy Share Image
History is filled with examples of men and women who rendered highly effective performance without the conventional badges of accomplishment in terms… — Warren E. Burger Copy Share Image
We, to some degree, are like what we are because we inherited certain things from the Greeks and the Romans. One of… — Donald Kagan Copy Share Image
Now, bitterly, with one sweep of the front door, the compassion was spent. To the degree that Lawrence's face was familiar, it… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Why is geometry often described as 'cold' and 'dry?' One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud,… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
We've got great potential in our country and the only way we're going to make sure kids are getting the degrees that… — Amy Klobuchar Copy Share Image
When the guilty verdict was handed down, I walked outside and saw a rainbow encircling the sun. Everyone in Monrovia could see… — Leymah Gbowee Copy Share Image
A college degree is not a sign that one is a finished product but an indication a person is prepared for life. — Edward Malloy Copy Share Image
Contempt is a kind of gangrene which, if it seizes one part of a character, corrupts all the rest by degrees. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When I was 16 I started keeping a diary in which I recorded my disagreements with the famous philosophers. I didn't insist… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
Only those to whom God is present in everything and who employ their reason in the highest degree and have true enjoyment… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
The danger of censorship in cultural media increases in proportion to the degree to which one approaches the winning of a mass… — James T. Farrell Copy Share Image
My advice to the college kids would be make sure you get your degree and then go after the dream. — Cung Le Copy Share Image
When it began, Christianity was regarded as a system entirely beyond the range and scope of human reason; it was impious to… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
