Habits begin as offhanded remarks, ideas and images. And then, layer upon layer, through practice, they grow from cobwebs into cables that… — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
Communication of science as subject-matter has so far outrun in education the construction of a scientific habit of mind that to some… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The specific steps for changing a specific habit differ from person to person and habit to habit, but the steps - the… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
When life appears to be working against you, when your luck is down, when the supposedly wrong people show up, or when… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change… — Woody Guthrie Copy Share Image
There are a few editor men with whom I am privileged to come in contact. It has not been long since it… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
Habitual liars invent falsehoods not to gain any end or even to deceive their hearers, but to amuse themselves. It is partly… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The monotony of staying in one place is the best thing for writing a novel. Having regular habits, a kind of security,… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Drugs are a bad habit, so why do it? Because, said Dimple, it isn't the heroin that we're addicted to, it's the… — Jeet Thayil Copy Share Image
I knew I could not live my life around a husband, now would I want a husband to live his life around… — Geraldine Lee Wei Ling Copy Share Image
It is hard to let old beliefs go. They are familiar. We are comfortable with them and have spent years building systems… — Kenichi Ohmae Copy Share Image
Whatever action we are doing, we should be sure to keep the thought of God alive within. Whenever we sit or get… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
I am glad that the country world...retains a power to use our English tongue. It is a part of its sense of… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
Man is very much a creature of habit. A thing that rarely strikes his senses will generally have but little influence upon… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first blow to prevent the attack… — Alcibiades Copy Share Image
There are African leaders who have the dangerous habit of leading their people into an abyss. In Rwanda we've had presidents who… — Paul Kagame Copy Share Image
My natural tendency is to complicate everything--and then to spray words and ideas onto everything afterwards. I've had to develop the habit… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I had to learn to be honest with myself. I had to recognize my pain threshold. When I hit the floor, I… — Flo Hyman Copy Share Image
As to virtue . . . it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity and quality… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
This laudable quality is commonly known by the name of Manners and Good-breeding, and consists in a Fashionable Habit, acquir'd by Precept… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
It is called in our schools 'beastliness', and this is about the best name for it... should it become a habit it… — Robert Baden-Powell Copy Share Image
I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts; for the soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. Soak it then… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
You need to put what you learn into practice and do it over and over again until it's a habit. I always… — Brett Hoebel Copy Share Image
Spiritual strongholds begin with a thought. One thought becomes a consideration. A consideration develops into an attitude, which leads then to action.… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
I'm bad at a ton of things. I'm bad at sitting still. I'm bad at basketball. My worst habit is that while… — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
Whenever I write anything, I do sing to it, to try and make sure it's interesting or compelling to sing to. I've… — Aaron Dessner Copy Share Image
The biggest moment of flexibility in our shopping habits is when we have a child, because all of your old routines go… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
I believe the conservatives need to push back against the ungrateful habit of blaming the West by pointing repeatedly to the self-inflicted… — Amy Wax Copy Share Image
The ‘absorbent mind’ welcomes everything, puts its hope in everything, accepts poverty equally with wealth, adopts any religion and the prejudices and… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Beings who are born not only unaware of, but quite indifferent to, the aims and habits of the social group have to… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I remember someone said to me, "Beware of instant chemistry with people, because a lot of time it's the recognition of something… — Gillian Jacobs Copy Share Image
In the acquisition of a new habit, or the leaving off of an old one, we must take care to launch ourselves… — William James Copy Share Image
Keep my word positive. Words become my behaviors. Keep my behaviors positive. Behaviors become my habits. Keep my habits positive. Habits become… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Toni Morrison has a habit, perhaps traceable to the pernicious influence of William Faulkner, of plunging into the narrative before the reader… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I had a horrible life habit that I had to change. And I think it's very true, the later we make decisions… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Saints cannot exist without a community, as they require, like all of us, nurturance by a people who, while often unfaithful, preserve… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
I feel it is my Christian duty to be at least as careful in my personal grooming, if not more so, than… — Eugenia Price Copy Share Image
A lot of what I'm having to do to get myself weaned from football is really limit what media I allow myself… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
