I have this habit of asking 'why do you want to do it?' and then interrupting them to say, 'here's why you… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reading is, and what shifts we make to escape thinking. There is no bore… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The change is radical it gives us new natures, it makes us love what we hated and hate what we loved, it… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I cannot really recall when I faced stage fear because I started so young. It's my natural habit. But you know, I… — Neha Kakkar Copy Share Image
Some pianists seem to really remember the keys and not so much the notes they play. They want to learn until it's… — Carlo Grante Copy Share Image
Habits of thinking need not be forever. One of the most significant findings in psychology in the last twenty years is that… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
Passions weaken, but habits strengthen, with age, and it is the great task of youth to set the current of habit and… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
If price spikes don't change eating habits, perhaps the combination of deforestation, pollution, climate change, starvation, heart disease and animal cruelty will… — Mark Bittman Copy Share Image
When your awareness is contracted, the flow of energy and information throughout your bodymind is hampered. You tend to stay stuck in… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
I think we need leadership that can gently and with affection remind us of what we Americans mostly agree upon: civility, kindness,… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Learning to explain phenomena such that one continues to be fascinated by the failure of one's explanations creates a continuing cycle of… — Roger Schank Copy Share Image
Self Esteem::"It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Actually the right way to cultivate the habit of acting with commitment and strengthen it is by starting with small things. Whether… — T Joseph Benziger Copy Share Image
Could it be? Samantha Kingston? Home? On a Friday?” I roll my eyes. “I don’t know. Did you do a lot of… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
It's so important to embrace what you have because if you don't, that can be the root of very self-destructive habits, which… — Jillian Hervey Copy Share Image
The truly creative individual stands ready to abandon old habits and to acknowledge that life, particularly his own unique life, is rich… — Frank Baron Copy Share Image
Slavery is so intolerable a condition that the slave can hardly escape deluding himself into thinking that he is choosing to obey… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident. . . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
People who earn the label "creative" are really just people who come up with more combinations of ideas, find interesting ones faster,… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
To me Arthur and James Bond aren't the same because they both drink. So I would kind of equate it to that.… — Seth Rogen Copy Share Image
“Cognitive psychologists define habits as, “automatic behaviors triggered by situational cues:” things we do with little or no conscious thought.[5] The products… — Nir Eyal Copy Share Image
Far better, and more cheerfully, I could dispense with some part of the downright necessaries of life, than with certain circumstances of… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
Observe yourself as you go through a typical day. Stuff happens to you. As it does, you immediately judge it and label… — Srikumar Rao Copy Share Image
It is seldom that minds long exercised in business have formed any habits of conversing with themselves, and in the loss of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
A lie impacts you as much as to those you lie to, especially when you end up living it. Come clean and… — Kemmy Nola Copy Share Image
A young man ought to cross his own rules, to awake his vigor, and to keep it from growing faint and rusty.… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Just so [becoming a chef ] that I could support my art habit. You know? I mean, this is - this is… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Kindness does not require us to be blind to facts or to live in fancies, but it does require us to cherish… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I've been into the habit of freezing white grapes and using them as a snack. Instead of eating peanuts or popcorn or… — Mike Ditka Copy Share Image
Our liberty depends on our education, our laws, and habits . . . it is founded on morals and religion, whose authority… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
Painting bores me like everything else. Unfortunately, painting is one of the activities - it is bound up in the series of… — Rene Magritte Copy Share Image
Working out is a healthy habit: it helps you stay light and energetic. At least, that is how it works for me,… — Rohit Shetty Copy Share Image
Could the activity of thinking as such, the habit of examining whatever happens to come to pass or to attract attention, regardless… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
If you hate your enemies, you will contract such a vicious habit of mind that it will break out upon those who… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
In my fairly disorganized life, yellow stickies are too easily lost, and as for software, I try to avoid using my computer… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
People who want to write either do it or they don't. At last I began to say that my most important talent… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
I don't know if this sounds bad, but I am set. I don't spend my money. I don't buy cars or have… — CM Punk Copy Share Image
![“I have this habit of asking 'why do you want to do it?' and then interrupting them to say, 'here's why you want to do it.' Because it's in the 'yes...and' spirit [rule of improvisation].” quote by Mike Birbiglia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f23/mike-birbiglia-1343_asking_i-have-this-habit-of-asking-why-do-you-w_896488.jpg)
![“Cognitive psychologists define habits as, “automatic behaviors triggered by situational cues:” things we do with little or no conscious thought.[5] The products and services we use habitually alter our everyday behavior, just as their designers intended.[6] Our actions have been engineered.” quote by Nir Eyal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/896/nir-eyal-1258_habit_cognitive-psychologists-define-habits-as_2511458.jpg)
![“Just so [becoming a chef ] that I could support my art habit. You know? I mean, this is - this is something where you've been literally given an opportunity to put the world on pause for a second.” quote by Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ef0/kehinde-wiley-1194_art_just-so-becoming-a-chef-that-i-could-sup_2148704.jpg)
