Training a child is exactly like training a puppy; a little heedless inattention and it is out of hand immediately; the great… — Emily Post Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the education of the average non-scientific human being to discourage him from the habit of generalizing from little… — Gwethalyn Graham Copy Share Image
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
It is not consistent with truth that a man should sacrifice half of his stomach only to God-that he should be sober… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
Putin has made a habit of supporting far-right candidates who undermine his foes in Europe; perhaps he never could have imagined such… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums. — Rebecca Harding Davis Copy Share Image
There was one awkward moment where a black man stood-up to ask a question and out of habit, Bush said 'Clemency denied.' — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
I record all night and sleep all day. It started because you're excited about the music and you want to stay up… — Damian Marley Copy Share Image
Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I got into the habit of filtering out all the good in my life, focusing on only the negative. I'm not sure… — Laura Mvula Copy Share Image
I have to trick myself into writing a story - impose some arbitrary constraint to distract me from the constraints of my… — Catherine Brady Copy Share Image
The most obvious inspiration to be brave is that we all feel it: you can't have free expression right now in a… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I don't let myself believe in writer's block. I feel very strongly writing is habit as much as an art or a… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
When people say, 'When I was little I...' and I'm just sitting there awkwardly like, 'I still do that...' — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
I do not believe that since man was in the habit of living on this planet anyone has ever lived possessed of… — Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Choose to make up for what you lack in innate ability with discipline, hard work, and good habits. Become a creature of… — Darren Hardy Copy Share Image
For a long time the fear of seeming singular scared me away; but by degrees, as people became accustomed to me and… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
I have a bad habit of inserting my ideas into shots and things. I don't know, I don't hold back on suggesting… — Bryan Cranston Copy Share Image
