Many a bad habit is developed through overindulgence, and many a good one by chastisement; therefore, beat your son as well as… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war. Yet despite this capacity for internecine warfare, most companies roll along relatively peacefully,… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
With impeccable prose, dry wit, and uncommon wisdom, Ted Thompson brings to life one family's painful disappointments and powerful resilience. The Land… — Maggie Shipstead Copy Share Image
If you get into the habit of being quick it is just as easy as being slow. — Anna Sewell Copy Share Image
One of the gladdest moments of human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with… — Richard Burton Copy Share Image
My cat, Kevin, has adorable habits - he waits for me while I'm showering because he loves to have his face washed… — Emily Procter Copy Share Image
You surely can't be trying to blame us for Erak's habit of charging ashore waving an axe and grabbing everything that isn't… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
The consequences of these institutions (The towns or districts, the congregations, the schools,and the militia.) have been, that the inhabitants, having acquired… — John Adams Copy Share Image
All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits. — William James Copy Share Image
Those who marry God can become domesticated too - it's just as hum-drum a marriage as all the others. The word Love… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Society exists through a process of transmission quite as much as biological life. This transmission occurs by means of communication of habits… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit. — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
You do anything long enough to escape the habit of living until the escape becomes the habit. — David Ryan Copy Share Image
A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its character as a law except… — Charles Sanders Peirce 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
Poetry was syllable and rhythm. Poetry was the measurement of breath. Poetry was time make audible. Poetry evoked the present moment; poetry… — Damon Galgut Copy Share Image
Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy men to live calmly — George Eliot Copy Share Image
In all the areas of life where people have sought and found consolation through forbidding their desires-sex in particular, and taste in… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Inculcate assertiveness in your behavior. If your style is passive you may be shy or overly easy going. — Anil Sinha Copy Share Image
During my adolescent years, I watched a lot of theatre. I had the habit of enacting every scene I saw in front… — Saswata Chatterjee Copy Share Image
As one gets older being sad and miserable can become a bit of a habit. To counteract this, she suggests making a… — Rumer Godden Copy Share Image
Too many of us suffer from pervasive feelings of personal powerlessness. We have a terrible habit of obstructing our own paths forward,… — Amy Cuddy Copy Share Image
In times past...it was my habit to talk glibly of the right of man to land. It was a bad habit, and… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
