Habit is thus the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the… — William James Copy Share Image
We have built into the constitution of the human race the habit and desire of taking, as divorced from its natural precursor… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
Allowing an unimportant mistake to pass without a comment is a wonderful social grace ... Children who have the habit of constantly… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
Baseball is a habit. The slowly rising crescendo of each game, the rhythm of the long season--these are the essentials and they… — George Will Copy Share Image
I was playing Sultan Razia and had a habit of twitching my wrist when I took a movement. — Rohini Hattangadi Copy Share Image
When the aggregate amount of solid matter transported by rivers in a given number of centuries from a large continent, shall be… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
The life of the artist should be distinguished from that of all other people, even in external habits. They are Brahmins, a… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Because of the increasing rates of obesity, unhealthy eating habits and physical inactivity, we may see the first generation that will be… — Richard Carmona Copy Share Image
“The extent to which perception and, consequently, vision are dependent upon memory and imagination is a matter of every day experience. We… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Spirituality is impacted not only by remembrance but by diet, stress, sleeping and eating habits among other things. Take care of yourself. — Nouman Ali Khan Copy Share Image
I have no business being a journalist. I'm the least, I'm the least - I'm the most trusting, I absolutely make a… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I believe we should continue to have a partnership of national states each retaining the right to protect its vital interests, but… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Men are not to be judged by their looks, habits, and appearances; but by the character of their lives and conversations, and… — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
Perfection consists in one thing alone, which is doing the will of God. For, according to Our Lord's words, it suffices for… — St. Vincent Copy Share Image
Certainly, we shouldn't go about making a habit of taking generals and making them secretary of defense. — Peter R. Mansoor Copy Share Image
In the native world, major gods come in trios, duos, and groups. It is the habit of non-natives to discover the supreme… — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Long accustomed to the use of European manufactures, [the Cherokee Indians] are as incapable of returning to their habits of skinsand furs… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In the long run men inevitably become the victims of their wealth. They adapt their lives and habits to their money, not… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
The great enemy of any attempt to change men's habits is inertia. Civilization is limited by intertia. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Not listening to what my wife tells me is my worst habit. I'm always losing my concentration. — Hugh Dennis Copy Share Image
Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“I put my hand on my chest, a habit I never quite shook after losing my heart.” — Jessica Fortunato Copy Share Image
The easiest method of acquiring the habit of scholarship is through acquiring the ability to express oneself clearly in discussing and disputing… — Ibn Khaldun Copy Share Image
We all fall into our habits, our routines, our ruts. They're used quite often, consciously or unconsciously, to avoid living, to avoid… — Andrew Stanton Copy Share Image
Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything. Unless in the first waking moment of the day you learn to… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The habits of liberals, their automatic language, their knee-jerk responses to certain issues, deserved the epithets the right wing stuck them with.… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
We want to sing the love of danger, the habit of energy and rashness. — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Copy Share Image
You must acquire the habits and skills of managing a small amount of money before you can have a large amount. Remember,… — T. Harv Eker Copy Share Image
Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking Program achieved for me a thing that I thought was not possible - to give… — Anjelica Huston Copy Share Image
Before a new chapter is begun, the old one has to be finished: tell yourself that what has passed will never come… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best. — Marva Collins Copy Share Image
we need to break the habit of overreacting because of our speedy assumption and judgments — Richard Carlson Copy Share Image
Doctrine is useless if it is not accompanied by a holy life. It is worse than useless; it does positive harm. Something… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Creativity is an area in which younger people have a tremendous advantage, since they have an endearing habit of always questioning past… — William Redington Hewlett Copy Share Image
In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely! — Edmund Husserl Copy Share Image
I always joke that everything else that I do is to support my theater habit. — Megan Hilty Copy Share Image