Obsessing on evil is boring. Rousing fear is a hackneyed shtick. Wallowing is despair is a bad habit. Indulging in cynicism is… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
When kids are young, before the age of ten, there is a critical window of opportunity when their habits and motivations can… — Richard Attias Copy Share Image
Excusing or downplaying British racism with comparisons to the US is a bad habit with a long history. — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular stereotypes, seeking simplicity doesn't require that you become a monk, a subsistence forager, or a wild-eyed revolutionary. Nor does… — Rolf Potts Copy Share Image
If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would… — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
I had long since insisted upon interpreting the things that Fate forced me to do as victories of my own will and… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
Since the age of six I have had the habit of sketching forms of objects. Although from about fifty I have often… — Hokusai Copy Share Image
Consider these people, then, their way of life, their habits, their manners, the very tones of their voice; look at them attentively;… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Just after I entered my teens I suddenly entertained an insatiable enthusiasm for the delightful habit of criticizing others. — Loretta Young Copy Share Image
Style begins by looking good naked. It's a discipline. And if you don't dress well every day, you lose the habit. It's… — Oscar de la Renta Copy Share Image
We must get rid of the habit of classing all women together politically and thinking of the 'woman's vote' as one and… — Laura Ingalls Wilder Copy Share Image
Even dogs and horses have their actions modified by association with human beings; they form different habits because human beings are concerned… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The hour of reformation is always delayed; every delay gives vice another opportunity of fortifying itself by habit. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is the other way round: food cannot make you spiritual, but if you are spiritual your food habits will change. Eating… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, our existing traditional thinking habits insist that you must attack something and show it to be bad before you can suggest… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
No government can continue good but under the control of the people; and . . . . their minds are to be… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Being thankful and saying thanks are two habits of people who've discovered what it means to succeed in life. — Hal Urban Copy Share Image
The habit of seen the public rule, is gradually accustoming the American mind to an interference with private rights that is slowly… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
It is not the fault of the slaveholder that he is cruel, so much as it is the fault of the system… — Solomon Northup Copy Share Image
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the… — William James Copy Share Image
The man who doesn’t make up his mind to cultivate the habit of thinking misses the greatest pleasure in life. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
They may well fear fate who have any infirmity of habit or aim: but they who rest on what is have a… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Colonial rule means that power, initiative is taken away from you by somebody else who makes your decisions. If that goes on… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Instead of a dedicated room, my best trigger is the actual habit of reading over the texts from the day before. Marking.… — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
New habits make new horizons. Silently and imperceptibly you are forming habits which will ultimately determine the degree of your happiness and… — Grenville Kleiser Copy Share Image
She seemed to know, to accept, to welcome her position, the citadel of the family, the strong place that could not be… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
My best advice for mental training is simply to create good habits, in order to build a sense of security and calm… — Alexander Gustafsson Copy Share Image
Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing. — Holbrook Jackson Copy Share Image
The problem with doing commercials is that the only thing good enough for me to sell is myself, and I stopped doing… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
I am a hopeless materialist. I see the soul as nothing else than the sim of activities of the organism plus personal… — Jack London Copy Share Image
There was the usual dreaminess, I suppose. Also a shyness that caused me - and others - to notice that I could… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“It's terrible to allow conventional habits to gain a hold on a whole household; to eat, sleep and live by clock ticks.” — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
