Morality, like physical cleanliness, is not acquired once and for all: it can only be kept and renewed by a habit of… — Victoria Ocampo Copy Share Image
If there is one 'scientific' discovery I am proud of, it is the discovery of the habit of writing without publication in… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
The peculiar habit, when searching for a snack, of constantly returning to the refrigerator in hopes that something new will have materialized. — Rich Hall Copy Share Image
People with good work habits have to-do lists that are reasonably prioritized, and they make themselves do what needs to be done.… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity. Whether as a general… — George Boole Copy Share Image
Whatsoever stirs the stagnant currents, setting these flowing in wholesome directions, promotes brisk spirits and productive thinking. The less of routine, the… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
I remain persuaded of the inevitable and necessary complementarity of man and woman. Love, imperfect as it may be in its content… — Mariama Bâ Copy Share Image
No one is guaranteed their next moment, or their next breath; yet, humanity has a habit of thinking of its existence on… — Monica Johnson Copy Share Image
I have noticed that youngsters given to the climbing habit usually do something when they grow up — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
It is so very easy and so very pleasant, too, to read only books which lead to nothing, light and interesting books,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Successful people form the habit of doing what failures don't like to do. They like the results they get by doing what… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
If you want to be a person with a large vision, you must cultivate the habit of doing the little things well. — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
For 16 years I spoke in trial metaphors, and perhaps I need to get out of that habit. — Trey Gowdy Copy Share Image
The demands of the present must stand above the political habits of the past. — Matt Blunt Copy Share Image
Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change… — Woody Guthrie Copy Share Image
A piratical ghost story in thirteen ingenious but potentially disturbing rhyming couplets, originally conceived as a confection both to amuse and to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There is something so different in Venice from any other place in the world, that you leave at once all accustomed habits… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
This laudable quality is commonly known by the name of Manners and Good-breeding, and consists in a Fashionable Habit, acquir'd by Precept… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The key to success is for you to make a habit throughout your life of doing the things you fear. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Eternity is a constant learning process. It will be another grade, another step, a chance to do what we failed to do… — David Berg Copy Share Image
The reverence for the deeds of our ancestors is a treacherous sentiment. Their merit was not to reverence the old, but to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Cardan lies on the rug with one arm propping up his head and the other slung across Jude's waist. He understands everything… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
I was almost persuaded to be a Christian. I thought I never again could be thoughtless and worldly. But I soon forgot… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
We can use decision-making to choose the habits we want to form, use willpower to get the habit started, then - and… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Reality is ultimately a selective act of perception and interpretation. A shift in our perception and interpretation enables us to break old… — David Simon Copy Share Image
To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior. — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
When you work you learn something about what you are doing and you develop habits and procedures out of what you're doing. — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit. — Joe Paterno Copy Share Image
Each season I find myself constantly inspired by 'The Biggest Loser' contestants. Their tenacity and willingness to learn new, healthy habits is… — Curtis Stone Copy Share Image
A careful physician . . . before he attempts to administer a remedy to his patient, must investigate not only the malady… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
My character - and for that matter my worst habits - could only be described by someone else. You can't open a… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
As far as you can, get into the habit of asking yourself in relation to any action taken by another: "What is… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
But countless studies have shown that a cue and a reward, on their own, aren't enough for a new habit to last.… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
Owen meany who rarely wasted words and who had the conversation-stopping habit of dropping remarks like coins into a deep pool of… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I still have this habit, I guess, continued from college, where I procrastinate up until the last moment. — Melina Matsoukas Copy Share Image
