“The most valuable habit I’ve acquired is using pain to trigger quality reflections. If you can acquire this habit yourself, you will… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate… — David Brin Copy Share Image
They that are virtuous from principle may receive confidence in every capacity; but they that are so from custom or habit, are… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
I advised Chambers, and would advise every young man beginning to compose, to do it as fast as he can, to get… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Well, I think the biggest mistake is not learning the habits of saving properly early. Because saving is a habit. And then,… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Positive attitude is the filter that shapes how we interpret and respond to people and circumstances. Attitudes are habits, and since we… — Dr Anil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
I want to identify what a genuine man does—the virtues, the habits, the disciplines, the duties, the actions of true manhood—and then… — Stephen Mansfield Copy Share Image
Let a man begin in earnest with "I ought," and he will end, by God's grace, if he persevere, with "I will."… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
My view is that our minds are incredibly powerful animals that are, during life, kept somewhat in check by the load of… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
A perfect man would never act from a sense of duty; he’d always want the right thing more than the wrong one.… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The dialectical critique of positivist habits of mind ... is interested only in behaviour which is 'important' to the actor; that is,… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
During my practice sessions, I had walked all around the rink examining each corner. I make a habit of doing this before… — Josee Chouinard Copy Share Image
In the case of Anathem, most of the research had to do with philosophy and metaphysics. Reading this sort of thing has… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
People are in the habit of classifying life’s activities into those which are mundane and those which are religious. Remember, though, only… — Khurram Murad Copy Share Image
It"s good to keep wide-open ears and listen to what everybody else has to say, but when you come to make a… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I am a smoker, I'm ashamed to say. I had given it up for many years, then picked it up again. It's… — Melissa Leo Copy Share Image
What can become of him if he is in such bondage to the habit of satisfying the innumerable desires he has created… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Though I still turn up my coat-collar in a lonely way and am always looking at myself in mirrors, they’re only habits… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
We're used to institutional-maintenance Catholicism, in which the institution ticks along by its own inertia and people are "born" into the Church.… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
..."And for God's sake, never get into the petty habit of measuring your self-worth against other people's net-worth. As Yogi Ramen preached:… — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
Let me tell you something. When I was young, I was an armed robber. I did robberies. And there's no adrenaline rush… — Danny Trejo Copy Share Image
Again, the great number of cultivated men keep each other up to a high standard. The habit of meeting well-read and knowing… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
'Closure' is the word used for a loss that's not acknowledged - and the habit this causes, physically and mentally, for anybody… — Alice Ripley Copy Share Image
The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
As love is full of unbefitting strains, All wanton as a child, skipping and vain, Form'd by the eye and therefore, like… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I believe that parents need to make nutrition education a priority in their home environment. It's crucial for good health and longevity… — Cat Cora Copy Share Image
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
Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply ingrained attitudes… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
He will return with a greater understanding of himself, greater leadership capabilities, better work habits, and a better knowledge of what it… — LaVell Edwards Copy Share Image
Rehearsing failure is simply a bad habit, not a productive use of your time. When you choose to visualize the path that… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
So much of our lives are defined by habit or what the guy next to us is doing, never wondering and knowing… — Kristin Bauer van Straten Copy Share Image
“5. Zazen, or the Sitting in Meditation. Habit comes out of practice, and forms character by degrees, and eventually works out destiny.… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
The Buddha never intended to make desire itself the problem. When he said craving causes suffering, he was referring not to our… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
“At some point, hurting myself has gone past the need to be in control. It's routine now. An addiction. I cannot cope… — Cheryl McIntyre Copy Share Image
“We often find ourselves at ease with that with which we are most familiar, regardless of whether or not the trait serves… — Andrew Levkoff Copy Share Image
Self-awareness is our capacity to stand apart from ourselves and examine our thinking, our motives, our history, our scripts, our actions, and… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
I think college is an absolute. In this world you have to learn how to learn and get in the habit of… — Mark Cuban 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
Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
