Most human beings live like a bird in a cage whose door was blown away. Out of habit, too busy gold-plating the… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
You have thousands of choices and decisions to make everyday. You have the right to not go to the gym, you the… — Robert Cheeke Copy Share Image
Where nationally televised news had been a once-nightly ritual, it has since grown into a 24-hour-a-day habit, available on channels devoted entirely… — Dave Itzkoff Copy Share Image
You will have to put aside some things in your life, habits, ideas, ways of seeing life. You will have to learn… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Almost everything we'll ever do in life that is really powerful, that really produces a result in our lives, that quantum-leaps us… — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
To quit between tee and green is more habit-forming than drinking a highball before breakfast. — Sam Snead Copy Share Image
In my fairly disorganized life, yellow stickies are too easily lost, and as for software, I try to avoid using my computer… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping. Happiness is a habit. Cultivate it. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
I write like anyone involved with a family and a full time job: in stolen moments. I've had to adapt because I… — Vandana Singh Copy Share Image
Write every day, just to keep in the habit, and remember that whatever you have written is neither as good nor as… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
Character isn't what we think it is or, rather, what we want it to be. It isn't a stable, easily identifiable set… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
People are used to streaming and binge-watching. When they see an author they like, if there's only one book, even if they… — Marcia Clark Copy Share Image
the most dangerous temptations are not due to the active, sudden flames of desire, 'the lusts of the flesh,' but to the… — Sigrid Undset Copy Share Image
Delving deeper into character's motivations one thing I always find helpful is to imagine the person as a child, imagine them at… — Luke Kirby Copy Share Image
Complaining becomes a habit. Focusing on the negative also becomes a habit. It’s one of the most detrimental habits you can possibly… — T. Harv Eker Copy Share Image
As a kid, I didn't have a shower at home, and I was used to taking bucket baths, so I went back… — Rupali Ganguly Copy Share Image
No sausage?" he asked. Apparently my pork consumption habits were a matter of public record. — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
“By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
Sometimes I get the feeling that we're just a bunch of habits. The gestures we repeat over and over, they're just our… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Toleration of people who differ in convictions and habits requires a residual awareness of the complexity of truth and the possibility of… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
I liked the fact she understood how we all have little secret habits that seem normal enough to us, but which we… — A.M. Homes Copy Share Image
For legislators make the citizens good by forming habits in them, and this is the wish of every legislator, and those who… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I'm a full-time believer in writing habits...You may be able to do without them if you have genius but most of us… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
He pushed himself to his feet. “Don’t lie, Sansa. I am malformed, scarred, and small, but…” she could see him groping “…abed,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by… — George A. Smith Copy Share Image
Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The key to becoming a more efficient leader isn't checking off all the items on your to-do list each day. It's in… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
By changing our mindset and habits, we can actually dramatically change the course of life, improve intelligence, productivity, improve the quality of… — Shawn Achor Copy Share Image
“Every day is a new beginning, the building of a habit. Every action is a step in some direction. There is no… — Anna White Copy Share Image
Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
We need a better way to talk about eating animals, a way that doesn't ignore, or even just shruggingly accept things like… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Slavery naturally tends to destroy all sense of justice and equity. It puffs up the mind with pride: teaches youth a habit… — David Rice Copy Share Image
The pro-psychedelic plant position is clearly an antidrugs position. Drug dependencies are the result of habitual, unexamined, and obsessive behavior; these are… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
