Excitement about things became a habit, a part of my personality, and the expectation that I should enjoy new experiences often engendered… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
Both my parents were keen golfers and Dad was such a creature of habit that he didn't see much of me at… — Steve Nicol Copy Share Image
My father wanted to instill the work ethic. And, because he knew if you don't learn to work to be more productive… — Charles Koch 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
We must always bear in mind that the primary purpose of our work, is not to get persons to join the church… — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
I am in the habit, like most British people, of holding the door open for people. But in the U.S., people don't… — Raza Jaffrey Copy Share Image
Indecision is fatal. It is better to make a wrong decision than build up a habit of indecision. If you're wallowing in… — Marie Beynon Lyons Ray Copy Share Image
If you have formed the habit of checking on every new diet that comes along, you will find that, mercifully, they all… — Jean Kerr Copy Share Image
Sunday, January 27, 1884. -- There was another story in the paper a week or so since. A gentleman had a favourite… — Beatrix Potter Copy Share Image
It has always been the habit of Catholic in danger and in troublous times to fly for refuge to Mary, and to… — Pope Leo X Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the education of the average non-scientific human being to discourage him from the habit of generalizing from little… — Gwethalyn Graham Copy Share Image
Objectively good spaces to work rarely end up being so; in their faultlessness, quiet and well-equipped studios have a habit of rendering… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“They call this love, she said to herself. I know what it is now. I never thought I would know, but I… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
The other producer of old age is habit: the deathly process of doing the same thing in the same way at the… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
The living room is a monument to my impulsive spending habits. I've got more than two hundred DVDs, including cinematic greats such… — Jen Lancaster Copy Share Image
If a [democratic] society displays less brilliance than an aristocracy, there will also be less wretchedness; pleasures will be less outrageous and… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Five Great Habits for Better Relationships: acceptance (smile each time), appreciation (say thank you to everyone), admiration (compliment people on their appearance… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
How did a prairie-dwelling, red-meat-eating, gun-toting former conservative become the hope of liberal radio? It all started with this annoying habit I… — Ed Schultz Copy Share Image
...there are two ways to meet life; you may refuse to care until indifference becomes a habit, a defensive armor, and you… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
My wife and I often visit Rosales and the Ilokos as a matter of habit or whim induced by nostalgia, homesickness -… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
The beloved may be treacherous, greasy-headed and given to evil habits, or else it can be a man in his late forties… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are… — Ernest Dimnet Copy Share Image
Culture or civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and… — Edward Burnett Tylor Copy Share Image
When a painter thinks to disengage from the world outside himself and fantasies unprecedented forms he thinks he will make a painting,… — Pierre Alechinsky Copy Share Image
Lawyers belong to the people by birth and interest, and to the aristocracy by habit and taste; they may be looked upon… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
What I believe...about more sleep than is needful concerns the individual who goes far beyond the need, developing slothful and lazy habits,… — Alvin R. Dyer Copy Share Image
When I left the theatre and turned to writing, one of the big pulls was that, unlike the theatre, I didn't have… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
I was conducted in the evening to a tavern where several of the weavers who advocate the principles of the People's Charter… — Henry Mayhew Copy Share Image
My tendency as an actor was to correct people, was to say, 'What if we tried it this way, what about if… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
We are what we repeatedly do... excellence, therefore, isn't just an act, but a habit and life isn't just a series of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Love and concern for all are not things some of us are born with and others are not. Rather, they are results… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Spiritual strongholds begin with a thought. One thought becomes a consideration. A consideration develops into an attitude, which leads then to action.… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
You need to put what you learn into practice and do it over and over again until it's a habit. I always… — Brett Hoebel Copy Share Image
I'm bad at a ton of things. I'm bad at sitting still. I'm bad at basketball. My worst habit is that while… — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
Whenever I write anything, I do sing to it, to try and make sure it's interesting or compelling to sing to. I've… — Aaron Dessner Copy Share Image
The biggest moment of flexibility in our shopping habits is when we have a child, because all of your old routines go… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts; for the soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. Soak it then… — Marcus Aurelius 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
As to virtue . . . it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity and quality… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image