And so the liberal tendency became a habit with Stepan Arkadyich, and he liked his newspaper, as he liked a cigar after… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Philosophers and psychiatrists should explain why it is that we mathematicians are in the habit of systematically erasing our footsteps. Scientists have… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
When Harel wished to put a joke or witticism into circulation, he was in the habit of connecting it with some celebrated… — Louis Edouard Fournier Copy Share Image
Communication of science as subject-matter has so far outrun in education the construction of a scientific habit of mind that to some… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
You can get into a habit of thought in which you enjoy making fun of all those other people who don't see… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Habits begin as offhanded remarks, ideas and images. And then, layer upon layer, through practice, they grow from cobwebs into cables that… — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
“Research shows that playing cards once a week or meeting friends every Wednesday night at Starbucks adds as many years to our… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
We know people by their stories: their history, their habits, their secrets, their triumphs and failures. We know them by what they… — Bruce Barcott Copy Share Image
When a man of normal habits is ill, everyone hastens to assure him that he is going to recover. When a vegetarian… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The habit some writers indulge in of perpetual quotation is one it behooves lovers of good literature to protest against, for it… — Ethel Smyth Copy Share Image
Do each day all that can be done that day. You don't need to overwork or to rush blindly into your work… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
You may dazzle the mind with a thousand brilliant discoveries of natural science; you may open new worlds of knowledge which were… — Rose Philippine Duchesne 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
“But habits emerge without our permission. Studies indicate that families usually don’t intend to eat fast food on a regular basis. What… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
Enjoy your life and be happy. Being happy is of the utmost importance. Success in anything is through happiness. More support of… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
Get into the habit of imagining an alternate scenario. By posing such 'imagine if' questions... we can distance ourselves from the frames,… — Noreena Hertz Copy Share Image
What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or… — Victor Cherbuliez Copy Share Image
I hope you will be benefitted by your churchgoing. Where the habit does not Christianize, it generally civilizes. That is reason enough… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
So with the man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary things. He… — William James Copy Share Image
“You can do the right thing that seems wrong to others, or the wrong thing that seems right, and its actually puerile… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Habitual liars invent falsehoods not to gain any end or even to deceive their hearers, but to amuse themselves. It is partly… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The monotony of staying in one place is the best thing for writing a novel. Having regular habits, a kind of security,… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
My natural tendency is to complicate everything--and then to spray words and ideas onto everything afterwards. I've had to develop the habit… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I had to learn to be honest with myself. I had to recognize my pain threshold. When I hit the floor, I… — Flo Hyman Copy Share Image
There are a few editor men with whom I am privileged to come in contact. It has not been long since it… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
The specific steps for changing a specific habit differ from person to person and habit to habit, but the steps - the… — Charles Duhigg 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
When life appears to be working against you, when your luck is down, when the supposedly wrong people show up, or when… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I was watching an HBO special on eating habits and different cultures, and they showed in China how people eat cats ...… — Ben Kenney Copy Share Image
When you showed someone how you felt, it was fesh and honest. Whe you told someone how you felt, there might be… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The man who has acquired the habit of study, though for only one hour every day in the year, and keeps to… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Allowing a friend to careen toward self destruction is not friendship. That is a habit the United States needs to break as… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
The Indian...stands free and unconstrained in Nature, is her inhabitant and not her guest, and wears her easily and gracefully. But the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I had developed this habit of writing scenarios as a hobby. I would find out which stories had been sold to be… — Satyajit Ray Copy Share Image
A habit leads a man so gently in the beginning that he does not perceive he is led - with what silken… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich 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
The book, I think, like the map before it, like the clock, created or help create a revolution in the human mind… — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
Humans are such creatures of habit that once they get us in all this debt that we accumulate from going college that… — Asher Roth Copy Share Image
