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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I had a lot of jobs, because I wanted to be an actor, and I had this bad habit of wanting to… — Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs Copy Share Image
With the greatest respect, we do not make the criminal law on the basis of opinion polls. A majority of 9:1 could… — Kenneth Clarke Copy Share Image
It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that, whatever you say to them, they always… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
But just as it sometimes happens that the most temperate people, who have never acquired the habit of drinking alcohol, or even… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
An interesting difference between new and experienced stage managers is that the new stage manager thinks of running the show as the… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The life of hope, then, is shot through with social influences at every level. We learn to formulate ideals in tandem with… — Patrick Shade Copy Share Image
I like to change liquor stores frequently because the clerks got to know your habits if you went in night and day… — Charles Bukowski 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
“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
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
“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
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
I'm not in the habit of having my photo snapped on some pretty young thing's arm. I avoid pictures because they serve… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
My wife has a beastly habit of comparing poetry -- all literature in fact -- to the droppings of the goats among… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
When a defiled man is born again, his habits are changed, his thoughts cleansed, his attitudes regenerated and elevated, his activities put… — Spencer W. Kimball 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
I really enjoy what I do, and who I'm with and where I am. Having said that, I'm not really a person… — Robert Smith 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
Lying eats into the soul. If it becomes a habit it frays the edge of your spirit. Truth telling, although sometimes harder… — Theresa Breslin Copy Share Image
As I see it, Being, the Cosmos, whatever you want to call it, is a struggle between two implacable forces: Novelty on… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Thrift is that habit of character that prompts one to work for what he gets, to earn what is paid him; to… — Neville Chamberlain Copy Share Image
I have seen too many men wilt and go silly under a little light, and then they continue to write and get… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
If there's friends around, I'll cook. Or if I have a girlfriend. But on my own I kind of fell out of… — Michael Fassbender Copy Share Image
Much like the French (or like ourselves, their apes),Who with strange habit do disguise their shapes;Who loving novels, full of affectation,Receive the… — Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas Copy Share Image
Here are a few ways to face a habit and say "no" to it: Go outside your fixed routine; turn off the… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Thinking is the great enemy of perfection. The habit of profound reflection, I am compelled to say, is the most pernicious of… — Constantine the Great Copy Share Image
Individual writers have different postures, different stances, even different physical attitudes as they stand or sit over their blank paper, and in… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching has become a regular habit,… — Bill W 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
