There's a paradox in the notion that creativity should be a habit. We think of creativity as a way of keeping everything… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Advertising is the most potent influence in adapting and changing the habits and modes of life affecting what we eat, what we… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
The people I coach are very successful people, so it's very hard for winners to not constantly win. Even if it's trivial… — Marshall Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Instead of recommending cleanliness to the poor, we should encourage contrary habits. In our towns we should make the streets narrower, crowd… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
The Nation State as such is totally a construction: what we feel for it in terms of habits, traditions, countryside or nature… — Janne Teller Copy Share Image
Enduring habits I hate… Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Just try walking very slowly, and you will be surprised - a new quality of awareness starts happening in the body. Eat… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“now. If any habits ever had time to fix upon her, they would have operated here. Habits are peculiar things. They will… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
The mere lapse of years is not life. To eat, to drink, and sleep; to be exposed to darkness and the light;… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly, but take every building to pieces, and challenge every feature. Learn to distinguish the… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Were it not for this [dissatisfaction], the perfect painting might be painted, on the completion of which the painter could retire. It… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn. The true… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war. Yet despite this capacity for internecine warfare, most companies roll along relatively peacefully,… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
A society which makes provision for participation in its good of all its members on equal terms and which secures flexible readjustment… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
With impeccable prose, dry wit, and uncommon wisdom, Ted Thompson brings to life one family's painful disappointments and powerful resilience. The Land… — Maggie Shipstead Copy Share Image
You can teach almost anyone determined to learn them the basics required to write sentences and paragraphs that say what you want… — Anne Bernays Copy Share Image
Watch your thoughts, as they become your words. Watch your words, as they become your actions. Watch your actions, as they become… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you make it a strong habit not to take anything personally, you avoid many upsets in your life. Your anger, jealousy,… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
The first evil choice or act is linked to the second; and each one to the one that follows, both by the… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
I've been a straight man for so many years that from force of habit I repeat everything. I went out fishing with… — George Burns Copy Share Image
Understanding and admitting that you have an issue is the first way to change. When you quit a toxic habit, you leave… — Susan Shapiro Copy Share Image
The habits that are the most difficult to make are probably the ones that will be the most beneficial to you when… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
He found a formula for drawing comic rabbits: This formula for drawing comic rabbits paid. Till in the end he could not… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
...long before the child learns to talk properly-and long before it learns to think philosophically-the world will have become a habit. A… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
I am no fan of books. And chances are, if you're reading this, you and I share a healthy skepticism about the… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
You can literally force yourself to be courteous, happy and enthusiastic with every person you meet. After you have forced yourself to… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
The job of the poet (a job which can't be learned) consists of placing those objects of the visible world which have… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
Get punctual, bring energy and creativity to your work, and stay with a project until it's completed (and then double-check the results).… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
In the beginning, yes I did go back... (but) I learned that if it's continued abusive, you just can't stay there. When… — Lil' Kim Copy Share Image
I got into a bad habit of dropping my elbow and pushing the ball to the plate instead of getting on top… — Matt Cain Copy Share Image
There can be no life which does not contain something to be grateful for, and the habit of gratitude is one of… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
As a man grows older, his ability to sit still and follow indoor occupations increases. He grows vespertinal in his habits as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My habit is to get real competitive and make racing probably more work than it is enjoyable, and I put a lot… — Dale Earnhardt Jr Copy Share Image
“Most of us are creatures so comforted by habit, it can take something on the order of religion to invoke new, more… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
As men's habits of mind differ, so that some more readily embrace one form of faith, some another, for what moves one… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
This is a long tough road we have to travel. The men that can do things are going to be sought out… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. Sure, there’s the talent, but there also has to be the will. Give me… — Larry Ellison Copy Share Image