Avoid the 'squeaky wheel gets the grease' habit of overreacting to the loudest feedback. The first time you hear a particular piece… — Neil Blumenthal Copy Share Image
The poems ... are moments when I had the intensity to see, and the energy to build, some careful analog that completed… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
People will get into the habit of doing the same thing over and over again, and you'll stop seeing changes in your… — Dara Torres Copy Share Image
Every action is self-perpetuating, every thought is self-perpetuating. Once you cooperate with it, you are giving energy to it. Sooner or later… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I am a smoker, I'm ashamed to say. I had given it up for many years, then picked it up again. It's… — Melissa Leo Copy Share Image
What are the conditions that make for the superiority of an army? Its internal organization, military habits in officers and men, the… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
We do not develop habits of genuine love automatically. We learn by watching effective role models - most specifically by observing how… — Josh McDowell Copy Share Image
Doctrine is useless if it is not accompanied by a holy life. It is worse than useless; it does positive harm. Something… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
One of the most melancholy consequences of this habit of deferring to other nations, and to other systems, is the fact that… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
I don't like this." "I know you don't, my little spaetzel. But I am too worn out to run from both the… — Katie MacAlister Copy Share Image
People in general know not what wickedness there is in this pretended word of God. Brought up in habits of superstition, they… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
To anyone who has followed the practice of using profanity or vulgarity and would like to correct the habit, could I offer… — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
My reason taught me that I could not have made one of my own qualities - they were forced upon me by… — Robert Owen Copy Share Image
Ultimately a highly complex sentiment, having its first origin in the social instincts, largely guided by the approbation of our fellow-men, ruled… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
There is a saying, 'Eyes are the windows to the soul.' It means, mostly, people can see through someone else by eye… — Peng Liyuan Copy Share Image
It is thus religion infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity and fanaticism: if he has a heated imagination it… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
If you're not working, over time you're much more likely to develop attitudes and orientations and behavior patterns that are associated with… — William Julius Wilson Copy Share Image
People don't remember me. Really. It's not a paranoid thing; I just have this habit of slipping through memories. It doesn't bother… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
Education has no more serious responsibility than the making of adequate provision for enjoyment of recreative leisure not only for the sake… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
We ask ourselves and each of us may wonder: Does the Lord feel truly at home in my life? Do we allow… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
It is impossible for a man to be freed from the habit of sin before he hates it, just as it is… — Ignatius of Antioch Copy Share Image
We have a habit of turning to scientists when we want factual answers and artists when we want entertainment, but where are… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Wouldn't it be great to be gifted? In fact It turns out that choices lead to habits. Habits become talents. Talents are… — Seth Copy Share Image
It's great to see that celebrities can be just like us - that they too have their highs and lows, that they… — Shirley Jones Copy Share Image
I am a creature of habit with my food and snacks. I make sure to get in all three meals and drink… — Kristen Taekman Copy Share Image
From a pragmatic point of view, the difference between living against a background of foreigness (an indifferent Universe) and one of intimacy… — William James Copy Share Image
I don't always have the best eating habits. I like butter and ice cream. There are days when I should work out… — Florence Griffith Joyner Copy Share Image
I suppose most writers are following Twain's advice to tackle what they know, and my own readings habits drew me to writers… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Change is a pesky notion. For many folks, the biggest challenge in changing their eating habits isn't money, time, or education; it's… — Kris Carr Copy Share Image
The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender's inability to forget himself… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait… — Pat Riley Copy Share Image
“Always improving your habits and never reaching results is called “habiting.” I invented this term for all of us to rethink how… — Richie Norton Copy Share Image
For the most part we inherit our opinions. We are the heirs of habits and mental customs. Our beliefs, like the fashion… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Ninety-nine hundredths or, possibly, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousandths of our activity is purely automatic and habitual, from our rising in the… — William James Copy Share Image
The catastrophe of the atomic bombs which shook men out of cities and businesses and economic relations, shook them also out of… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Long enough have you dream'd contemptible dreams, Now I wash the gum from your eyes, You must habit yourself to the dazzle… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
So in regard to mental qualities, their transmission is manifest in our dogs, horses and other domestic animals. Besides special tastes and… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The greatest difficulty we have faced is the neocolonial way of thinking that exists in this country. We were colonized by a… — Thomas Sankara Copy Share Image
I can start playing ukulele and then I'll go to a note that I think will be there, but because of the… — Jherek Bischoff Copy Share Image
