The habits of a lifetime when everything else had to come before writing are not easily broken, even when circumstances now often… — Tillie Olsen Copy Share Image
Repel the thought, for if you don't, it becomes an idea. So repel the idea, for if you don't it will become… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Anthony Bridgerton leaned back in his leather chair,and then announced, "I'm thinking about getting married." Benedict Bridgerton, who had been indulging in… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
Personal sympathy has helped me on very much. My husband from first to last has watched every picture with delight, and it… — Julia Margaret Cameron Copy Share Image
“I learned very early to choose my lines carefully. I still have a terrible habit, when people pause too long between words,… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
Leonardo da Vinci, one of the greatest creative thinkers of all time, strongly recommended the habit of meditation in the dark. He… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
I tried partying and going out, doing drugs and even dealing drugs to support my habit. I was hanging out with people… — Christian Hosoi Copy Share Image
I'm inspired on a daily basis by my personal goals. I make it a habit to write down what it is that… — Laila Ali Copy Share Image
Sometimes, counter-intuitively, it's easier to make a major change than a minor change. When a habit is changing very gradually, we may… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Eat by Choice, Not by Habit combines the author's humor, deep compassion for others and knowledge about food in a way that… — Judith Hanson Lasater Copy Share Image
Positive and negative emotions cannot occupy the mind at the same time. One or the other must dominate. It is your responsibility… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
I believe such illumination comes if you're open to the surprises the universe throws at you. You must be able to let… — Juliette Binoche Copy Share Image
I had hundreds of books under my skin already. Not selected reading, all of it. Some of it could be called trashy.… — Zora Neale Hurston 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
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
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
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
You have thousands of choices and decisions to make everyday. You have the right to not go to the gym, you the… — Robert Cheeke 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
By playing at Chess then, we may learn: First: Foresight... Second: Circumspection... Third: Caution...And lastly, we learn by Chess the habit of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
[Peter Pan] has never broken his terrible habit of eavesdropping. So, maybe that wasn't the rustle of pages you heard while this… — Geraldine McCaughrean Copy Share Image
the New Englander landed on a stony, barren tract, and a large share of his strength during two centuries has gone to… — Rebecca Harding Davis Copy Share Image
It is not that I do not get angry. I don't give vent to my anger. I cultivate the quality of patience… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
When I start to write a song, I initially fall into patterns and creative habits that are familiar, and because they're familiar,… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Everything that we see in our daily lives is more or less distorted by acquired habits and this is perhaps more evident… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
I hate repetition. Even when I am home and have to buy milk, I go a different way each time to avoid… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
“Considering that our habits create our life, there is arguably no single skill that is more important for you to learn and… — Hal Elrod Copy Share Image
Many intellectuals in America and in Europe, they are in the habit of taking sides: who are the bad guys? who are… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
In daily life we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but gratefulness that makes us happy. It… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
In the index to the six hundred odd pages of Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History, abridged version, the names of Copernicus,… — Arthur Koestler 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
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
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
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
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