Concentration can be cultivated. One can learn to exercise will power, discipline one's body and train one's mind. — Anil Ambani Copy Share Image
“Death," he had said on another occasion, "seems to be merely a bad habit, which nature is at present powerless to overcome.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Are we not like the actor of old times, who wore his mask so long his face took its likeness? — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge. — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
People who start a sentence with personally (and they're always women) ought to be thrown to the lions. It's a repulsive habit. — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
The problem with doing commercials is that the only thing good enough for me to sell is myself, and I stopped doing… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
I read God's word when I am not suffering. And then I don't have to all of a sudden establish this habit… — Anne Graham Lotz Copy Share Image
The confirmed prejudices of a thoughtful life are as hard to change as the confirmed habits of an indolent life; and as… — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one… — Richard Francis Burton Copy Share Image
Feelings, by themselves, do not create problems. It is rather the tendency to interpret and analyze them. When out of habit you… — Mooji Copy Share Image
Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the… — Thomas Troward Copy Share Image
For the record, pot, like the Reader's Digest , is not necessarily habit-forming, but both can lead to hard-core addiction : heroin,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Habit is formed out of memory... We often shape our present situation according to those habitual memories. Instead of starting fresh, we… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Breaking old habits is hard and sometimes feels impossible. Rather than focusing on breaking old habits create new ones and the old… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I struggle with being really hard on myself with everything, even good things, like saying 'good job' to myself, or being like,… — Chappell Roan Copy Share Image
One of the most popular narcotics to ease the pain of economy is cherishing the belief that better days are ahead. This… — Marjorie Hillis Copy Share Image
“Lisez, et ne rêvez pas. Plongez-vous dans de longues études. Il n’y a de continuellement bon que l’habitude d’un travail entêté. Il… — Flaubert (how very sad Copy Share Image
Yoga says instinct is a trace of an old experience that has been repeated many times and the impressions have sunk down… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As Shantideva says, suffering has many good qualities because it purifies our negative karma, increases our renunciation and compassion, reduces our pride,… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
“[T]he unsympathetic assessments we make of others are usually the result of nothing more sinister than our habit of looking at them… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
It is only when we begin to relax with ourselves that meditation becomes a transformative process. Only when we relate with ourselves… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
I don't make a habit of watching my parents' films, because it is a little strange. But I will say that I… — Dylan Frances Penn Copy Share Image
We look for medicine to be an orderly field of knowledge and procedure. But it is not. It is an imperfect science,… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
The Golden Rule of Habit Change: You can't extinguish a bad habit, you can only change it. — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation. — O. Henry 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
the habit of shutting doors behind us is invaluable to happiness; we must learn to shut life's doors to cut out the… — Marjorie Holmes Copy Share Image
Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Assuredly it would be a pity if laughter should ever become, like rhetoric and the arts, a habit. — Alice Meynell Copy Share Image
Habits are critical for players. They cannot think and play well at the same time. — Don Meyer Copy Share Image
“Make it a habit to get clean clothes to where they belong immediately after everything is dry, rather than leaving things neglected… — Rachel Hoffman Copy Share Image
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit” ―Aristotle,” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his errors as his knowledge. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes. — Mary Martin Copy Share Image
Spurs have fallen into a habit of hiring pragmatic managers when fans want to be entertained. — Chris Sutton Copy Share Image
Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Imitate the habit of twilight,/Taking time to open the well of color/That fostered the brightness of day. — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
A disorganized workspace means disorganized work habits. A sloppy work environment equals sloppy results. — Larry Winget Copy Share Image
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