The man who doesn’t make up his mind to cultivate the habit of thinking misses the greatest pleasure in life. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Statisticians, like artists, have the bad habit of falling in love with their models. — George E. P. Box Copy Share Image
We want to infuse our day with good habits so that we can turn seemingly mundane situations into a ceremony of goodness. — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
My worst habit in the kitchen is not allowing anybody to help me. I like to cook by myself. — Eva Longoria Copy Share Image
I guess my training at NSD helped for I had developed a habit of building up my character and getting intense. — Rohini Hattangadi Copy Share Image
We must constantly dare ourselves in the small things, until courage becomes a habit of mind that will serve us when we… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
You must develop the habit of skepticism, not swallow every piece of superstition you are told by witch-doctors and professors. — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Ideology is not the product of thought; it is the habit or the ritual of showing respect for certain formulas to which,… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
The power of a movement lies in the fact that it can indeed change the habits of people. This change is not… — Steven Biko Copy Share Image
Good judges develop certain habits of mind. One of those habits of mind is the habit of delaying reaching conclusions until everything… — Samuel Alito Copy Share Image
Novels need readers of a certain kind, people who are patient and enjoy immersing themselves in another perspective for uninterrupted stretches of… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share Image
Babies are born with neither good nor bad character. Normal people - as they grow, learn and are trained - develop better… — Edwin J Delattre Copy Share Image
The prodigious waste of human life occasioned by this perpetual struggle for room and food, was more than supplied by the mighty… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
In the comic-book world, there tends to be an overblown sense of tradition. Bad habits die hard. There are ways I think… — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
The chances of a person breaking through their own habits and sloth and limited mind to actually write something that gets out… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Slavery naturally tends to destroy all sense of justice and equity. It puffs up the mind with pride: teaches youth a habit… — David Rice Copy Share Image
A convention is a social pattern we have chosen to prefer over whatever the raw world simply proffers. It is a sign… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
Male homosexuals have seduced and abused millions of underage boys. Their unclean sexual habits and ultra-promiscuous lifestyle have resulted in spreading the… — David Duke Copy Share Image
One of the commonest things to do with savings is to lend them to some Government. In view of the fact that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“A virtue is a habit that includes all of these things: actions (you take care of your child even when you don't… — Phillip Cary Copy Share Image
Habit hath so vast a prevalence over the human mind that there is scarce anything too strange or too strong to be… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person. Two people, when they love each other, grow alike in… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
For my entire career, I wanted to be a director. When I was in the theater, it was very difficult to get… — James Cromwell Copy Share Image
Your desired behavior must become just as much a habit as your undesired behavior was before. — Mike Hawkins Copy Share Image
Really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works, — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
“No one is born to courage, Juliet. Courage is a habit you develop after cowardice has gotten you nothing.” — Sabrina Jeffries Copy Share Image
We need to break free from the habits of mind and behavior, to discover the possibilities of who we can become. — Larry Brooks Copy Share Image
Any decision you make isn't worth a tinkers damn until you have formed the habit of making and keeping it. — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
Man is the broken giant, and in all his weakness both his body and his mind are invigorated by habits of conversation… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
See, a good habit makes a child a man, Whereas a bad one makes a man a beast. — John Webster Copy Share Image
She liked the life she had. She loved habits. She craved a day with nothing in it, a long, quiet stretch of… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
You do anything long enough to escape the habit of living until the escape becomes the habit. — David Ryan Copy Share Image
We have lost confidence in reason because we have learned that man is chiefly a creature of habit and emotion. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Donald Trump's habit of making offensive and outlandish statements will not bring Americans together. — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
There was one awkward moment where a black man stood-up to ask a question and out of habit, Bush said 'Clemency denied.' — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
I don't read the "letters" section of Time magazine. I think it's just my habit as a reader. I don't read comments… — Joel Stein Copy Share Image
It is an old and ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“That was a habit of mine: not paying attention to the things entrusted to my care.” — Jo Furniss Copy Share Image
Our fingernails match our toenails, match our lipstick match our rouge...The habit of applying warpaint outlasts the battle. — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
