What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I have a shoe habit. If I'm in New York, it's a problem because I'm walking and I have access to more… — Kelly Rowan Copy Share Image
Success is a matter of understanding and religiously practicing specific, simple habits that always lead to success. — Robert Ringer Copy Share Image
I think the big danger of madness is not madness itself, but the habit of madness. What I discovered during the time… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“It is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing temperate… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Personal growth can be painful, because it can make us feel ashamed and humiliated to face our own darkness. But our spiritual… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“When you first miss a habit, the next occurrence of it should become a top priority. You must execute on that habit… — Tynan Copy Share Image
Society exists through a process of transmission quite as much as biological life. This transmission occurs by means of communication of habits… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The toad has indeed no superior as a destroyer of noxious insects, and he possesses no bad habits and is entirely inoffensive… — Celia Thaxter Copy Share Image
When most individuals or most companies are talking about trying to create healthy habits, the key is to identify which habit or… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
“The question is not what you look at, but what you see. It is only necessary to behold the least fact or… — Henry David Thoreau 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
He who wants to educate himself in Chess must evade what is dead in Chess... the habit of playing with inferior opponents;… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
“Walking was a habit he'd been unwilling to give up. He couldn't see the point in shutting himself up in a vehivle… — Eileen Wilks Copy Share Image
Do not be irritated either with those who sin or those who offend; do not have a passion for noticing every sin… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What is the meaning of 'gossip?' Doesn't it originate with sympathy, an interest in one's neighbor, degenerating into idle curiosity and love… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would… — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
In the end, there is no ideal condition for creativity. What works for one person is useless for another. The only criterion… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
... Albert Lee and I have become real close friends, and he comes out anytime I'm in the L.A. area, and he'll… — Brad Paisley Copy Share Image
What appeals to me? There are things, points of view, uses of the language, habits of dress, ways of thought and believing… — Tommy Lee Jones Copy Share Image
I'm always writing new books so I don't dwell on the ones I've already done. I think that's a habit from being… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I'll get in that habit of throwing the ball over the plate too much. You want to keep it going, get those… — Matt Cain Copy Share Image
Many a bad habit is developed through overindulgence, and many a good one by chastisement; therefore, beat your son as well as… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
What I've learned from fatherhood is that having a son cannot, did not, change my love for The Bachelor! I thought that… — Jason Biggs Copy Share Image
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
The automobile changed our dress, manners, social customs, vacation habits, the shape of our cities, consumer purchasing patterns, common tastes and positions… — John Keats Copy Share Image
The husband was a teetotaller, there was no other woman, and the conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
How high a price we pay for the burden of habit! I am fitted for life here where I do not want… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life cannot be administered by definite rules and regulations; that wisdom to deal with a man's difficulties comes only through some knowledge… — Jane Addams 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
Take care of your friends. Because there will come a time when you'll be no good to anyone, and the only reason… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
As has been well documented, I smoked pot as a kid, and I view it as a bad habit and a vice,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Morality, like physical cleanliness, is not acquired once and for all: it can only be kept and renewed by a habit of… — Victoria Ocampo Copy Share Image
Holidays are also an opportunity for kids to unlearn every good habit they've learned during the rest of the year. They don't… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its character as a law except… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Redemption is as comprehensive as Creation and Fall. God does not save our souls while leaving our minds to function on their… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
To be perfectly honest with you, I was partying a lot in school. I didn't have any good study habits from high… — Michael Biehn Copy Share Image
I've always noted with some awe the reading habits of the Australian public. Australians read more newspapers and magazines per head of… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
“judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
To act without clear understanding, to form habits without investigation, to follow a path all one's life without knowing where it really… — Mencius Copy Share Image
