Given a blank we can’t help trying to fill it in along lines of customary seeing or saying. But the best poetic… — Heather McHugh Copy Share Image
Dream passionately. Work hardly. Don't make waiting and postponing something your habit.Take chances and risk, make life happening. What we do in… — Anil Sinha Copy Share Image
To be perpetually longing and impatiently desirous of anything, so that a man cannot abstain from it, is to lose a man's… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
The spirit is the only thing that is free within, which has no hang-ups, which has no habits, which does not stick… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
When my mother left me waiting for her, [she] established in me the habit of waiting and expectation which makes any present… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Acting is the most personal of our crafts. The make-up of a human being - his physical, mental and emotional habits -… — Lee Strasberg Copy Share Image
One must never have spared oneself, one must have acquired hardness as a habit to be cheerful and in good spirits in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We need to learn how to keep people through love. Despite imperfections, sins, and irritating habits of other Christians, they belong to… — John Wimber Copy Share Image
Sure I am a religious man who is also passionate about conserving the environment. But I am also a CEO, with all… — Tom Chappell Copy Share Image
My best advice for mental training is simply to create good habits, in order to build a sense of security and calm… — Alexander Gustafsson Copy Share Image
Cling tooth and nail to the following rule: Not to give in to adversity, never to trust prosperity, and always to take… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
In the spiritual domain, criticism is love turned sour... If criticism becomes a habit, it will destroy the moral energy of the… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Not evil. Moronic, which isn't quite the same thing. Evil presupposes a moral decision, intention, and some forethought. A moron or a… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
In truth, the only difference between those who have failed and those who have succeeded lies in the difference of their habits.… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
I think that's what's happened with a lot of people in films these days: they're so enamored with the process, whether it's… — Daniel Myrick Copy Share Image
The machine has got to be accepted, but it is probably better to accept it rather as one accepts a drug -… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Luck, good or bad, is the invisible play of mind upon affairs, the effect of mental aptitudes and habits which are not… — James Vila Blake Copy Share Image
Everything is a process... some of our eating habits consist of things we can't change, but if we modify it a little… — Doug E. Fresh Copy Share Image
The light of common sense is fundamentally the same light as that of science, that is to say, the natural light of… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
I don't get into 'becauses.' When you come into a studio you see a number of works. My habit is to go… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
Man doesn't change. He keeps his habits. Instinctively, all those people found the same corner for their kitchen. To build a city,… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Needless fear and panic over disease and misfortune that seldom materialize are simply bad habits. By proper ventilation and illumination of the… — Elie Metchnikoff Copy Share Image
In 'Before and After,' I identify the sixteen strategies that we can use to make or break our habits. Some are quite… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
I made a habit always to hear the Indians; and although they very often lie to me, I do not show them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I suddenly saw how sad and artificial my life had been during this period, for the loves, friends, habits and pleasures of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
So I was drawing in a lot of the habit district in Brazil, put that together with an Asian influence, so there… — Len Wiseman Copy Share Image
Fasting gives you confidence to know that your spirit can master appetite . . . and helps to protect against later uncontrolled… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
I have always endeavored to acquire strict business habits; they are indispensable to every man. If your trade is with the Celestial… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Whatever you do repeatedly eventually becomes a new habit." In its simplest terms, this means that you can develop any habit of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be. That's why habits are so hard to break. If we know ourselves to… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
How many people are trapped in their everyday habits: part numb, part frightened, part indifferent? To have a better life we must… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Rising before daylight is also to be commended; it is a healthy habit, and gives more time for the management of the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Lifestyles are routined practices, the routines incorporated into habits of dress, eating, modes of acting and favoured milieux for encountering others; but… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
The pains of disconcerted or frustrated habits, and the inherent pleasure there is in following them, are motives which nature has put… — Chauncey Wright Copy Share Image
We easily fall into the habit of accepting compressed statements which save us from the trouble of thinking. Thus arises what I… — Susan Stebbing Copy Share Image
And as I recall, you told me to shut up. (Acheron) I’m an asshole. I admit it. I’ve been going to weekly… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
...a habit that had become one of those necessary things for the night... surely a body-friendly if not familiar-lying next to you.… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“a habit is a formula our brain automatically follows: When I see CUE, I will do ROUTINE in order to get a… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
If right now our emotional reaction to seeing a certain person or hearing certain news is to fly into a rage or… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image