It's good to do things that are out of the norm. I'm a creature of habit and I like to stay in… — LaToya Jackson Copy Share Image
The life-history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community.… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
“Ellie hated driving, particularly in cities. She had a habit of taking every other driver's unsignaled lane change or blown red light… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Look around the martial arts," Lee continued, "and witness the assortment of routine performers, trick artists, desensitized robots, glorifiers of the past.… — Davis Miller Copy Share Image
“Tell me about your day, your routine, and what you did at the drugstore when the dumb little girl charged you five… — A.M. Homes Copy Share Image
“What is the basis of imitating Jesus? It cannot be his ways of being or his personal habits: imitation is never about… — René Girard Copy Share Image
“Functional, moderate guilt,” writes Kochanska, “may promote future altruism, personal responsibility, adaptive behavior in school, and harmonious, competent, and prosocial relationships with… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
I press a cigarette against my lips and you tell me I need to quit my addiction. I take a shot of… — Elias Cortez Copy Share Image
“Have you noticed how we are presented with the same lessons, over and over and over, before a tipping point is reached?… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
“In the bedroom the truer, unpremeditated behavior of intimacy appears, the way this spouse relates to others on the most personal level,… — Walter Wangerin Jr Copy Share Image
“One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating the obvious...… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
When I abandoned the smoking habit of more than three decades I was given a supposedly helpful pill called Wellbutrin. But as… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Why is it we are not constantly awed by the size and majesty of the universe?” “Habit,” he said. “We are accustomed… — Mary Balogh 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
In at least one country where homosexual activists have won major concessions, we have even seen a church pastor threatened with prison… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
Are there still other possibilities? Of course there are. What is important to recognize is that all three historical options are really… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
“You and I cannot control or change anyone else but ourselves. How other people choose to behave is a reflection on them.… — Regina Cates Copy Share Image
I like making series, for a couple reasons. One, the repetition of routine is very healthy because I can get a little… — Paul Madonna Copy Share Image
What distinguishes our species is thought. The cerebral cortex is in a way a liberation. We need no longer be trapped in… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I spend a lot of time loathing the sentences that I put down on the page. Once I'm past that phase, it… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
“Here’s the routine: Once a week I require myself to summarize in my “bible” a paper I think might be relevant to… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
What kills love? Only this: Neglect. Not to see you when you stand before me. Not to think of you in the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“For example, perhaps you’ve caught your seven-year-old masturbating on the couch in the living room: “Hey, sweetheart, I know it feels good… — Fred Dr Kaeser Copy Share Image
Worker-owned co-ops, on their own, floating in the market, tend to replicate the behavior of worker-owned capitalists in some circumstances. They sometimes… — Gar Alperovitz Copy Share Image
“Fundamental to our analysis is the assumption that the population, as individuals or groups, behaves “rationally,” that it calculates costs and benefits… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Do each day all that can be done that day. You don't need to overwork or to rush blindly into your work… — Earl Nightingale 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 required to stay late in the Whitehall area, I used, as a general routine, to come straight back from duty to… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
I asked the Zebra, are you black with white stripes? Or white with black stripes? And the zebra asked me, Are you… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
[Kurt] Vonnegut once said, if you ever want to know who somebody is... Like you look at Richard Nixon, or Adolf Hitler,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The Iranians have a lousy government, so therefore their economy is lousy, even though they have significant oil revenues. So I am… — John McCain Copy Share Image
“The meaning of a story should go on expanding for the reader the more he thinks about it, but meaning cannot be… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“The Church demands of its priests exclusive dedication, a 24/7 routine that protects the peace of their souls from conjugal strife and… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
“The revival of magical beliefs is possible today because it no longer represents a social threat. The mechanization of the body is… — Silvia Federici Copy Share Image
As the index tells us the contents of stories and directs to the particular chapter, even so does the outward habit and… — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
This whole business of Trade gives me to pause and think, as it constitutes false relations between men; inasmuch as I am… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The line between moral behavior and narcissistic self-righteousness is thin and difficult to discern. The man who stands before a crowd and… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Our essential connection with animals is ancient, and it runs deep. It extends from body to behavior, from psychology to society—forming the… — Barbara Natterson-Horowitz Copy Share Image
“What we see before us is just one tiny part of the world. We get into the habit of thinking, This is… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Programmed behavior cannot produce the level of spiritual development required to qualify one for eternal life. A necessary range of freedom and… — Dean L. Larsen Copy Share Image