“It is crucial to understand that there are myriad interpretations of behavior. When you subscribe only to yours, you may begin to… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
“Our values and behaviors are incongruent, and this incongruence causes us a certain degree of moral discomfort. In order to alleviate this… — Melanie Joy Copy Share Image
“Men imagine that thought can be kept secret, but it cannot; it rapidly crystallizes into habit, and habit solidifies into circumstance. Bestial… — James Allen Copy Share Image
“An Unapproachable person may be exhibiting behaviors which are . . . • Tense and prickly. • Remote and preoccupied. • Cold… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
You stand with the least likely to succeed until success is succeeded by something more valuable: kinship. You stand with the belligerent,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You can never go wrong betting on Americans' bad eating habits. So I've made a ton investing in all fast food chains,… — Carol Leifer Copy Share Image
When we are constantly recreating our basic patterns of behavior and thought, we never have to leap into fresh air or onto… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Wise men read very sharply all your private history in your look and gait and behavior. The whole economy of nature is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You must master the habit of procrastination and eliminate it from your wake-up. This habit of putting off until tomorrow that which… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
“Character is more like a bundle of habits and tendencies and interests, loosely bound together and dependent, at certain times, on circumstance… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
It is a fair question whether the results of these things have induced among us in a large class of well-to-do people,… — Wilbur Olin Atwater Copy Share Image
Nothing is more dangerous than to stop working. It is a habit that can soon be lost, one that is easily neglected… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Sometimes I don't pick up the guitar for six months or so," "Other times I get away, go to a hotel or… — Holly Golightly Copy Share Image
The habit of a midwinter festivity had come by the dawn of history (and probably very long before) to seem a natural… — Ronald Hutton Copy Share Image
One hasn't become a writer until one has distilled writing into a habit, and that habit has been forced into an obsession.… — Niyi Osundare Copy Share Image
“It is seductive to be a good listener no less than a questioner, and once again we suspect this is because listening… — David P. Barash Copy Share Image
“Strongholds are developed from our habits (an act repeated so often that it becomes involuntary, there is no new decision of mind… — Jack Frost Copy Share Image
I regularly take my entrepreneurship students out walking because I want to get them in the habit of noticing and thinking about… — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
“Western Civilization is in the crisis it is because we have sacrificed more profound values than the immediate and quantifiable consequences we… — Butler Shaffer Copy Share Image
When we can communicate from the inside out, we're talking directly to the part of the brain that controls behavior, and then… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
“Occasionally, family members may reach a point in which they cannot tolerate the odd behavior of the schizophrenic any longer. Often, this… — Holly Schindler Copy Share Image
The behavior and reactions of the oppressed, which lead the oppressor to practice cultural invasion, should evoke from the revolutionary a different… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Yes...and I'm worried that if you get into the habit of making out with your instructors, you'll wind up making out with… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
If you expect the best, you will be the best. Learn to use one of the most powerful laws in this world;… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
“Even the Raven King - who was not a fairy, but an Englishman - had a somewhat regrettable habit of abducting men… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
“While every parental behavior sends out a message of some kind, it is only the repetitive themes that form the child's picture… — Susan Forward Copy Share Image
Alcoholism, the opium habit and tobaccoism are a trio of poison habits which have been weighty handicaps to human progress during the… — John Harvey Kellogg Copy Share Image
“How displaced is the sympathy lavished on adolescents. There is a yet more difficult age which comes later, when one has less… — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
The behavior of people and the culture of an organization are very different in winning streaks and losing streaks. But what both… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
“The sense of security more frequently springs from habit than from conviction, and for this reason it often subsists after such a… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I can remember, as a child, the happy days of us all piling into the car and going to the drive-in. And… — Susan Burton Copy Share Image
My routine when I have an interview day is, I wake up, I eat a bagel, I drink coffee, I drive to… — Alex Cooper Copy Share Image
“Open source is characteristically about herd behavior and local hill climbing. There is such a thing as the wisdom of crowds, but… — Peter Lucas Copy Share Image
“That is the hidden cost of ostrich behavior: Whether your head is in the sand or just lying prone along the ground,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the things when you write, well the way I write, is that you are writing your scenario and there are… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
“With age comes self-awareness, or something that looks like self-awareness, and so I try to be on the lookout for patterns of… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
The discipline of programming is most like sorcery. Both use precise language to instruct inanimate objects to do our bidding. Small mistakes… — Richard E. Pattis Copy Share Image
“There is a moment between sleeping and waking where one is free. Consciousness has returned, but awareness has yet to rip away… — Will Wiles Copy Share Image
If you set yourself a goal for energy usage in your house, if you have to look at a graph on your… — Werner Vogels Copy Share Image
Of course genes can’t pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image