For a long time visits among lovers and professions of love are kept up through habit, after their behavior has plainly proved… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
On a certain scale, it does look like I do a lot. But that’s my day, all day long, sitting there wondering… — John McPhee Copy Share Image
Don't go overboard in praising required behavior: 'We have only done our duty' (Luke 17:10). But do go overboard when your child… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Your personality is so convinced that the habit thoughts running along with your body are you that it comes up with any… — William Douglas Horden Copy Share Image
“[T]he habit of living as if in the shadow of death has remained with me, and I consider that, too, a gift.” — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
“... but I couldn't quite believe that sex was the motivating force behind all human behavior, and that I was left out… — Carlene Bauer Copy Share Image
Happiness Is Within You, In Your Way Of Thinking. How You View Yourself And Your World Are Mindful Choices And Habits. The… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
Many women are harassed, one in three between the ages of 18 and 34, by one poll. And we need to figure… — Anita Hill Copy Share Image
“You go to a great school not so much for knowledge as for arts and habits; for the habit of attention, for… — William Cory Copy Share Image
There are substantial rewards for adopting a regular routine of investing and following it no matter what, and additional rewards for buying… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
“People are complicated creatures, with a nuanced set of private and public incentives, and that our behavior is enormously influenced by circumstances.” — Steven D. Levitt Copy Share Image
While no one wishes to incur losses, you couldn't prove it from an examination of the behavior of most investors and speculators.… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
The truly creative individual stands ready to abandon old habits and to acknowledge that life, particularly his own unique life, is rich… — Frank Baron Copy Share Image
The only way we could remember would be by constant re-reading, for knowledge unused tends to drop out of mind. Knowledge used… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Take control of your destiny. Believe in yourself. Ignore those who try to discourage you. Avoid negative sources, people, places, things and… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Morals — all correct moral laws — derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Recovery is a major part of being an athlete, FitAid helps meet the demands of that critical part of my game. Also,… — Kevon Looney Copy Share Image
“They never addressed each other by name, nor were they in the habit of exchanging endearments. What was the point, since both… — Georges Simenon Copy Share Image
“The apprenticeship to passivity—I know nothing more contrary to our habits. (The modern age begins with two hysterics: Don Quixote and Luther.)… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“It’s easier to hide your smoking habit on a foggy day. Let that be a lesson for you and your secret lover.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I feel that homophobia runs rampant in the music industry, and that artists are allowed to speak openly in a hateful way,… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
“I had formed the habit of treating those parts of my character that were in any way my responsibility to exhortations so… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
Political [or individual] rights do not exist because they have been legally set down on a piece of paper, but only when… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
The term 'alpha female' originated in my field of animal behavior, but has acquired new meaning. It refers to women who are… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
“If I'd stopped to think about the strangeness of this, I might have fallen into old habits, old needs to piece together… — Sean Ferrell 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
To do 'Fox & Friends' I get up at 3:30 A.M. every morning, including weekends - a hard habit to break. — Steve Doocy Copy Share Image
Repeat business or behavior can be bribed. Loyalty has to be earned. — Janet L. Robinson Copy Share Image
“There is not a moral to every story in animal behavior. Sometimes a snake is just a snake, and sometimes snake sex… — Marlene Zuk Copy Share Image
I think each family has a funhouse logic all its own, and in that distortion,in that delusion, all behavior can seem both… — Darin Strauss Copy Share Image
“The habit of procrastination fatigues you more than the effort it takes to do the task.” — Shiv Khera Copy Share Image
We never know the issues others may be facing, and it isn't up to us to judge actions and behavior. — Stacy Keibler Copy Share Image
“The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behaviors affect the rights and well being of… — Sharon Anthony Bower Copy Share Image
“CONVERSION I spoke of affect and need conversion when I described how Max compensated for his abusive and neglectful abandonment by converting… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
“But why must the system go to such lengths to block our empathy? Why all the psychological acrobatics? The answer is simple:… — Melanie Joy Copy Share Image