The tools we use have a profound and devious influence on our thinking habits, and therefore on our thinking abilities. — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
“he had read in an encyclopedia article entitled “Obstetrics.” From boyhood he had had the habit of looking up things in that… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
“Change your mindset, and you’ll change your behavior. Change your behavior, and you’ll change their behavior. Change their behavior, and you’ll change… — Brian Souza Copy Share Image
“You're beginning to make a habit of trying to drown yourself, Grace. I hope from now on you will try to restrain… — Kat Martin Copy Share Image
“At some point, hurting myself has gone past the need to be in control. It's routine now. An addiction. I cannot cope… — Cheryl McIntyre Copy Share Image
Self-awareness is our capacity to stand apart from ourselves and examine our thinking, our motives, our history, our scripts, our actions, and… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
You can't make Christ funny. He's self-aware, he's too flexible within the situation. It's rigidity, it's when the ego takes over and… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
“Now no feeling can be relied on to last in its full intensity, or even to last at all. Knowledge can last,… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Her life, she knew, was becoming simplified into an unbreakable chain of habits, a series of orderly actions at regular hours. Vaguely,… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
“The thought manifests as the word; the word manifests as the deed; the deed develops into habit; and habit hardens into character.… — David Michie Copy Share Image
The challenge, every year, when March came around and the new offseason started, was to plug yourself into the routine and understand… — Morten Andersen Copy Share Image
“A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs. No religious basis is necessary. Man… — Diana Mauer Copy Share Image
When I'm making a movie, I never watch the dailies. I see the movie once and that's it. It's really not about… — Lance Henriksen Copy Share Image
I believe the greatest trick of the devil is not to get us into some sort of evil but rather have us… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
It is ordinarily said that criminal law is designed to protect property and to protect persons, and if society's only interest in… — Alfred Kinsey Copy Share Image
I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English―it is the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
My wife has a beastly habit of comparing poetry -- all literature in fact -- to the droppings of the goats among… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“I watched him, sardonic, cynical. A great poet, truly, yet unkind. The gifts of our nature seem not to modify the manner… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Often we can do more to facilitate good behavior by removing some small obstacle than by trying to shove people in a… — Richard H. Thaler Copy Share Image
“The process of the journey from the breast to adult eating habits can be made gentle or painful according to cultural approaches.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
The measure of and self-congratulation for our own intelligence should have its basis in our moral behavior as well as our smarts. — April Gornik Copy Share Image
I'm not in the habit of having my photo snapped on some pretty young thing's arm. I avoid pictures because they serve… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
You seem cynical because you're always talking about that selfish behavior that's dressed up as altruism. It doesn't mean there isn't altruism.… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
“After loading a magazine, it is a good habit to hold the magazine horizontally, with all the bullets facing up, and tap… — Gary Behr Copy Share Image
Success and failure in our own national economy will hang upon the degree to which we are able to work with races… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
The problem with some stars is that they lose perspective about correct adult behavior. People laugh at everything they say and do.… — Gary Goetzman Copy Share Image
Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“There's no way you can wake up today, only to repeat yesterday's routine, and except better results tomorrow. Change is a must… — Tyconis D. Allison Ty Copy Share Image
Lying eats into the soul. If it becomes a habit it frays the edge of your spirit. Truth telling, although sometimes harder… — Theresa Breslin Copy Share Image
Schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It's accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Leaders don't rise to the pinnacle of success without developing the right set of attitudes and habits: They make every day a… — Mlungisi Simelane Copy Share Image
“My father from long habit took a book with him to the table and then, remembering my presence, furtively dropped it under… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
I'm always amazed at how consistent people find me and my behavior, when in fact I do feel different all the time. — Michelle Pfeiffer Copy Share Image
The best thing to learn in life is the habit of compromise. It is better to bend a little, than to break… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Pen and paper are my life now because in their presence i don't need any person to share my feelings as earthlings… — M.H. Rakib Copy Share Image
We will use the actions of others to decide on proper behavior for ourselves, especially when we view those others as similar… — Robert Cialdini Copy Share Image
Could hell be a place where there is no self-respect? A place where people have no pride in their own existence or… — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
... into the novel goes such taste as I have for rational behaviour and social portraiture. The short story, as I see… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
My routine consists of being awake by 6 A.M., reading and educating myself more and more on the Bible followed by nine… — Manny Ramirez Copy Share Image
