“And then after that, I guess it just became habit that they didn’t. It seemed like people could revise who you were… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The tech companies are destroying something precious, which is the possibility of contemplation. They have created a world in which we’re constantly… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
I am a smoker, I'm ashamed to say. I had given it up for many years, then picked it up again. It's… — Melissa Leo Copy Share Image
We must accept all the implications of our human inheritance, one of the most important of which is the small scope of… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you; until you have cultivated the habit… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Claims have been made that I've been on a strict workout routine regulated by co-stars, whipped into shape by trainers I've never… — Scarlett Johansson Copy Share Image
“Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I’m not saying that maybe there isn’t a kid out there whose behavior hasn’t been influenced by me in some way. I’m… — Pete Doherty Copy Share Image
We all have to hold each other accountable and point that behavior out to each other in a kind way. I guess… — Mary Elizabeth Ellis Copy Share Image
It"s good to keep wide-open ears and listen to what everybody else has to say, but when you come to make a… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The process of debugging, going an correcting the program and then looking at the behavior, and then correcting it again, and finally… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
I believe that poverty is often the result of inappropriate behavior - out-of-wedlock births, dropping out of school, crime and drugs -… — Joe Klein Copy Share Image
Money is a mystery. Not only is our behavior with respect to money sometimes puzzling and erratic, but our feelings about money… — Rosalie Maggio Copy Share Image
“Impatience is a particularly dangerous habit of the heart because everything worthwhile takes time. Good marriages take time. Spiritual maturity takes time.… — Jim Berg Copy Share Image
“Say you want to stop snacking at work. Is the reward you’re seeking to satisfy your hunger? Or is it to interrupt… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
Don't make misrepresentations to anyone you deal with. If you believe the other person may have misunderstood you, correct any misunderstanding you… — Buck Rodgers Copy Share Image
“In Christ Jesus freedom from fear empowers us to let go of the desire to appear good, so that we can move… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“The shared meal is no small thing. It is a foundation of family life, the place where our children learn the art… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“The children were watched through a one-way mirror, and the film that shows their behavior during the waiting time always has the… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
I wouldn't tell the President [Barack Obama] or any other official, because we are disappointed by their behavior recently, because we expected… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
“It had become a routine of Ifemelu’s visits: Aunty Uju collected all her dissatisfactions in a silk purse, nursing them, polishing them,… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“You can change your actions, but those actions will not remain fixed as a habit unless you change the underlying thoughts that… — Beau Norton Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is the ability to be aware, to note, to notice. When we apply that to our thoughts and mental habits, we… — Mark Coleman Copy Share Image
Yet the most pervasive error one encounters in contemporary arguments about belief in God-especially, but not exclusively, on the atheist side-is the… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
The number of poor, and poorly prepared, students who succeed in college and beyond undercuts the simplistic notion that economic or educational… — Roland Merullo Copy Share Image
“When night comes and no one is watching, I feel afraid of everything: life, death, love or the lack of it; the… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Dark side of our sentiments is mitigated not by pure reason, but by more beneficent sentiments. We cannot be simply argued out… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“The growth of intimacy will teach us how to love—both ourselves and the other person. If we will allow ourselves to practice… — Anne Katherine Copy Share Image
“Depression is one of the unknown modes of being. There are no words for a world without a self, seen with impersonal… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
A fixed habit is supported by old, well-worn pathways in the brain. When you make conscious choices to change a habit, you… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Natural Selection never made it come to pass, as a habit of nature, that an unsupported stone should move downwards rather than… — Chauncey Wright Copy Share Image
In some instances, you may care so much about the person who has hurt you, or be so unable to be angry… — Paul Ekman Copy Share Image
“The remarkable reversal of public attitudes toward the Japanese over the years -- especially in Australia, Peru and the United States --… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“If she[…] had known how much her first half-inch beginning to let go would take - and how long her noticing and… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“Thomas had a younger sister, Ester, who was a facsimile of the womanizer brother, who had behaviors that mirrored her brother’s treatment… — Sara Niles Copy Share Image
“He was aware, as he did so, of a poignant air of tragic dedication in all his actions, the dutiful routines of… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“A thankful and a contented spirit is a continual feast. We ought to be contented, and we shall be contented, if we… — Ashton Oxenden Copy Share Image
“We believe this sharing behavior extended to sex as well. A great deal of research from primatology, anthropology, anatomy, and psychology points… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
“You don’t have to do the same things you’ve always done, if it no longer feels good to do them. Give yourself… — Scott Stabile Copy Share Image