Other nations of different habits are not enemies: they are godsends. Men require of their neighbours something sufficiently akin to be understood,… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
[My] excursions provided a unique opportunity for observing [the gorillas' behavior] in their natural habitat... Then, all too soon, the infants were… — Dian Fossey Copy Share Image
My political philosophy as a libertarian says that government has no business intervening in any consensual private behavior. My professional ethic as… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“The hallmark of a psychopath is the failure to feel remorse. However, psychopaths demonstrate other significant behaviors. For example, psychopaths seem unable… — Katherine Ramsland Copy Share Image
Love life first, then march through the gates of each season; go inside nature and develop the discipline to stop destructive behavior;… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
“I’d always worried about being practically empty, about having no serious reason for living. And now, confronted with the facts, I was… — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
“I had to ask myself why I'm continuing to engage in behavior I knew hurt. What was my payoff? Did it confirm… — Paula Heller Garland Copy Share Image
You know, Miss Holly, you look very dramatic like that, backlit by the fire. Very attractive, if I may say so. I… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
I am a strong individualist by personal habit, inheritance, and conviction; but it is a mere matter of common sense to recognize… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
He had some measure of the infuriating trait that causes a young man to be a nonconformist for its own sake and… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“Her body moved with the frankness that comes from solitary habits. But solitude is only a human presumption. Every quiet step is… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Love...is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit; reinforced by (in… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The way you react has been repeated thousands of times, and it has become a routine for you. You are conditioned to… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
Friendship is a calm and sedate affection, conducted by reason and cemented by habit; springing from long acquaintance and mutual obligations, without… — David Hume 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
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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
“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
“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 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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