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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
Old stories have a habit of being told and retold and changed. Each subsequent storyteller puts his or her mark upon it.… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Men even contract the dirty, filthy habit of chewing tobacco, and when the habit gets a good hold upon them they are… — Thomas Jordan Jarvis Copy Share Image
Even in chimps there is true altruistic behaviour; behaviour that doesn't fit into the sociobiological model that says you either help a… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
For some are in the habit of carrying about the name in wicked guile, while they still practice things unworthy of God.… — Ignatius of Antioch Copy Share Image
“If these biochemical phenomena sound similar to those of the fight-or-flight syndrome, they are, except that here we are running toward something… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
I don't think there's one right way to do anything. There's no one best way to be a woman. There's no best… — Elizabeth Banks Copy Share Image
I like to write from midnight to dawn with great stores of candy and Red Bull laid in... I'm not sure why… — Jenny Offill Copy Share Image
I used to do that routine about my daughter being a hippy with the dirty sneakers and dirty blue jeans, but why… — Jean Carroll Copy Share Image
“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Anger management (which is a part of both public displays of rage and spouse abuse) is about changing a person's internal reactions… — Stanton Peele Copy Share Image
The habit of the religious way of thinking has biased our mind so grievously that we are - terrified at ourselves in… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
“happy habits. Each morning, write down three things you’re grateful for. Not the same three every day; find three new things… — Jeff Olson Copy Share Image
Creeds like pacifism or anarchism, which seem on the surface to imply a complete renunciation of power, rather encourage this habit of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“What the [Clinton/Lewinsky scandal] showed was that a matter of personal behavior could crowd out of the public's attention far more serious… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
People only see you on TV and riding around like stars, but they don't see behind the scenes how much time you… — Chauncey Billups Copy Share Image
“Movements don’t emerge because everyone suddenly decides to face the same direction at once. They rely on social patterns that begin as… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
“What behaviors are rewarded? Punished? Where and how are people actually spending their resources (time, money, attention)? What rules and expectations are… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“Once you know a habit exists, you have the responsibility to change it . . . others have done so . .… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
“The behavior of each component is part of the architecture insofar as that behavior can be observed or discerned from the point… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe you can never change a habit, or create one, with a word or a piece of chalk. You can talk… — Pete Newell Copy Share Image
“The habit of INDECISION acquired because of the deficiencies of our school systems, goes with the student into the occupation he chooses… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
“It is perhaps because of the Iranian concept of the home and garden (and not the city or town it is in)… — Hooman Majd Copy Share Image
“His attitude and behaviour was no different from any other Australian high school student and being in the teaching profession she was… — Neetha Joseph Copy Share Image
I did a lot of work with early 20th century attitudes, the kind of superficial notions and behavior that prompt people who… — James Vance Copy Share Image
“Mr. Taylor has this habit of emphasizing his point by using three adjectives or verbs in a row. 'Class, you must know,'… — Randa Abdel-Fattah Copy Share Image
In times past...it was my habit to talk glibly of the right of man to land. It was a bad habit, and… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
“You must get in the habit of doing, instead of talking. You must get in the habit of completing and seeing things… — Clay Clark Copy Share Image
There must be serious consequences for criminal behavior, but when individuals demonstrate a changed lifestyle and a commitment to abandoning the ways… — Mike Parson Copy Share Image
I attributed their behavior to the fact that they didn't have a TV, but television didn't teach you everything. Asking for candy… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“It is not certain that the standardized habits of modern life lead to the optimum development of human beings. The present ways… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
“He had had a habit throughout the twenty-seven years of making a narrow remark which, like a plumber’s snake, could work its… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
“Microsoft is still living down its disastrous introduction of Clippy, a ghastly piece of artificial intelligence - I'm using that term very… — Clive Thompson Copy Share Image