“I was also afraid to the point of illness of being ridiculous, and therefore slavishly worshipped routine in everything to do with… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“And our resistance against changing our habits of thought is immense and unrelenting. If we try, briefly, we find it ass vexing… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
“There are two common and complementary mistakes, which have been made over and over again concerning spirits by people in the Western… — John Michael Greer Copy Share Image
Yes, creative people are more prone to addiction or addictive behavior. But, equally as prone is your mailman, your mother, your brother,… — Kristen Johnston Copy Share Image
Few are born bold. Even Napoleon had to cultivate the habit on the battlefield, where he knew it was a matter of… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“What seems to set apart those at the very top of competitive pursuits from others of roughly equal ability is the degree… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
The technologies that will be most successful will resonate with human behaviour instead of working against it. In fact, to solve the… — John Seely Brown Copy Share Image
“The principal enemy of mindfulness—or of any meditative practice—is our deeply conditioned habit of being distracted by thoughts. The problem is not… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“although a properly constrained government may be superior to statelessness, it doesn't follow that any government is superior to no government all.… — Peter T. Leeson Copy Share Image
I have to entertain, because if I don't entertain you, you're not going to continue reading. But if I'm not out to… — Bebe Moore Campbell Copy Share Image
“It may, after all, be the bad habit of creative talents to invest themselves in pathological extremes that yield remarkable insights but… — Theodore Roszak Copy Share Image
Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing the service… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I've always found it best to have a routine. I go to my study at the same time every day and climb… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“but those as knows the least have a habit of thinkin' they know all there is to know, while them as knows… — Frank Baum Copy Share Image
You start doing the addictive behavior to feel good and then your receptors get overloaded with dopamine, then you stop doing the… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
“Whereas we’d once believed that the symptoms and behavior exhibited by our clients primarily reflected their psychological defenses—a view that attributed a… — Janina Fisher Copy Share Image
“All our life,” William James told us in the prologue, “so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books, not to be indiscriminately enforced against anyone who happens to be caught violating… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
A good teacher can never be fixed in a routine... each moment requires a sensitive mind that is constantly changing and constantly… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
“It is a profoundly erroneous truism repeated by all copybooks, and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should… — E.D. Hirsch Jr Copy Share Image
“...any object functioning within the physical laws of any particular universe does not have free will ... In terms of human beings,… — Mark J. Solomon Copy Share Image
Truly wealthy people develop the habit of "getting rich slow" rather than "getting rich quick." To assure this, they have two rules… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
I think of empathy as a set of cumulative effects, ideally - that it can be a force shaping your habits, shaping… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
There's something about doing Shakespeare with a single gender, whether it is all-male or all-female, that opens up certain possibilities. You are… — Phyllida Lloyd 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
“Like it or not, we are trendsetters. Just as every fashion model ever to strut the runway, we affect the minds of… — Hannah Farver Copy Share Image
“Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat…Forgiveness does not create a relationship. Unless people speak… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
“Whenever two unbelievers quarrel, the may both say some very insightful things about the unsightly habits of the other. The postmodernists are… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
“Not that parents are alone in their extreme behavior. That have more than enough company among school boards and high-ranking politicians who… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
To write fiction is to think that you're doing it wrong - that your work habits are inhibiting you; that you've chosen… — Ben Dolnick Copy Share Image
"Don't bother too much about your feelings. When they are humble, loving, brave, give thanks for them; when they are conceited, selfish,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our youth can not understand why society chooses to criminalize a behavior with so little visible ill effect or adverse social impact...… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
“So coming back from a journey, or after an illness, before habits had spun themselves across the surface, one felt that same… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Worker-owned co-ops, on their own, floating in the market, tend to replicate the behavior of worker-owned capitalists in some circumstances. They sometimes… — Gar Alperovitz Copy Share Image
I've never been pigeonholed and I've experienced so many different kinds of skin - what man will do and won't do, what… — Ron Perlman Copy Share Image
You can do everything differently in a novel. Hero narrates the novel; we're in his head. You're hearing all his thought processes… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
“Köves always found it ironic that humans, despite being God’s most sublime creation, were still just animals at the core, their behavior… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
If you're a wildlife filmmaker and you're going out into the field to film animals, especially behavior, it helps to have a… — Mike deGruy Copy Share Image
“The (Boy) code is a set of behaviors, rules of conduct, cultural shibboleths, and even a lexicon, that is inculcated into boys… — William Pollack Copy Share Image
Capitalism creates a huge community of producers who are unceasingly striving to deprive each other of the fruits of their collective labor,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
