“Irony got dangerous when it became a habit. Wallace quoted Lewis Hyde…”Irony has only emergency use. Carried over time, it is the… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
Once you say 'I want to find Truth', all your life will be deeply affected by it. All your mental and physical… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
“The habit of praying before my meal trains me in a way of being-in-the-world. It reminds me that my personal experience is… — Tish Harrison Warren Copy Share Image
“Is there a behavior you would like to make into a habit? Then reinforce it by repeating that behavior at every opportunity.… — Steve Goodier Copy Share Image
People often assume that the same approach will work for everyone, that the same habits will work for everyone, and that everyone… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
“It's just, with someone like Ellie, it'll be really hard for her not to fall back into old habits. Javier was her… — Karina Halle Copy Share Image
“You see, people are struggling to control their behaviors and actions because they don’t have control over their emotions and feelings. They… — Joseph Prince Copy Share Image
“people have a really bad habit of coming in and checking e-mail first thing in the morning. And for many people, the… — Jocelyn K. Glei Copy Share Image
“Class is mostly a way to find something in myself I didn't know was there. Learning doesn't fill me up so much… — Charlie Quimby Copy Share Image
More girls were killed in the last 50 years, precisely because they were girls, than men killed in all the wars in… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
“B.F. Skinner, the world-famous psychologist, proved through his experiments that an animal rewarded for good behaviour will learn much more rapidly and… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
At the core of all human behavior, the good feelings we all want are more or less the same. Therefore, what we… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
“musicians, athletes, and chess players, among others, know all about deliberate practice, but knowledge workers do not. Most knowledge workers avoid the… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
Chélan had acted as imprudently for Julien as he had for himself. He had given him the habit of reasoning correctly, and… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
“At a time in our culture when violence was achieving a new legitimacy as a form of public assertion, there was perhaps… — Diana Trilling Copy Share Image
I've had only one idea in my life - a true idee fixe. To put it as bluntly as possible - the… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
“If a person were to get stuck in attachment induced entrancement for any worldly thing for just one hour, then it will… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Trump does not gain strength with every attempt to place limits on his behavior. Accountability does not jolt him into political action.… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
It is so very easy and so very pleasant, too, to read only books which lead to nothing, light and interesting books,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
EDUCATION, n. The bringing up, as of a child; instruction; formation of manners. Education comprehends all that series of instruction and discipline… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
One who aspires to greatness should read and study, pursuing the True Way with such a firm resolve that he is perfectly… — Yoshida Shoin Copy Share Image
Cultures, along with the religions that shape and nurture them, are value systems, sets of traditions and habits clustered around one or… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Wear your best for your execution and stand dignified. Your last recourse against randomness is how you act - if you can't… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“develop the habit of employing one of several “consider the opposite” strategies. We can learn to ask ourselves, for example, “Suppose the… — Thomas Gilovich 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
I actually hate it when I forget to put on perfume. It's become a part of my routine and something that represents… — Stacy Martin 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
“You were right when you said I was holding onto April's apron strings even though she was trying to cut them. I've… — Nicola Sinclair Copy Share Image
I kind of dropped a lot of bad habits about three years ago and became kind of accidentally straight-edge. I don't have… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
I don’t ask writers about their work habits. I really don’t care. Joyce Carol Oates says somewhere that when writers ask each… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
The first attempts to consider the behavior of so-called "random neural nets" in a systematic way have led to a series of… — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share Image
The very person you find it hardest to forgive is the one you need to let go of the most. Forgiveness means… — Louise Hay Copy Share Image
“Too many people hold on too tightly to strategies, thoughts, or activities that don’t work for them anymore. You want to avoid… — Tony Horton Copy Share Image
These various habits of thought, or habitual expressions of life, are all phases of the single life sequence of the individual; therefore… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
Almost 400 years ago, Shakespeare was portraying adolescents in a very similar light to the light that we portray them in today… — Sarah-Jayne Blakemore Copy Share Image
A mind which has once imbibed a taste for scientific enquiry, and has learnt the habit of applying its principles readily to… — John Herschel Copy Share Image
We need to develop a robust set of tools - strategies and routines - that help us address student variance. It's easy… — Carol Ann Tomlinson Copy Share Image
If we desire to do what will please God, and what will help men, we presently find ourselves taken out of our… — James Freeman Clarke Copy Share Image
“An even more cringeworthy behavior is exhibited by banana slugs (genus Ariolimax), which become so entwined during sex that they sometimes chew… — Bill Schutt Copy Share Image
