When a director narrates a character, I find it normal to ask questions about the character's background, mood swings, eccentricities, behaviour... I… — Radha Ravi Copy Share Image
We have to understand there are two parts of our mind, there's the conscious and the subconscious. It's the subconscious that controls… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
“The power of human habit never failed to astonish her. How was it that two intelligent, decent people who basically loved each… — Nicholas Evans Copy Share Image
And then certainly, whatsoever you do - your character, your behaviour - is yours, authentically yours. It has your signature on it.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Moralistic behavior change simply manipulates and leverages radical selfishness without challenging it. It tries to use that selfishness against itself by appealing… — Timothy J. Keller Copy Share Image
You are not an alcoholic or an addict. You are not incurably diseased. You have merely become dependent on substances or addictive… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
“The part I was trying to understand was why I was so damn angry. It wasn’t like I had any say in… — Sloane Kennedy Copy Share Image
When you live on your own for a long time, however, your personality changes because you go so much into yourself you… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Once and for all, people must understand that addiction is a disease. It’s critical if we’re going to effectively prevent and treat… — David Sheff Copy Share Image
“I saw the patterns of history and thought that a human might be eighty per cent chemicals, eighteen per cent his past,… — Gerard Donovan Copy Share Image
“My own sight-seeing habits don’t at all incommode her, owing to my having made the acquaintance of a little old German lady… — Henry James Copy Share Image
This sort of behavior is left to the psychotic, dogmatic, fundamentalist believers you see on your TV everyday letting off bombs and… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
The behavior of the Occupy Wall Street protesters has raised some curious questions about the continuing double standards in our society. When… — Jamie Glazov Copy Share Image
“Removing toxicity from your life is essential to maintaining a peaceful state of mind and an overall quality of health. This purging… — Gary Hopkins Copy Share Image
“He had written commentaries for the Journal suggesting that people would be healthier if they lived more like their paleolithic ancestors had.… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“There is something sustaining in the very agitation that accompanies the first shocks of trouble, just as an acute pain is often… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“The effects of Cassie’s visions were apparent from her behavior at school. Slipping grades, deteriorating friendships, and countless hours of lost sleep.… — Kerry Lonsdale Copy Share Image
“Adding variability increased the frequency of the pigeons completing the intended action. Skinner’s pigeons tell us a great deal about what helps… — Nir Eyal Copy Share Image
“But once you realize that we are not just thinking things but creatures of habit, you’ll then realize that temptation isn’t just… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
Teaching our children is more than just imparting information. It's helping our children get the doctrine into their hearts in a way… — Cheryl A. Esplin Copy Share Image
I'm not prescribing non-doing as a universal response to our problems. Sometimes, something obviously needs to be done. And we retreat into… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
“If we conform our behavior to God’s ancient moral prescription, we are entitled to the sweet benefits of life. But if we… — James C. Dobson Copy Share Image
My own opinion is that the suburban project is over. We are done. We don't know it yet. For about five years… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
It will be difficult to break the habits of thinking Abnegation instilled in me, like tugging a single thread from a complex… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“If you have people who treat you badly in your life, they will be a human shield against people who will treat… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
Jamie Moyer was in his third year as a major league pitcher and was, by his own admission, still wide-eyed, watching everything… — Don Yaeger Copy Share Image
“He told him about his routines, how they had started out as a comfort and became a prison. (He was about to… — Phaedra Patrick Copy Share Image
In every human society of which we have any record, there are those who teach and those who learn, for learning a… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
When the rich and well-established, who should be generous, are instead spiteful and cruel, they make their behavior wretched and base in… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
If you defend a behavior by arguing that people are programmed directly for it, then how do you continue to defend it… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“After many years, after a thick web of habits, memories and violent differences has been woven between us, we at last realize… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The teachers tried everything, even pleading, but Tomas was in the habit of addressing them only in Latin, a language he spoke… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“The sad truth is that we have been conditioned to get away from our problems by drowning them in our different patterns… — Alexis G. Roldan Copy Share Image
“There are diverse styles of learning, problem solving, and a range of methodologies that a person can draw from in order to… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
A habit of finding pleasure in thought rather than action is a safeguard against unwisdom and excessive love of power, a means… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“First, we developed the self-model, because we had to integrate our sensory perceptions with our bodily behavior. Then this self-model became conscious,… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
“Habit-forming technologies leverage the user's past behavior to initiate an external trigger in the future. Users set future triggers during the Investment… — Nir Eyal Copy Share Image
Cultivate the habit of attention and try to gain opportunities to hear wise men and women talk. Indifference and inattention are the… — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
What the framers of the Constitution tried to achieve when they wrote that Constitution back in the 1700s was an independent federal… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
“If complex behavior such as addiction is a chronic and relapsing brain disease (and it is complex, because it involves not just… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
