Fun has to do with habitual activities but then also terrifically novel or unusual ones. It works as a sort of strange… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
I always write the same way. I always write with a yellow pad and a ballpoint pen on my bed. And then… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Gourmandise is an impassioned, rational, and habitual preference for all objects which flatter the sense of taste. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
It's very dangerous to mix up the words natural and habitual. We have been trained to be quite habitual at communicating in… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Our minds were circumscribed within narrow limits by an habitual belief that it was our duty to be subordinate to the mother… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A standard of living is of the nature of habit. ...it acts almost solely to prevent recession from a scale of conspicuous… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
Mere chance ... alone would never account for so habitual and large an amount of difference as that between varieties of the… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I notice well that one stray step from the habitual path leads irresistibly into a new direction. Life moves forward, it never… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can...in the acquisition of a new… — William James Copy Share Image
If a certain activity, such as painting, becomes the habitual mode of expression, it may follow that taking up the painting materials… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Children demand that their heroes should be freckle less, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Mental activity in the daytime creates a latent form of habitual thought which again transforms itself at night into various delusory visions… — Milarepa Copy Share Image
The scariest thought in the world is that someday I'll wake up and realize I've been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If you have nothing of the spirit of prayer, nothing of the love of the brotherhood, nothing of mortifying the spirit of… — Gardiner Spring Copy Share Image
The important thing about travel in foreign lands is that it breaks the speech habits and makes you blab less, and breaks… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
Assurance grows by repeated conflict, by our repeated experimental proof of the Lord's power and goodness to save; when we have been… — John Newton Copy Share Image
This is the path of prayer-contemplative prayer, that is, as distinct from simple prayers of supplication and thanksgiving-which is a specific discipline… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Compared with men, it is probable that brutes neither attend to abstract characters, nor have associations by similarity. Their thoughts probably pass… — William James Copy Share Image
I do not know what the cat can have eaten. Usually I know exactly what the cat has eaten. Not only have… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
Grace in women has more effect than beauty. We sometimes see a certain fine self-possession, an habitual voluptuousness of character, which reposes… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully guard against… — William James Copy Share Image
“A mentira mais habitual é aquela com que alguém engana a si mesmo; enganar os outros é, relativamente, a exceção.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as character other than the habitual action, as Mr. Aristotle told us two thousand years ago. — David Mamet Copy Share Image
The nation was not founded by habitual groupthinkers. But it stands a fair chance of being destroyed by them. — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Each time you stay present with fear and uncertainty, you're letting go of a habitual way of finding security and comfort. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Even happiness itself may become habitual. There is a habit of looking at the bright side of things, and also of looking… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes - are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
We can gradually grow into any condition we desire, provided we first make ourselves in habitual mental attitude the person who corresponds… — Thomas Troward Copy Share Image
O Heavenly Father, convert my religion from a name to a principle! Bring all my thoughts and movements into an habitual reference… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Simply by changing your habitual vocabulary, you can instantaneously change how you think, how you feel, and how you live. — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
Any 'Christians' who take for themselves any more than the plain necessaries of life, live in an open habitual denial of the… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
Good manners come, as we say, from good breeding or rather are good breeding; and breeding is acquired by habitual action, in… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
There is certainly no defence or water -proof garment against adverse fortune which is, on the whole, so effectual as an habitual… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
People aren't religious because it's easy not to be. Like anything, it's habitual, and once it's a habit it's no longer hard. — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense the new… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The law of attraction will certainly and unerringly bring to you the conditions, environment and experiences in life, corresponding with your habitual,… — Charles F. Haanel Copy Share Image
Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment… The world, you must… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Every action is self-perpetuating, every thought is self-perpetuating. Once you cooperate with it, you are giving energy to it. Sooner or later… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
