Atomic Habits Quotes & Sayings

Shakespeare wrote great poetry and preposterous plays. Who really cares, for example, which petty tyrant rules Milan? Or who succeeds to the throne of Denmark? Or why the barons ganged up on Richard II? — Edward Abbey

It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving. — Mother Teresa

What the hell war isn't unpopular? — Scott Eyman

Fortunately, the sun has a wonderfully glorious habit of rising every morning — Jean Craighead George

You can do anything you want to. Follow your dreams; because if you say you can't do it, you'll spend the rest of your life proving it. — Jean Nidetch

I hate women like that. They're so desperate for the attention of men that they'd willingly betray and harm members of their own sex. — Sarah J. Maas

Mexican leadership has been doing serious damage to the United States by out-negotiating our representatives and political leaders. — Donald Trump

The catastrophe of the atomic bombs which shook men out of cities and businesses and economic relations, shook them also out of their old-established habits of thought, and out of the lightly held beliefs and prejudices that came down to them from the past. — H.G.Wells

Expertise is the mantra of modern medicine. In the early twentieth century, you needed only a high school diploma and a one-year medical degree to practice medicine. By the century's end, all doctors had to have a college degree, a four-year medical degree, and an additional three to seven years of residency training in an individual field of practice - pediatrics, surgery, neurology, or the like. In recent years, though, even this level of preparation has not been enough for the new complexity of medicine. — Atul Gawande

The finished product is often of less importance than the skills and confidence gained through the process and the way in which the community is strengthened through people in it work and are brought together. — Ben Edwards

George W. Bush has helped those who have most, hurt those who have least and ignored everyone in between. — Wesley Clark

I tried to point out that it's not a gimmick to teach patients suffering with OCD that their intrusive thoughts and urges are caused by brain imbalances, and that we now know they can physically alter those imbalances through mindfulness and self-directed behavioral therapy techniques. — Jeffrey M. Schwartz

It would be madness to let the purposes or the methods of private enterprise set the habits of the age of atomic energy. — Harold Laski

[John] Dalton was a man of regular habits. For fifty-seven years he walked out of Manchester every day; he measured the rainfall, the temperature - a singularly monotonous enterprise in this climate. Of all that mass of data, nothing whatever came. But of the one searching, almost childlike question about the weights that enter the construction of these simple molecules - out of that came modern atomic theory. That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to the pertinent answer. — Jacob Bronowski

Friendship is the unspeakable joy and blessing that result to two or more individuals who from constitution sympathize. Such natures are liable to no mistakes, but will know each other through thick and thin. Between two by nature alike and fitted to sympathize, there is no veil, and there can be no obstacle. Who are the estranged? Two friends explaining. — Henry David Thoreau

A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others. — Ambrose Bierce