Thomas Sterner Quotes

#1. Dorie herself was not very surprised, because a daydreamer is prepared for most things and in a way she had planned even this, though she had not guessed how it would come about.

Joyce Carol Oates

#2. In the beginning, science is a thing imagined; in the beginning, war is a thing imagined; in the beginning, love is a thing imagined; in the beginning, even God is a thing imagined. There is nothing that has not first been imagined. Even before there are words, there is imagination.

Bakhtiyar Ali

#3. The problem with patience and discipline is that it requires both of them to develop each of them.

Thomas M. Sterner

#4. There is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will.

John Donne

#5. Habits and practice are very interrelated. What we practice will become a habit.

Thomas M. Sterner

#6. Progress is a natural result of staying focused on the process of doing anything.

Thomas M. Sterner

#7. We think too many thoughts at once, most of them the same thoughts we had yesterday and the day before. We are impatient with life, and anxious.

Thomas M. Sterner

#8. Habits are learned. Choose them wisely.

Thomas M. Sterner

#9. The older your teenagers are, the more they will have their own ideas and opinions. If you take them seriously, rather than assuming your ideas are always best and the only ones, you will begin to grow a relationship that will extend beyond the hormone-group years.

Kevin Leman

#10. The feeling "I'll be happy when X happens" will never bring you anything but discontentment.

Thomas M. Sterner

#11. Rushing had become so much of a habit that I was amazed at the amount of concentration it took to work slowly on purpose.

Thomas M. Sterner

#12. You are going to find that buying the car is much less satisfying than working for it.

Thomas M. Sterner

#13. It is better to go down in infamy than to never go down at all.

Jack Bowman

#14. So few people are really aware of their thoughts. Their minds run all over the place without their permission, and they go along for the ride unknowingly and without making a choice.

Thomas M. Sterner

#15. We can learn so much from nature by simply observing how it works through a flower. The flower knows it is part of nature' we have forgotten that.

Thomas Sterner