Errol Flynn Quotes

It is habit for me to discount myself before somebody else does it for me. Better to get in the first lick

Errol Flynn

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• Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Sports
  • Winning
  • Habit

• When the mind has once formed the habit of holding cheerful, happy, prosperous pictures, it will not be easy to form the opposite habit.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Mind
  • Happy
  • Habit

• Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Learning
  • Learn
  • Habit

• The hostility between India and Pakistan has become a habit to which both the elites have become addicted. Any attempt towards a rational solution to real problems is denounced by chauvinists on both sides.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Real
  • Problems
  • Habit

• You know you're living with the habit of zest if you purposefully choose the scenic route to wherever you are going. Or you choose clothing because you love the texture of the fabric. Or you pick a shampoo or cleaning product because you love the smell - smell being just as important to you as how the product works.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Important
  • Love
  • Habit

• I think there has been this really bad habit of environmentalists being insufferably smug, where they are sort of saying, 'This is the issue that beats all other issues,' or, 'Your issue doesn't matter because nothing matters if the earth is fried.'

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Earth

• Streaming TV shows, movies, and other types of video over the Internet to all manner of devices, once a fringe habit, is now a squarely mainstream practice. Even people still paying for cable or satellite service often also have Netflix or Hulu accounts.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • People
  • Practice
  • Service

• Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Happy

• Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.

  

  Gary Ryan Blair
  • Fear
  • Respect
  • Attention

• My books deliberately provide no answers or messages. I'm drilled in the habit of objectivity and also aware that the steady drip of fiction has more power than facts to shape opinion, so I handle it with caution.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • Power
  • Opinion
  • Habit

• Dating co-stars is natural. When you're working with someone, it's habit.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • You
  • Habit
  • Dating

• Examine your own hearts. Do you see there any habit or custom which you know is wrong in the sight of God? If you do, don't delay for a moment in attacking it. Resolve at once to lay it aside. Nothing darkens the eyes of the mind so much, and deadens the conscience so surely, as an allowed sin. It may be a little one, but it is not any less dangerous.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • God
  • Mind
  • May

• Sartre observed that he had never felt so free as during the German occupation when (as a member of the French resistance) he was in constant danger of being arrested and shot. Could there be a more conclusive proof that human beings are freer than they realize, and that their freedom is eroded by habit and laziness?

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • Habit

• Every great study is not only an end in itself, but also a means of creating and sustaining a lofty habit of mind.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Study

• 'The central defect of the human mind,' Custine said, 'is its unfortunate habit of seeing patterns where none exist. Of course, that is also its chief asset.''But sometimes a very dangerous one.'

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Mind
  • Habit

• Natural Selection never made it come to pass, as a habit of nature, that an unsupported stone should move downwards rather than upwards. It applies to no part of inorganic nature, and is very limited even in the phenomena of organic life.

  

  Chauncey Wright
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Habit

• You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.

  

  Joe Paterno
  • Confidence
  • Habit

• We have a bad habit of not being able to do things cheap.

  

  Alain Wertheimer
  • Bad
  • Habit

• It's not superstition, but I do everything exactly the same on game days. I'm a creature of habit. I eat the same breakfast, and then I drive the same way to practice. Then I come back and eat the same exact same lunch before every game.

  

  Kris Humphries
  • Game
  • Practice
  • Habit

• The digital asset that matters is trust. Awareness first, then interaction, and maybe a habit, but all three mean nothing if they don't lead to permission and trust. The privilege of connection. Everything else is slippery.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Habit
  • Awareness
  • Connections

• He who wants to educate himself in Chess must evade what is dead in Chess... the habit of playing with inferior opponents; the custom of avoiding difficult tasks; the weakness of uncritically taking over variations or rules discovered by others; the vanity which is self-sufficient; the incapacity for admitting mistakes; in brief, everything that leas to standstill or to anarchy.

  

  Emanuel Lasker
  • Habit
  • Rules
  • Chess

• Don't make a habit out of choosing what feels good over what's actually good for you.

  

  Eric Thomas
  • Habit
  • Choosing
  • Feels Good

• We are a Body of contradiction, flesh-full and fleshless.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Body
  • Contradiction
  • Fleshless

• It is habit for me to discount myself before somebody else does it for me. Better to get in the first lick

  

  Errol Flynn
  • Habit
  • Discounts