Eric Thomas Quotes
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Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
W. Somerset Maugham -
I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family – poor, in fact.
Madhur Bhandarkar -
Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
Vince Lombardi -
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 -
Life - how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.
V. S. Pritchett -
What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.
Victor Cherbuliez
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There is freedom in forgiveness, and it's not that hard to do once you get into the habit.
Dana Perino -
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 -
Clothes are a kind of uniform. A nun's habit, a surgeon's scrubs, a cop's uniform. People often say that when they put on a certain uniform, they actually think of themselves differently.
Victor LaValle -
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
Samuel Johnson -
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 -
Like, they know that I have a habit of rubbing my earlobes, I've been doing it since I was two.
Balthazar Getty
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The soul, when accustomed to superfluous things, acquires a strong habit of desiring things which are neither necessary for the preservation of the individual nor for that of the species. This desire is without limit, whilst those which are necessary are few in number and restricted within certain limits; but what is superfluous is without end...
Maimonides -
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 -
The most essential characteristic of scientific technique is that it proceeds from experiment, not from tradition. The experimental habit of mind is a difficult one for most people to maintain; indeed, the science of one generation has already become the tradition of the next...
Bertrand Russell -
I realized very soon the danger of repeating indiscriminately this form of expression and decided to limit the production of 'ready-mades' to a small number yearly. I was aware at that time, that for the spectator even more than for the artist, art is a habit forming drug and I wanted to protect my 'ready-mades' against such contamination.
Marcel Duchamp -
The world evades us because it becomes itself again. That stage scenery masked by habit becomes what it is. It withdraws at a distance from us.
Albert Camus -
Treating an age group as a demographic requires coming up with something that's common to every single one of them. Right?... So it's reductionist in that it reduces an entire segment of civilization down to one person with one habit.
Douglas Rushkoff
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One of the most important principles of success is developing the habit of going the extra mile.
Napoleon Hill -
An important species of pleasure, and therewith the source of morality, arises out of habit.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
You lose such a lot of time just sleeping ... when you might just be living! ... It seems such a pity we can't live nights too.
Eleanor Porter -
Humility is the mother of all virtues: the humble in spirit progress and are blessed because they willingly submit to higher powers and try to live in harmony with natural laws and universal principles. Courage is the father of all virtues; we need great courage to lead our lives by correct principles and to have integrity in the moment of choice.
Stephen Covey -
Don't make a habit out of choosing what feels good over what's actually good for you.
Eric Thomas