Aristotle Quotes
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Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.
Edmund White -
Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
Vince Lombardi -
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 -
There is freedom in forgiveness, and it's not that hard to do once you get into the habit.
Dana Perino -
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
Saint Augustine -
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
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The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
Samuel Johnson -
I will form good habits and become their slave. And how will I accomplish this difficult feat? Through these scrolls it will be done, for each scroll contains a principle which will drive a bad habit from my life and replace it with one which will bring me closer to success.
Og Mandino -
I'm not very good at vacationing or relaxing or planning any of that for myself. So I'm in the habit of piggy-backing off of gigs and deciding to stay an extra day.
Verite -
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 -
Kelly has a rather bad habit of interrupting.
Jack Osbourne -
Every time I would open my mouth to sing, everybody was paying attention to me. It became a habit.
Nana Mouskouri
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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 -
Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.
Hal Boyle -
Like, they know that I have a habit of rubbing my earlobes, I've been doing it since I was two.
Balthazar Getty -
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 -
Dating co-stars is natural. When you're working with someone, it's habit.
Rachel Bilson -
If one undertakes retrospection of the day's events, one must do it regularly at the appointed hour, not fitfully, not doing it today, neglecting to do it tomorrow and the day after and then taking it up again on the fourth day. Such irregular practice is not conducive to the confirmation of the habit of retrospection.
Mahavira
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I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result.
Oscar Wilde -
I don't believe so much in the value of a single picture anymore. I don't really photograph for the wall.
Ernst Haas -
I feel like a tree. A tree doesn't feel a duty to start doing something about the earth from which it comes. A tree just has to bear fruit, and leaves and blossoms. It doesn't feel grateful to the earth.
Abbas Kiarostami -
I don't want to be remembered. I want the nice words when I can hear them.
Jerry Lewis -
All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children.
Paul Auster -
95% of everything you do is the result of habit.
Aristotle