Habit Quotes
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Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.
Publilius Syrus
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I got into the habit of filtering out all the good in my life, focusing on only the negative. I'm not sure why I did it, but it's a pretty depressing state.
Laura Mvula
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The fact is that our kids aren't reading books - or frankly, much of anything lately. Schools are under funded, some schools even closing their libraries. Parents have to realize that it's their job, and not the school's job, to get kids into the habit of reading for fun.
James Patterson
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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
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Dating co-stars is natural. When you're working with someone, it's habit.
Rachel Bilson
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When I arrived in L.A., I assumed I'd be able to put on the American accent. It proved difficult, so I had six months working with a dialect coach, and it's become a habit.
Martin Henderson
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If we desire to do what will please God, and what will help men, we presently find ourselves taken out of our narrow habits of thought and action; we f1nd new elements of our nature called into activity; we are no longer running along a narrow track of selfish habit.
James Freeman Clarke
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The specific steps for changing a specific habit differ from person to person and habit to habit, but the steps - the formula - is essentially the same, and once you learn it, you can do amazing things.
Charles Duhigg
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Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between truth and sarcasm.
William Hazlitt
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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.
Katherine Mansfield
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So every spirit, as it is most pure,And hath in it the more of heavenly light,So it the fairer bodie doth procureTo habit in, and it more fairely dightWith cheerful grace and amiable sight:For of the soule the bodie forme doth take; For the soule is forme, and doth the bodie make.
Edmund Spenser
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Writing is one way to go about thinking, and the practice and habit of writing not only drain the mind but supply it, too.
E. B. White
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In high school, I had to hide my comic book side, my nerd side from the civilian world so they wouldn't categorize me. They would try to marginalize me for what I like. I tried to give it up, believe me. I tried to kick the habit. But there's too much I liked about it to give it up completely.
Mark Hamill
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An important species of pleasure, and therewith the source of morality, arises out of habit.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Cultivate the habit of zest. Purposefully seek out the beauty in the seemingly trivial. Especially in the trivial. The colors and shapes of the foods you eat. The shadows a vase makes on your table. The interesting faces of the people on the bus with you.
Karen Salmansohn
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Delude not yourself with the notion that you may be untrue and uncertain in trifles and in important things the contrary. Trifles make up existence, and give the observer the measure by which to try us; and the fearful power of habit, after a time, suffers not the best will to ripen into action.
Carl Maria von Weber
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As a leader, you must consistently drive effective communication. Meetings must be deliberate and intentional - your organizational rhythm should value purpose over habit and effectiveness over efficiency.
Chris Fussell
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Women tend to break the network of friends they make, but it is a habit that men have learned. It is an approach to life that involves planning almost without thinking about it. And men sustain this. I came from a northern grammar school. I had a good education, but I didn't have a good network.
Pauline Neville-Jones
