Habit Quotes
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A poem is good if it contains a new analogy and startles the reader out of the habit of treating words as counters.
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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.
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We really need to kick the carbon habit and stop making our energy from burning things. Climate change is also really important. You can wreck one rainforest then move, drain one area of resources and move onto another, but climate change is global.
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No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them.
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Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.
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As a rule, I think they are quite impossible. Geniuses talk so much, don't they? Such a bad habit! And they are always thinking about themselves, when I want them to be thinking about me.
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I adore tradition. I cannot stand habit. Simply to repeat is nothing, also to destroy is nothing. Tradition is never interrupted, we are always evolving but never interrupted.
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Confidence is a habit that can be developed by acting as if you already had the confidence you desire to have.
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... the habit of literature [is] the best defense against believing the half-truths of ideologues and the lies of demagogues.
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When I say that I love you, I don't say it out of habit or to make conversation. I say it to remind you that you're the best thing that's ever happened to me.
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Cecil flashed a grin. "Quite. Plus your rather irritating habit of treating your superior officers as your, ah..." Cecil paused, apparently groping again for just the right word. "Equals?" Miles hazarded. "Cattle," Cecil corrected judiciously.
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Use almost can change the stamp of nature.
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Opportunity ... It has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. Perhaps this is why so many fail to recognize opportunity.
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I used to wear sweats and a T-shirt to auditions, but my agent would yell at me and tell me I had to look nice and presentable. So I had to drop that habit.
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Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
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Your character is the harvest of your habits.
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At some point in my life I'd honestly hoped love would rescue me from the cold, drafty castle I lived in. But at another point, much earlier I think, I'd quietly begun to hope for nothing at all in the way of love, so as not to be disappointed. It works. It gets to be a habit.
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I've retired so many times now it's getting to be a habit.
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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.
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Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.
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That was the stuff of other lives, he was waiting for his to begin. He got in the habit of walking around the trailer and asking aloud, 'Who knows?' He said, 'Who knows?' For no one knew. He meant, anything could happen. A spinning coin, still balanced on its rim, may fall in either direction.
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You get into the habit of being angry and hurt by life, and then when something good happens you can't accept it because it doesn't fit the pattern.
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Every time I've made a plan in my Hollywood acting career, something else has happened, so I've gotten out of the habit of trying to predict the future.
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Wealth is a result of habit.
