Habit Quotes

• 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
  • Time
  • Art
  • Small

• First you get a habit, then it gets you.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Habit
  • Gets

• Our people are willing to work with the government on new technologies. Now, it's a habit; every Estonian looks at it as part of our national identity. We understand that this allows us to provide better services to our people than our money would allow.

  

  Kersti Kaljulaid
  • People
  • Work
  • Money

• What is a habit? It’s just a shackle for ourselves.

  

  Daniel Libeskind
  • Habit
  • Shackles

• Culture exists and evolves to relegate to habit categories of interactions the constant conscious reference to which would make human interaction impossible.

  

  David Mamet
  • Culture
  • Habit

• Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

  

  Andre Maurois
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Growing

• Thus strength is afforded by good and thorough customs, thus is learnt the subjection of the individual, and strenuousness of character becomes a birth gift and afterwards is fostered as a habit.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Character
  • Habit
  • Customs

• Forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Inspiration
  • Habit
  • Dependable

• I know that for every reader who has lost the habit or can't find the time, there are people who've never enjoyed reading and question the value of literature, either as entertainment or education, or believe that a love of books, and of fiction in particular, is sentimental or frivolous.

  

  David Nicholls
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• I have often found a small stream at its fountain-head, that, when followed up, carried away the camel with his load.

  

  Saadi
  • Up
  • Small
  • Fountain

• We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort.

  

  Christopher Morley
  • Mind
  • Small
  • Effort

• The wise say that our failure is to form habits: for habit is the mark of a stereotyped world.

  

  Anthony Clifford Grayling
  • World
  • Failure
  • Wise

• Our daily decisions and habits have a huge impact upon both our levels of happiness and success.

  

  Shawn Achor
  • Decision
  • Impact
  • Huge

• Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Life
  • Habit

• The problem with doing commercials is that the only thing good enough for me to sell is myself, and I stopped doing that once I kicked my coke habit.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Good
  • Problem
  • Coke

• The seventh factor of the basic ingredients of genius, as determined from an extensive analysis of the lives of outstanding men of this nation, is *the habit of going the extra mile.* You will never be a genius unless you make it a habit to do more and better than you are paid to do, every single day of your life.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Life
  • Men
  • Single

• The habit of ubiquitous interventionism, combining pinprick strikes by precision weapons with pious invocations of high principle, would lead us into endless difficulties. Interventions must be limited in number and overwhelming in their impact.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • High
  • Habit

• I'm a creature of habit, so I like going to boutiques, rather than larger stores, where I know I'll find something that suits me every time.

  

  Jane Asher
  • Time
  • Habit

• Children are living beings - more living than grown-up people who have built shells of habit around themselves. Therefore it is absolutely necessary for their mental health and development that they should not have mere schools for their lessons, but a world whose guiding spirit is personal love.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Be in the habit of getting up bright and early on the weekends. Why waste such precious time in bed?

  

  Marilyn vos Savant
  • Up
  • Time
  • Why

• The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Person
  • Doing
  • Successful

• To make anything a habit, do it; to not make it a habit, do not do it; to unmake a habit, do something else in place of it.

  

  Epictetus
  • Place
  • Habit
  • Unmake

• The habit of calling a finished product a Design is convenient but wrong. Design is what you do, not what you've done.

  

  L. Bruce Archer
  • Done
  • Design
  • Habit

• Nice,' I say, realizing only afterward that I've mimicked her, a bad habit of mine; I'm like one of those animals that imitates its predators to survive.

  

  Melissa Bank
  • Animals
  • Survive
  • Predators

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