Habit Quotes
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Nobody can possibly be so hungry that they need to take a life in order to feel satisfied – they don't after all, take a human life, so why take the life of an animal? Both are conscious beings with the same determination to survive. It is habit, and laziness and nothing else.
Morrissey
The Smiths
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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate.
Norman Vincent Peale
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People who fail to accumulate money, without exception, have the habit of reaching decisions, if at all, very slowly, and of changing these decisions quickly and often.
Napoleon Hill
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Practice conquers the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule.
John Locke
Nazareth
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Waging war on his enemies had been Sokolov’s habit and his profession for a long time, but being chivalrous to everyone else was simply a basic tenet of having your shit together as a human and as a man.
Neal Stephenson
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Teaching is a very habit-bound endeavor. We're unsettled by the unfamiliar. We're creatures of habit too.
Carol Ann Tomlinson
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Practice is the price of mastery. Whatever you practice over and over again becomes a new habit of thought and performance.
Brian Tracy
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'Cause a costume can be comfortableIt can make you feel more beautifulIt can even make you look like someone elseBut it's still you, so there's nothing you can doLike a bad habit, the one you couldn't kick, there it always isAnd it's nothing that no doctor's gonna fix.
Conor Oberst
Bright Eyes
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I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities contract not only an effeminacy of habit, but of thinking.
Oliver Goldsmith
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It is necessary to iterate and reiterate that prayer, as a mere habit, as a performance gone through by routine or in a professional way, is a dead and rotten thing.
Edward McKendree Bounds
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Every habit and faculty is preserved and increased by correspondent actions,-as the habit of walking, by walking; of running, by running.
Epictetus
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Administrations had come and gone in Pennsylvania Avenue, but many old entertaining traditions had survived - thru habit and not thru merit.
Letitia Baldrige
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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
Norman Vincent Peale
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So coming back from a journey, or after an illness, before habits had spun themselves across the surface, one felt that same unreality, which was so startling; felt something emerge. Life was most vivid then.
Virginia Woolf
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I make a habit of setting aside some time each evening to take out my knitting and work quietly on it, happily relaxing. I believe that it prepares me for sleep and washes away the cares of my day.I will consider that intarsia, or Fair Isle with three or more colors in a row, prepares nobody for sleep and cursing loudly while flinging knitting around the living room is about as far away from soothing as you can get.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
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There is a real danger of unintended consequences, of encouraging people to give up. Pessimism, if it becomes a habit, can reinforce a narrative of unstoppable decline. If there is nothing we can do, that releases us from our obligations.
David Grinspoon
