Habit Quotes
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So with the man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary things. He will stand like a tower when everything rocks around him, and when his softer fellow-mortals are winnowed like chaff in the blast.
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The chain of habit coils itself around the heart like a serpent, to gnaw and stifle it.
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It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reading is, and what shifts we make to escape thinking. There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.
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New habits can be launched.
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One should cultivate good habits of memory, for it is capable of making existence a Paradise or an Inferno.
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I paint the way someone bites his fingernails; for me, painting is a bad habit because I don't know nor can I do anything else.
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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.
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However much Rome may be in the habit of speaking and writing, for my own part, I shall give these libellers a lesson in good manners
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You cannot write well or much (and I venture the opinion that you cannot write well unless you write much) unless you form a habit.
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For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. They'd measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy.
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You get into habits. Ways of being with certain people.
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Most of our faculties lie dormant because they can rely upon Habit, which knows what there is to be done and has no need of their services.
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I am a creature of habit.
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Choice is always performed against a background of habit.
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Too many of us suffer from pervasive feelings of personal powerlessness. We have a terrible habit of obstructing our own paths forward, especially at the worst possible moments.
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From what I awaited, came my habit of waiting.
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It is true from early habit, one must make love mechanically as one swims; I was once very fond of both, but now as I never swim unless I tumble into the water, I don't make love till almost obliged.
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It's not your salary that makes you rich, it's your spending habits.
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I hate studio. For me, studio is a trap to overproduce and repeat yourself. It is a habit that leads to art pollution.
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I do firmly believe that the Londoner is as contented with his city home as the dweller in the fairest valley among the Appennines ; and that habit brings its usual indifference as to place.
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… ; but conscience, like a child, is soon lulled to sleep ; and habit is our idea of eternity.
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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.
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The four laws of learning are: the first is demonstration of what you want. The second is the criticism of the demonstration. The third is the imitation of the correct model, and the fourth is repetition, over and over until it becomes habit where is you don’t think about it.
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I too have sworn heedlessly and all the time, I have had this most repulsive and death-dealing habit. I'm telling your graces; from the moment I began to serve God , and saw what evil there is in forswearing oneself, I grew very afraid indeed, and out of fear I applied the brakes to this old, old, habit.
