Habit Quotes
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I have no artistic sensibilities. I wish I did. It is probably really cool. I have work habits and work ethic. For me, all the things I do are jobs.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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Living with doubt ... is almost always more profitable than living with certainty. People don't like doubt, so they pay money and give up opportunities to avoid it. Entrepreneurshi p is largely about living with doubt. If you need reassurance, you're giving up quite a bit to get it. On the other hand, if you can get in the habit of seeking out uncertainty, you'll have developed a great instinct.
Seth Godin
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I'm very much a creature of habit. I don't like to try to new things.
Eliot Sumner
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Our character is basically a composite of our habits.
Stephen Covey
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The soul, like the body, accepts by practice whatever habit one wishes it to contact.
Socrates
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It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.
Jawaharlal Nehru
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The mere habit of learning to love is the thing; and a teachableness of disposition in a young lady is a great blessing...
Jane Austen
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The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
Herbert Kaufman
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My habit of glorifying things far away in space and time, also contributed to my social isolation.
Luke Ford
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I’ve a devil of a habit for being right.
Catherynne M. Valente
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A bad habit is only a habit until you can observe it, then it's a choice you make.
Boonaa Mohammed
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It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct.
Elihu Root
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Upon becoming fifty the one thing you can't afford is habit.
Carolyn Heilbrun
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Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do).
Stephen Covey
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Settling is about not embracing what is best for you and accepting what you really don't want. When you settle, you accept less than you deserve. Settling becomes a habit and a way of life, but it doesn't have to be. According to Maureen Dowd, "The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for
Maureen Dowd
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As the Persians wrote very little about how they ran their affairs, the Greek propaganda of the 5th century B.C. has for centuries gone virtually unchallenged - indeed, for Edward Said, it was the beginning of Europe's long habit of misunderstanding and ill-informed contempt of the Middle East.
Neil MacGregor
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Giving credit where credit is due is a very rewarding habit to form. Its rewards are inestimable.
Loretta Young
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Ninety-nine hundredths or, possibly, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousandths of our activity is purely automatic and habitual, from our rising in the morning to our lying down each night.
William James
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The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to achieving your dreams.
Og Mandino
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I'm not a creature of habit. I like to find things from unexpected sources.
Norman Foster
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One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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It's an unhealthy habit to say that life is what you make of it, and if you want to be happy, then you can be happy. That's just rubbish, basically.
Mike Leigh
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The most expensive habit in the world is celluloid, not heroin, and I need a fix every few years.
Steven Spielberg
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Being on time is a filthy habit practised only by roosters and retirees.
Catherynne M. Valente