Habit Quotes
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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.
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Upon becoming fifty the one thing you can't afford is habit.
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The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
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Affection is created by habit, community of interests, convenience and the desire of companionship. It is a comfort rather than an exhilaration.
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It's a game of habit, or repetition. You can't play one way in practice and another way in a game. It's a reflex. The game is so quick you don't have time to think.
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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.
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You want to know whether I can make a long speech, such as you are in the habit of hearing; but that is not my way.
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Nobody is made anything by hearing of rules, or laying them up in his memory; practice must settle the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule; and you may as well hope to make a good painter, or musician, extempore, by a lecture and instruction in the arts of music and painting, as a coherent thinker, or a strict reasoner, by a set of rules, showing him wherein right reasoning consists.
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Love and joy are incredibly habit-forming; often a single exposure is enough to cause permanent addiction.
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It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.
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Just after I entered my teens I suddenly entertained an insatiable enthusiasm for the delightful habit of criticizing others.
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The soul, like the body, accepts by practice whatever habit one wishes it to contact.
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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.
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I'm not a creature of habit. I like to find things from unexpected sources.
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It seems to me that if you can't make a good solid case for your faith, you don't have a religion, you just have a habit.
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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.
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There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant.
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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.
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I’ve a devil of a habit for being right.
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Giving credit where credit is due is a very rewarding habit to form. Its rewards are inestimable.
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My habit of glorifying things far away in space and time, also contributed to my social isolation.
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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...
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Being on time is a filthy habit practised only by roosters and retirees.
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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.
