Habit Quotes
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Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy men to live calmly.
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Men and women consume one another rapidly in what is called "the act of love," or else settle down to a mild habit of conjugality. We seldom find a mean between these two extremes.
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My imagination would never have served me as it has, but for the habit of commonplace, humble, patient, daily, toiling, drudging attention.
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The most expensive habit in the world is celluloid, not heroin, and I need a fix every few years.
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Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.
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Too many men slip early out of the habit of studious reading, and yet that is essential.
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To eat meat is just a habit after we were born. In fact, we are not born to eat meat.
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Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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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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The soil of friendship is worn out with constant use. Habit may still attach us to each other, but we feel ourselves fettered by it. Old friends might be compared to old married people without the tie of children.
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I had this habit of an academic of answering the question. I should have fobbed it off.
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Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit--or a mask.
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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
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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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Well I think a lot of times we're putting things off and I'm going to do it later. I'm going to break this bad habit or I'm going to pursue this dream or I'm going to treat my spouse better.
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There's only one thing that's strong enough to defeat the tyranny of the moment. Habit.
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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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I never have any clothes to go out in, because I always just buy for work. I don't know why. Habit.
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If I have learned one thing in my 54 years, it is that it is very good for the character to engage in sports which put your life in danger from time to time. It breeds a saneness in dealing with day to day trivialities which probably cannot be got in any other way, and a habit of quick decisions.
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People who start a sentence with personally (and they're always women) ought to be thrown to the lions. It's a repulsive habit.
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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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Habits of prayer need careful cultivation.
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By changing our mindset and habits, we can actually dramatically change the course of life, improve intelligence, productivity, improve the quality of our lives, and improve every single education and business outcome.
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I am not in the habit of taking baritones to supper.
