Habit Quotes
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Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do).
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The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. And I really believe that. And what I try to teach young people, or anybody in any creative field, is that every idea should seemingly be outrageous.
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This is a bit more expensive than my previous turbo-Ferrari habit, but not too bad.
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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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Procrastination is probably my worst habit out of many. Especially when it comes to paperwork.
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... habit starts at the second crime. At the first one, something is ending.
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The teacher's prime concern should be to ingrain into the pupil that assortment of habits that shall be most useful to him throughout life. Education is for behavior, and habits are the stuff of which behavior consists.
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Inspiration can show up almost any time, though I have yet to see anyone scratching out melodic ideas on a restaurant napkin as legend would have us believe. I think inspiration comes from concentration, and early on I learned about Mark Twain's habit of leaving for his study after breakfast and not reappearing until the end of the day, ready to read to his family what he had just written. That set a good example for me, although I didn't copy his habit of taking twelve cigars along.
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'A lot of fancier yarns come from people trying to tell the truth. It’s not easy once you’re out of the habit.'
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The invention of printing did away with anonymity, fostering ideas of literary fame and the habit of considering intellectual effort as private property. (p. 122)
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My best advice: win little battles. Get in the habit of winning, of shipping, of having customers that can't live without you. Once you've demonstrated you know how to do the art, then go after the windmills.
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If you're respectful by habit, constantly honoring the worthy, four things increase: long life, beauty, happiness, strength.
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I have Googled myself, yeah, I think everybody has. I try not to make a habit of it - in fact I made a rule once never to Google myself, which made me happy.
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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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Habit rules the unreflecting herd.
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I happen to have an expensive clothing habit, so, for me, designing clothes is a way to kill two birds with one stone.
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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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Baseball is a habit. The slowly rising crescendo of each game, the rhythm of the long season--these are the essentials and they are remarkably unchanged over nearly a century and a half. Of how many American institutions can that be said?
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One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.
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The point is to know how to use the colours, the choice of which is, when all's said and done, a matter of habit.
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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
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Each day the sun shone, the birds lingered, though the trees were turning, purely out of habit, and their rose and yellow and rust looked strange and beautiful above the brilliant green grass.
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Seize the very first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and on every emotional prompting you may experience in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain.
