Habit Quotes
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The moment love is equated with happiness, it is satisfied — and is no longer love. The satisfied, the happy ones, do not love; they fall asleep in habit, near neighbor to annihilation.
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You want to know the biggest illusion about success? That it's like a pinnacle to be climbed, a thing to be possessed, or a static result to be achieved. If you want to succeed, if you want to achieve all your outcomes, you have to think of success as a process, a way of life, a habit of mind, a strategy for life.
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The vital difference between dreamers and achievers boils down to some very basic, simple habits. People with clear, 'written-out' goals who consistently honor their defined priorities tend to get results faster than others, and enjoy a greater level of happiness and long-term success in all areas of life.
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Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.
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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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A bad habit is only a habit until you can observe it, then it's a choice you make.
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People have habits about what they think songs should be like. There's the folky thing of: "Poor me, I'm a sensitive person in a cruel world." Or the pop thing of: "Hey, look at me, I'm sexy."
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Habit has a kind of poetry.
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Surely if there be any habit which your own hand and eye should help in forming, it is the habit of prayer.
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Make happiness a daily habit!
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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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Procrastination is probably my worst habit out of many. Especially when it comes to paperwork.
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Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep, for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter.
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It is the juvenal period of life when friendships are formed, and habits established, that will stick by one.
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Change, not habit, is what gets most of us down; habit is the stabilizer of human society, change accounts for its progress.
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I am a creature of 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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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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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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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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The most practical of all methods for controlling the mind is the habit of keeping it busy with a definite purpose, backed by a definite plan.
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Now, all America sits in front of television sets and those television sets exude, I am sorry to say, a considerable amount of radioactive material. It's not huge, you know, but it's enough so that people who have made a habit of watching TV ... get the TV radiation.
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... habit starts at the second crime. At the first one, something is ending.
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Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do).
