Habit Quotes
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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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Male homosexuals have seduced and abused millions of underage boys. Their unclean sexual habits and ultra-promiscuous lifestyle have resulted in spreading the worst communicable plague in this century, the specter of AIDS, which has not only killed millions of their own, but also millions of others, including tens of thousands who contracted the virus from blood transfusions.
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I was a mindless eater. I ate for comfort. I also ate out of boredom and habit.
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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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Chi Chi Rodriguez had as good a pair of hands as anybody I ever saw, and more shots than you can imagine. But Chi Chi had a habit of turning simple shots into difficult ones.
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Habit-forming products often start as nice-to-haves, but once the habit is formed, they become must-haves.
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This is a bit more expensive than my previous turbo-Ferrari habit, but not too bad.
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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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One hasn't become a writer until one has distilled writing into a habit, and that habit has been forced into an obsession. Writing has to be an obsession. It has to be something as organic, physiological and psychological as speaking or sleeping or eating.
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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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Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy men to live calmly.
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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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To have an uncommon lifestyle, you need to develop the uncommon habit of making decisions, both for yourself and for others.
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It's hard to resist the magical thinking that the work habits of great writers are the key to their greatness.
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Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.
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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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General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming.
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Habit 7 is taking the time to sharpen the saw. By renewing the four dimensions of your nature - physical, spiritual, mental and social/emotional, you can work more quickly and effortlessly. To do this, we must be proactive. This is a Quadrant II (important, not urgent) activity that must be acted on. It's at the center of our Circle of Influence, so we must do it for ourselves.
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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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He doesn't seem to be able to stay out of trouble. I think he'll get out of that habit, though. I think the coaches let him know that he'll stay out of trouble or he won't be around long.
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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.
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To things which you bear with impatience you should accustom yourself, and, by habit you will bear them well.
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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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They that are virtuous from principle may receive confidence in every capacity; but they that are so from custom or habit, are capable of trust only in matters of ordinary and settled occurrence.
