Habit Quotes
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I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming.
W. C. Fields
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I struggled to kick the habit - I would make a decision to give up smoking, but it was hard. I couldn't resist the urge to steal a smoke. It was at that time that I was gifted Allen Carr's book 'The Easy Way to Stop Smoking.' After I read that book, I didn't touch a fag again.
Mahesh Babu
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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.
Napoleon Hill
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What produced this divine serenity, subject to no moods, clouded by no depression, this perpetual Sunday of the heart? It was not merely good nature, not the accident of a happy organization. It was deeper than that. It was the perfect poise resulting from a Christian experience. It was the habit of looking to God in love and to man in love.
James Freeman Clarke
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Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.
George Bernard Shaw
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Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, then neither can seeing.
Maxine Hong Kingston
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Now the way of life that I preach is a habit to be acquired gradually by long and steady repetition. It is the practice of living for the day only, and for the day's work.
William Osler
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It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit.
Aristotle
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I think there has been this really bad habit of environmentalists being insufferably smug, where they are sort of saying, 'This is the issue that beats all other issues,' or, 'Your issue doesn't matter because nothing matters if the earth is fried.'
Naomi Klein
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Habit is the nursery of errors.
Victor Hugo
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The habit of expressing loosely organized opinions is one of the most destructive of habits.
Napoleon Hill
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I think my least healthy habit is running around too much. And I think I'm getting better about it as I'm getting older.
Cynthia Nixon
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The habit of taking the line of least resistance makes all rivers and some men crooked.
Napoleon Hill
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The classification of facts, the recognition of their sequence and relative significance is the function of science, and the habit of forming a judgment upon these facts unbiassed by personal feeling is characteristic of what may be termed the scientific frame of mind.
Karl Pearson
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Just as, out of habit, one consults a run-down clock as though it were still going, so too one may look at the face of a beautiful woman as though she were still in love.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I have a habit of leaving places at the wrong time, just when something big may have happened for me.
Christa Päffgen
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Man is made of ordinary things, and habit is his nurse.
Friedrich Schiller
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What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine.
Oscar Wilde
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
Saint Augustine
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Coaches are creatures of habit. I knew a coach who got a deal going where his players had to run a mile in six minutes. I asked why. He said, 'gut check'.
Abe Lemons
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Habit is ten times nature.
Arthur Wellesley
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An excellent habit to cultivate is the analytical study of the King James Bible. For simple yet rich and forceful English, this masterly production is hard to equal; and even though its Saxon vocabulary and poetic rhythm be unsuited to general composition, it is an invaluable model for writers on quaint or imaginative themes.
H. P. Lovecraft
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I feel that between my experience and my mother's, breast cancer is a little bit like someone who lives next door. I know what that person looks like and what their daily habits are.
Cynthia Nixon
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Habit is a great deadener.
Samuel Beckett