Habit Quotes
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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
Marcel Proust
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Today, do just a little bit more. Turn going the extra mile into a habit - it is what lifts most successful people above the crowd.
Bob Proctor
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Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.
Ernest Dimnet
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There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant.
Gautama Buddha
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Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.
Ed Foreman
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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
Anthony Trollope
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If you become president, you're guaranteed to develop some nervous habit.
Rich Little
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Everyone has a comfort zone. Worth considering: How hard (and how often) are you willing to work to get out of it? You can turn that into a habit if you choose.
Seth Godin
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Creating art is a habit, one that we practice daily or hourly until we get good at it
Seth Godin
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I think I was also afraid of the novel. I write line by line, proceeding at snail's pace, rewriting as I go and paring the excess away. This is against all the best advice for writing long form prose, and I have tried over the years to break myself of the habit, but I can't bear to leave anything ungainly on the page and half the fun for me is that tinkering. So the length of a novel was a daunting prospect.
Debra Dean
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The idea of putting old Browborough into prison for conduct which habit had made second nature to a large proportion of the House was distressing to Members of Parliament generally.
Anthony Trollope
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If I were to prescribe one process in the training of men which is fundamental to success in any direction, it would be thoroughgoing training in the habit of accurate observation. It is a habit which every one of us should be seeking ever more to perfect.
Eugene Grace
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Spending way too long worrying about what people think about me is a bad habit.
Sharon Horgan
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Instead of relying on expensive marketing, habit-forming companies link their services to the users' daily routines and emotions.
Nir Eyal
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Things have a habit of working out, you know. Eventually.
Angie Sage
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All our "most sacred affections " are merely prosaic habit.
Cesare Pavese
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The digital asset that matters is trust. Awareness first, then interaction, and maybe a habit, but all three mean nothing if they don't lead to permission and trust. The privilege of connection. Everything else is slippery.
Seth Godin
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The man who has acquired the habit of study, though for only one hour every day in the year, and keeps to the one thing studied till it is mastered, will be startled to see the way he has made at the end of a twelvemonth.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Unhappily the habit of being offensive 'without meaning it' leads usually to a way of making amends which the injured person cannot but regard as a being amiable without meaning it.
George Eliot
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You'll forgive the flowery talk, won't you? Our family does so love to be told they are beautiful. Vanity is an old and venerable habit.
Catherynne M. Valente
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Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.
Helen Keller
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Choose what is best, and habit will make it pleasant and easy.
Plutarch
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Life becomes a lot simpler for a creative person when he or she finds the routine that works best. ... get in the habit of going through the routine every day, and on some of those days, you're going to be lucky and have done some good work. ... Go to your study, close the door, invent your confidence.
Diane Ackerman
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The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
Marcel Proust