Habit Quotes
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Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.
Edith Wharton
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Once you break a habit into its components, you can fiddle with the gears.
Charles Duhigg
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... freshness trembles beneath the surface of Everyday, a joy perpetual to all who catch its opal lights beneath the dust of habit.
Freya Stark
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The real key is to live in an environment where the mind feels free to choose the right thing instead of being compelled by habit and inertia to choose the wrong thing.
Deepak Chopra
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People have a bad habit of blaming the victims. Sarcastically Damn Jews! If hadn't been for them the Nazis wouldn't have exterminated 'em all!
Ward Churchill
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You know you're living with the habit of zest if you purposefully choose the scenic route to wherever you are going. Or you choose clothing because you love the texture of the fabric. Or you pick a shampoo or cleaning product because you love the smell - smell being just as important to you as how the product works.
Karen Salmansohn
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I'm a creature of habit. I go to restaurants all the time and stuff.
Jason Schwartzman
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Usually I get up at 5, it’s a habit I have had since I was in the RSS. I don’t need much sleep, three hours is enough for me. My friends and my doctors complain that it is too less, but it is sufficient for me. You can see, I have worked all day but even now I am sitting here easily talking to you.
Narendra Modi
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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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The hostility between India and Pakistan has become a habit to which both the elites have become addicted. Any attempt towards a rational solution to real problems is denounced by chauvinists on both sides.
Tariq Ali
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A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.
Desiderius Erasmus
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When we make a habit of prayer, we stay constantly tuned to God's presence and open to receive his blessings.
Bill Hybels
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It became a habit of mine never to leave the house without a pencil in my pocket.
Paul Auster
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The best way to teach morality is to make it a habit with children.
Aristotle
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Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.
Charles Simmons
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Habit is the great flywheel of society.
William James
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PS: It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' beaux.
Wallis Simpson
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Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist; but by ascending a little, you may often look over it altogether. So it is with our moral improvement: we wrestle fiercely with a vicious habit, which could have no hold upon us if we ascended into a higher moral atmosphere.
Philip James Bailey
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I waited for her to catch up, and when I did, she slowed down, and I missed seeing the light in her hair. I never told Nadia how much I liked seeing the halo the sunlight made of her hair. Sometimes silence is a habit that hurts.
E. L. Konigsburg
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Get into the habit of saying, ''Speak, Lord,'' and life will become a romance.
Oswald Chambers
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The spirit of God has the habit of taking the words of Jesus out of their scriptural setting and putting them into the setting of our personal lives.
Oswald Chambers
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In America, they have this nauseating habit of calling the conductor 'maestro'. I always slightly gag when the cor anglais player goes, 'Maestro, can I discuss bar 19 with you?'
Charles Hazlewood
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People who want to write either do it or they don't. At last I began to say that my most important talent - or habit - was persistence. Without it, I would have given up writing long before I finished my first novel. It's amazing what we can do if we simply refuse to give up.
Octavia E. Butler
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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