Habit Quotes
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I don't make a habit of watching my parents' films, because it is a little strange. But I will say that I binge watch 'House of Cards' compulsively, and I think it's the first time I've ever seen one of my mom's projects and totally forgot she was my mom!
Dylan Penn
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Be in the habit of experimenting with your clothing so that you don't get stuck for life with a self-image developed over the course of high school.
Marilyn vos Savant
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Pugs are creatures of habit.
Lydia Millet
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You get into the habit of being angry and hurt by life, and then when something good happens you can't accept it because it doesn't fit the pattern.
Alison Lurie
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Worry is an unhealthy and destructive mental habit.
Norman Vincent Peale
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Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
William James
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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will be there to support you when all other resources are gone. It will be present to you when the energies of your body have fallen away from you. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
Anthony Trollope
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My travel habit is usually to visit somewhere I have never been rather than develop a consistent relationship with a place.
Jodi Balfour
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In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike.
Walter Pater
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All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits.
William James
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Trash talk is poisonous and a bad habit!
Yolanda Hadid
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Every habit is made of three parts... a cue, a routine and a habit. Most people focus on the routine and behavior, but these cues and rewards are really the way you make something into a habit.
Charles Duhigg
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Make it your profitable habit to carefully study facial expressions. You can see the entire human drama in a face; you can tell its owner's history.
Vernon Howard
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When my dad died, I developed a nervous habit. He was very shy and quiet, and I was like him.
Crystal Gayle
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Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.
Brian Tracy
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I got into a bad habit of dropping my elbow and pushing the ball to the plate instead of getting on top of it and using some leverage to get it down in the strike zone or get some depth with the ball.
Matt Cain
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I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table.
Patrick White
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In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!
Edmund Husserl
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... the habit of literature [is] the best defense against believing the half-truths of ideologues and the lies of demagogues.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Reading is so private, and it is often a reader's habit to finish a book, close the covers, and plunge into the next one without a backward glance.
Bobbie Ann Mason
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Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.
Twyla Tharp
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There is a saying, 'Eyes are the windows to the soul.' It means, mostly, people can see through someone else by eye contact in seven seconds. I have a habit that if I meet someone I don't know, I'd like to look at her or his eyes on purpose. When my eyes lay on them, I can immediately see their true color.
Peng Liyuan
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When I was growing up, we had a widow living next door to us. So the habit was that if we went to the grocery store, we called her first. If we cut our yard, we cut her yard, no questions asked.
Lynn Good
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Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.
Drew Barrymore