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Celebrate every tiny victory like you just won the lottery, because excellence is a habit, not an act.
Author:
Jane Smith
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Giving credit where credit is due is a very rewarding habit to form. Its rewards are inestimable.
Author:
Loretta Young
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Just after I entered my teens I suddenly entertained an insatiable enthusiasm for the delightful habit of criticizing others.
Author:
Loretta Young
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In the past 3-4 years I've developed a habit of keeping numerous small cassette recorders in my house and in a bag with me so that I'm able to commit to tape memory song ideas on a constant basis.
Author:
Dwight Yoakam
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Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.
Author:
Frank Wright
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Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.
Author:
Virginia Woolf
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Character... is a habit, the daily choice of right over wrong; it is a moral quality which grows to maturity in peace and is not suddenly developed on the outbreak of war.
Author:
Charles Wilson
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Yet otters have not been hunters in water long enough for the habit to become an instinct.
Author:
Henry Williamson
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If I allow the fact that I am a Negro to checkmate my will to do, now, I will inevitably form the habit of being defeated.
Author:
Paul Williams
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I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table.
Author:
Patrick White
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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.
Author:
Edith Wharton
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Habit is ten times nature.
Author:
Arthur Wellesley
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I am not a creature of habit.
Author:
Tony Visconti
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The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.
Author:
Peter Ustinov
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Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Author:
Peter Ustinov
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To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
Author:
Miguel Unamuno
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The habit of building houses upon piles, which was first forced upon the people by the position they had chosen, was afterwards followed as a matter of taste, just as it is in Holland.
Author:
Edward Tylor
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Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.
Author:
Barbara Tuchman
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Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.
Author:
Brian Tracy
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I am not in the habit of taking baritones to supper.
Author:
Eric Taylor
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
Author:
Tacitus
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Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.
Author:
Publilius Syrus
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For eleven months and maybe about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of the New Year we look at our own. It is a good habit.
Author:
Arthur Sulzberger
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When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
Author:
W. Stone
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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
Author:
Robert Stevenson
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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
Author:
Robert Stevenson
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The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
Author:
Stendhal
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Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.
Author:
Robert Smithson
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Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
Author:
Sydney Smith
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As this is the first time I have had the floor, it may be well for me now to confess, that I am in the habit of freely imputing errors to my fellow-men.
Author:
Gerrit Smith
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Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express.
Author:
George Smith
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Getting into the habit of switching a timer on will, I promise, save you from any number of kitchen disasters.
Author:
Delia Smith
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PS: It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' beaux.
Author:
Wallis Simpson
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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.
Author:
Charles Simmons
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Joe Kennedy isn't in the habit of having incompetents around. I wouldn't have lasted three months if I didn't have some ability.
Author:
Sargent Shriver
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Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.
Author:
George Shaw
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I'm a creature of habit. I go to restaurants all the time and stuff.
Author:
Jason Schwartzman
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I applaud the American Cancer Society for all they do to eradicate smoking. Their local, state and national efforts help to discourage young people from taking up this deadly habit and the resources they provide have helped numerous smokers quit.
Author:
Allyson Schwartz
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Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.
Author:
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
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Be in the habit of getting up bright and early on the weekends. Why waste such precious time in bed?
Author:
Marilyn Savant
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Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read.
Author:
Marilyn Savant
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Habit is stronger than reason.
Author:
George Santayana
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We are on Sunday night because that is where they put us 30-odd years ago. I think we became a habit.
Author:
Morley Safer
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Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
Author:
Jim Ryun
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Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.
Author:
Bertrand Russell
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When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.
Author:
Bertrand Russell
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Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
Author:
Salman Rushdie
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It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct.
Author:
Elihu Root
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Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
Author:
Jules Renard
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The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.
Author:
William Reade
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Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
Author:
Charles Reade
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I had developed this habit of writing scenarios as a hobby. I would find out which stories had been sold to be made into films and I would write my own treatment and then compare it.
Author:
Satyajit Ray
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A habit does not a monk make.
Author:
Francois Rabelais
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Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.
Author:
Marcel Proust
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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.
Author:
Marcel Proust
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If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
Author:
Colin Powell
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Character is long-standing habit.
Author:
Plutarch
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Character is simply habit long continued.
Author:
Plutarch
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A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its character as a law except by determining a habit. A quality is how something may or might have been. A law is how an endless future must continue to be.
Author:
Charles Peirce
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The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give rise.
Author:
Charles Peirce
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Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.
Author:
Norman Peale
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You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.
Author:
Joe Paterno
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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.
Author:
Walter Pater
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Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
Author:
Blaise Pascal
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There is no influence like the influence of habit.
Author:
Gilbert Parker
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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
Author:
Thomas Paine
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Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.
Author:
Ovid
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Kelly has a rather bad habit of interrupting.
Author:
Jack Osbourne
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I first began to read religious books at school, and especially the Bible, when I was eleven years old; and almost immediately commenced a habit of secret prayer.
Author:
Francis Newman
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It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.
Author:
Jawaharlal Nehru
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Every time I would open my mouth to sing, everybody was paying attention to me. It became a habit.
Author:
Nana Mouskouri
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We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort.
Author:
Christopher Morley
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It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.
Author:
Christopher Morley
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The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.
Author:
Henry Moore
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The greatest object in educating is to give a right habit of study.
Author:
Maria Mitchell
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President Johnson had a habit of throwing dollars at a question and the question would disappear.
Author:
Wilbur Mills
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I made a habit always to hear the Indians; and although they very often lie to me, I do not show them any displeasure for it, for I do not believe them and I do not decide anything until I have found out the truth.
Author:
Antonio Mendoza
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Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
Author:
Herman Melville
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I was conducted in the evening to a tavern where several of the weavers who advocate the principles of the People's Charter were in the habit of assembling.
Author:
Henry Mayhew
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It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
Author:
Rollo May
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Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
Author:
Andre Maurois
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If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.
Author:
Andre Maurois
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Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
Author:
W. Maugham
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Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
Author:
W. Maugham
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Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes.
Author:
Mary Martin
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I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do.
Author:
Wynton Marsalis
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There is nothing so habit-forming as money.
Author:
Don Marquis
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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.
Author:
Orison Marden
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After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.
Author:
Mickey Mantle
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Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.
Author:
Horace Mann
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No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them.
Author:
Bernard Mandeville
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To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.
Author:
Maxwell Maltz
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When I came out, and for many years afterwards, it had become a habit for me to sit and read and read and read, like an obsession. I would take 20 books, and not come out until I'd finished them. It took me a while to change that habit.
Author:
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
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Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.
Author:
Thomas Macaulay
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Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.
Author:
Henri Lubac
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We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
Author:
Audre Lorde
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Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
Author:
Vince Lombardi
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Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
Author:
Vince Lombardi
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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
Author:
Vince Lombardi
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If you become president, you're guaranteed to develop some nervous habit.
Author:
Rich Little
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Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends.
Author:
Alphonsus Liguori
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One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.
Author:
Georg Lichtenberg
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I am a smoker, I'm ashamed to say. I had given it up for many years, then picked it up again. It's a horrible habit. I struggle with myself all the time. And I love to smoke.
Author:
Melissa Leo
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I don't make a habit of watching tennis matches, but I try to watch all the major finals. I try to make time for that. So unless I have something going with the kids where I can't, I try to watch, and I enjoy that.
Author:
Ivan Lendl
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You get to where you kind of like it, and It's a habit That's hard to break. I still find myself sittin' in a cafe, like a pizza parlor.
Author:
Chris LeDoux
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To this day I always insist on working out a problem from the beginning without reading up on it first, a habit that sometimes gets me into trouble but just as often helps me see things my predecessors have missed.
Author:
Robert Laughlin
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Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.
Author:
Alphonse Lamartine
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For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. They'd measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy.
Author:
Charles Kuralt
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I'm still not a great reader, but my wife is and my daughters are, and I envy them. I think I got into a bad habit of trying to do something all the time, instead of trying to sit down and take my time a little bit.
Author:
Mike Krzyzewski
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Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, then neither can seeing.
Author:
Maxine Kingston
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Senator Hillary Clinton is attacking President Bush for breaking his campaign promise to cut carbon dioxide emissions, saying a promise made, a promise broken. And then out of habit, she demanded that Bush spend the night on the couch.
Author:
Craig Kilborn
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We say the name of God, but that is only habit.
Author:
Nikita Khrushchev
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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.
Author:
Helen Keller
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Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
Author:
Herbert Kaufman
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The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
Author:
Samuel Johnson
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Men even contract the dirty, filthy habit of chewing tobacco, and when the habit gets a good hold upon them they are never satisfied except when they have a wad of the stuff in their mouth. So with drinking. It is largely a habit.
Author:
Thomas Jarvis
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It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.
Author:
Robert Ingersoll
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You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.
Author:
Aldous Huxley
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A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
Author:
Aldous Huxley
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Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.
Author:
Aldous Huxley
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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!
Author:
Edmund Husserl
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Habit is the nursery of errors.
Author:
Victor Hugo
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Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught.
Author:
Kin Hubbard
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In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it's the worst kind of hell for those who love you.
Author:
Billie Holiday
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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
Author:
Hippocrates
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
Author:
Augustine Hippo
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You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.
Author:
Napoleon Hill
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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.
Author:
Napoleon Hill
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Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
Author:
Napoleon Hill
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Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.
Author:
Napolean Hill
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Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.
Author:
Napolean Hill
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I had this habit of an academic of answering the question. I should have fobbed it off.
Author:
John Hewson
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By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
Author:
O. Henry
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The accent got lost somewhere along the way. I'm a little embarrassed about it. When I arrived in LA I assumed I'd be able to put on the American accent. It proved difficult so I had six months working with a dialect coach and it's become a habit.
Author:
Martin Henderson
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Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted.
Author:
Carolyn Heilbrun
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At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.
Author:
Seamus Heaney
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Must swear off from swearing. Bad habit.
Author:
Rutherford Hayes
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One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.
Author:
Helen Hayes
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Your desired behavior must become just as much a habit as your undesired behavior was before.
Author:
Mike Hawkins
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Usually, it is not my habit to address religious issues on the floor. I strongly believe in a person's right to religious freedom, as well as the separation of church and state.
Author:
Alcee Hastings
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The expense of a war could be paid in time; but the expense of opium, when once the habit is formed, will only increase with time.
Author:
Townsend Harris
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Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.
Author:
G. Hall
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Make it your habit not to be critical about small things.
Author:
Edward Hale
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I'm trying to get in the habit of, you know, picking up a book and learning how to write my feelings down, not my feelings but my thoughts, about things, and hopefully I'll moving toward the writing and directing thing soon.
Author:
Corey Haim
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Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me.
Author:
David Guterson
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Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.
Author:
George Gurdjieff
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Once you get into the habit of work, you can be more productive in the things you want to do.
Author:
Adrian Grenier
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Like, they know that I have a habit of rubbing my earlobes, I've been doing it since I was two.
Author:
Balthazar Getty
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Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.
Author:
David George
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Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.
Author:
Martha Gellhorn
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Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.
Author:
Charles Gaulle
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Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
Author:
Benjamin Franklin
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My habit of glorifying things far away in space and time, also contributed to my social isolation.
Author:
Luke Ford
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I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming.
Author:
W. Fields
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Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are a habit.
Author:
Joe Eszterhas
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A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.
Author:
Desiderius Erasmus
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Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.
Author:
Epictetus
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Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.
Author:
Tryon Edwards
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Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.
Author:
Henry Dyke
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As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.
Author:
Henry Dyke
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I've retired so many times now it's getting to be a habit.
Author:
Dick Dyke
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You know, I'm almost out of the habit of watching episodic television now.
Author:
Dick Dyke
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Winning is a habit.
Author:
Leo Durocher
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I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.
Author:
Arthur Doyle
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When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.
Author:
Mack Douglas
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I've been into the habit of freezing white grapes and using them as a snack. Instead of eating peanuts or popcorn or something like that or pretzels, I just eat the white grapes.
Author:
Mike Ditka
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Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.
Author:
Ernest Dimnet
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Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.
Author:
Ernest Dimnet
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Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.
Author:
Rene Descartes
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I finally realized that yeah I did want to be an actor and it wasn't out of habit, but I needed to grow up for myself and then kind of re-enter the industry with a sound understanding of what my sensibilities and my values are as a relatively formed human being.
Author:
Claire Danes
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Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
Author:
Salvador Dali
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Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.
Author:
Norman Cousins
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My fellow students there were very smart, but the really novel thing was that they actually seemed to put a lot of effort into their school work. By the end of my first semester there, I began to get into that habit as well.
Author:
Eric Cornell
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There are six components of wellness: proper weight and diet, proper exercise, breaking the smoking habit, control of alcohol, stress management and periodic exams.
Author:
Kenneth Cooper
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If success is a habit, it is a hard one to acquire.
Author:
Mason Cooley
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Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.
Author:
Alistair Cooke
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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
Author:
Samuel Coleridge
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True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.
Author:
Jean Cocteau
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The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them; for then it must sink back into savagery.
Author:
William Clifford
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Habit is something you can do without thinking, which is why most of us have so many of them.
Author:
Frank Clark
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A habit is something you can do without thinking - which is why most of us have so many of them.
Author:
Frank Clark
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Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.
Author:
Emile Cioran
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To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.
Author:
Emile Cioran
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Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
Author:
Marcus Cicero
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Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
Author:
Marcus Cicero
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What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.
Author:
Victor Cherbuliez
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Acting for me is not a bad habit like smoking that I must make an effort to quit. I love acting; I love directing.
Author:
Joan Chen
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People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.
Author:
John Chapman
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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
Author:
George Carver
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Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
Author:
Dale Carnegie
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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.
Author:
Albert Camus
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The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.
Author:
Anthony Burgess
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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
Author:
Warren Buffett
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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 relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.
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Buddha
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Underneath the teeth and gears of lists and measures lies the delicate heart of spontaneity, nameless moments woven within intention, inviting the unexpected to caffeinate progress.
Author:
Clara Jimmy
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The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal.
Author:
David Brin
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When, according to habit, I was contemplating the stars in a clear sky, I noticed a new and unusual star, surpassing the other stars in brilliancy. There had never before been any star in that place in the sky.
Author:
Tycho Brahe
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Both Brutus and Hamlet are highly intellectual by nature and reflective by habit. Both may even be called, in a popular sense, philosophic; Brutus may be called so in a stricter sense.
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Andrew Bradley
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Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.
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Hal Boyle
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My worst habit is whistling while I sleep.
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Billy Boyd
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Never permit failure to become a habit.
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William Book
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Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.
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Gary Blair
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For me, habit is just a synonym for death.
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Juliette Binoche
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We have seen from experience that, if we are in the habit of walking regularly on the same road, we are able to think about other things while walking, without paying attention to our steps.
Author:
Vinoba Bhave
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Habit is a great deadener.
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Samuel Beckett
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My own nature hovers between neurotic and paranoid. I've developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day.
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Martha Beck
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Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.
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Drew Barrymore
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When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
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James Baldwin
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
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Aristotle
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
Author:
Aristotle
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
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Aristotle
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Author:
Aristotle
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Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Author:
Aristotle
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The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
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Aristotle
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Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
Author:
Maya Angelou
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The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
Author:
James Allen
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The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it.
Author:
Leo Aikman
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They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit.
Author:
Chinua Achebe
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My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history.
Author:
Lynn Abbey
