Bad Habits Quotes - Page 5

• Sometimes when you've had a long series of disappointing things happen, you can get into the very bad habit of just expecting more of what you've already had.

  Joyce Meyer

  Long, Sometimes, Habit

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• At some point, being angry is just another bad habit, like smoking, and you keep poisoning yourself without thinking about it.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Thinking, Smoking, Habit

  Jonathan Tropper (2009). “This Is Where I Leave You: A Novel”, p.242, Penguin

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• I've never really focused on if I had good habits when I sang or if I had bad habits, or if I was breathing correctly. So, I started doing vocal exercises and would stretch out before I sang, stuff to help my breathing. It's funny, you breathe your whole life then you find out you're not doing it correctly.

  Rodney Atkins

  Exercise, Breathing, Stuff

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• Invention despoils observations, insinuation invalidates memory. A stewpot of bad habits, all of it - so that imaginative writers wind up, by and large, a shifty crew, sunk in distortion, misrepresentation, illusion, imposture, fakery.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Memories, Wind, Illusion

  Cynthia Ozick (1996). “Portrait of the Artist as a Bad Character: And Other Essays on Writing”

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• I have a bad habit of picking up books about drugs, but that's better than having a drug habit, I think.

  Andrew VanWyngarden

  Book, Thinking, Drug

  "MGMT Cover Story Bonus Q&A with Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser". Interview with Matt Fink, www.undertheradarmag.com. November 15, 2013.

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• It's great to see that celebrities can be just like us - that they too have their highs and lows, that they don't always wake up looking their best, that they have bad habits and annoying traits.

  Shirley Jones

  Wake Up, Annoying, Habit

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• One forms provisional theories and waits for time or fuller knowledge to explode them. A bad habit, Mr. Ferguson, but human nature is weak. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Time, Nature, Waiting

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• Bad habits are easy and discipline is hard-and “easy” is where people gravitate. A good work ethic requires a painstaking daily effort. Easy typically leads to a life long list of problems but the discipline of having a plan leads to an extraordinary rewarding life. In the long run, the easy way makes life harder and the harder way makes life easier.

  Tony Horton

  Running, Discipline, Long

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• Want to lose weight? Kick a bad habit? Well you might want to try hypnosis! ... no longer regarded as mere hocus-pocus, it's been shown as an effective means of helping people quit smoking, shed pounds, reduce stress, and end phobias.

  Jane Pauley

  Stress, Mean, Hypnosis

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• I have this really bad habit of doing things on the Internet and forgetting that the whole world is going to see it.

  Maisie Williams

  World, Forget, Internet

  "‘Game Of Thrones’ Arya Stark Speaks: Maisie Williams On Season 3 Finale, Her Red Wedding Vine" By Mike Hogan, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 9, 2013.

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• Whether or not we are religious, respecting others should be seen as just as important as looking out for ourselves, yet it requires discipline to change our bad habits that cause pain to animals.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Religious, Pain, Animal

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• Maybe Himalayan climbing is just a bad habit, like smoking, of which one says with cavalier abandon, must give this up some day, before it kills me.

  Greg Child

  Climbing, Giving, Smoking

  Greg Child (2012). “Mixed Emotions: Mountaineering Writings of Greg Child”, p.81, The Mountaineers Books

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• I asked the Zebra,
  are you black with white stripes?
  Or white with black stripes?
  And the zebra asked me,
  Are you good with bad habits?
  Or are you bad with good habits?

  Shel Silverstein

  Zebras, White, Black

  Shel Silverstein, “Who Does She Think She Is....”

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• Of offering more than what I can deliver, I have a bad habit, it is true. But I have to offer more than I can deliver, To be able to deliver what I do.

  Ken Kesey

  Offering, Able, Habit

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• I have no faith in a human critter who hasn't one or two bad habits.

  Margaret Deland

  Two, Habit, Critters

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• When you're literally carrying a child you can cut back on bad habits.

  Jemima Kirke

  Children, Cutting, Habit

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Come on Canada, it's time to kick our bad habits and get into shape!

  David Suzuki

  Shapes, Canada, Habit

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• I remain persuaded of the inevitable and necessary complementarity of man and woman. Love, imperfect as it may be in its content and expression, remains the natural link between these two beings. To love one another! If only each partner could move sincerely towards the other! If each could only melt into the other! If each would only accept the other's qualities instead of listing his faults! If each could only correct bad habits without harping on about them!

  Mariama Bâ

  Moving, Men, Expression

  Mariama Bâ (1989). “So Long a Letter”, p.88, Heinemann

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• I think also, that general virtue is more probably to be expected and obtained from the education of youth, than from exhortations of adult persons; bad habits and vices of the mind being, like diseases of the body, more easily prevented than cured. I think moreover, that talents for the education of youth are the gift of God; and that he on whom they are bestowed, whenever a way is opened for use of them, is as strongly called as if he heard a voice from heaven.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Education, Thinking, Voice

  Benjamin Franklin (1838). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Ed., and Many Letters Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.48

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• I was always on the go, and thought I was too busy to develop something like this. I thought at the time that diabetes went along with bad habits, but I was the last one in my family to eat junk food.

  Angie Stone

  Always On The Go, Junk, Lasts

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• In the comic-book world, there tends to be an overblown sense of tradition. Bad habits die hard. There are ways I think the form could work more effectively if we lost the bad habits that were created before we were born.

  Frank Miller

  Book, Thinking, World

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. December 05, 2001.

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• The difference between an amateur and a professional is in their habits. An amateur has amateur habits. A professional has professional habits. We can never free ourselves from habit. But we can replace bad habits with good ones.

  Steven Pressfield

  Differences, Habit

  "Turning Pro: Tap Your Inner Power and Create Your Life's Work". Book by Steven Pressfields, 2012.

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• I can't stop biting my nails. It's a bad habit of mine. I like anything to do with math and numbers. I know a lot of people don't like geometry, but for me it's fun.

  Khleo

  Fun, Math, Numbers

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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.

  Napoleon Hill

  Business, Procrastination, Should Have

  Napoleon Hill (1997). “Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success”, p.28, Penguin

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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.

  Joan Chen

  Marijuana, Effort, Smoking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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