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• Change might not be fast and it isn't always easy. But with time and effort, almost any habit can be reshaped.

  Charles Duhigg

  Effort, Might, Easy

  "The Power of Habit". Book by Charles Duhigg, February 28, 2012.

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• I am not a creature of habit.

  Tony Visconti

  Creatures Of Habit, Creatures

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• Habit is stronger than reason.

  George Santayana

  Smoking, Stronger, Opinion

  George Santayana (1936). “The Works of George Santayana: Interpretations of the poetry and religion. Hamlet. Shelley. Dickens. Tragic philosophy”

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• It is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his errors as his knowledge.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Errors, Difficult

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.13

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• Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts; for the soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. Soak it then in such trains of thoughts as, for example: Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Attitude, Positivity

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• Creativity can solve almost any problem.

  George Lois

  Creativity, Originality, Problem

  George Lois (2008). “George Lois on His Creation of the Big Idea”, Editions Assouline

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• What greater work is there than training the mind and forming the habits of the young?

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Education, Training, Mind

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• A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Wisdom, Overcoming, Nails

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• We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.

  Anne Sullivan Macy

  Teacher, Selfish, Live Life

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• Write all the time. I believe in writing every day, at least a thousand words a day. We have a strange idea about writing: that it can be done, and done well, without a great deal of effort. Dancers practice every day, musicians practice every day, even when they are at the peak of their careers – especially then. Somehow, we don’t take writing as seriously. But writing – writing wonderfully – takes just as much dedication.

  Theodora Goss

  Dance, Believe, Writing

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• I blew the lot on vodka and tonic, gambling and fags. Looking back, I think I overdid it on the tonic.

  Stan Bowles

  Football, Drinking, Thinking

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• Life becomes a habit. You get up, dress, eat, go tae work, clock in etcetera etcetera automatically, and think about nothing but the pay packet on Friday and the booze-up last Saturday. Life's easy when you're a robot.

  Alasdair Gray

  Friday, Thinking, Dresses

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• The wise say that our failure is to form habits: for habit is the mark of a stereotyped world.

  A.C. Grayling

  Wise, World, Form

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• Thoughts lead on to purpose, purpose leads on to actions, actions form habits, habits decide character, and character fixes our destiny.

  Tryon Edwards

  Character, Destiny, Thinking

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• We cannot, in a moment, get rid of habits of a lifetime.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Recovery, Addiction, Moments

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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• Take the money in your wallet and invest it in your mind. And in return, your mind will fill up your wallet!

  Benjamin Franklin

  Mind, Return, Wallets

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• You must master the habit of procrastination and eliminate it from your wake-up. This habit of putting off until tomorrow that which you should have done last week or last year or a score of years ago is gnawing at the very vitals of your being and you can accomplish nothing until you throw it off.

  Napoleon Hill

  Procrastination, Accomplish Nothing, Should Have

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• We become what we repeatedly do.

  Sean Covey

  Sean Covey (1999). “Daily Reflections For Highly Effective Teens”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

  Peter Ustinov

  Love, Life, Marriage

  "Ustinov's comic touch". BBC obituary, news.bbc.co.uk. March 29, 2004.

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• Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

  Stephen Covey

  Power, Choices, Decision

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.117, Simon and Schuster

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• Excellence is a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Perseverance, Excellence, Passion For Excellence

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• Habit is the deepest law of human nature

  Thomas Carlyle

  Law, Human Nature, Humans

  Thomas Carlyle (1843). “Past and Present”, p.77

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• Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Athlete, Best Sports, Excellence

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• Success comes when people turn what they've learned into the daily habits that breed success.

  Tony Jeary

  People, Daily Habits, Turns

  FaceBook post by Tony Jeary from Apr 17, 2016

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• Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it.

  Ralph Marston

  Thank You, Thanksgiving, Thankful

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