Habit Quotes - Page 18

• Knowledge is the understanding of what, how and why we need to do something. Skill is applying that knowledge in a practical situation. Attitude is the desire to transform our knowledge into skills and ultimately into habits.

  Bill Capodagli

  Attitude, Skills, Understanding

  Bill Capodagli, Lynn Jackson (2016). “The Disney Way:Harnessing the Management Secrets of Disney in Your Company, Third Edition”, p.151, McGraw Hill Professional

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• A lot of what I'm having to do to get myself weaned from football is really limit what media I allow myself to consume. And it's a big drag. But it's also the only way to kick the habit.

  Steve Almond

  Football, Media, Way

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Addicts are ALWAYS irrational when it comes to their habits.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Irrational, Addict

  Source: www.all-creatures.org

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• Nowadays, people have a habit of relativizing religion, reducing it to "your truth" versus "my truth" versus "their truth," and that's the end of it.

  Greg Koukl

  People, Reducing, Ends

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• All I know is that we are loaded down with old and stale stuff - habits, customs, old attitudes already dead and gone.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Attitude, Gone, Stuff

  Source: scrapsfromtheloft.com

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• The Democrats, because they are the media, still establish the narrative for Washington every day. And whatever that narrative is, the Republicans - for some reason (I think it's force of habit and years and years of conditioning) - still become subservient to whatever that narrative is.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Media, Years

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Russia could be, in fact, it would have to be a different Russia, but it could be a splendid ally. I will say this for the Russians: on their - in their favor, they have the intellectual capacity and the habits of mind to act in the world on a strategic scale, and were they do to so in service of a better cause than their current set of grievances, they would be a natural partner.

  Daniel Fried

  Russia, Intellectual, Mind

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Realism as a foreign policy doctrine means basically you don't care about values; you consider them a luxury, and it leads to a kind of acquiescence in spheres of influence. Now, spheres of influence sound good if you're a graduate student, or a certain kind of - an academic with a certain habit of mind. But in fact, spheres of influence don't work out very well, certainly not for the victims, and there are always victims.

  Daniel Fried

  Mean, Luxury, Work Out

  Source: www.politico.com

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• As an actor, I think you can get really bad habits, if you do the same thing, every day. You can get stuck in a rut. So, I like jumping between genres, and then taking a break and learning something new. I like feeling like I'm still learning.

  Brie Larson

  Thinking, Learning Something New, Jumping

  Source: collider.com

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• In the Buddhist texts, some of them say, when you die, basically that wild horse gets cut loose, and the mind is incredibly powerful and expansive, omniscient and can go anywhere and see anything, but - and this is the catch - it's colored by the habits of thought we made in life.

  George Saunders

  Buddhist, Horse, Powerful

  Interview with Jenny Shank, www.patheos.com. March 6, 2017.

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• Frankly, liberals are out of the habit of communicating with anyone outside their own in cohort. We have a cultural problem with self-righteousness and elitism.

  Naomi Wolf

  Self, Problem, Righteousness

  "NEWS & POLITICS Naomi Wolf Thinks the Tea Parties Help Fight Fascism -- Is She Onto Something or in Fantasy Land?". Interview with Justine Sharrock, www.alternet.org. March 29, 2010.

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• I doubt that Canada will be seen forever on the international stage as Mr/s Boring Niceperson, as has been the habit.

  Margaret Atwood

  Forever, Doubt, Canada

  Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The 60s had completely changed how people conceived of their lives and their habits and their identities.

  Tom Hiddleston

  People, Identity, Changed

  Source: collider.com

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• My view is that our minds are incredibly powerful animals that are, during life, kept somewhat in check by the load of our bodies. Once that load is gone (or so some ancient texts teach us) the mind is like a horse off the tether. So the habits we get into here might have something to do with what happens to us afterwards. An exciting but harrowing idea, given the everyday state of my mind. But also hopeful, since that's something a person can work with.

  George Saunders

  Horse, Powerful, Animal

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• I had the habit of not accepting prizes or honors, but always, not out of humility, but because I don't like them.

  Pope Francis

  Humility, Honor, Accepting

  Source: www.catholicnewsagency.com

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• I remember someone said to me, "Beware of instant chemistry with people, because a lot of time it's the recognition of something familiar," and for people who have a habit of getting into unhealthy relationships, that's usually a bad thing.

  Gillian Jacobs

  People, Recognition, Remember

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Not so much anymore but some years ago in my homeland there was a habit, something called 'casamiento de apuro,' a marriage in haste because the baby is coming and to cover socially the honor of the family. There, they weren't free and it happened many times this marriage is null. As a bishop I forbade my priests to do this.

  Pope Francis

  Baby, Years, Honor

  "Full text of Pope Francis' in-flight interview from Mexico to Rome". www.catholicnewsagency.com. February 18, 2016.

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• I had a lot of bad habits in how I was playing the horn. And I slowly, in high school and college, started to recognize them and get them a little better. But it was not an overnight process, I'll say that.

  Jon Gordon

  School, College, Littles

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• Man doesn't change. He keeps his habits. Instinctively, all those people found the same corner for their kitchen. To build a city, don't men choose the same sites? Under cities you always find other cities; other churches under churches, and other houses under houses.

  Pablo Picasso

  Men, Cities, People

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• We're used to institutional-maintenance Catholicism, in which the institution ticks along by its own inertia and people are "born" into the Church. Francis knows that is over and done with: "Kept" Catholicism, whether "kept" by legal establishment or by cultural habit, has no future.

  George Weigel

  People, Church, Maintenance

  Source: eppc.org

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• According to my daughters, my most irritating habit is asking for cups of tea.

  Neil Gaiman

  Daughter, Tea, Cups

  Source: www.teenink.com

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• Colonial rule means that power, initiative is taken away from you by somebody else who makes your decisions. If that goes on long enough, beyond one generation, then the habit of self-rule is forgotten. People are no longer able to realize what it means. To be dependant for a hundred years! And suddenly when this thing ends there is nobody who actually knows how to set about running the country.

  Chinua Achebe

  Running, Country, Taken

  Source: www.ehlingmedia.com

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• The ordinary Nigerians have lived as neighbors down the millennia. I was talking about the British who came and merged a whole number of mini states and big states into one unit. But those people were always there, and they always managed to live side by side with their neighbours. So they were not owned or run by one kingdom. It was not practically impossible for these people when they have different languages and religions to be neighbors. So it is that habit of neighbourliness which is destroyed and put under great strain again and again when you have things like massacres.

  Chinua Achebe

  Running, Talking, Numbers

  Source: www.ehlingmedia.com

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• If you were to loose the habit of making the effort to get the book and read the words one by one you would have lost something terribly important. So I think that we have a task to ensure that this doesn't happen.

  Chinua Achebe

  Book, Thinking, Effort

  Source: www.ehlingmedia.com

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• Life is about more than earning a living, and if you're not in the habit of thinking about it, you can end up middle-aged or even older and shocked to realize that your life seems empty.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Thinking, Earning, Realizing

  Source: www.neh.gov

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