Habit Quotes - Page 23

• 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.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Country, Once Upon A Time, France

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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.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Lying, People, Deceit

  Martha Gellhorn (1988). “The Face of War”, p.1, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• A novel with a bad middle is a bad book. A bad ending is something I've just gotten in the habit of forgiving.

  Lev Grossman

  Book, Forgiving, Middle

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• Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Struggle, Progress, Machines

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• Make it your habit not to be critical about small things.

  Edward Everett Hale

  Critical Spirit, Critical, Small Things

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• There's something very addictive about people pleasing. It's a thought pattern and a habit that feels really, really good until it becomes desperate.

  Anne Hathaway

  People, Patterns, Desperate

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• At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.

  Seamus Heaney

  Attitude, Home, Figure Skating

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• Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Dirty, Marijuana, Naughty

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• By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.

  O. Henry

  Choices, Doctrine, Discovering

  O. Henry (2015). “Heart of the West”, p.131, Sheba Blake Publishing

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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.

  Napoleon Hill

  Successful

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.503, Penguin

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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.

  Aldous Huxley

  Love, Emotional, Tears

  Aldous Huxley (1953). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

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• It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.

  Thomas Huxley

  Education, Organization, Body

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2012). “Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews”, p.403, tredition

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• Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.

  William Ralph Inge

  Connections, Phases, Consciousness

  William Ralph Inge (1932). “More Lay Thoughts of a Dean”

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• It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Old Habits, Bones, Beats

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2025, Library of Alexandria

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• Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

  William James

  Love, Life, Gratitude

  "How About a Little Hope?" by Litsa Dremousis, www.esquire.com. July 30, 2007.

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• In the Arab world, there is no link between the cultural habits of peoples and the ways of thinking and creating of modern intellectuals. They are two separate worlds.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

  Thinking, Two, Creating

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• In my own work, I'd say I'm a classicist, but I look everywhere for my solutions. I don't study the toilet-living habits of my clients, although that's a popular approach. First, I think of every building in history that has been similar in purpose. Then I think of the functional program - that's a major part of the study.

  Philip Johnson

  Thinking, Looks, Purpose

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• Fortunately, the Canadian people in all their habits, are essentially a temperate people.

  William Lyon Mackenzie King

  People

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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.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Sports, Daughter, Mother

  American Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• I am very much a creature of habit, and I have no life consistency. None.

  Mila Kunis

  Consistency, Creatures Of Habit, Creatures

  "Mila Kunis: The Good Bad Girl". Interview with Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. March 5, 2012.

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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.

  Charles Kuralt

  Old Habits, Expression, Together

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• You gotta eat right, you gotta have healthy habits, you know, and balance out your decadence with a healthy lifestyle during the day.

  Talib Kweli

  Healthy Habits, Balance, Healthy Lifestyle

  "13 Questions With Talib Kweli". Interview with Emma McKay, www.askmen.com. September 18, 2007.

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• Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Iron

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• What is the meaning of 'gossip?' Doesn't it originate with sympathy, an interest in one's neighbor, degenerating into idle curiosity and love of tattling? Which is worse, this habit, or keeping one's self so absorbed intellectually as to forget the sufferings and cares of others, to lose sympathy through having too much to think about?

  Lucy Larcom

  Thinking, Self, Gossip

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• In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Creativity, Creative, Fields

  "Daniel Day-Lewis: 'I'm not unapproachable'". Interview with Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. Decemebr 10, 2009.

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