Habit Quotes - Page 24

• 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.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Mind, Gliding, Might

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook A 10, 1799.

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• In the end, a new Americanization movement can't just be about listing our privileges and immunities, which we catalog in our laws. It also has to be about reinforcing our duties, which we convey in our habits.

  Eric Liu

  Law, Privilege, Movement

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• The Boomers have modeled a set of bad habits, and one grand gesture is not going to unwind all those bad habits.

  Eric Liu

  Gestures, Unwind, Boomers

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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.

  Audre Lorde

  Black, Literature, Study

  "Sister Outsider" by Audre Lorde, ("Eye to Eye"), 1984.

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• I used to wear sweats and a T-shirt to auditions, but my agent would yell at me and tell me I had to look nice and presentable. So I had to drop that habit.

  Kellan Lutz

  Nice, Sweat, Looks

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• I don't have any expensive habits. I'm not a car collector or any of that nonsense. But I'd love to be incredibly wealthy for no reason at all.

  John Lydon

  Car, Nonsense, Reason

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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.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Learning

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• Culture exists and evolves to relegate to habit categories of interactions the constant conscious reference to which would make human interaction impossible.

  David Mamet

  Culture, Impossible, Conscious

  David Mamet (2011). “The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture”, p.14, Penguin

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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.

  Bernard de Mandeville

  Passion, Heart, Hypocrite

  "The Fable of the Bees". Book by Bernard Mandeville. "An Essay on Charity, and Charity-Schools", p. 319, 1732.

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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.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Being Strong, Ambition, World

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• The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Anger, Political, World

  "Ten Novels and Their Authors". Book by W. Somerset Maugham, 1948.

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• When it comes to our everyday habits, it's important to ask: 'Am I putting God first?'

  Joyce Meyer

  Everyday, Important, Firsts

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• 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, Disappointing

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• You've got bad eating habits if you use a grocery cart in 7-Eleven.

  Dennis Miller

  Funny, Humor, Use

  Dennis Miller (2011). “Ranting Again”, p.83, Main Street Books

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• Japanese people have a funny habit of abbreviating names.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Names, People

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• I have been told my eating habits are absolutely bizarre. But I don't think so.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Thinking, Eating

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• It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.

  Christopher Morley

  Men, Literature, Violence

  CHRISTOPHER MORLEY (1923). “INWARD HO!”

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• Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them. If you allow yourself to be somewhat curious - and if you get into the habit of doing that - it's the first step to being open minded and realizing that your points of view aren't totally opposite.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Views, Opposites, People

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• I don't have a BlackBerry or whatever you call it. And there is something to be said for being isolated and out of phone range, because you can fall into a habit to such a degree that you don't even realise that you've lost something: silence.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Fall, Phones, Silence

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• Some actors learn the habit of promoting themselves as a brand - by dressing in a certain way, by going out with a certain person - it gives them what they obviously want, which is to keep a level of fame. I'm not putting it down.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Giving, Going Out, Actors

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• I have always liked running, so it wasn't particularly difficult to make it a habit. All you need is a pair of running shoes and you can do it anywhere. It does not require anybody to do it with, and so I found the sport perfectly fits me as a person who tends to be independent and individualistic.

  Haruki Murakami

  Sports, Running, Independent

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• It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Acting, Claims, Nations

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1968). “Glorious thoughts of Nehru: being a treasury of over twelve thousand invaluable and inspiring thoughts, views and observations of Jawaharlal Nehru, collected from his writings and speeches and classified under four hundred subjects”

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• How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Time, People, Age

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• For all my friends in the media who like quotes, mark this quote down. From this day on I'd like to be known as 'The Big Aristotle' because Aristotle once said, 'Excellence is not a singular act; it's a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.'

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Media, Excellence

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• The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that's what's happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal.

  Michelle Obama

  Fun, Thinking, Everyday

  "Michelle Obama: Obesity Campaign about Balance". The Associated Press, www.cbsnews.com. February 08, 2011.

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