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• Here's a habit I never thought I'd develop: I gravitate to anything online that's marked 'most popular' or 'most e-mailed.' And I hate myself a little bit every time I do.

  Susan Orlean

  Hate, Littles, Online

  "Miss Popularity" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. July 26, 2011.

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• I finally overcame my phobia, and now I approach flying with a sort of studied boredom - a learned habit, thanks to my learn-to-fly-calmly training - but like all former flying phobics, I retain a weird and feverish fascination with aviation news, especially bad news.

  Susan Orlean

  Boredom, Flying, Training

  "In Flight" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. October 21, 2010.

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• Well I think a lot of times we're putting things off and I'm going to do it later. I'm going to break this bad habit or I'm going to pursue this dream or I'm going to treat my spouse better.

  Joel Osteen

  Dream, Thinking, Putting Things Off

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• I got into this little habit of architecture and building. I designed a house in Colorado and one in Hawaii. The idea is supposed to be build and sell - but then I can never bring myself to sell them.

  Trey Parker

  Ideas, House, Colorado

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• Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

  Blaise Pascal

  Nature, Firsts, Natural

  Blaise Pascal (2008). “Human Happiness”, Penguin Group USA

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• I have some weird habits. For instance, I love beets. Show me a salad bar and I will clean them out of their beets.

  Chris Pratt

  Bars, Beets, Salad

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

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• Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Change, Blood, People

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• For a long time, I had a crazy girl dating habit.

  Eli Roth

  Girl, Crazy, Long

  "Filmmaker Eli Roth returns for another "Last Exorcism"". Interview with Zorianna Kit, www.reuters.com. February 28, 2013.

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• Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

  Bertrand Russell

  Discipline, Mind, Willpower

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “On Education”, p.26, Routledge

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• Doing nothing means unplugging from the compulsion to always keep ourselves busy, the habit of shielding ourselves from certain feelings, the tension of trying to manipulate our experience before we even fully acknowledge what that experience is.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Mean, Feelings, Trying

  "How Doing Nothing Can Help You Truly Live" by Sharon Salzberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 24, 2010.

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• We can have skills training in mindfulness so that we are using our attention to perceive something in the present moment. This perception is not so latent by fears or projections into the future, or old habits, and then I can actually stir loving-kindness or compassion in skills training too, which can be sort of provocative, I found.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Kindness, Compassion, Skills Training

  "How to Get Real Happiness: An Interview with Sharon Salzberg". Interview with Elisha Goldstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 17, 2011.

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• I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends.

  Jose Saramago

  Gmos, Receiving, Nobel

  "A Writer's Progress: An Interview with Nobel Prize-Winning Portuguese Novelist José Saramago". Interview with Anna Klobucka, masshumanities.org. Spring 2002.

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• My habit would have been to veer towards the dark - to prove I was something; edgy, or maybe to prove that I was cognisant of the dark side. Now, with age and confidence, I can say, yeah, that's true, but I am cognisant of the fact that people can do things well. And can be more loving than you expect.

  George Saunders

  Dark, People, Age

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• The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

  Gail Sheehy

  Inspirational, Leadership, Military

  Gail Sheehy (1990). “The man who changed the world: the lives of Mikhail S. Gorbachev”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I personally don't think ginger men have a habit of being attractive. We have to make ourselves seem attractive by doing stuff.

  Ed Sheeran

  Men, Thinking, Stuff

  "Exclusive: Ed Sheeran Tells Us the Song He'd Write for Taylor Swift, Dating Advice, and His Fave Redhead". Interview with Anna Moeslein, www.glamour.com. May 3, 2013.

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• I am a type-2 diabetic, and they took me off medication simply because I ate right and exercised. Diabetes is not like a cancer, where you go in for chemo and radiation. You can change a lot through a basic changing of habits.

  Sherri Shepherd

  Cancer, Radiation, Medication

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• Providentially, learned habits can be unlearned, especially in the context of moral groups.

  Michael Shermer

  Groups, Moral

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• Joe Kennedy isn't in the habit of having incompetents around. I wouldn't have lasted three months if I didn't have some ability.

  Sargent Shriver

  Three, Months, Ability

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• I have the same friends and the same bad habits.

  Nate Silver

  Bad Habits

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• Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express.

  George A. Smith

  Memories, Passion, Pride

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• I really enjoy what I do, and who I'm with and where I am. Having said that, I'm not really a person of habit, because what I do in my job is travel around the world and play concerts to people, and occasionally do very weird things.

  Robert Smith

  Jobs, Play, People

  "The talking Cure". Interview with Zoe Williams, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2004.

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• Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.

  Sydney Smith

  Giving, Way, Melancholy

  Sydney Smith, Sarah Austin, Lady Saba Smith Holland Holland (1855). “A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith”, p.323, London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans

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• I do have odd habits. I check under my bed every night for the bogeyman. That's just a little thing, though.

  Tori Spelling

  Night, Bed, Littles

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• The ordinary American - as far as I can tell - knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961.

  Ben Stein

  Average, Years, Numbers

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• The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.

  Stendhal

  Passion, Race, Argument

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