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Habit Quotes


"Usually, it is not my habit to address religious issues on the floor. I strongly believe in a person's right to religious freedom, as well as the separation of church and state."


"Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty."


"I've been into the habit of freezing white grapes and using them as a snack. Instead of eating peanuts or popcorn or something like that or pretzels, I just eat the white grapes."


"Your desired behavior must become just as much a habit as your undesired behavior was before."


"The demands of the present must stand above the political habits of the past."


"As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity."


"It's great to see that celebrities can be just like us - that they too have their highs and lows, that they don't always wake up looking their best, that they have bad habits and annoying traits."


"Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room."


"The only proper way to eliminate bad habits is to replace them with good ones."


"I finally realized that yeah I did want to be an actor and it wasn't out of habit, but I needed to grow up for myself and then kind of re-enter the industry with a sound understanding of what my sensibilities and my values are as a relatively formed human being."


"Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive."


"Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught."


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


"Much unhappiness comes from walking alone. When there are several, it's somewhat different. I must get into the habit of listening to others, for what the others say concerns me, too."


"Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results."


"Getting into the habit of switching a timer on will, I promise, save you from any number of kitchen disasters."


"I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table."


"I am not a politician, and my other habits air good."


"In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!"


"The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts."


"Habit is something you can do without thinking, which is why most of us have so many of them."


"Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are a habit."


"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."


"If I allow the fact that I am a Negro to checkmate my will to do, now, I will inevitably form the habit of being defeated."


"We are on Sunday night because that is where they put us 30-odd years ago. I think we became a habit."


"I suppose if you've never bitten your nails, there isn't any way to explain the habit. It's not enjoyable, really, but there is a certain satisfaction - pride in a job well done."


"When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively."


"PS: It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' beaux."


"You know, I'm almost out of the habit of watching episodic television now."


"True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing."


"You get to where you kind of like it, and It's a habit That's hard to break. I still find myself sittin' in a cafe, like a pizza parlor."


"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right."


"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."


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