Habit Quotes - Page 29

Now I come to you full of future. And from habit we begin to live our past.

Dating co-stars is natural. When you're working with someone, it's habit.

The power of habit is very strong.

The habitual living in prosperity is most injurious.

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

Character is inured habit.

Certainly, we shouldn't go about making a habit of taking generals and making them secretary of defense.

The habit of disguising ideology as expertise has created a deficit of legitimacy.

This was an away-day for the deputy prime minister's staff, who've had a change of responsibilities [on John Prescott's scandalous playing habits... on the croquet lawn]

Everyone is desirous of his own pursuits, and loves To spend his time in his accustomed art.

These are the evils which result from gossiping habits.

Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.

Be relentless and hard on yourself if you are in the habit of talking about the experiences you have had. Faith based on experience is not faith; faith based on God’s revealed truth is the only faith there is.

Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything.

Cultivate the habit of laughter.

It's usually best not to ask philosophers anything, precisely because they have the habit of what in the Persian language is called sanud: the profitless consideration of unsettling yet inconsequential things.

Really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works.

I have the same friends and the same bad habits.

Any habit may be discontinued by building in its place some other and more desirable habit.

One bad habit often spoils a dozen good ones.

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.

Profit is not an event. It's a habit.

As a general habit and general tendency, I prefer not to bog a piece down with a great number of transitory, contemporary references, because in the end, I'm concerned, not in an abstract way, but an actual way, with creating a world which has a universality to it - even though what goes on is made up of texture and detail, contemporary detail.

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

I'm kind of a creature of habit. Once I get used to doing things, it's like second nature.