Habit Quotes · Page 52

There was one awkward moment where a black man stood-up to ask a question and out of habit, Bush said 'Clemency denied.'

— Bill Maher

We have lost confidence in reason because we have learned that man is chiefly a creature of habit and emotion.

— John Dewey

“That was a habit of mine: not paying attention to the things entrusted to my care.”

— Jo Furniss

It is an old and ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way

— Rollo May

I don't read the "letters" section of Time magazine. I think it's just my habit as a reader. I don't read comments…

— Joel Stein

Habit, of which passion must be wary, may all the same be the sweetest part of love.

— Elizabeth Bowen

Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish.

— Anonymous

So long as one is happy one can endure any discipline: it was unhappiness that broke down the habits of work.

— Graham Greene

Anything you think of doing, however insignificant, should be done immediately. Spur yourself on and carry it through without becoming discouraged. If…

— Shinichi Suzuki

Training a child is exactly like training a puppy; a little heedless inattention and it is out of hand immediately; the great…

— Emily Post

When you're doing that TV thing, you're doing the same thing for years and years. You can fall into bad habits as…

— Rory Cochrane

Just as, out of habit, one consults a run-down clock as though it were still going, so too one may look at…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

So coming back from a journey, or after an illness, before habits had spun themselves across the surface, one felt that same…

— Virginia Woolf

Once you fall into habits, I think, you're dead as an artist. You have to challenge yourself and never rest on your…

— Jonathan Lethem

Sorrow has the fortunate peculiarity that it preys upon itself. It dies of starvation. Since it is essentially an interruption of habits,…

— Anonymous

Our vanity, our passions, our spirit of imitation, our abstract intelligence, our habits have long been at work, and it is the…

— Marcel Proust

If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There…

— Jean Cocteau

I think we need leadership that can gently and with affection remind us of what we Americans mostly agree upon: civility, kindness,…

— George Saunders

Learning to explain phenomena such that one continues to be fascinated by the failure of one's explanations creates a continuing cycle of…

— Roger Schank

Actually the right way to cultivate the habit of acting with commitment and strengthen it is by starting with small things. Whether…

— T Joseph Benziger

Self Esteem::"It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Could it be? Samantha Kingston? Home? On a Friday?” I roll my eyes. “I don’t know. Did you do a lot of…

— Lauren Oliver

“Remember this, for it is as true and true gets: Your body is not a lemon. You are not a machine. The…

— Ina May Gaskin

There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only…

— Richard Livingstone

Our fingernails match our toenails, match our lipstick match our rouge...The habit of applying warpaint outlasts the battle.

— Angela Carter

Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best.

— Marva Collins

You must acquire the habits and skills of managing a small amount of money before you can have a large amount.

— T. Harv Eker

It is always possible to be thankful for what is given rather than to complain about what is not given. One or…

— Elisabeth Elliot

“Because always,’ he thinks, ‘when anything gets to be a habit, it also manages to get a right good distance away from…

— William Faulkner

“PROCRASTINATION. The habit of putting off until tomorrow that which should have been done last year.”

— Napoleon Hill

Every video I do is over budget by the time I walk on set. I am massively extravagant in my personal habits.

— Rufus Wainwright

I think Hollywood has a habit of developing 100 times more than they actually shoot.

— Guillermo del Toro

Old rules and habits have to be rejected and dismissed so that something new can be created.

— Michael Cretu

I never comment on referees and I'm not going to break the habit of a lifetime for that prat.

— Ron Atkinson

I think it is important for everybody to bring their spending habits into line with their ideals.

— Ted Genoways

One of the most detestable habits of Lilliputian minds is to find their own littleness in others.

— Honore de Balzac

Fearlessness may be a gift, but perhaps most precious is courage from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one's…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit,…

— John Steinbeck

We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.

— Samuel Beckett

“Cultivate the habit of defining, refining, redefining and redeeming your opportunities. Failure is a temporal event, not a permanent trademark.”

— Israelmore Ayivor