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Habit Quotes by George Orwell
- There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought…
- It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing…
- Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to take…
- You had to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that evey sound you made was overheard, and, except…
- I had the lonely child's habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very start my literary…
More Habit Quotes
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- Good habits formed at youth make all the difference. — Aristotle
- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- We really need to kick the carbon habit and stop making our energy from burning things. Climate change is also really important.… — David Attenborough
- They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of… — Chinua Achebe
- Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think… — Margaret Atwood
- If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a habit of… — Margaret Atwood
- I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am… — John James Audubon