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Habit Quotes by Marcel Proust
- The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii, like the metamorphosis…
- The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
- The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
- Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.
- I cannot express the uneasiness caused in me by this intrusion of mystery and beauty into a room I had at last filled with myself…
- Most of our faculties lie dormant because they can rely upon Habit, which knows what there is to be done and has no need of…
- Our vanity, our passions, our spirit of imitation, our abstract intelligence, our habits have long been at work, and it is the task of art…
- The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it, and…
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