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Not managing your time and making excuses are two bad habits. Don't put them both together by claiming you 'don't have the time'. — Robert Foster Bennett
The way of cowardice is to embed ourselves in a cocoon, in which we perpetuate our habitual patterns. When we are constantly recreating our basic… — Chogyam Trungpa
When life appears to be working against you, when your luck is down, when the supposedly wrong people show up, or when you slip up… — Aldous Huxley
What is the reason that some believers are so much brighter and holier than others? I believe the difference, in nineteen cases out of twenty,… — J C Ryle
Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy watching… — Cesare Pavese
Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that characterizes modern writing… — Lionel Trilling
Imagine now a man who is deprived of everyone he loves, and at the same time of his house, his habits, his clothes, in short,… — Primo Levi
A good deal of education consists of unlearning-the breaking of bad habits as with a tennis serve. — Mary McCarthy
Almost all education has a political motive: it aims at strengthening some group, national or religious or even social, in the competition with other groups.… — Bertrand Russell
I believe that the teacher's place and work in the school is to be interpreted from this same basis. The teacher is not in the… — John Dewey
A love of flowers would beget early rising, industry, habits of close observation, and of reading. It would incline the mind to notice natural phenomena,… — Henry Ward Beecher
So in regard to mental qualities, their transmission is manifest in our dogs, horses and other domestic animals. Besides special tastes and habits, general intelligence,… — Charles Darwin
Tolerance is the positive and cordial effort to understand another's beliefs, practices, and habits without necessarily sharing or accepting them. — Joshua L. Liebman
Knowledge helps only when it descends into habits. — Jerome Bruner
Our volitional habits depend, then, first, on what the stock of ideas is which we have; and, second, on the habitual coupling of the several… — William James
Success is a matter of understanding and religiously practicing specific, simple habits that always lead to success. — Robert Ringer
Good sound habits are more important than rules - use concepts. — Mike Krzyzewski
Champions play as they practice. Create a consistency of excellence in all your habits. — Mike Krzyzewski
Practice habits were crucial to my development in basketball. I didn't play against the toughest competition in high school, but one reason I was able… — Larry Bird
The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all… — Honore de Balzac
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings. — Evan Esar
Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep, for your habits and character will be as much influenced by… — Edwin Paxton Hood
We're all just a bundle of habits shaped by our memories. And to the extent that we control our lives, we do so by gradually… — Joshua Foer
But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits. — Andre Gide
It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived. — Henry Fielding

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