This is about shifting habits and attitudes and asking people to take responsibility for what is in their coffee cup. The bottom line is that if farmers don’t get a fair price for their coffee they will starve.
Claire GooseIt is curious how tyrannical the habit of reasoning is
James Russell LowellVitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realise the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education.
B C Forbes"He was a sex junkie with an insatiable habit."
Gay TaleseGrowing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
Andre MauroisOur own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.
Henry MillerOn Thursday [when the game of croquet took place] the deputy prime minister was not standing in for the prime minister.
He stands in for him only when he goes on holiday. He went on holiday on Saturday.
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]
Paul ClarkIt's still fun to inhabit different characters and play different things, so it's all in that panoply of acting.
Don CheadleThe second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.
Fedor DostoevskyUltimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.
Norman MailerThere is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
William JamesYouth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood; age retains its tastes by habit
Duc De La RochefoucauldChina is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese
Charles De GaulleTo limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves
Claude Arien HelvetiusAnd .I never said I disliked Paul's playing; I just disliked Paul as a young man that had some crazy habits.
Dave BrubeckAchieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits. [and just hope that those strategies don't fluctuate with time else you have unwanted habits]
Charles GivensIn the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits
Robert HallI'm dead annoyed that I'm finding it so difficult to stop. But I am getting there [on kicking smoking habit]
Kerry KatonaLaziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
Jules RenardAustralia don't look at it like that. They make winning a good habit in both forms of the game and that's why they've won the last two World Cups and been world champions at Test cricket for the last decade or more
Geoff BoycottLove is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Peter UstinovLaws are never as effective as habits.
Adlai E StevensonTelevision is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.
Alfred HitchcockA large part of Christian virtue consists in right habits.
William PaleyFear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
TacitusSmall habits, well pursued betimes,
May reach the dignity of crimes (Florio)
Hannah MoreCurious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.
Agatha ChristieA long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
Thomas PaineDemocracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them (L'habit vert)
Marquis De FlersThe moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
AristotleBeware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.
Holbrook JacksonHere is the piece. If you can't say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you say co-habit? If not that would have to say consummate I suppose. Use your own good taste and judgment.
Ernest HemingwayChains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
Warren BuffettWe are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
AristotleA nail is driven out by another nail, habit is overcome by habit
Gerard Didier ErasmusThe conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organised habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.
Edward BernaysI never criticise referees and I'm not going to change a habit for that prat.
Ron AtkinsonOnce you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
Vincent T LombardiMy worst habit is whistling while I sleep.
Billy BoydMy problem is reconciling my gross habits with my net income
Errol FlynnRigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.
Virginia WoolfCocaine isn't habit forming. I should know - I've been using it for years.
Tallulah BankheadHow people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.
Jack NicklausPhilosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines.
Gilbert RyleMen disgust me if they don't have a nice smile, nice lips and nice teeth. They have too many disgusting habits, like scratching themselves all the time.
Jennifer LopezConsciously or unconsciously, everyone of us does render some service or another. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and it will make not only for our own happiness, but that of the world at large.
Mahatma GandhiExcess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
W Somerset MaughamThe secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.
Gail SheehyThoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.
Tyron EdwardsIf you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.
Andre Maurois
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