Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
Warren BuffettAustralia 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 BoycottWith the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species.
Anthony StorrWinning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
Vincent T LombardiThe demands of the present must stand above the political habits of the past.
Matt BluntDivorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits.
Pope Leo XIIIBehavioral psychology is the science of pulling habits out of rats.
Douglas BuschOn 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 ClarkHabit is the deepest law of human nature.
Thomas CarlyleYouth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood; age retains its tastes by habit
Duc De La RochefoucauldI really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.
Vaclav HavelThe creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.
Henry MooreCharacter is simply habit long continued.
PlutarchCommon sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.
Rene DescartesTo 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 HelvetiusHabit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.
Edith WhartonThere is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
William JamesBeware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.
Holbrook JacksonIt has a lot of sentimental value and I would love to keep it after the run is over [on her nun's habit she wears in the sound of music]
Connie FisherAfter I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.
Mickey MantleA friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?
Kahlil GibranHabits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you.
Frank CraneAchieve 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 GivensChaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
Henry AdamsEach year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
Benjamin FranklinIt is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.
Jawaharlal NehruOnce you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
Vincent T LombardiIf 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 MauroisIf we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia.
Hans BetheIt is curious how tyrannical the habit of reasoning is
James Russell LowellA change in bad habits leads to a change in life.
Jenny CraigLove is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Peter UstinovWhy does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
Barbra StreisandPornography is the quadraphonics of sex. It adds a third and fourth track to the sexual act. It is the hallucination of detail that rules. Science has already habituated us to this microscopics, this excess of the real in its microscopic detail, this voyeurism of exactitude.
Jean BaudrillardA well-composed song strikes the mind and softens the feelings, and produces a greater effect than a moral work, which convinces our reason, but does not warm our feelings, nor effect the slightest alteration in our habits
Napoleon Bonaparte'I just have no more bad habits to give up.'
Gwyneth PaltrowVitally 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 ForbesPleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them. (The Habit of Loving)
Doris LessingIn the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits
Robert HallChoose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Francis BaconReasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.
Barbara TuchmanMy problem is reconciling my gross habits with my net income
Errol FlynnA large part of Christian virtue consists in right habits.
William PaleyThe 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.
AristotleMan has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.
Alistair CookeSmall habits, well pursued betimes,
May reach the dignity of crimes (Florio)
Hannah MoreRigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.
Virginia WoolfConsciously 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 GandhiTime spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding.
Dean AchesonI don't think I'm an obsessive dieter, but I do maintain good eating habits that are as much as part of me as brushing my teeth in the morning.
Raquel Darrian
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