We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
AristotleThe habit of calling a finished product a Design is convenient but wrong. Design is what you do, not what you've done.
Bruce ArcherThe habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency.
Walter BagehotAny man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking
Albert EinsteinPaul Jewell's sides are always hard to break down, although Manchester United have a habit of breaking his sides down pretty easily [hmm... what an insightful quote!]
Charlie NicholasMen 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 LopezA nail is driven out by another nail, habit is overcome by habit
Gerard Didier ErasmusYouth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood; age retains its tastes by habit
Duc De La RochefoucauldWinning is a habit.
Leo DurocherNothing is stronger than habit.
OvidCharacter is simply habit long continued.
PlutarchLiterature 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 all your reactions, and steal your secret by involving you in cunning obstructions that halt your normal flow.'
Cesare PaveseTelevision is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.
Alfred HitchcockCocaine isn't habit forming. I should know - I've been using it for years.
Tallulah BankheadIn the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits
Robert HallChains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
Warren BuffettWhy does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
Barbra StreisandOn 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 ClarkA change in bad habits leads to a change in life.
Jenny CraigIn the past few years I've developed a habit of keeping numerous small cassette recorders in my house and in a bag with me so that I'm able to commit to tape memory song ideas on a constant basis.
Dwight YoakamWinning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
Vincent T LombardiUltimately 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 MailerLaziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
Jules RenardGenius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.
Hannah MoreThe second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.
Fedor DostoevskyI've got this habit of mooning...I was cautioned for mooning in Ireland.
Lisa Scott LeeThe habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring increased happiness to you.
Grenville KleiserPleasure 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 LessingSmall habits, well pursued betimes,
May reach the dignity of crimes (Florio)
Hannah MoreOnce you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
Vincent T LombardiRigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.
Virginia WoolfI believe our biggest issue is the same biggest issue that the whole world is facing, and that's habitat destruction.
Steve IrwinA 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 BonaparteIt is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
Evelyn WaughCurious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.
Agatha ChristieA habit is something you can do without thinking - which is why most of us have so many of them.
Frank A ClarkNo one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human beast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed.
Sigmund FreudA large part of Christian virtue consists in right habits.
William PaleyAll human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
AristotleI never criticise referees and I'm not going to change a habit for that prat.
Ron AtkinsonThis England side [2004-5] have a different feel to them. They have a bit of a winning habit and winning culture which they haven't had for a while.
Ricky PontingLaws are never as effective as habits.
Adlai E StevensonIt is almost as if you were frantically constructing another world while the world that you live in dissolves beneath your feet, and that your survival depends on completing this construction at least one second before the old habitation collapses.
Tennessee WilliamsWinners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.
Ed ForemanExcess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
W Somerset MaughamHabit is the deepest law of human nature.
Thomas CarlyleA single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.
Hosea BallouMeetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
Dave BarryThe demands of the present must stand above the political habits of the past.
Matt BluntI am about to write a very curious history, as the reader will agree with me when he has read this book. We have more than one narrative of people being cast away upon desolate islands, and being left to their own resources, and no works are perhaps read with more interest; but I believe I am the first instance of a boy being left alone upon an uninhabited island. Such was, however, the case; and now I shall tell my own story
Frederick Marryat
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