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 GooseCommon 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 DescartesIn the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits
Robert HallVitally 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 ForbesA long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
Thomas PaineAny man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking
Albert EinsteinBecause psychologists have been able to discover, exactly as in a slow-motion picture, the way the human creature acquires knowledge and habits, the normal child has been vastly helped by what the retarded have taught us.
Pearl BuckYouth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood; age retains its tastes by habit
Duc De La RochefoucauldPornography 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 BaudrillardThe demands of the present must stand above the political habits of the past.
Matt BluntChains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
Warren BuffettMeetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
Dave BarryThe conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organised habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.
Edward BernaysWhy does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
Barbra StreisandTime spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding.
Dean AchesonA 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 GibranWinners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.
Ed ForemanMy problem is reconciling my gross habits with my net income
Errol FlynnWhy should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.
William JamesThe best way to break a bad habit is to drop it.
Leo AikmanPaul 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 NicholasThe habit of calling a finished product a Design is convenient but wrong. Design is what you do, not what you've done.
Bruce ArcherEach year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
Benjamin FranklinI never criticise referees and I'm not going to change a habit for that prat.
Ron AtkinsonMy worst habit is whistling while I sleep.
Billy BoydOur own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.
Henry MillerHabit is the deepest law of human nature.
Thomas CarlyleHere 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 HemingwayIf 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 BetheGrowing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
Andre MauroisIt's a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up. - 'The Hungarian Horntail,' Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry PotterRigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.
Virginia WoolfSow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character, and you reap a destiny. (Attributed)
Charles ReadeLaziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
Jules RenardThe world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit - this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheIt is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
Evelyn WaughHabits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you.
Frank CraneGenius 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 MoreConsciously 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 GandhiTo 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 HelvetiusThings start out as hopes and end up as habits
Lillian HellmanI 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 DarrianA large part of Christian virtue consists in right habits.
William PaleyExcess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
W Somerset MaughamI still feel pangs of remorse over an insidious habit I've had since I was a teenager. About three times a week, I attend estate auctions and make insulting, low-ball bids for prized heirlooms until I'm asked to leave.
Dennis MillerI 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 MarryatFear 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.
TacitusIt is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.
Jawaharlal NehruLaws are never as effective as habits.
Adlai E StevensonReasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.
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