Habits Quotes And Sayings

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“I feel that between my experience and my mother’s, breast cancer is a little bit like someone who lives next door. I know what that person looks like and what their daily habits are.”
– Cynthia Nixon

“From 18 to 29 I was a heavy smoker, heavy drinker, drug addict, terrible eater and philanderer. The past eight years, since I got sober, have honestly been about trying to peel back each of those habits, to get back to the 12-year-old kid inside who was tremendously excited about life.”
– Dax Shepard

“Throughout history, it took centuries for the habits of one culture to materially affect another. Now, that which becomes popular in one country can sweep through others within months.”
– Dee Hock

“You’ve got bad eating habits if you use a grocery cart in 7-Eleven.”
– Dennis Miller

“Everything is a process… some of our eating habits consist of things we can’t change, but if we modify it a little and put some exercise in there, we can really make a difference.”
– Doug E. Fresh

“Habit 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 Wharton

“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.”
– Edward Bernays

“Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.”
– Edward Gibbon

“We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.”
– Edward Sapir

“It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct.”
– Elihu Root

“My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my paying close attention in school and more to do with my voracious and omnivorous reading habits.”
– Eric Allin Cornell

“Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.”
– Eric Hoffer

“The Boomers have modeled a set of bad habits, and one grand gesture is not going to unwind all those bad habits.”
– Eric Liu

“In the end, a new Americanization movement can’t just be about listing our privileges and immunities, which we catalog in our laws. It also has to be about reinforcing our duties, which we convey in our habits.”
– Eric Liu

“A lot of foreign people say, when asking about eating habits, ‘What is your guilty pleasure?’ I have no guilt. Whatever I do, I enjoy and it’s the point. I think if you start to feel guilty about it, that’s a problem. So, no guilty pleasures. I have pleasure and no guilt at all.”
– Eric Ripert

“My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.”
– Errol Flynn

“I don’t have any bad habits. They might be bad habits for other people, but they’re all right for me.”
– Eubie Blake

“Even though disciplined sleeping habits and the adrenalin of live radio ensures that we are very awake while on duty, there is evidence of a phenomenon called circadian desynchronosis which causes one’s brain to function slowly at those times of day when it thinks it should be asleep, regardless how wide awake the body is.”
– Evan Davis

“Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.”
– Evan Esar

“I don’t always have the best eating habits. I like butter and ice cream. There are days when I should work out and I don’t. But it’s never too late to change old habits.”
– Florence Griffith Joyner

“The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind.”
– Francis Wright

“Habits are safer than rules; you don’t have to watch them. And you don’t have to keep them either. They keep you.”
– Frank Crane

“In the comic-book world, there tends to be an overblown sense of tradition. Bad habits die hard. There are ways I think the form could work more effectively if we lost the bad habits that were created before we were born.”
– Frank Miller

“I write with a mouse, because it has no psychological associations or memories or habits associated with it.”
– Fred Frith

“It is more true to say that our opinions depend upon our lives and habits, than to say that our lives and habits depend on our opinions.”
– Frederick William Robertson

“It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky

“When people move from poor countries to America, they quickly adapt in at least one way – their consumption habits.”
– Gary Bauer

“The chances of a person breaking through their own habits and sloth and limited mind to actually write something that gets out there and matters to people are slim.”
– George Saunders

“When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to make the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality.”
– George William Russell

“Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.”
– Holbrook Jackson

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