Habits Quotes And Sayings

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“The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance.”
– Honore de Balzac

“Whether or not we are religious, respecting others should be seen as just as important as looking out for ourselves, yet it requires discipline to change our bad habits that cause pain to animals.”
– Ingrid Newkirk

“The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations, and the amusements of life, his companions behold him as one of themselves – the creature of habits and infirmities.”
– Isaac D’Israeli

“Ratings have changed, viewer habits have changed and the options for the audience have grown enormously, but I don’t think how you tell a story is fundamentally different.”
– J. J. Abrams

“How 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 Nicklaus

“One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.”
– Jean Cocteau

“Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds – habits and novelty.”
– Jean de la Bruyere

“When you’re literally carrying a child you can cut back on bad habits.”
– Jemima Kirke

“A change in bad habits leads to a change in life.”
– Jenny Craig

“Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous.”
– Jeremy Taylor

“The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.”
– Jimmy Carter

“And I think of that again as I’ve written in several of my beauty books, a lot of health comes from the proper eating habits, which are something that – you know, I come from a generation that wasn’t – didn’t have a lot of food.”
– Joan Collins

“We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.”
– John Dryden

“Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.”
– John Dryden

“Good habits are worth being fanatical about.”
– John Irving

“I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds.”
– John James Audubon

“I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them in the best way I could.”
– John James Audubon

“We need a better way to talk about eating animals, a way that doesn’t ignore or even just shruggingly accept things like habits, cravings, family and history but rather incorporates them into the conversation. The more they are allowed in, the more able we will be to follow our best instincts.”
– Jonathan Safran Foer

“There are no good or bad habits. All habits are, by definition, bad.”
– Jose Bergamin

“I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends.”
– Jose Saramago

“There’s a tendency to fall into certain habits, but if you tell yourself not to do that and if you don’t stay there too long – I think if you start staying for too long, you tend to fall into certain bad habits, and I tried not to do that.”
– Josh Duhamel

“We’re all just a bundle of habits shaped by our memories. And to the extent that we control our lives, we do so by gradually altering those habits, which is to say the networks of our memory. No lasting joke, or invention, or insight, or work of art was ever produced by an external memory. Not yet, at least.”
– Joshua Foer

“I learned to be with myself rather than avoiding myself with limiting habits; I started to be aware of my feelings more, rather than numb them.”
– Judith Wright

“As a matter of fact, I get a little concerned about some of my anti-social habits.”
– Julie Bowen

“I read books more than I go out. As a matter of fact, I get a little concerned about some of my anti-social habits. I will choose a night with Somerset Maugham or Russell Banks over a crowded bar any day.”
– Julie Bowen

“Language is political. That’s why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that’s why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law.”
– June Jordan

“I wouldn’t say I’ve changed my mind. I changed some of my natural habits, some of my natural character.”
– Kurt Masur

“My bad habits aren’t my title. My strengths and my talent are my title.”
– Layne Staley

“Acting is the most personal of our crafts. The make-up of a human being – his physical, mental and emotional habits – influence his acting to a much greater extent than commonly recognized.”
– Lee Strasberg

“Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.”
– Lillian Hellman

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