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Nowadays there is really only one habit of highly effective people: Don't fall behind with email. — Jonathan Franzen

Apologies aren't something you want to get in the habit of practicing in the mirror — Jonathan Lethem

Later. Bad habit to get into," Thomas said. "Life's too short. — Jim Butcher

The fashionable Canadian drug habit, instead of cocaine, is to sniff real snow. — Eric Nicol

No matter who you are, we're creatures of habit. The better your habits are, the better they will be in pressure situations. — Wayne Gretzky

No man really wants his freedom. He gets a habit as quickly as possible
it is a form of immortality — Djuna Barnes

It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be. — Alan Paton

Never permit failure to become a habit. — William Frederick Book

Guard you thoughts as you would your wallet.
Habit is stronger than reason. — George Santayana

Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results. — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

Did she struggle for life only out of habit, or because some part of her still hoped that there was something worth living for? — Octavia E. Butler

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event. — Brian Tracy

Character is,for the most part simply habit become fixed. — Charles Henry Parkhurst

I am very much a creature of habit, and I have no life consistency. None. — Mila Kunis

Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny. — Stephen R. Covey

To change any behavior we have to slow down and act intentionally rather than from habit and impulse. — Henna Inam

Opinion's but a fool, that makes us scan the outward habit by the inward man. — William Shakespeare

The habit of falling hardens the body, reaching the ground, to in itself, is a relief. — Jose Saramago

I've noticed that some people are serial goal setters, rather than habit formers. — Gretchen Rubin

Once you get into the habit of work, you can be more productive in the things you want to do. — Adrian Grenier

Practice your swing until it becomes a habit of mind and muscle. — Sam Snead

A bad habit never disappears miraculously, it's an undo-it-yourself project. — Abigail Van Buren

Youth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood; age retains its tastes by habit. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit. — Martha Gellhorn

Children have the unforgivable habit of growing up — Bjarne Reuter

Men prefer the false due to habit, passion, will. Preference for truth is rare. Men are ruled by their fear of truth. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Each time that I have run away - and from a habit it quickly became an illness - I have betrayed someone. Myself, but not always only myself. — Storm Jameson

Einstein says common sense is just habit of thought. It's how we're used to thinking about things, but a lot of the time it just gets in the way. — Rebecca Stead

Whether we're prepared or not, life has a habit of thrusting situations upon us. — Lucille Ball

I've decided that art is a habit-forming drug. That's all it is, for the artist, for the collector, for anybody connected with it. — Marcel Duchamp

We must never get into the habit of being preoccupied with the future. There is no reason to do so. God is there. — Mother Teresa

You cannot change your future, but you can change your habits, and surely your habits will change your future. — Abdul Kalam

The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give. — Walt Whitman

It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can't do anything from early habit. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

Habits are like the wrinkles on a man's brow; if you will smooth out the one, I will smooth out the other. — Josh Billings

Love is not a habit, a commitment, or a debt. It isn't what romantic songs tell us it is - love simply is. — Paulo Coelho

But a nation which has people who can think, the nation already has strength. It is the mind which rules, not instinct or habit. — F. Sionil Jose

Every morning, introduce one positive thought into your mind. Be persistent with it until it becomes your habit. It will change your life. — Debasish Mridha

Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware. — Arthur Koestler

Success is actually a short race - a sprint fueled by discipline just long enough for habit to kick in and take over. — Gary Keller

Don't let this silence become a habit, — Hanya Yanagihara

Mathematics may, like poetry or music, "promote and sustain a lofty habit of mind." — G.H. Hardy

Kali yuga is so much saturated with vicious habits that there is a great fight at the slightest of misunderstanding. — Radhanath Swami

People who start a sentence with personally (and they're always women) ought to be thrown to the lions. It's a repulsive habit. — Georgette Heyer

I liked movies so much that they became an obsession. I am still trying to kick the habit. — Christoffer Boe

Habit is an energy saver for us. It allows us to free our mind for other types of activities. — Barbara Oakley

Mere acquisition isn't enough to establish a good habit — Gretchen Rubin

Kelly has a rather bad habit of interrupting. — Jack Osbourne

Why are habits so hard to break? Because the cells on our insides get accustomed to what we are doing on the outside. — Charles F. Glassman

Honesty is such a nasty habit, dear. Like biting your nails. — Catherynne M Valente

Nothing perhaps increases by indulgence more than a desultory habit of reading, especially under such opportunities of gratifying it. — Walter Scott

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have. — Dale Carnegie

Make a habit of inviting demons over?" "Yeah, actually. Wednesdays are movie nights. They bring the snacks. — Pippa DaCosta

The power of habit is very strong. — Publilius Syrus

Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit
or a mask. — William Hazlitt

Too many men slip early out of the habit of studious reading, and yet that is essential. — William Osler

Us going to have a cup of coffee. Then maybe it all won't seem so bad. — Carson McCullers

Active valour may often be the present of nature; but such patient diligence can be the fruit only of habit and discipline. — Edward Gibbon

To achieve originality we need to abandon the comforts of habit, reason, and the approval of our peers, and strike out in new directions. — Marty Neumeier

Any thought or action that you repeat over and over will eventually become a new habit. — Brian Tracy

The poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reviews on Goodreads and Amazon are like crack for authors. Feed your favorite writer's habit today! — Sabine Priestley

She was thinking about how quietly you could grow to depend on a person, almost like a junkie with a habit. — Stephen King

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits. — Twyla Tharp

Where can I find a man governed by reason instead of habits and urges? — Khalil Gibran

I've gotten into this nasty habit of running away from love, but maybe one day I can find the exception to that. — Taylor Swift

Marriage is the learning of someone else's habits. — Laurel Lea

The future of our civilisation depends upon the widening spread and deepening hold of the scientific habit of mind. — John Dewey

Your character is the harvest of your habits. — Adrian Rogers

But magic has a habit of lying low, like a rake in the grass. Winter — Terry Pratchett

The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon. — Anthony Burgess

When you work you learn something about what you are doing and you develop habits and procedures out of what you're doing. — Jasper Johns

Only what is seen, appreciated, and loved will be missed in its absence which makes humans creatures of habit — Aloysius Jnr

Achievement comes from the habit of good thinking. — John C. Maxwell

My worst habit is whistling while I sleep. — Billy Boyd

I have to admit it that the large quantity of US money poured into Vietnam provoked ii ... a lot of bad habits. — Bui Diem

Thus heaven's gift to us is this:
That habit takes the place of bliss. — Alexander Pushkin

Habits of prayer need careful cultivation. — F.B. Meyer

Habit is altogether too arbitrary a master for me to submit to. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Sow a thought and you get an act; Sow an act and you get a habit; Sow a habit and you get a character; Sow a character and you get a destiny. — Samuel Smiles

According to his habit, Theodore Roosevelt sought to harness anxiety through action. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

Anger is a violent act, envy a constant habit - no one can be always angry, but he may be always envious ... — Hannah More

Nothing seems crazy when you're used to it. — Sarah Silverman

Manifests a good person, a good character, a good habit, and also because good deeds gradually form good habits, good character, good persons. — Peter Kreeft

Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. — Bertrand Russell

Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit. — Samuel Beckett

Everything is habit with men, everything even in their social and political relations. Habit is the great motive-power. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Writing is one way to go about thinking, and the practice and habit of writing not only drain the mind but supply it, too. — E.B. White

For out of the perverse will came lust, and the service of lust ended in habit, and habit, not resisted, became necessity. — Augustine Of Hippo

Thinking aloud is a habit which is responsible for most of mankind's misery. — Benjamin Franklin

Things have a habit of working out, you know. Eventually. — Angie Sage

Habit starts at the second crime. At the first one, something is ending. — Albert Camus

It is while we are young that the habit of industry is formed. If not then, it never is afterward. — Thomas Jefferson

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form. — Andre Maurois

You can develop any habit or thought or behavior that you consider desirable or necessary. — Brian Tracy

Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes shapeless, somber. — Ugo Betti

True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing. — Jean Cocteau

Fully 95 percent of our behavior, feeling, and response is habitual. — Maxwell Maltz

I'm afraid of habit patterns It would be too much of a routine if you had to establish definite ways of getting through things. You'd get very bored. — Edie Sedgwick

Remember that your character is the sum total of your habits. — Rick Warren