Bad Habits Quotes - Page 8

• The game is played out of instinct, but everyone on the ice has habits - good and bad. So the key to the game is to exploit the bad habits of your opponent.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Keys, Ice, Games

  "Wayne Gretzky on the love of his life". Interview with Jonathon Gatehouse, www.macleans.ca. October 6, 2016.

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• A few years ago I switched to an entirely different kind of New Year's resolution. Instead of vowing to improve, I pledge to do a better job of accepting my bad habits - to stop worrying about failing to be the person I used to imagine I could be.

  Mel White

  New Year, Jobs, Years

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• Training a child is exactly like training a puppy; a little heedless inattention and it is out of hand immediately; the great thing is not to let it acquire bad habits that must afterward be broken.

  Emily Post

  Children, Hands, Broken

  Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.571, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I have seen too many men wilt and go silly under a little light, and then they continue to write and get published, turning out pure crap under a name that has become a bad habit. The next poem is all that counts. You can't stand on past poems.

  Charles Bukowski

  Silly, Writing, Men

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• The major thing that holds you back when you're trying to change a bad habit like eating, smoking, or drinking too much is your belief you are out of control.

  Dan Ariely

  Drinking, Smoking, Trying

  Source: time.com

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• I think I would have had an easier time of it if I had had training much earlier. Because when I got to the training, it was in my late 30s and I already probably had every bad habit a singer could have. In fact, it still goes on. It's un-training those habits and retraining new ones - the breathing, the relaxation, the tongue, the lungs, the everything.

  Joan Baez

  Thinking, Breathing, Relaxation

  "Q&A with Joan Baez: Even Taylor Swift thinks she's cool". Interview with Roger Catlin, www.washingtonpost.com. March 4, 2016.

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• I had a lot of jobs, because I wanted to be an actor, and I had this bad habit of wanting to eat regularly. So, I had to make some money somewhere. I was everything from a stock worker in an Alexander's department store to flower delivery person to a messenger to a grocery clerk to a gas station attendant. I even worked in Macy's dusting off fur coats for two weeks.

  Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs

  Jobs, Flower, Two

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I kind of dropped a lot of bad habits about three years ago and became kind of accidentally straight-edge. I don't have Xs on my hands, but I guess if I wanted to go back to calling myself straight-edge, I could. Around that same time I started running. I never saw myself as the kind of person who would become a runner. It seemed unfathomable to me that I would ever run three miles, let alone 26.2.

  Ben Gibbard

  Running, Kind, Habit

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The status quo is more tenacious than anyone would ever imagine. The human mind prefers continuity rather than change. So it really has to be committed to eliminating a bad habit to even start down that path.

  Roger Martin

  Mind, Path, Imagine

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The therapy has been on and off, but I'll always go. I notice when I don't go, I start creating bad habits for myself. It's up to me to put in the effort. And I definitely watch The Secret a lot. That's part of my therapy: positive thinking. Really seeing yourself having everything you want, and feeling the emotion of having that. I did that about a Grammy. When The Secret came out, I was saying, "I'm going to win a Grammy." And I went there with my hypnosis and believing, really feeling what it would be like to have one.

  Fergie

  Believe, Positive Thinking, Winning

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• My game wasn't where it should have been at all at the start of the year. I got into a couple of bad habits on my swing, and it just took me a little bit of time to get out of them.

  Rory McIlroy

  Couple, Swings, Should Have

  "Surprises: A pair of long shots do well, Harrington with belly putter and McIlroy tied on top". www.foxnews.com. May 3, 2013.

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• I come from a background of 40 pages a day. The other side of the coin is quality can suffer a bit on those shows and you can get into some bad habits but thanks to those days, I can do memorization in my sleep.

  Sherri Saum

  Sleep, Suffering, Quality

  Source: 411mania.com

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

  Bui Diem

  Vietnam, Habit, Quantity

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• I'm not afraid to express the different elements of my personality, and I think there's a bad habit in America now to, label people having multiple personalities, things like this, but it's, I feel like, even on the album I describe myself as a hydra which is, many heads, many different personalities.I don't think you need to be one specific person when you can be many.

  Marilyn Manson

  Thinking, People, Personality

  Source: www.mansonwiki.com

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• I have a very bad habit of just retreating from any given altercation.

  Lucas Hedges

  Habit, Given

  Source: www.gq.com

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• The one thing about A Christmas Carol that always bothers me is that Cratchit is so sweet and perfect. He's like an Ivy League kid who just is labeled "poor." He doesn't have any bad habits. He's never cranky with his kids.

  George Saunders

  Sweet, Kids, Ivy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When you give people who are being financially responsible money, you are enabling them to continue a bad habit. So you are actually helping by saying, "Love you but no."

  Michelle Singletary

  Love You, People, Giving

  "Color of Money Live". Live chat, live.washingtonpost.com. March 10, 2016.

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• As an actor, I think you can get really bad habits, if you do the same thing, every day. You can get stuck in a rut. So, I like jumping between genres, and then taking a break and learning something new. I like feeling like I'm still learning.

  Brie Larson

  Thinking, Learning Something New, Jumping

  Source: collider.com

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• Many a bad habit is developed through overindulgence, and many a good one by chastisement; therefore, beat your son as well as your pupil; never indulge them.

  Chanakya

  Son, Habit, Pupils

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• Forcing your spouse to stop doing that bad habit that drives you crazy, or making your kid be better at math or at art or at swimming, or making your parents or your in-laws not be annoying in the way that they're annoying, these are sometimes doomed goals.

  Ian Bogost

  Art, Crazy, Kids

  Source: app.longform.org

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• I had a lot of bad habits in how I was playing the horn. And I slowly, in high school and college, started to recognize them and get them a little better. But it was not an overnight process, I'll say that.

  Jon Gordon

  School, College, Littles

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• Placing the blame is a bad habit, but taking the blame is a sure builder of character

  Orlando Aloysius Battista

  Inspiration, Character, Blame

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• I had this bad habit of not writing out a first draft and going back. For me it was the first sentence, then the second sentence, and I might be several weeks on the first page instead of writing a draft and trying to figure it out from there.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  Writing, Trying, Might

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The way the Americans behaved created among the South Vietnamese a lot of habits, a lot of bad habits I would say.

  Bui Diem

  Way, Habit, Vietnamese

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• It seems, in theory, that I should be able to control at least a few of my bad habits. The problem is that my habits make me depressed, and the depression makes me want to indulge my habits and so I do. There isn't any solution to this.

  John S. Hall

  Able, Want, Problem

  "Daily Negations". Book by John S. Hall, 2007.

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