Bad Habits Quotes - Page 6

• Must swear off from swearing. Bad habit.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Presidential, Habit, Swearing

  Rutherford B. Hayes (2016). “Conspicuous Gallantry: Civil War Diary and Letters of Rutherford B. Hayes (Abridged)”, p.249, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• I asked the Zebra, are you black with white stripes? Or white with black stripes? And the zebra asked me, Are you good with bad habits? Or are you bad with good habits? Are you noisy with quiet times? Or are you quiet with noisy times? Are you happy with some sad days? Or are you sad with some happy days? Are you neat with some sloppy ways? Or are you sloppy with some neat ways? And on and on and on and on and on and on he went. I’ll never ask a zebra about stripes...again.

  Shel Silverstein

  Zebras, White, Black

  Shel Silverstein, “Who Does She Think She Is....”

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• I'm a coffee enthusiast. I try not to have too many bad habits.

  Taylor Hanson

  Coffee, Trying, Habit

  "Taylor Hanson of Tinted Windows". Interview with Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. August 30, 2009.

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• What you learn from bad habits and in bad society you will never forget, and it will be a lasting pang to you.

  John Bartholomew Gough

  Example, Never Forget, Habit

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• I don't want to be overdramatic about it, but I'm starting to see a lot of my bad habits get the best of me.

  Ben Gibbard

  Want, Habit, Starting

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• I have full faith in people. I think that we have the ability to change. We're habitual creatures. Once we figure out that bad habit and identify it, whether it's behavioral or whatever it may be, we change our habits. Obviously, I'm simplifying it and making it sound very easy to do, and we all know it's very difficult, but it's doable.

  Eva Mendes

  Thinking, People, Sound

  Source: collider.com

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• So we have a choice to make. We can once again let Washington's bad habits stand in the way of progress. Or we can pull together and say that in America, our destiny isn't written for us but by us. We can place good ideas ahead of old ideological battles, and a sense of purpose above the same narrow partisanship. We can act boldly to turn crisis into opportunity and, together, write the next great chapter in our history and meet the test of our time.

  Barack Obama

  Writing, Destiny, Opportunity

  "The Action Americans Need". www.washingtonpost.com. February 5, 2009.

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• As a rule, I think they are quite impossible. Geniuses talk so much, don't they? Such a bad habit! And they are always thinking about themselves, when I want them to be thinking about me.

  Oscar Wilde

  Thinking, Genius, Want

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.624, Wordsworth Editions

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• All preachers of morality, as also all theologians have a bad habit in common: all of them try to persuade man that he is very ill, and that a severe, final, radical cure is necessary.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Trying, Finals

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• Statisticians, like artists, have the bad habit of falling in love with their models.

  George E. P. Box

  Falling In Love, Artist, Statistics

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• Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits.

  Edward Abbey

  Games, Boredom, Despair

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• We've all got out self-destructive bad habits, the trick is to find four or five you personally like the best and just do those all the time.

  David Lee Roth

  Self, Four, Rock N Roll

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• 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

  Fall, Thinking, Long

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• A good deal of education consists of unlearning-the breaking of bad habits as with a tennis serve.

  Mary McCarthy

  Justice, Diversity, Tennis

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• The movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century.Of their many sins, I offer as the worst their effect on the intellectual side of the nation. It is chiefly from that viewpoint I write of them - as an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming a cultured people.

  Ben Hecht

  Writing, People, Intellectual

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• There are two kinds of discontented in this world, the discontented that works and the discontented that wrings its hands. The first gets what it wants and the second loses what it has. There is no cure for the first but success and there is no cure at all for the second. The very worst of my vices and bad habits will abate of themselves if they are brought to an accounting every day.

  Og Mandino

  Hands, Two, Vices

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• We feel led to caution . . . against forming the bad habit of incurring debt and taking upon themselves obligations which frequently burden them heavier than they can bear, and lead to the loss of their homes and other possessions. We know it is the fashion of the age to use credit to the utmost limit. . . . We, therefore, repeat our counsel . . . to shun debt. Be content with moderate gains, and be not misled by illusory hopes of acquiring wealth. . . . Let our children also be taught habits of economy, and not to indulge in tastes which they cannot gratify without running into debt.

  Wilford Woodruff

  Running, Hope, Fashion

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• But who are we, really? Just a bundle of good genes and bad genes mixed with good habits and bad habits. And since there's no gene for coolness or confidence, then being uncool and unconfident are just bad habits, which can be changed with enough guidance and will power.

  Neil Strauss

  Guidance, Enough, Habit

  Neil Strauss (2011). “The Game”, p.166, Canongate Books

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• London is a bad habit one hates to lose.

  William Sansom

  Hate, London, Habit

  William Sansom (1961). “Blue Skies, Brown Studies”

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• I have a bad habit of playing little emotional games with men. When they date me it's cool in the beginning, we do our thing in the first month, and then I send them on a rollercoaster ride to hell.

  JWoww

  Men, Emotional, Games

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• Movies are one of the bad habits that have corrupted our century. They have slipped into the American mind more misinformation in one evening than the Dark Ages could muster in a decade.

  Ben Hecht

  Dark, Mind, Age

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• I have never been married, but that doesn't mean that I didn't mate. As you get older you get too many bad habits. Who is ever going to put up with me?

  Lemmy Kilmister

  Mean, Married, Habit

  Source: www.goldminemag.com

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• Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.

  William James

  Funny, Broken, Habit

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• People talk about sexual assault like it's a bad habit that men have.

  Jon Stewart

  Men, People, Habit

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• When you're doing that TV thing, you're doing the same thing for years and years. You can fall into bad habits as an actor and I think it can take a toll on your ability to act, which I think is scary.

  Rory Cochrane

  Fall, Thinking, Years

  Interview with Kristine Huntley, www.csifiles.com. September 22, 2004.

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