Habit Quotes - Page 16

• On the other hand, there are plenty of red flags that link developmental disabilities to things like lead and mercury and pesticides and air pollution and certain kinds of unhealthy foods, and that's what's begging for a comprehensive and definitive study. We should have a long-term prospectus study that looks at all, you know, exposures, medications, life habits, etc., pollution, and traces people over a period of many years, starting with when - starting with their parents, from when they are healthy. This is how we learned what causes heart disease.

  Jill Stein

  Heart, Hands, Should Have

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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• I think one of the things that I took from Mel [Bochner] specifically was his ability to look at oneself and one's relationship to the history of art and the practice of art at arm's length, the ability to sort of clinically and coldly remove oneself from the picture and to see it simply as a set of rules, habits, systems, moving parts.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Art, Moving, Thinking

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Just so [becoming a chef ] that I could support my art habit. You know? I mean, this is - this is something where you've been literally given an opportunity to put the world on pause for a second.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Art, Mean, Opportunity

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Get in the habit of never putting the phone next to your brain or body unless it's a true emergency.

  Devra Davis

  Phones, Brain, Body

  Source: www.salon.com

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• I am not in the habit of supporting people who attack my wife and attack my father.

  Ted Cruz

  Father, People, Wife

  ""This Week" Transcript: Live from Philadelphia Democratic National Convention". "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com. July 24, 2016.

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• I am not in the habit of supporting people who attack my wife and attack my father. That was not a blanket commitment that if you go and slander and attack Heidi that I'm going to nonetheless come like a servile puppy dog and say thank you very much for maligning my wife and maligning my father.

  Ted Cruz

  Dog, Father, Commitment

  "All In" with Chris Hayes, www.msnbc.com. September 23, 2016.

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• Most of my films deal with people who are stuck in certain routines and habits that don't make them happy. They want to change, but they need something to push them. I think it's mostly love that causes them to break their routines and move on.

  Wong Kar-wai

  Moving, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I had a horrible life habit that I had to change. And I think it's very true, the later we make decisions in life that are important, the harder it is to manage those decisions.

  John C. Maxwell

  Thinking, Decision, Important

  Source: www.christianbookpreviews.com

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• 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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• In life, new thoughts and ideas always clash with the old world order and habits.

  Hannes Holm

  Order, Ideas, World

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• We're our kids' first and best role models. So the first question is, what are you as a mom or a dad doing every day, or every week, to start getting into the good habits?

  Michelle Obama

  Mom, Dad, Kids

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• Many intellectuals in America and in Europe, they are in the habit of taking sides: who are the bad guys? who are the good guys? They launch a demonstration against the bad guys, sign a petition in favor of the good guys, and going to sleep feeling well about themselves.

  Amos Oz

  Sleep, Europe, America

  "'Everybody comes from somewhere.' An Interview with Writer Amos Oz". Interview with Prashanth Ramakrishna, logger.believermag.com. October 20, 2016.

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• I doubt very much if Mao would ever command great respect from the intellectual élite of China, perhaps not entirely because he has an extraordinary mind, but because he has the personal habits of a peasant.

  Edgar Snow

  Doubt, Mind, Intellectual

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Do you know that, until recently, poor people brought children into the world for the sole purpose of making use of them? But how can you change, by force or all of a sudden, an age-old habit? The only way is to plan births, by one means or another.

  Indira Gandhi

  Children, Mean, Old Habits

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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• There's a very complex connection between crime and addiction, because a lot of people are committing crime to either fuel their drug habit, which they're going to do anyway, whether it's legal or not, or under the influence of drugs, which they're going to do more, if it's legal.

  Kevin Sabet

  People, Addiction, Drug

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I've never had a meth habit, I don't walk around naked, and unless I'm actively provoked, I'm generally polite and well-spoken.

  Jim Goad

  Naked, Polite, Walks

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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• As Bridget writes to her son, in Bridget Jones' Baby - "if you just keep calm and keep your spirits up, things have a habit of turning out all right, just as they did for me."

  Helen Fielding

  Baby, Writing, Son

  "Helen Fielding on 'Bridget Jones's Baby'". Interview with Seira Wilson, www.amazonbookreview.com. November 07, 2016.

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• We must constantly dare ourselves in the small things, until courage becomes a habit of mind that will serve us when we are unexpectedly tested.

  Chris Cleave

  Mind, Dare, Tested

  "'We Don't Know Our Hearts Until Life Puts Us to the Test'--Chris Cleave on 'Everyone Brave Is Forgiven'". Interview With Erin Kodicek, www.amazonbookreview.com. May 31, 2016.

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• I don't go about playing music differently. It changes my sleeping schedule and my drinking habits, that's what I like to say.

  Norah Jones

  Drinking, Sleep, Playing Music

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The habits of the West in terms of consumption.

  Bill McKibben

  West, Term, Consumption

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• Climate change is a huge problem, an almost insoluble problem, for two reasons. One is the habits of the West in terms of consumption. The other is the incredible iniquity between poor countries and rich countries on this planet.

  Bill McKibben

  Country, Two, Rich Countries

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• I hate it when people tell me the end of the story because my mother always read the last page of a novel first to see whether she wanted to read it. It was a strange reading habit.

  Alice Hoffman

  Mother, Hate, Reading

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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

  Lucas Hedges

  Given, Bad Habits

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Certainly, we shouldn't go about making a habit of taking generals and making them secretary of defense.

  Peter R. Mansoor

  Defense, Secretary

  "Gen. James 'Mad Dog' Mattis Picked By Trump To Be Defense Secretary". "All Things Considered" with Steve Inskeep, wbaa.org. December 2, 2016.

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• Just come into stillness. Have your intention be to relax with the breath. That will begin to set in motion a habit that will start to train the mind.

  Tara Brach

  Mind, Relax, Intention

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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